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    <title>Preliminary report on the natural history of the state of Vermont</title>
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    <namePart>Vermont</namePart>
    <namePart>State Geologist.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Young, Augustus</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1785-1857</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>C. Goodrich</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1856</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>88 p. 23 cm.</extent>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">By Augustus Young, state naturalist.</note>
  <note>Appendices: 1. Obituary of Prof. Thompson.--2. An act to provide for a geological survey of the state, 1844.--3. An act to provide for completing the geological survey of the state.--4. Report of Zadock Thompson on the geological survey, 1849.--4. Mr. Eaton's report in Senate, Oct. 31, 1837, on a geological and topographical survey of the state.--6-7. Extract from Prof. Thompson's address on the natural history of Vermont.--8. Resolution to set apart a room in the State House for the state naturalist, 1855.--9. Contents of the proposed volumes by Zadock Thompson.--10. The true value of chemical analysis of soils, by J.D. Easter.--11. Commission from Augustus Young, state naturalist, to Albert D. Hager.</note>
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      <namePart>Thompson, Zadock</namePart>
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