Preliminary report on the ground-water resources of southwestern Skagit County, Washington
Jack E. Sceva
1950, Ground-water Report 1
The ground-water resources of Montgomery County, New York
R.M. Jeffords
1950, Bulletin GW-23
The ground-water resources of Schoharie County, New York
J.M. Berdan
1950, Bulletin GW-22
The ground-water resources of Rensselaer County, New York
R.V. Cushman
1950, Bulletin GW-21
Carnotite resources of the Georgetown group of claims, San Miguel County, Colorado
Alfred Lerner Bush, L.S. Hilpert, R. D. Trace
1950, Trace Elements Investigations 116
No abstract available....
Carnotite resources of the Ellison and Burro claims, San Miguel County, Colorado
Charles Francis Withington, Alfred Lerner Bush
1950, Trace Elements Investigations 115
No abstract available....
Toxicity and repellency to rats of actidione
R. Traub, J.B. DeWitt, J.F. Welch, D. Newman
1950, Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Scientific Edition (39) 552-555
The antibiotic actidione was found to be highly repellent to laboratory rats and to significantly reduce gnawing attacks upon treated paperboards. Rats refused to accept food or water containing this material even under conditions of acute starvation and died of starvation and thirst rather than accept water containing 1.0 mg. of...
Rodent repellency
J.B. DeWitt, J.F. Welch, E. Bellack
1950, Modern Packaging (23) 123-126
In the course of studies involving more than 2,500 chemical repellents, it has been found that certain groups of- compounds containing nitrogen or sulfur are repellent to rats under the , test conditions and it appears probable that some of these compounds might be used for the protection of packaged...
The genus Acroricnums in America (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)
R.T. Mitchell
1950, Annals of the Entomological Society of America (43) 249-261
This paper is a revision of the known species of A croricnus of America. Of the five previously described species assigned to this genus from this area, four are reduced to subspecific rank under the European genotype, A croricnus stylator (Thunberg). Three subspecies and one species are described as new, and typical stylator is recorded from...
Preliminary map showing the winter distribution of the clapper rail (Rallus longirostris subsp.) in the United States
C.S. Robbins
1950, Audubon Field Notes (4) 307
Notes on some winter birds of north central New Mexico
R. W. Allen
1950, The Auk (67) 252-253
The observations recorded below were made in Santa Fe, Sandoval and Rio Arriba counties during the winter of 1939-1940. Occasional specimens, 54 in all, collected for racial identification, are deposited in the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan....
Full scale maps to accompany the Uravan mineral belt
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1950, Trace Elements Investigations 109
No abstract available....
Trace Elements Investigations Report No. 136
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1950, Trace Elements Investigations 136
No abstract available...
Trace Elements Investigations Report No. 122
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1950, Trace Elements Investigations 122
No abstract available....
A comparative study of mean-section and mid-section methods for computation of discharge measurements
Kenneth B. Young
1950, Open-File Report 53-277
In February, 1949, Mr. J. V. B. Wells, Chief of the Surface Water Branch, appointed a committee of three hydraulic engineers assigned to the Washington office to make a comparative study of the relative merits of the mean-section and mid-section methods of computing discharge measurements. this was done in order...
Geologic investigation at the site of the post office building, Welch, West Virginia
Harold Horatio Hawkins
1950, Open-File Report 50-36
Statement of Problem: Cracking in the interior and exterior walls of the post office building at Welch, West Virginia, developed in the summer of 1947. This cracking appeared about two months after the patching of similar cracks that had developed in 1946. The Public Buildings Administration was requested to investigate the...
Geologic interpretations of seismic data: Braintree-Weymouth by-pass stations 29-56, Liberty Street grade separation in Braintree, Massachusetts
James E. May, Daniel Linehan
1950, Open-File Report 50-42
At the request of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, seismic and geologic studies were made for the projected Braintree-Weymouth By-Pass grade separation at Liberty Street in Braintree, Massachusetts. The work was performed in order to furnish data that would aid the engineers in preparing estimates of the quantity of...
Water resources of the Cumberland area, Maryland-West Virginia
R. R. Bennett, F. F. LeFever, R. O. R. Martin, E. G. Otton
1950, Open-File Report 50-80
The area covered by this report consists of Garrett and Allegany Counties, the two most westernmost counties of Maryland, and Mineral County, West Virginia. The city of Cumberland, population 37,732 (1950 census), which is the economic and commercial center of the area, is on the North Branch pf the Potomac...
Progress report on the geology and ground-water hydrology of part of the Oahe Unit, James River Division, South Dakota
Gerald A. Waring, W.H. Bush
1950, Open-File Report 50-104
The Oahe Unit, in the James River basin in eastern South Dakota, extends for about 100 miles north and south and is 20 to 80 miles wide, having the river as its east border. The Oahe irrigation project is planned to supply water to 750,000 to 1,500,000 acres of...
Descriptive geology of Anchorage and vicinity, Alaska
Ernest Dobrovolny, Robert D. Miller
1950, Open-File Report 50-25
Water power resources of Scenery Creek near Petersburg, Alaska
Fred F. Lawrence
1950, Open-File Report 50-113
Due to high unit runoff, a good storage site, and a high concentration of fall, Scenery Lake presents a favorable power site. By building a tunnel three miles long from Scenery Grove to tap Scenery Lake at elevation 900 feet and a dam to raise Scenery Lake to elevation 1020...
Water resources of the United States
Albert N. Sayre
1950, Open-File Report 50-95
The concerns that has grown gradually in recent years over the future of our water supplies has been forcefully dramatized by the water shortage that New York City is now experiencing. This shortage is not the first that has affected an American community and it is not the most serious....
Memorandum on pumping test at Ambridge, Pennsylvania
D. W. Van Tuyl
1950, Open-File Report 50-103
By arrangment with Mr. J. Z. Columbia, Superintendent of the Ambridge Water Works, the United States Geological Survey conducted a "pumping test" in the Ambridge well field on November 10, 1949. As used in this report, "pumping test" means pumping a well at a fixed rate to determine the hydrologic...
Second progress report on the cooperative investigation of springs and stream flow in the Tecolote Tunnel area of Santa Barbara County, California
Harold C. Troxell, C.E. Burgess
1950, Open-File Report 50-101
This report represents the second of a series of progress reports giving the results of discharge measurements made at more than 100 locations in the Santa Ynez Mountains from the Refugio Canyon on the west to the San Marcos Pass and Painted Cave area on the east. The flow in...
Chloride content of water from wells screened in the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation on Long Island, New York
C.M. Roberts
1950, Open-File Report 50-93
Since 1932 the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New York Power and Control Commission, the Nassau County Department of Public Works, the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, and later also the Suffolk County Water Authority, has been making general and specific studies dealing with the occurrence, movement,...