Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey [microform] / made under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by William H. Emory, Major First Cavalry, and United States commissioner

Corporate Author: United States. Department of the Interior
Published: Washington : C. Wendell, 1857-59.
Physical Description: 2 volumes in 3 : frontispiece, illustrations, plates (part color) maps (partly folded) ; 23 x 30 cm.
Additional Creators: Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887

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v. 1, pt. 1. Personal account. General description of the country. Lower Rio Bravo. From mouth of Devil's River to El Paso del Norte. Sketch of territory acquired by treaty of Dec. 30, 1853. From the 111th meridian of longitude to the Pacific Ocean; Report of Lieut. Michler. Astronomical and geodetic work. Meteorology.--v. 1, pt. 2. Geological reports of Dr. C.C. Parry and assistant Arthur Schott. Notes by W.H. Emory. Palaeontology and geology of the boundary, by James Hall, of Albany, N.Y. Description of cretaceous and tertiary fossils, by T.A. Conrad, esq.--v. 2, pt. 1. Botany of the boundary: Introduction by C.C. Parry, M.D. Botany, By John Torrey, M.D. Cactaceae, by George Engelmann, M.D.--v. 2, pt. 2. Zoology of the boundary: Mammals, by S.F. Baird. Birds, by S.F. Baird. Reptiles, by S.F. Baird. Fishes, by C. Girard.

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Microfilm. New Haven, Conn., Research Publications, Inc., 1974. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American natural history. Part III ; reel 23).

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Howes, U.S.IANA, no. E.146.

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