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The natural history of Washington territory and Oregon : with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah, and California between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude : being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific Railroad route, relating to the natural history of the regions explored : with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1860 / by Geo. Suckley ... and J.G. Cooper ... ; with the co-operation of Messrs. Baird ... ; insects by Dr. John L. Leconte ; mollusca by W.M. Cooper ... ; with fifty-eight plates

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Object Details

Author

Suckley, George 1830-1869
Cooper, J. G (James Graham) 1830-1902

former owner

Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887 DSI

Author

United States War Department Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the ... route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

Notes

Includes indexes.
Also available online.
Stamps on t.p.: Library U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution, May 18, '92[?]; with accession no. added in ink: 143591. Deposit of S.F. Baird.
SCDIRB copy imperfect, lacking five plates.
Elecresource

Contents

Preface, including a brief narative of the explorations from 1853 to 1857 -- Errata, with additions and corrections up to 1860 -- pt. 1. Meteorology -- pt. 2. Botanical report -- pt. 3. Zoological report

Date

1860

Call number

QH104 .S94 1860
QH104.S94 1860

Type

Electronic resources

Physical description

399, [1], 98 p. in various pagings, [53] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm

Place

Washington (State)
Oregon

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Natural history

Metadata Usage

CC0

Record ID

siris_sil_447689
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