Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean v.10 (Volume X)

Joseph Henry; Spencer Fullerton Baird; United States. War Department, Army. Corps of Engineers

Washington [D.C.] : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer, 1859

[Superior copy] Volume X. Reptiles and fishes of the several routes ; Zoological reports on routes near 38th and 39th, 41st 35th and 32d parallels ; On routes in California to connect with those near 35th and 32d parallels ; Reptiles of routes in California and Oregon. Quarto.  30 cm.  Bound in contemporary marbled boards, modern leather spine.  Pages are remarkably clean and unmarked.  A few plates have minor offsetting, but besides a near fine copy. Hand-colored zoological plates and many in black and white. 

The reports of the Pacific railroad surveys were prepared under the direct supervision of the Engineer Department. The vols. dealing with the soil, climate, geology, botany and zoology of the regions surveyed were edited and revised by Professors Henry and Baird of the Smithsonian institution--cf. Ingersoll, History of the War Department, 1879, p. 292-293.  Ex. doc. (United States. Congress. House), 33rd Congress, 2nd Session, no. 91. 

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