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%T Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-4, according to acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854. Volume IV

%A United States Congress House

%A United States War Dept

%A United States War Dept Topographical Bureau

%A Bigelow, John M.

%A Engelmann, George

%A Kennerly, C.B.R

%A Sullivant, William Starling

%A Torrey, John

%A Whipple, Amiel Weeks

%D 1855

%X Appendices containing astronomical, magnetic, meteorological and altitude observations follow illustrations appended to botanical reports

%X Description of the general botanical collections, by John Torrey, precedes p. 62

%X Description of the mosses and liverworts by W.S. Sullivant follows p. 182

%X Explanation of the plates follows p. 161

%X Field notes and explanations by C.B.R. Kennerly, M.D., immediately precedes p. 6

%X General description of the botanical character of the country, by J.M. Bigelow, M.D., immediately follows Kennerly report

%X Index to botany follows p. 167

%X Publication contains discontinuous pagination

%X Report on the zoology of the expedition to explore a route near the thirty-fifth parallel, led by Lieutenant A.W. Whipple, second page before p. 6

%C Washington, DC

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