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  • Titel: 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
  • Beteiligte: Bigelow, John M. [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Engelmann, George [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Kennerly, C.B.R. [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Sullivant, William Starling [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Torrey, John [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Whipple, Amiel Weeks [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
  • Körperschaft: United States, War Dept ; United States, War Dept, Topographical Bureau
  • Erschienen: Washington, DC, 1855
    Online-Ausg.: Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2004
  • Erschienen in: United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 794
    Ex. doc. / 33rd Congress, 2nd session. House ; no. 91, pt. 4
  • Umfang: Online-Ressource (514 p); color maps, illustrations, tables
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Reproduktionsreihe: U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
  • Art der Reproduktion: Online-Ausg.
  • Hersteller der Reproduktion: Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2004
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  • Anmerkungen: Appendices containing astronomical, magnetic, meteorological and altitude observations follow illustrations appended to botanical reports
    Description of the general botanical collections, by John Torrey, precedes p. 62
    Description of the mosses and liverworts by W.S. Sullivant follows p. 182
    Explanation of the plates follows p. 161
    Field notes and explanations by C.B.R. Kennerly, M.D., immediately precedes p. 6
    General description of the botanical character of the country, by J.M. Bigelow, M.D., immediately follows Kennerly report
    Index to botany follows p. 167
    Publication contains discontinuous pagination
    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
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