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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
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- Creator
- by Geo. Suckley and J.G. Cooper ; with the co-operation of Baird [and others] ; insects by John L. Leconte ; Mollusca by Wm. Cooper
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- English
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- New York : Baillière Bros., 1860
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- xvii, 72 pages, 399 pages, 58 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
- OCLC
- ocm03139190
- Previous edition published in 1859 with author's names reversed on title page--Cooper's name listed first.
- "This edition contains a new preface, giving a sketch of the explorations, a classified table of contents, and the latest additions and corrections by the authors. With fifty-eight plates."
- "For convenience in binding the parts separately, if desired, the Botanical and Zoological portions are paged independently. The plates are numbered to correspond with the Government series without reference to the order in which they are placed herein"--Explanatory notice, p. [ii].
- Includes indexes.
- "The first hundred copies of the present book were bound to include a chapter of 26 pages on Meteorology ... [but] the present issue ... does not contain the meteorological chapter"--Explanatory notice, p. [ii].
- Also available online.
- Preface, including a brief narative of the explorations from 1853 to 1857 -- Errata, with additions and corrections up to 1860 -- pt. I. Meteorology [Note: listed in contents, but omitted in this edition] -- pt. II. Botanical report[s]: No. 1. Report upon the botany of the route / by J.G. Cooper -- No. 2. Catalogue of plants collected east of the Rocky mountains / by Asa Gray -- No. 3. Catalogue of plants collected in Washington Territory / by J.G. Cooper. -- pt. III. Zoological report[s]: Report upon the insects collected on the survey / by John T. Leconte -- Report upon the mammals collected on the survey / by J.G. Cooper, G. Suckley and G. Gibbs -- Report upon the birds collected on the survey: Ch. 1. Land birds / Ch. 2. Water birds / by G. Suckley -- No. 4. Report upon the reptiles collected on the survey / No. 5. Report upon the fishes collected on the survey: Report upon the Salmonidae -- Report upon the fishes exclusive of the Salmonidae / No. 6. Report upon the mollusca collected on the survey / by William Cooper -- No. 7. Report upon the Crustacea collected on the survey / by J.G. Cooper