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Report of a geological reconnaissance in California: made in connection with the expedition to survey routes in California, to connect with the surveys of routes for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, under the command of Lieut. R. S. Williamson, Corps Top. Eng'rs, in 1853
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Report of a geological reconnaissance in California: made in connection with the expedition to survey routes in California, to connect with the surveys of routes for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, under the command of Lieut. R. S. Williamson, Corps Top. Eng'rs, in 1853. By William P. Blake... With an appendix containing descriptions of portions of the collection, by Prof. Louis Agassiz, Aug. A. Gould, M.D., Prof. J. W. Bailey, T. A. Conrad, Prof. John Torrey, Prof. Geo. C. Schaeffer, J. D. Easter, Ph. D.
Published
New York, London, H. Baillière; [etc., etc.] 1858.
Physical Description
xvi p., 1 l., 370 p., 1 l., xiii p. illus., 36 pl. (incl. front., partly col.) iv col. maps (1 fold) diagrs. (partly fold.) 31 x 24 cm.
Local Notes
GEO QE89 +B53: Presentation copy to Professor G.J. Brush.
Notes
Several plates preceded by leaf with descriptive text.
"Article VIII [of appendix] was not received in time for publication with the other portion of this report."
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Partial contents
Appendix: I. Notice of the fossil fishes by L. Agassiz.
II. Description of the fossil shells. by T. A. Conrad.
III. Catalogue of the recent shells, with descriptions of the new species, by A. A. Gould.
IV. Letter from J. W. Bailey, describing the structure of the fossil plant, from Pasuncula River.
V. Description of the structure of the fossil wood from the Colorado desert, by G. C. Schaeffer.
VI. Chemical examinations of the soils and incrustations, by J. D. Easter.
VII. Description of plants collected by W. P. Blake along the route and at the mouth of the Gila, by J. Torrey.
VIII. Descriptions of fossil microscopic organisms, from Monterey, by J. W. Bailey.
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United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers.
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