Report on the botany of the expedition : route on the forty-first parallel of north latitude, under the command of Lieut. E.G. Beckwith, third Artillery, and route near the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth parallels of north latitude, under the command of Capt. J.W. Gunnison, Corps of Topographical Engineers / by John Torrey and Asa Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torrey, John, 1796-1873.

Contributor:

Gray, Asa, 1810-1888.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany--West (U.S.).

Botany.

Penn Provenance:

White, Elliot (donor)

Physical Description:

18 pages, x leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Explorations and surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

Place of Publication:

[Washington] : [A.O.P. Nicholson, printer], [1855]

Notes:

Statement of responsibility precedes subtitle on title leaf.

At head of title: Explorations and surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. War Department.

Reprinted from v. 2 of: Reports of explorations and surveys ... Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer, 1855-1860.

Pages also numbered [119]-132.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Elliot White in 1920.

Penn Libraries copy housed in portfolio with: Torrey, John. Observations on the Batis maritima of Linnaeus. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution ; [New York : G.P. Putnam & Co.], 1853.

Penn Libraries copy: plates disbound.

Cited in:

Pritzel (2nd ed.) 9417

OCLC:

26622109