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Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy, Captain Fifth Infantry U.S. Army ; assisted by George B. McClellan, Brevet Captain U.S. Engineers : with reports on the natural history of the country, and numerous illustrations.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marcy, Randolph B. (Randolph Barnes), 1812-1887, author.
- Series:
- House document (United States. Congress) ; no. 33.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
- Document / 33d Congress, 1st session House
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history.
- Red River (Tex.-La.).
- United States--Discovery and exploration.
- United States.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Natural history--Louisiana.
- Natural history--Texas.
- Texas.
- Louisiana.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 286 pages, 56 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded)) : illustrations, maps.
- Manufacture:
- Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, Public Printer, 1854.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1854.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Appendix A. Meteorology observations
- Appendix B. Tables of courses and distances
- Appendix C. Mineralogy: Report on the minerals collected / C.U. Shepard
- Appendix D. Geology: Notes upon the specimens of rocks and minerals / Edward Hitchcock. Remarks upon the general geology of the country traversed / by George G. Shumard
- Appendix E. Palaeontology: Description of the species of Carboniferous and Cretaceous fossils / by B.F. Shumard
- Appendix F. Zoology: Mammals / by R.B. Marcy. Reptiles / by S.F. Baird and C. Girard. Fishes / by S.F. Baird and C. Girard. Shells / by C.B. Adams and G.G. Shumard. Orthopterous insects, arachnidians, myriapods / by C. Girard
- Appendix G. Botany: Description of the plants collected during the expedition / by John Torrey
- Appendix H. Ethnology: Vocabulary of the Comanches and Wichitas / by R.B. Marcy, with some general remarks by W.W. Turner.
- Notes:
- Report submitted by the Secretary of War.
- Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC:
- 191846156
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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