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Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains by Howard Stansbury.
Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925 Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers.
- Series:
- Library of American civilization ; LAC 13340.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.
- Executive document / [United States. 32nd Congress] Special session, March 1851 ; no. 3
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--Utah.
- Natural history.
- Discoveries in geography--American.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Great Salt Lake (Utah).
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.).
- United States--Discovery and exploration.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (487 p., [63] leaves of plates (some fold.)) : ill., maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo, 1852 (T.K. & P.G. Collins)
- Notes:
- Report submitted to the U.S. Bureau of topographical engineers.
- Published also, London and Philadelphia, 1852, under title: An expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah ...
- "Appendix C. Zoology. Quadrupeds and birds, by Prof. Spencer F. Baird. Reptiles, by Prof. Baird and Chas. Girard. Insects, by Prof. Haldemann": p. [305]-379.
- "Appendix D. Botany. Catalogue of plants collected by the expedition. By Professor John Torrey": p. [381]-397.
- "Appendix E. Letter from Professor James Hall ... containing observations on the geology and palaeontology of the country traversed by the expedition": p. [399]-414.
- "Printed by order of the Senate of the United States."
- Includes index.
- Reproduction of the original from the Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Princeton University.
- OCLC:
- 325569611
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