Report upon the Colorado River of the West explored in 1857 and 1858 by Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, under the direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, in charge.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.

Contributor:

Ives, J. C.

Newberry, J. S. (John Strong), 1822-1892.

Gray, Asa, 1810-1888.

Torrey, John, 1796-1873.

Thurber, George, 1821-1890.

Engelmann, George, 1809-1884.

Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887.

Young, J. J.

Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905.

Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885.

Series:

Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 36th Congress, 1st session, unnumbered.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

United States. 36th Cong., 1st Sess., 1859-1860. Senate. Executive document ; unnumbered

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discoveries in geography--American.

Discoveries in geography.

Geology--Rocky Mountains.

Geology.

Botany--Rocky Mountains.

Botany.

Birds--Rocky Mountains.

Birds.

Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Description and travel.

Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico).

Southwest, New--Description and travel.

Southwest, New.

United States--Discovery and exploration.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 v. (various pagings)) : ill., maps (some fold.), plan.

Other Title:

Report upon the Colorado River of the West

Place of Publication:

Washington : G.P.O., 1861.

Contents:

Letter to the officer in charge of the Office of Explorations and Surveys / J. C. Ives

pt. 1. General report

pt. 2. Hydrographic report

pt. 3. Geological report / by Dr. J. S. Newberry, Geologist to the Expedition

pt. 4. Botany / by Professors Gray, Torrey, Thurber, and Dr. Engelmann

pt. 5. Zoology [list of birds collected on the Colorado Expedition] / by Professor S. F. Baird, Smithsonian Institution

Appendix A. Remarks upon the astronomical observations ; Remarks upon the barometric observations

Appendix B. List of camps, with distances, altitudes, latitudes, and longitudes, etc.

Appendix C. Barometric and meteorological observations

Appendix D. Remarks upon the construction of the maps.

Notes:

"By order of the Secretary of War"--T.p.

Also issued as House of Representatives executive document, no. 90, for the same session.

Part 1: 131 p. ; pt. 2: 14 p. ; pt. 3: 154, [6] p. ; pt. 4: 30 p. ; pt. 5: 6, 31, [1] p.

Some illustrations drawn by Mr. J. J. Young from sketches by Messrs. Mollhausen and Egloffstein.

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.

OCLC:

875142756