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now so fully represented as the Utes or Pai-Utes by his for- 

 mer collections. Some additions were made to his Shoshoni 

 vocabularies and to his mythological tales. 



Botany. Mr. L. F. Ward was attached to the Division as 

 botanist, and made a very large collection from a region but 

 hitherto little studied. He also collected a laro;e suite of 

 wood sections of the various shrubs and trees found in the 

 region. 



Photographs. Mr. J. K. Hillers, the photographer, made 

 101 negatives for topographic and geological purposes, and 

 10 for ethnographic. 



Altogether, Major Powell considers that the result of the 

 year's labor has been more satisfactory than that of any 

 previous year. 



EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS UNDER LIEUTENANT GEORGE M. 

 WHEELER, U. S. ARMY, IN 1875. 



Field parties were organized in the latter part of May for 

 duty during those months when operations can be carried 

 on in the higher altitudes of Colorado, New Mexico, Califor- 

 nia, Nevada, and Arizona. The office-work, as usual, con- 

 tinued in Washington. 



The expedition of the year was made co-existent in three 

 several sections: 1, California Section, starting from Los 

 Angeles as an initial point ; 2, Colorado Section, from Pueb- 

 lo, Colorado; and, 3, the section on work being regularly 

 carried on at the office in Washington. 



The parties sent out from Pueblo disbanded at West Las 

 Animas, near Fort Lyon, on the Arkansas, about November 

 20th; and those dispatched from Los Angeles, California, 

 rendezvoused at the close of the season at Caliente, Califor- 

 nia, the present terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad, 

 with the exception of the party under Lieutenant Bergland, 

 engaged in temporary office duties at Los Angeles, after the 

 return of its members from their duties in the valley of the 

 Colorado River, or rather that portion thereof lying to the 

 southward of the great bend of this stream. 



The California Section consisted of three main parties, the 

 first under the command of the officer in charge, Lieutenant 

 Wheeler; another, destined for the Death Valley region, 

 under Lieutenant Rogers Birnie, Jr., 13th U. S. Infantry; 



