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tain Marcy and Professor W. W. Turner. Fourteen new species of 

 tbssils are described, five of reptiles, five of fishes, ten of orthoptera, 

 arachnida and myriapoda, and three of plants, all of which are figured. 

 Dr. G. G. Shumard acted as surgeon and naturalist, and the collections 

 were made principally by him and Captain McClellan. 



Lieutenants Herndon and Gihhon, U. S. N. — Exploration of the valley of 

 the Amazon, made under direction of the Navy Department, by Wil- 

 liam Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon, lieutenants. United States 

 navy. 



Part 1. By Lieutenant Herndon, 2 vols. 8vo. Washington : Robert 

 Armstrong, public printer, 1853, pp. 418, 16 plates and three maps. 

 32d Congress, 2d session. Senate executive No. 36. 



Part 2. By Lieutenant Gibbon, 2 vols. 8vo. Washington : Robert 

 Armstrong, public printer. 



Some interesting collections in natural history were made by these 

 gentlemen, but not published in their reports. 



Lieutenant S. P. Lee, U. S. N. — Report and charts of the cruise of 

 the United States brig Dolphin, made under direction of the Navy 

 Department, by Lieutenant Lee, 2 vols .8vo. Washington : Beverley 

 Tucker, printer to the Senate, 1854. 15 charts and one map. 33d 

 Congress, 1st session. Senate executive No. 59. 



Captain TV. F. Lynch, U. S. N. — Official report of a mission to Africa 

 in 1852, 1853; pp. 329 — 366 of the reportof theSecretar}'- of the Navy, 

 in President's message for 33d Congress, 1st session. Part III, 1853. 



Professor A. D. Bache. — Report of the Superintendent of the Coast 

 Survey, showing the progress of the survey during the year 1852. One 

 vol., 4to. Washington : Robert Armstrong, public printer, 1853. Pp. 

 184 and 37 plates. 



Professor A. D. Bache. — Report of the Superintetklent of the Coast 

 Survey, showing the progress of the survey during the year 1853. One 

 vol., 4to. Washington : Robert Armstrong, public printer. Pp. 278, 

 and 54 plates. 



H. R. Schoolcraft, LL. D. — Information respecting the History, Con- 

 dition and Prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States ; collected 

 and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs per 

 act of Congress of March 3, 1847, by Henry R. Schoolcraft. Illus- 

 trated by S. Eastman, Capt. U. S. A. Published by authority of Con- 

 gress . Part III, 4to., 1853, pp. 636 and 45 plates. Part IV, 



4to., 1854, pp. 668 and 41 plates. 



These volumes, in addition to the subjects specially covered by the 

 title, contain valuable journals of expeditions by officers of the United 

 States army and others, at various periods of time. 



Pacific Railroad Surveys. — Letter from the Secretary of War trans- 

 mitting reports of surveys, &c., of railroad routes to the Pacific ocean, 

 made February 6, 1854. 8vo., pp. 118. 33d Congress, 1st session, 

 Ex. doc. No. 46. 



This contains the partial reports from the several expeditions, all of 

 them still in the field at the date of the report. 



Report upon the northern Pacific railroad exploration and survey, 

 by Gov. I. I. Stevens, made June 30, 1854. Pp. 548. 



Report of explorations lor a railway route near the 35th parallel of 



