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viduo do varias sociedades cieiitificas naciotiales y etrangeras. Zoologia. 

 Tomo segundo. Paris, en casa del autor. Chile, eu el Museo de Ilistoria 

 Natural de Santiago. MDCCCXLVIII. [Text, 8° ; atlas, ful. ] 



[Feces, pp. 137-370 and index.— In this work ait; described several species afterw.ird 

 ' discovered along the coast of Calilbrnia.] 



1S48 — thirtieth Congress — first session. | = | Ex. Doe. No. 41. | — | Notes of a mili- 

 tary reconiioissance, j from | Fort Leavenwortli, in Missouri, | to | San Di- 

 ego, in California, ( including part of tlie | Arkansa.s, Uel Norte, and Gila 

 Rivers. | — | By Lieut. Col. W. H. Emory. | Made in 184G-7, with the 

 advanced guard of the "Army of the West." | — | Fehruary 1), 1848. — Or- 

 dered to he printed. | Fehruary 17, 1848. — Ordered, That 10,000 extra copies 

 of each of the Reports of Lieu- | tenant Emory, Captain Cooke, and Lieu- 

 tenant Ahert, he printed for the use of the House; j and that of said num- 

 ber, 250 copies be furnished for the use of Lieutenant Emory, Captain | 

 Cooke, and Lieutenant Abort, respectively. | Washington: | Wendell and 

 Van Beuthuysen, printers. | : : : : | 1848. [8°, G14 pp., 50 lith. pi. not num- 

 bered, 14 numbered, 2 sketch-maps, and 3 maps folded.] 



[This work has been so badly edited that the following analysis may prove useful, and 

 will facilitate the understanding of the work :— ] 

 CONTENTS. 



Notes I of I a military recounoissance, | from | Fort iicavenwortli, in Mis- 

 souri, to San Diego, ( in California, | including | part of the Arkansas, 

 Del Norte, and Gila Rivers. | pp. 5-12G, 2(5 litb. pi., 2 sketch-maps. 

 Appendix No. 1. [Letter on Indians by Albert Gallatin, and reply by 



W. H. Emory.] pp. 127-134., 1 pi. 

 Appendix No. 2. [Report on botany.] 



[1. Phanerogams and ferns. By John Torrey. pp. 135-155, pi. 1-12.] 

 [2. Cactacea. By G. Engelmann. pp. 155-1.59, 14 lith. pi., 2 not 

 numbered.] 

 Appendix No. 3. Table of meteorological observations, pp. lGO-174. 

 Appendix No. 4. Table of geographical positions, pp. 175-178. 

 Appendix No. 5. Table of astronomical observations, pp. 179-385.* 

 Appendix No. 6. [Report on natural history. By J. AV. Abort.] 



pp. 38G-414. 

 Appendix No. 7. [Itinerary of Sonoia, Mexico. By P. St. Geo. Cooke. ] 

 pp. 415-41G. 

 Report of Lieut. J. W. Abort, | of his | examination of New Mexico, j in 

 the years 184G-'47. pp. 417-54G, 22 lith. pi., 1 map folded. 

 Notes concerning the minerals and fossils, collected by Lieutenant J. 

 W. Abert, while engaged in the geographical examination of New 

 Mexico, by J. W. Bailey, professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and 

 geology, at the United States Military Academy, pp. 517-548,2 

 lith. pis. 

 Report of Lieut. Col. P. St. George Cooke | of | his march from | Santa ¥6, 

 New Mexico, | to | San Diego, Up2)er California, pp. 549-503, 2 roap)s 

 folded. 

 Journal | of | Captain A. R. Johnston, | First Dragoons, pp. 5G5-G14. 



[A species of Gila is noticed at p. G2, and illustrated by a poor plate oppo.site the text. 

 It is said: — "Wo heard the fish playing in the water, and soon those who were disen- 

 gaged were after them. At first it was supposed they were the mountain trout, but, being 

 comparatively fresh from the hills of Maine, I soon saw the difference."] 



Histoire Naturello des Pois ons, par M. le B°" Cuvier, . . . ; et par M. Valen- 

 ciennes, . . . Tomo vingt et unieme. A Paris, chez P. Bertrand, . . . , 1848. 

 [8° ed. xiv, 536 pp.; 4° ed. xiii (-f- iii), 391 pp.— pi. G07-633.] 

 * Pages 289-304 misnumberod 209-224. 



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