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Other editions of Emory’s Report, 1848 
OLIVER A. FARWELL 
In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for September, 
1895, Dr. Barnhart points out some differences in detail between 
the botanical portions of Executive Document No. 7, for the 
Senate, and Executive Document No. 41, for the House, the 
same being Lieut. W. H. Emory’s Notes on a Military Recon- 
noissance. In the same journal, for the following March, Mr. 
F. V. Coville, in discussing the above paper, deduces from internal 
evidence that Ex. Doc. No. 41 was published earlier in 1848 than 
Ex. Doc. No. 7.. Mr. Coville also mentions a third edition, by 
H. Long and Brother, of New York, which is an exact copy of 
Ex. Document No. 7 but paged differently. 
It may be of interest to botanists to know that other editions 
have been published. In the library of Parke, Davis & Co., 
Detroit, Mich., there is a copy of each of both House and Senate 
documents which are different in pects from those described 
by Dr. Barnhart and Mr. Coville. Judging from the remarks of 
Messrs. Barnhart and Coville on the subject of typographical 
errors in the earlier editions, I should imagine, from a careful 
perusal of these copies, that many of the earlier errors were cor- 
rected in these editions. 
Executive Document No. 41 was oublished in 1848, according 
to the date of the title page. The character (7) appears on pages 
17-32, inclusive, of Lieut. Emory’s ‘‘Notes”’ instead of on pages 
145-158 of the botanical portion as described by Dr. Barnhart. 
The full description of Zinnia grandiflora Nutt. is included and 
appears on page 144. In other respects it agrees with the edition 
described by Messrs. Barnhart and Coville. 
The other copy is appendix No. 2, taken bodily from some 
report, but gives no evidence to indicate the report of which it 
formed a part or its date of publication. The page is somewhat 
smaller than that of Ex. Doc. No. 41 and the lines are double- 
spaced, but the body of the report is essentially the same; the 
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