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MEMOIRS 
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AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
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_ Pianta Fenpterian® Novi-Mexicanm: An Account of a Collection of Plants made 
chiefly in the Vicinity of Santa Fé, New Mexico, by Aveustus Frenpier ; with De- 
$ seriptions of the New Species, Critical Remarks, and Characters of other undescribed 
or little known Plants from surrounding Regions. 
By ASA GRAY, M. D. 
(Communicated to the Academy, November 8th, 1848.) 
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Dersrrovus to render the occupation of New Mexico by the United States troops sub- 
servient to the advancement of science, and to make known the vegetation of a region 
which had scarcely been visited by a naturalist, Dr. Engelmann and myself, with the 
codperation of one or two friends who patronized the enterprise, induced Mr. Fendler to 
undertake a botanical exploration of the country around Santa Fé. In,execution of this 
plan, Mr. Fendler left Fort Leavenworth, on the Missouri, on the 10th of August, 1846, 
with a military train, he having been allowed by the Secretary of War a free transpor- : 
tation for himself, his luggage, and collections. The following account of his route, 
¥ and brief indication of the physical features of the country, I calfly from a sketch which 
D _ fagelmenn has kindly furnished.* 
<¥ é * * Further information of interest, as to the character and features of the country, may be found in Dr. 
+ ‘Wislizenus’s _ Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mewico, in 1846 and 1847, with excellent maps, profile-eleva- 
: * : isn &c., printed by the U. S. Senate ; in Lieut. Abert’s Report of an Expedition on the Upper Arkansas and 
through the Country of the Camanche Indians, &e. 5 and also, spss in Lieut. —_ $ SS which 
unfortunately, I have not been able to procure a copy. 
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