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v ul no do varias sociedades cientificas nacionales y etrangeras. Zoolegia. 

 Tomo segundo. Paris, en casa del autor. Chile, en el Museo do Historia 

 Natural de Santiago. MDCCCXLVIII. [Text, 8 ; atlas, fol.'J 



(Peces, pp. 137-370 and index. In this work are described several species afterward 

 discovered along the coast of California.] 



184 Thirtieth Congress first session. | = \ Ex. Doc. No. 41. J | Notes of a mili- 

 tary reconuoissance, | from | Fort Leaveuworth, in Missouri, | to | San Di- 

 ego, in California, | including part of the | Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila 

 Rivers. |. | By Lieut. Col. W. H. Emory, j Made in 1846-7, with the 

 advanced guard of the "Army of the West." | | February 9, 1848. Or- 

 dered to be printed. | February 17, 1848. Ordered, That 10,000 extra copies 

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

 tenant Abert, be printed for the use of the House; | and that of said nuu:- 

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

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

 Van Beuthuysen, printers. | : : : : | l.*4*. [*, C14 pp.,501ith. pi. not num- 

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



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

 will facilitate tho understanding of the work:] 

 CONTEXTS. 



Notes | of | a military reconnoissance, | from | Fort Leavenworth, in Mis- 

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

 Del Norte, and Gila Ri% r ers. | pp. 5-126, 26 lith. pi. ,2 sketch-maps. 

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



W. II. 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. 155-159, 14 lith. pi., 2 not 



numbered.] 



Appendix No. 3. Table of meteorological observations, pp. 160-174. 

 Appendix No. 4. Table of geographical positions, pp. 175-1?^. 

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

 Appendix No. 6. [Report on natural history. By J. W. Abert.] 



pp. 3^6-414. 

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



pp. 415-416. 



Report of Lieut. J. W. Abert, | of his | examination of New Mexico, j i;i 

 the years 1^46-47. pp. 417-546, 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. 547-' 

 lith. pis. 



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

 New Mexico, | to j San Diego, Upper California, pp. 549-563, 2 maps 

 folded. 

 Journal | of | Captain A. R. Johnston, | First Dragoons, pp. 565-614. 



[A species of Gila is noticed at p. 62, and illustrated by a poor plate opposite the text. 

 It is eaid: " We 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 Natnrelle des Pois ons, par M. le B on Cuvier, . . . ; et par M. Valen- 

 ciennes, . . . Tome vingt et unieme. A Paris, chez P. Bertraud, . . . , 1848. 

 [8 ed. xiv, 536 pp.; 4 ed. xiii (+ iii), 391 pp. pi. 607-633.] 

 * Pages 239-304 misnumbered 209-224. 



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