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The Survey was disbanded on April 1, 1854, and Captain 

 McClellan ordered Dr. Cooper to report to Governor Stevens 

 at Fort Vancouver (see Emerson, 1899, p. 3). The speci- 

 mens were sent to Professor Baird in Washington, D. C, and 

 thither Cooper is erroneously said to have repaired "for the 

 purpose of preparing his report." Cooper remained at Shoal- 

 water Bay until July 18, 1854, "... collecting all that 

 his private means would allow. He then crossed the unex- 

 plored Coast Range, on foot, with a party of citizens, and 

 traveled to Puget Sound, where he remained a month, col- 

 lecting specimens about Fort Steilacoom, in company with 

 Dr. Suckley, returning to Shoalwater Bay in September by 

 way of the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers" (Suckley and Cooper, 

 1860, p. x). 



Specimens of birds taken by Cooper at Shoalwater Bay 

 during the month of August as well as September are listed 

 by Baird (1858, pp. 242, 405, 446, 570), so that his return 

 to this locality may have been a few days earlier than is 

 stated above. 



The following winter (1854-1855) was spent on Shoal- 

 water Bay, where, on October 7, 1854, he began to make 

 meteorological observations. 



"Late in February, 1855, Dr. Cooper went up the coast to 

 Gray's Harbor and joining the Indian treaty commission un- 

 der Gov. Stevens, on the Chehalis, ascended that river and 

 proceeded again to Puget Sound, intending to accompany the 

 Governor in May to the Blackfoot council at Fort Benton, and 

 thence to return to the Atlantic Coast by way of the Missouri 

 River. Meantime he made a voyage down the sound to the 

 Straits of Fuca [=Juan de Fuca], spent a month collect- 

 ing on Whitby's Island [=Whidby's Island] and another 

 near Steilacoom. Unexpected disappointments and losses 

 prevented the journey eastward which he had proposed, and 

 he found it necessary to return to Shoalwater Bay in July. 

 There he remained until October 4,* when, by the kind invita- 

 tion of Captain Alden, he sailed in the Coast Survey steamer 

 Active to San Francisco" (Suckley and Cooper, 1860, p. x). 



Shortly afterward he spent six weeks collecting specimens 

 in the Santa Clara Valley, California, later proceeding south- 



* During August he made a side trip to Astoria, Oregon (Baird, 1857, p. 303). 



