United States Government Swveys. 



(3.) Beport on Wagon-road Routes in Utah Territory, under the com- 

 nanJ of Capt. James H. Simpson, Topographical Engineer, U. S. A. 

 rhis report is quite voluminous, 2 vols. 4to, finely illustrated with plates 

 >f scenery, Indians, <fec., including a narrative, itineraries, tables of tem- 

 1 weather, vocabularies of the Indian languages, maps and 

 ~apt. Simpson ; a detailed Geological memoir by Mr. H. 

 Palsentology, by F. B. Meek, with 5 quarto plates of fos- 



WheC 



charts, by Capt. Simpson; a detailed Geologic 



^alsentology, by F. B. Meek, with , 

 I Fishes, by Theo. Gill ; Birds and Mammals, by Pro- 

 fessor S. F. Baird; Botany, by Dr. George Engklmann, of St. Louis. 

 This report has been completed for over a year, and is now in the hands 

 of one of the Congressional Committees, awaiting the order of Congress 

 for its publication. 



(4.) Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota, in the years 1 855-56-5 Y, 



by Lieut. G. K. Warren, Topographical Engineer, U. S. Army. Two 



orts have already been published by the U. S. 



er the entire report will be printed will depend 



ttie action of Congress. The work will doubtless be resumed again 



' the war. The Report in progress consists of the narrative of the 



•nr expeditions — three in number, — Astronomical, Barometrical and 



-^'logical observations, and maps, profiles, &c., by Lieut Warren ; 



1 it on the Geology of the district traversed, by Dr. F. V. Hatden, 



I'eted); Paleontology ; report on the Molluscous fossils, 45 quarto 



-, ('ver 1,000 figures, between 400 and 500 species new to science, 



; F. B. Meek and F. V. Hayden, (completed) ; report on the Fossil 



r-'ii^ by Dr. J. S. Newberry, about 25 plates, 4to, and from 60 to 70 



species new to science; Report on the Fossil Vertebrata, by Prof. Joseph 



Leidy, 10 plates, 4to, (prepared) ; Reports on the Zoology and Botany, 



% various authors. 



(5.) Report of the North- West Boundary Survey— AncniBKLD Camp- 



'^'■■■. ^*q., Commissioner. The field work of the survey of the JNoith- 



-' !5oundary has been completed, furnishing data for a topographical 



embracing the country from the Pacific Coast to f^^^^f^'^^^f 



■ky Mountains, extending to the north and south ot the 4ytli 



-1. north latitude. Astronomical observations locate the Boundary 



•^^ 'ill the important points, and the surveys and actual measurements 



f>nnecting these points, extending over 9° of longitude, embrace the 



wpograpby on and near the line, while the reconnaisances extend to the 



»<^rth and south, thus affording data for the maps that are now m 



Tfogress to illustrate the report. The report will consist of magnetic 



■^•-ions for declination, also observations for dip and horizontal 



■'y, made at nearly all the astronomical stations ; and, fi»i|Jiy a 



^;<^ survey, extending from the line near the summit of the Rocky 



•iins alouo- the usual route of travel, in a southwest direction, to 



,. --Walla, cTossin<r several lines of equal degrees of magnetic declina- 



^''" and dip, over a d'istance of four or five hundred miles. 



^eterological observations have also been made at all the camps ; x 

 <=ontjnuous record kept at the principal depots, as at Simiahnoo, for three 



