(52 NORTHWESTERN BOUNDARY OF UNITED STATES. [bull. 174. 
It appears from that report that about $3,500 was expended on the 
preparation of reports on scientific subjects. The persons who pre- 
pared those reports, the subjects reported on, and the sums paid are 
set forth in the following table. 1 
Amounts paid during 1861-62 for work done in the preparation of the scientific part of 
the final report. 
J. S. Harris, report on magnetics, with computations, etc $743. 50 
F. B. Meek, report on fossil mollusks, with drawings 375. 00 
Theodore Gill, report on fishes 300. 00 
William Stimpson, report on crustacese and marine invertebrates 300. 00 
George Suckley, report on salmonidse, ornithology, and mammals 300. 00 
P. B. Carpenter, report on recent mollusks 250. 00 
J. S. Newberry, report on fossil plants 150. 00 
Elliot Coues, report on birds, etc 100. 00 
John Torrey, report on botany 100. 00 
P. R. Uhler, report on insects 25. 00 
J. H. Richard, drawings for natural history reports 463. 00 
John Cassin, eight natural history drawings on stone 160. 00 
W. B. McMurtrie, drawings for geological reports 100. 00 
T. Y. Gardner, drawings of fossil plants - 65. 00 
Thomas Egleston, jr. , analysis of mineral specimens and preparing catalogue. 50. 00 
Mary B. Cod wise, copying natural history papers 12. 90 
Total 3, 494. 40 
That the reports on these various topics were prepared for insertion 
in the final report of the commission is abundantly proved. Mr. 
George Suckley, M. D., assistant surgeon, United States Army, read 
before the New York Lyceum of Natural History, in June, 1861, a 
paper entitled i 4 Notices of certain new species of North American 
salmonidse, chiefly in the collection of the Northwest Boundar} 7 Com- 
mission, in charge of Archibald Campbell, esq., commissioner of the 
United States, collected by Dr. C. B. R. Kennerly, naturalist to the 
commission." 2 In this paper he says: "Owing to the unfortunate 
death of Dr. Kennerly on his return from a three-years' exploration, 
the preparation of a report on certain of the material collected by 
him was assigned to me. In the course of this undertaking I have 
prepared a copious synopsis of the species of American salmon and 
trout, to appear in the final report of the commissioner. It has been 
thought best to issue in advance brief descriptions of the species hith- 
erto unnamed." And later he alludes to papers " to be referred to in 
the more extended report." 
Some of the fossils collected were described by Mr. F. B Meek, 3 
who says, "The fossils described in this paper are the new species 
contained in the collections of the Northwestern Boundary Survey. 
1 House Ex. Doc. No. 86, Fortieth Congress, third session, p. 101. 
2 Annals Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 7, pp. 306-313, 1862. 
3 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. , vol. 13, pp. 314-318, 1861. 
