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Full illustrations and more extended descriptions of these and other 
species formerly described by the writer, from Vancouver Island, will 
appear in the report of that survey, which will also contain a report 
by Mr. George Gibbs, geologist of the expedition, on the general 
geology of the country along the boundary line." 
This full report by Mr. Meek is, so far as 1 know, still unpublished. 
Dr. J. S. Newberry's report on the fossil plants seems, however, to 
have been published in full. At all events, he read, before the Boston 
Society of Natural History, on October 1, 1862, a paper entitled 1 
" Descriptions of the fossil plants collected by Mr. George Gibbs, 
geologist to the United States Northwest Boundary Commission, under 
Mr. Archibald Campbell, U. S. Commissioner." This paper, published 
in February, 1863, "by permission of Archibald Campbell, esq., U. S. 
commissioner, Northwest Boundary Commission," makes no reference 
to any other or fuller report. The artist, Mr. James M. Alden, pro- 
duced a fine series of colored sketches of scenery along the boundary 
line. These sketches, obviously intended to illustrate the final report, 
are in the State Department. There are 65 of these, all but two 
(large ones) included in three portfolios. These sketches and the con- 
stantly recurring allusions to the final report, and the conclusive proof 
that such report was prepared, sharpen the desire and emphasize 
the need of recovering it. 
Whether the geologic report of Mr. Gibbs, alluded to by Mr. 
Meek, was ever published does not appear. It may be that the rather 
extensive paper entitled " Physical geography of the northwestern 
boundary of the United States, by George Gibbs, with twelve illus- 
trations," read before the American Geographical Society November 
11, 1869, and published in its journal (vol. 4, pp. 298-392, and vol. 5, 
pp. 134-157), is the report referred to. 
i Boston Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, pp. 506-524, 1863. 
