The final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific Railroad route, relating to the natural history of the regions explored, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1860

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Previous edition published in 1859 with author's names reversed on title page--Cooper's name listed first"This edition contains a new preface, giving a sketch of the explorations, a classified table of contents, and the latest additions and corrections by the authors. With fifty-eight plates.""For convenience in binding the parts separately, if desired, the Botanical and Zoological portions are paged independently. The plates are numbered to correspond with the Government series without reference to the order in which they are placed herein"--Explanatory notice, p. [ii]Includes indexes"The first hundred copies of the present book were bound to include a chapter of 26 pages on Meteorology ... [but] the present issue ... does not contain the meteorological chapter"--Explanatory notice, p. [ii]

Previous edition published in 1859 with author's names reversed on title page--Cooper's name listed first"This edition contains a new preface, giving a sketch of the explorations, a classified table of contents, and the latest additions and corrections by the authors. With fifty-eight plates.""For convenience in binding the parts separately, if desired, the Botanical and Zoological portions are paged independently. The plates are numbered to correspond with the Government series without reference to the order in which they are placed herein"--Explanatory notice, p. [ii]Includes indexes"The first hundred copies of the present book were bound to include a chapter of 26 pages on Meteorology ... [but] the present issue ... does not contain the meteorological chapter"--Explanatory notice, p. [ii]