Research Catalog

Title

Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852 [electronic resource] / by Randolph B. Marcy ; assisted by George B. McClellan.

Author

United States. War Department.

Publication

Washington : R. Armstrong, 1853.

Details

Additional Authors

• Marcy, Randolph B. (Randolph Barnes), 1812-1887.
• McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885.

Description

1 online resource (xv, 320 p., [71] leaves of plates (some fold.)) : ill., maps (some fold.).

Series Statement

• Senate ex. doc. ; 32nd Congress, 2nd session, no. 54
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Uniform Title

• Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 32nd Congress, 2nd session, no. 54.
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

Subject

• Natural history > Louisiana
• Natural history > Texas
• Red River (Tex.-La.)
• United States > Discovery and exploration

Note

• "With reports of the natural history of the country, and numerous illustrations."
• Appendixes: A. Meteorology observations. B. Tables of courses and distances. C. Mineralogy: Report on the minerals collected, by C.U. Shepard. D. Geology: Notes upon the specimens of rocks and minerals, by Edward Hitchcock. Remarks upon the general geology of the country traversed, by George G. Shumard. E. Paleontology: Description of the species of Carboniferous and Cretaceous fossils, by B.F. Shumard. F. Zoology: Mammals, by R.B. Marcy. Reptiles [and] fishes, by S.F. Baird and C. Girard. Shells, by C.B. Adams and G.G. Shumard. Orthopterous insects, arachnidians, myriapods, by C. Giard. G. Botany: Description of the plants, by John Torrey. H. Ethnology: Vocabulary of the Comanches and Wichitas, by R.B. Marcy, with some general remarks by W.W. Turner.
• Includes index.
• Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.

OCLC

• 85792035
• NCCO2010591

Author

United States. War Department.

Title

Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852 [electronic resource] / by Randolph B. Marcy ; assisted by George B. McClellan.

Imprint

Washington : R. Armstrong, 1853.

Series

Senate ex. doc. ; 32nd Congress, 2nd session, no. 54

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 32nd Congress, 2nd session, no. 54.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

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Added Author

Marcy, Randolph B. (Randolph Barnes), 1812-1887.

McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885.