Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852
By: by Randolph B. Marcy, Captain Fifth Infantry U.S. Army ; assisted by George B. McClellan, Brevet Captain U.S. Engineers : with reports on the natural history of the country, and numerous illustrations
Contributors: McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885, contributor
Series: Document / 33d Congress, 1st session House; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature; House document (United States. Congress) -- no. 33.; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1854
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; Natural history
Notes: Report submitted by the Secretary of War.

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Appendix A. Meteorology observations; title: Appendix B. Tables of courses and distances; title: Appendix C. Mineralogy: Report on the minerals collected / C.U. Shepard; title: Appendix D. Geology: Notes upon the specimens of rocks and minerals / Edward Hitchcock. Remarks upon the general geology of the country traversed / by George G. Shumard; title: Appendix E. Palaeontology: Description of the species of Carboniferous and Cretaceous fossils / by B.F. Shumard; title: Appendix F. Zoology: Mammals / by R.B. Marcy. Reptiles / by S.F. Baird and C. Girard. Fishes / by S.F. Baird and C. Girard. Shells / by C.B. Adams and G.G. Shumard. Orthopterous insects, arachnidians, myriapods / by C. Girard; title: Appendix G. Botany: Description of the plants collected during the expedition / by John Torrey; title: Appendix H. Ethnology: Vocabulary of the Comanches and Wichitas / by R.B. Marcy, with some general remarks by W.W. Turner.