The natural history of Washington territory
Subtitle: with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857.
By: By J. G. Cooper, M. D., and Dr. G. Suckley ... This edition contains a new preface, giving a sketch of the explorations, a classified table of contents, and the latest additions by the authors. With fifty-five new plates of scenery, botany, and zoology, and an isothermal chart of the route.
Contributors: Suckley, George, 1830-1869.; Cooper, William, 1798?-1864.; Gibbs, George, 1815-1873.; Gray, Asa, 1810-1888.; LeConte, John L. 1825-1883.; United States. War Dept.
Publisher: Baillie  re brothers; H. Baillie  re; [etc., etc.]
Published: 1859
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Subjects: Natural history -- Washington (State)
Notes: "This volume consists of those parts of the [twelfth vol.] of the Pacific railroad reports, which describe the natural condition and products of the country traversed by the surveying expedition near the 47th and 49th parallels of latitude ... None of the plates in this volume have been before published."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Preface, including a brief narrative of the explorations from 1853 to 1857.; title: Errata, with additions and corrections up to 1860.; title: pt. I. Meteorology.; title: pt. II. Botanical reports: 1. Report upon the botany of the route, by J. G. Cooper. 2. Catalogue of plants collected east of the Rocky mountains, by Asa Gray. 3. Catalogue of plants collected in Washington territory, by J. G. Cooper.; title: pt. III. Zoological report: 1. Insects, by John T. [!] Leconte. 2. Mammals, by J. G. Cooper, G. Suckley and G. Gibbs. 3. Birds: Land birds, by J. G. Cooper; Water birds, by G. Suckley. 4. Reptiles, by J. G. Cooper. 5. Fishes, by G. Suckley. 6. Mollusca, by William Cooper. 7. Crustacea, by J. G. Cooper.