Report upon the Colorado River of the West
Subtitle: explored in 1857 and 1858 by Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, under the direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, in charge
Contributors: Ives, J. C.; Newberry, J. S. (John Strong), 1822-1892; Gray, Asa, 1810-1888; Torrey, John, 1796-1873; Thurber, George, 1821-1890; Engelmann, George, 1809-1884; Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887; Young, J. J.; Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905; Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885
Series: United States. 36th Cong., 1st Sess., 1859-1860. Senate. Executive document -- unnumbered; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) -- 36th Congress, 1st session, unnumbered.
Publisher: G.P.O.
Published: 1861
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Description and travel; Discoveries in geography; American; Discovery and exploration; Geology; Botany; Birds
Notes: "By order of the Secretary of War"--T.p.

Also issued as House of Representatives executive document, no. 90, for the same session.

Part 1: 131 p. ; pt. 2: 14 p. ; pt. 3: 154, [6] p. ; pt. 4: 30 p. ; pt. 5: 6, 31, [1] p.

Some illustrations drawn by Mr. J. J. Young from sketches by Messrs. Mollhausen and Egloffstein.

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.
Table of contents: title: Letter to the officer in charge of the Office of Explorations and Surveys / J. C. Ives; title: pt. 1. General report; title: pt. 2. Hydrographic report; title: pt. 3. Geological report / by Dr. J. S. Newberry, Geologist to the Expedition; title: pt. 4. Botany / by Professors Gray, Torrey, Thurber, and Dr. Engelmann; title: pt. 5. Zoology [list of birds collected on the Colorado Expedition] / by Professor S. F. Baird, Smithsonian Institution; title: Appendix A. Remarks upon the astronomical observations ; Remarks upon the barometric observations; title: Appendix B. List of camps, with distances, altitudes, latitudes, and longitudes, etc.; title: Appendix C. Barometric and meteorological observations; title: Appendix D. Remarks upon the construction of the maps.