Fishes
By: by Charles Girard
Contributors: Suckley, George, 1830-1869; United States. War Department
Series: General report upon the zoology of the several Pacific railroad routes -- pt. IV
Published: 1858
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: Fishes
Other titles: Explorations and surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. War Department
Notes: Includes index.

Goode, G.B. The published writings of Dr. Charles Girard, no. 94 (variant?)

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SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB copy 1 (39088002787422, 39088004452876) has, in unidentified hand, marginalia, as well as sheets of handwritten notes loosely inserted.

SCNHRB copy 1 has extra illustrations: original drawings (some hand-colored) mounted opposite to each mounted plate.

SCNHRB copy 1 issued with (?) superceded "Introductory remarks," 2 pages in vol. 1, as well as four reports by Girard and one by G. Suckley (cf. Goode 96, 97, 98; Dean vol. 1, page 476, vol. 2, page 516); with this is bound copy 2 of the author's Ichthyology of the Boundary. [Wash., D.C., 1859-59] without plates. [Copy 1: QL627.G517]

SCNHRB copy 1 imperfect: lacking pages 161-168.

SCNHRB copy 1 stamped in red on front free endpaper: Smithsonian Institution. Stamped on title page: Library, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Apr 8, 1892 [manuscript accession no.] 142053.

SCNHRB copy 1 half bound in green sheepskin and marbled paper boards; housed in archival boxes.

SCNHRB copy 2 (part 1 39088007250897, part 2 39088007251051, part 3, 39088007251069) is a specially bound 3 volume set consisting of: part 1. Fishes of the Pacific railroad surveys i.e. Reports of exploration and surveys ... v. 10, pt. 4 (text and plates 1-76, 30 cm). -- part 2. Fishes of the Pacific r.r. and U.S. & Mexican boundary survey. Plates 1-76 + plates 1-41 from United States & Mexican Boundary -- part 3. Fishes of the Pacific r.r. and U.S. & Mexican boundary survey. Same plates as part 2 but colored.

SCNHRB copy 2 bound in brown library buckram, title in gilt on spine.