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Show R E P O R T . APPENDIX LL. ANNUAL RKPORT OF LIEUTENANT GEORGE M. WHEELER, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1875. GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS WEST OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN, IN CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, NEBRASKA, UTAH, ARIZONA, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, WYOMING, AND MONTANA. CONTENTS. KEPORT. PRffO. Summary ot field and office operations 3 Personnel , (> Astronomical 7 Geodetic and topographical 13 Routes and profiles 22 Progress- map 22 Meteorological and hypsometrical 30 Natural history 30 Geology and paleontology 30 Mineralogy 31 Economic botany and agriculture 32 Zoology and botauy 32 Ethnology, philology, and ruins 32 Publications 33 Photographs 34 Conclusion 34 Estimates 35 Supplementary report 30 APPENDIXES. A.- Executi ve report of Lieut. Win. L. Marshall, Corps of Engineers 37 B.- Executive report of Lieut. P. M. Price, Corps of Engineers 40 C.- Executive report of Lieut. R. Birnie, jr., Thirteenth United States Infantry. 41 D.- Executive report of Lieut. Stanhope E. Blunt, Ordnance Corps 43 E.- Executive report of Lieut. C. W. Whipple, Third United States Artillery 44 F.- Meteorology and hypsouietry, field- season of 1874, by Lieut. Win. L. Marshall, Corps of Engineers 47 G 1.- Report on the geology of that part of New Mexico surveyed during the field- season ot 1874, by Prof. E. D. Cope, paleon tologist 01 G 2.- Geological and mineralogical report on portions of Colorado aud New Mex-igOj hy Dr. O. Loew, mineralogist and chemist 97 H 1.- Preliminary and general botanical report, with remarks upon the general topography of the region traversed in New Mexico and Arizona- its climatology, Vorage- plants, timber, irrigation, sanitary conditions, & c, by Dr. J. T. Rothrock, acting assistant surgeon, United States Army lf) 7 H 2.- Report upon the agricultural resources of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado, with analyses of soils, plants, & c, by Dr. O. Loew.... 129 11.- Zoological report, field- season of 1874, containing- I.- General itinerary, by Acting Assistant Surgeon H. C. Yarrow, United States Army 139 II.- Notes by H. W. Henshaw, ornithologist 149 III.- Notes by C. E. Aiken, assistant 150 12.- An annotated list of the birds of Arizona, by H. W. Henshaw 153 J.- Ethnology, philology, and ruins: 1. Report on the remains of population observed on and near the Eocene plateau of North western New Mexico, by Prof. E. D. Cope 106 LL-- 1 |