Research Catalog

Title

Report of the secretary of war [electronic resource] : communicating information in relation to the geology and topography of California.

Author

Tyson, Philip T. (Philip Thomas), 1799-1877.

Publication

Washington : [s.n.], 1850.

Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, Persifor Frazer, 1798-1858.
• Riley, Bennett, 1787-1853.
• Talbot, Theodore, 1825-1862.
• Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 1818-1883.
• Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872.
• Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861.
• Williamson, R. S. (Robert Stockton), 1824-1882.

Description

1 online resource (2 pts. in 1) : ill., maps.

Series Statement

• Ex. doc. / 31st Congress, 1st session. Senate ; no. 47
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Uniform Title

• Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 31st Congress, 1st session, no. 47.
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

Subject

• Geology > California
• Discoveries in geography > American
• California
• United States > Discovery and exploration
• Oregon > Description and travel

Note

• Caption title.
• Part II has title: Report of the secretary of war, in further compliance with the resolution of the Senate calling for copies of reports on the geology and topography of California.
• Published also in Baltimore in 1851, with title: Geology and industrial resources of California ...
• Includes reports by Gens. Smith and Riley, Lieuts. Talbot, Ord, Derby, and Williamson, and Prof. Frazer.
• "April 3, 1850, ordered to lie on the table. May 6, 1850, ordered to be printed, and that 5,000 copies, in addition to the usual number, be printed for the use of the Senate, 1,000 of which for the use of P.T. Tyson."
• (Part II) "June 11, 1850, referred to the Committee on Printing. June 24, 1850, ordered to be printed, and that 5,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate."
• Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.

OCLC

• 5072922
• NCCO2008654

Author

Tyson, Philip T. (Philip Thomas), 1799-1877.

Title

Report of the secretary of war [electronic resource] : communicating information in relation to the geology and topography of California.

Imprint

Washington : [s.n.], 1850.

Series

Ex. doc. / 31st Congress, 1st session. Senate ; no. 47

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 31st Congress, 1st session, no. 47.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

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Added Author

Smith, Persifor Frazer, 1798-1858.

Riley, Bennett, 1787-1853.

Talbot, Theodore, 1825-1862.

Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 1818-1883.

Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872.

Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861.

Williamson, R. S. (Robert Stockton), 1824-1882.