Report of an expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers by Captain L. Sitgreaves ... Illustrations. (Report on ... Natural History ... by S. W. Woodhouse. Zoology: mammals and birds by S. W. Woodhouse; reptiles by E. Hallowell; fishes by S. F. Baird and C. Girard. Botany: by Professor J. Torrey. Medical report; by S. W. Woodhouse.)
An 1853 United States government survey report on Captain Sitgreaves' expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers, with natural history sections by S. W. Woodhouse, Edward Hallowell, Baird and Girard, and John Torrey, issued for Congress and naturalists. The lithographed plates are fine-line grey drawings of snakes coiled into loops, lizards splayed flat, and small inset head studies in dorsal and profile view, usable as clean specimen silhouettes, curling linear forms, and labelled scientific plate layouts.
