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THE present year will be pre-eminently characterised in the history of the United States by the number of scientific expeditions, thoroughly equipped in every respect, and fitted out for exploration in various regions of the great West; and although most of them have been already referred to in bur columns, it may be well to recapitulate them in geographical order. The most northerly is the International Northern Boundary Commission, which is intended to survey the line of the fortyninth parallel, from the Lake of the Woods to the crest of the Rocky Mountains. The survey of the eastern section of the northern boundary of the United States was completed many years ago. by Colonel J. D. Graham and others, and that of the western section, from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains, was braught to a close in 1860. The middle section, as was the western, is in charge of Archibald Campbell, Esq., of Wshington, as commissioner, with Major Twining as chief engineer officer on the part of the United States. Dr. Elliott Coues, of the army, the well-known naturalist, accompanies the expedition in that capacity, and the work will be done in connection with a large party, equally well equipped, detailed by the British Government.
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American Scientific Expeditions†. Nature 8, 169–170 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008169a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008169a0