. C. Hart Merriam papers : including correspondence, papers relating to career with the United States Biological Survey, 1798-1972 (bulk 1871-1942). United States. Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy; United States. Division of Biological Survey; United States. Biological Survey; United States. Bureau of Biological Survey; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U. S. ); Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Bering Sea controversy; Bears; Biogeography; Natural history; Ornithology; Botany; Life zones; Wildlife conservation. The most important evidence after f^mith's own ac- count


. C. Hart Merriam papers : including correspondence, papers relating to career with the United States Biological Survey, 1798-1972 (bulk 1871-1942). United States. Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy; United States. Division of Biological Survey; United States. Biological Survey; United States. Bureau of Biological Survey; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U. S. ); Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Bering Sea controversy; Bears; Biogeography; Natural history; Ornithology; Botany; Life zones; Wildlife conservation. The most important evidence after f^mith's own ac- count ia to be found in the maps of rreneral Gallatin (1836) and Cotnoander Wilkes (1841), in hoth of which tha f;80graphic results of i^nith's explorations are ^ncor- Y po'-ated/ Both show Adturm Riter in approxirmtaly trie right position for the ?feddy (so fnr as pan^iitted ! y *:he distorted course of the Colorado) while the straam now called the Virgin is neither named nor shown, except the few miles below the junction of the :uddv, which. being apparentlir a direct continuanon of the ^ Smith naturally roistook for it— he having nsTer seen any part of the Virgin ahore the junction, as alrr3adj explained 1^ ^ ^AdairiB River is shown as a long stream,and its course,correctly f^iyen as southwest hy south for a long distance and then southeast to the Colorado Riter-- thus agreeing -dth Smith's account and also with theTl^offi courses of '^ha ?^eadow Valley Wash, the Muddy, and t-e lower part of the Virgin^below the junction. It is surprising that in a hurried horseback journey ofer mountains and deserts the course of a previously iin- Known stream should be^afeosKi with such accuracy. Fremont, in the large scale map showing his re tiu-n route from southern California to TTtah in the. narae _ ^ ^^ river is greatly extended.'to'the'north7Vndj4ye course which is a compromise between that or the ^ and Jfeadow Vallev Wash with its continuatinn--thft ^4.^i^^i??* AjThisTjn


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