"The author's report on zoophytes was published by the Government in the year 1846 ... The edition on sale having been exhausted, the author here issues a smaller volume containing the brief descriptions of the species in the work, to accompany complete copies of the atlas."--Preface, p. [iii]

Original report issued as: Zoophytes. 1846. (United States Exploring Expedition ; v. 7)

"Printed by E. Hayes, ... New Haven, Conn." --T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-166) and index

Haskell, D.C. United States Exploring Expedition (1968 ed.)

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Publisher's advertisement inserted between p. [ii] and [iii]

Photocopy of a typed errata list, "from ms. note in Dana's handwriting, inserted after the preface, in L. Agassiz's copy at MH-Z", has been mounted on front paste-down

Signed at top of front free endpaper: J.W. Wells, Homer, N.Y.; Texas, 1930

Bookplate: Ex libris, John W. Wells, 170

Bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Ellen B. Wells in memory of John West Wells

Bound in old half-leather over marbled boards; gilt-lettered spine; re-backed

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