Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Prelude
  • Part One 183; The Oceanic Expeditions
  • Part Two 183; The Early Peripatetic Naturalists
  • Part Three 183; The Overland Expeditions and Their Naturalists
  • Part Four 183; Iron Horses and River Steamers: The 1850s Surveys
  • Part Five 183; The California Geological Survey
  • Part Six 183; Institutions and Naturalists
  • Part Seven 183; The Postwar Naturalists
  • Postlude: The End of Californias Frontier
  • Selected References
  • Index.