Chapter XXXI: Appendix: No. 1

THE EXPEDITION TO THE SOURCES OF THE
MISSISSIPPI IN 1820.

I. OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE EXPEDITION OF 1820.

1. DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS.

I. Announcement of the Return of the Expedition. By Hon. LEWIS
CASS.

II. General Report to the Department of War. By Hon. LEWIS CASS.

III. Further Explorations of Western Geography recommended. By Hon.
LEWIS CASS.

IV. Personal Testimonial on the close of the Expedition. By Hon.
LEWIS CASS.

2. TOPOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY.

V. Results of Observations for Latitudes and Longitudes during the
Expedition of 1820. By DAVID B. DOUGLASS, Capt. Engineers, U. S.
A.

3. MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY.

VI. Report on the Copper Mines of Lake Superior. By HENRY R.
SCHOOLCRAFT.

VII. Observations on the Mineralogy and Geology of the country
embracing the sources of the Mississippi River and the Great
Lake Basins. By HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.

VIII. Report in reply to a Resolution of the U. S. Senate on the Value
and Extent of the Mineral Lands on Lake Superior. By HENRY R.
SCHOOLCRAFT.

IX. Rapid Glances at the Geology of Western New York, beyond the
Rome summit, in 1820. By HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.

X. A Memoir on the Geological Position of a Fossil Tree in the
secondary rocks of the Illinois. Albany: E. & E. Hosford,
pp. 18, 1822. By HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.

4. BOTANY.

XI. List of Plants collected by Capt. D. B. Douglass at the sources
of the Mississippi River. This paper has been published in the
4th vol. p. 56 of Silliman's Journal of Science. By Dr. JOHN
TORREY.

5. ZOOLOGY.

XII. A Letter embracing Notices of the Zoology of the Northwest,
addressed to Dr. Mitchell on the return of the Expedition. By
HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.

(1.) FRESH-WATER CONCHOLOGY.

XIII. Species of Bivalves collected by Mr. Schoolcraft and Capt.
Douglass in the Northwest. Published in the 6th vol. Amer.
Journ. of Science, pp. 120, 259. By D. H. BARNES.

XIV. Fresh-water Shells collected by Mr. Schoolcraft in the valleys
of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. American Philosophical
Transactions, vol. 5. By Mr. ISAAC LEA.

(2.) FAUNA: ICHTHYOLOGY: REPTILIA.

XV. Summary Remarks respecting the Zoological Species noticed in the
Expedition. By Dr. SAMUEL L. MITCHELL.

XVI. Mus Busarius. Medical Repository, vol. 21, p. 248. By Dr. SAMUEL
L. MITCHELL.

XVII. Sciurus Tredecem Striatus. Med. Rep. vol. 21. By Dr. SAMUEL L.
MITCHELL.

XVIII. Proteus of the Lakes. Am. Journ. Science, vol. 4. By Dr. SAMUEL
L. MITCHELL.

6. METEOROLOGY.

XIX. Memoranda on Climatic Phenomena, and the distribution of Solar
Heat, in 1820. By HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.

7. INDIAN LANGUAGES AND HISTORY.

XX. A Pictographic mode of communicating ideas by the Northwestern
Indians. By Hon. LEWIS CASS.

XXI. Inquiries respecting the History, &c. of the Indians of the
United States. Detroit, 1822. By Hon. LEWIS CASS.

XXII. A Letter on the Origin of the Indian Tribes of America, and the
Principles of their Mode of uttering Ideas. By Dr. J. M'DONNELL,
Belfast, Ireland.

XXIII. Difficulties of studying the Indian Tongues of the United
States. Schoolcraft's Travels in the Central Portions of the
Mississippi Valley, p. 381. By Dr. ALEXANDER WOLCOTT, Jr.

XXIV. Examinations of the Elementary Structure of the
Odjibwa-Algonquin Language. First paper. By HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.

XXV. A Vocabulary of the Odjibwa-Algonquin. By HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.