> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 746](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120877) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12425-1) LSID 12425-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q780105) QID Q780105 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Emory, Major William Hemsley (1811-1887) ("Helmsley"), American soldier. **Abbreviated name**: *Emory* \[standard form in IPNI: *Emory*\] #### Collections the first set of the Mexican boundary survey is at US. Plants were collected by Bigelow, Parry, Schott and Wright. It is likely that Torrey's types are at NY and Engelmann's at MO. *Ref*.: IH 2: 183. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 508; BM 2: 526; CSP 2: 489, 14: 839; DAB 6: 153-154; Jackson p. 355; Langman p. 262-263; ME 1: 182 \[biographies\], 3: 571 \[index\]; PR 2681-2682. - Nat. Cycl. Amer. Biogr. 4: 336-337. 1897. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 135. 1969. - Lenley et al., Cat. manuscr. coll. New York Bot. Gard. 454-455. 1973 (letters to Torrey). #### Eponymy *Emorya* J. Torrey (1859). ### Publications ##### n.1669. Notes of a military reconnoissance **Title** *Notes of a military reconnoissance*, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including part of Arkansas, del Norte, and Gila Rivers. By Lieut. Col. W. H. Emory. Made in 1846-7, with the advance guard of the "Army of the West." \[headline:\] Thirtieth Congress – First Session. Ex. Doc. Nov. 41. Washington (Wendell and van Benthuysen) 1848. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Not. milit. reconn.* **Notes** *House edition* (title as above), *publ*. Feb-Jul 1848, p. \[1\]-614, botanical ills.: *pl. 1-12*, bot., 2, cact. *Copies*: BR, NY (2 copies: second p. \[1\]-416). Botanical Appendix by John Torrey, p. 135-155, *12 pl*. and Engelmann, Cacteae, p. 155-159, *2 pl. Variants*: a. without description of *Zinnia grandiflora*, b. with *zinnia grandiflora. Senate edition, publ.* probably Jul-Aug 1848 (inscribed copy by Emory at MO 15 Aug 1848), p. \[1\]-416, 12, *2 plates*, headline: "30th Congress, 1st Session \[Senate\] Executive No. 7." *Copies*: G, MO, NY. – Main difference with House edition (in botany): includes *Convolvulus Nuttallii* and *Alternanthera lanuginosa*. For variants see Barnhart, Coville and Farwell; see also ME. *Ref*.: BM 2: 526, 5: 2178; ME 3: 15-17; PR 2681. - Hooker, Kew J. Bot. 1: 92-94. 1849. - Barnhart, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 22: 394-395. 1895. - Coville, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 23: 90-92. 1896. - Farwell, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 37: 479-480. 1910. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 135. 1969. ##### n.1670. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey **Title** *Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey*, made under the direction of the secretary of the interior, by William H. Emory. Washington (A. O. P. Nicholson) 1857-1859, 2 vols. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Rep. U.S. Mex. bound.* **Notes** *Senate edition*, Ex. Doc. no. 108. – *Copies*: MO, NY. *Vol. 1, part 1* \[general report\], 1857, front., p. \[i\]-xi, \[xii, err.\], xiii-xv, \[xvi\], map, \[1\]-258, plates. *part 2*: Geological reports of Doctor C. C. Parry and assistant Arthur Schott, 1857, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-174, *pl. 1-21* (uncol. liths. Meek), contains T. A. Conrad, Description of cretaceous and tertiary fossils on p. 141-174. *Vol. 2*, t.p. dated 1859 (p. \[1\]), but t.p. on p. \[3\] dated 1858 \[referring to part I. Botany which was actually published Jul-Dec 1858\]: \[*part 1*\].1858, p. \[7\]-26 Parry, C. C. Introduction; p. \[27\]-270, *pl. 1-61*, John Torrey, Botany of the Boundary; p. \[1\].78, *pl. 1-75*, George Engelmann, Cactaceae of the Boundary. \[*part 2*, also as vol. 3\], 1859, Zoological report. *House edition*, Ex. Doc. no. 135. – *Copies*: MO (2, vol. 2). *Vol. 1*, as above (n.v., fide Meisel). *Vol. 2*, as above except eleven pages (rather than 5) unnumbered preface material preceding Parry's Introduction on \[7\]-26. Page \[vii\] dated 1858 (same as \[3\] in Senate ed.). Date on p. \[ii\]: 19 Mai 1858. One of the MO copies has the Torrey plates numbered 1, 1(= 2), *3-61*, but the other has *1, 2, 3-61*. The steel plates for Engelmann's Contribution were engraved in Paris after drawings after Paulus Roetter. They are now at the Smithsonian Institution. *Ref*.: BM 5: 2178; ME 3: 99-105; NI 602, 1971; PR 2682, 2714.