The Death Valley Expedition
The Death Valley Expedition was an 1891 expedition to discover the geographic distributions of plants (phytogeography) and animals in the United States.[1] It was the first of a series of expeditions funded by an 1890 act of the United States Congress.[1] It included biologists, naturalists, botanists, and zoologists including Frederick Vernon Coville, Frederick Funston, Clinton Hart Merriam, Stejneger, L.H., and others.[1] They produced valuable reports of historic significance in several fields, including "Botany of the Death Valley Expedition" and “The Death Valley Expedition: A Biological Survey of Parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah”, "Annotated List of the Reptiles and Batrachians Collected by the Death Valley Expedition in 1891, with Descriptions of New Species".[1]