William  H. Emory (1)
Fauna of SW United States

Mammals
 
These fine steel engravings are cut from William Hemsley Emory's (1811-1887) classic Report on the United States-Mexican Boundary Survey, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior, etc., printed by Cornelius Wendel and published in Washington, 1857-59 .   J. H. Richard (see) is the general artist.  R. Metzeroth did most of the mammalian skulls.  This important survey, conducted between 1848 and 1853,  reported on the people, topography, and biology of the American Southwest.  Emory, a competent cartographer and engineer, became one of the foremost authorities on the American Southwest.