United States and Mexican Boundary Survey

In addition to its documentation of the new boundary, the survey report was notable for its natural history content, including paleontology, botany, ichthyology, herpetology, ornithology, and mammalogy.

Even after this the funds still took time to reach the workers, who after Emory's return had started to mutiny and riot causing a complete halt in production.

Instances of attacks from Native Americans on survey groups are also noted in the accounts with a request to the War Department for military escorts.

[2] Twenty-five hand-colored lithographic plates of birds were included in the volume Zoology of the Boundary, edited by Spencer Fullerton Baird.

Once viewed as a model of international cooperation, in recent decades the IBWC has been heavily criticized as an institutional anachronism.