Through his Yale contacts and Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian Institute, he was selected mineralogist and geologist of the Pacific Railroad Exploring Expedition of 1853, exploring a railroad route in southern California.
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The peak was named for Henry Larcom Abbot who, in 1855, was a member of the Williamson party of the Pacific Railroad Surveys in California and Oregon.