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- United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
- Description
- 1 online resource (24 v.) : ill. (some fold.), maps (some fold.), ports., plans, music, geneal. tables.
- Series Statement
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
- Uniform Title
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.
- Alternative Title
- United States exploring expedition
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- Note
- Title on v. 6 ff.: United States exploring expedition.
- "In five volumes, and an atlas"--V. 1-5.
- Vol. 10, Atlas ; v. 15, Atlas, have imprint: New York, Geo. P. Putnam.
- Vol. 8, Atlas ; v. 20, Atlas, have imprint: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott.
- Vol. 12, Atlas ; v. 13, Atlas ; v. 16, Atlas ; v. 17 ; v. 23, Atlas, have imprint: Philadelphia, C. Sherman.
- The publication was never completed. Five volumes are unpublished: v. 18, Botany, by Asa Gray ; v. 19, Geographical distribution of animals and plants, by Charles Pickering ; v. 21-22, Ichthyology, by Louis Agassiz ; v. 21, Physics, by Charles Wilkes.
- Includes indexes.
- Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.
- Contents
- v. 1-5. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-42 / by Charles Wilkes -- v. 6. Ethnography and philology / by Horatio Hale. 1846 -- v. 7. Zoophytes / by James D. Dana. 1846, and atlas of 61 pl. 1849. -- v. 8. Mammalogy and ornithology / by John Cassin, and atlas of 53 pl. 1858 -- v. 9. The races of man, and their geographical distribution / by Charles Pickering. 1848 -- v. 10. Geology / by James D. Dana, and atlas of 21 pl. 1849 -- v. 11. Meteorology / by Charles Wilkes. 1851 -- v. 12. Mollusca & shells / by Augustus A. Gould. 1852. Atlas of 52 pl. 1856. -- v. 13. Crustacea / by James D. Dana. 1 v. in 2, 1852. Atlas of 96 pl. 1855. -- v. 15. Botany. Phanerogamia / by Asa Gray. Part 1, 1 v. , 1854. Atlas of 100 pl. 1856 -- v. 16. Botany. Cryptogamia. Filices, including Lycopodiaceæ and Hydropterides / by William D. Brackenridge. 1854. Atlas of 46 pl. -- v. 17. Botany. Cryptogamia. Musci / by William S. Sullivant. Lichenes / by Edward Tuckerman. Algæ / by J.W. Bailey and W.H. Harvey. Fungi / by M.A. Curtis and M.J. Berkeley. Phanerogamia of Pacific North America / by John Torrey. Ed. by Asa Gray, 1874 -- v. 20. Herpetology / prepared under the superintendence of S.F. Baird ; by Charles Girard, and atlas of 23 pl. 1858 -- v. 23. Hydrography / by Charles Wilkes. 1861. Atlas of 106 charts. 1858.
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- Author
Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877.
- Title
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition [electronic resource] : during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 / by Charles Wilkes, U.S.N., commander of the Expedition.
- Imprint
Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1845-1861.
- Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.
- Local Note
Reproduced from source library: vol. 1-17, 20, 23; vol. 9 and 15 (1863) have atlases.
Scanned copy imperfect: vol. 15 (1854), t.p. mislabeled vol. 1; vol. 19 (1863), t.p. mislabeled vol. 15.
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United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)