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Magnificent voyagers : the U.S. exploring expedition, 1838-1842 / Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis, editors ; with the assistance of Jan S. Danis and Sharon D. Galperin.
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Washington, D.C. :: Smithsonian Institution Press,
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1985.
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303, [1] pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 28 cm
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Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod. Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-285) and index.
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Monograph
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0874749468 9780874749465 087474945X 9780874749458;
Abstract:
The story of the U.S. exploring expedition /

Herman J. Viola --

Expedition botany : the making of a new profession /

Richard H. Eyde --

Vertebrate collections : lost opportunities /

George E. Watson --

The invertebrates
of the U.S. Exploring Expedition /

Frederick M. Bayer --

James Dwight Dana and Pacific geology /

Daniel E. Appleman --

Anthropology and the U.S. Exploring Expedition /

Adrienne L. Kaeppler --

Ships and squadron logistics /

Philip K. Lundeberg --

Surveying and charting the Pacific basin /

Ralph E. Ehrenberg, John A. Wolter, and Charles A. Burroughs --

Charles Wilkes : a biography /

Joye Leonhart --

Charles Wilkes as diplomat /

E. Jeffrey Stann --

The National Gallery at the Patent Office /

Douglas E. Evelyn --

The Exploring Expedition and the Smithsonian Institution /

Nathan Reingold and Marc Rothenberg.

Account of the activities, chronology, mapping and botanical and zoological collections of the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842, which mapped 1500 miles of the Antarctic coast and proved that the continent exists. Published in connection with the exhibition 'Magnificent Voyagers' organized by the National Museum of Natural History and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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