Polar Colonization. The Preliminary Arctic Expedition of 1877 - Couverture rigide

Howgate, Henry W

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1374199311 ISBN 13 : 9781374199316

Editeur : Wentworth Press, 2016

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NlZA lIO .THE PRELIMINARY ARCTIC 12;uED1 f1oi 1877. A number of public spirited and generous citizens of the United States, having faith in the success of the Colonization plan as a means of Arctic Exploration, and believing in its ultimate approval by Congress, in substantial accordance with the bill reported tavorably from the Committee on Naval A fiairs of the House of ltepresentatives at the last session ofthe Forty-fourth Congress, contributed from their private means a sniiieient sum tor the purchase and outfit of a small vessel to be sent to the Arctic seas forthe purpose of collecting such supplies during the ensuing winter as might be useful for the main expedition of 1878, if that expedition should be authorized. It was at iirst intended to limit the mission of this vessel to the collection of material only, but the opportunity for scientific investigation was so inviting, and the added cost incurred thereby so very triiiing in comparison with the results to be attained, that space was made on board for two observers and their necessary apparatus. One of these observers was selected upon the recommendation of Professor Elias Loomis, of Yale College, and instructed to pay especial attention to meteorological phenomena, while the other was selected as naturalist ofthe expedition by Professor Spencer F. Baird, of the Q7 A-272 lam Q.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wentworth Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1374199311
• ISBN 13: 9781374199316
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 46
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible