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A contribution to American thalassography : three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Su...

A contribution to American thalassography : three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Su...

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A contribution to American thalassography : three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880 / by Alexander Agassiz : in two volumes.

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Full title

A contribution to American thalassography : three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880 / by Alexander Agassiz : in two volumes.

Publisher

Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888.

Alternative title

Three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880

Record Identifier

74VKVEaPgjQd

MMS ID

991024131166502626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations, folded maps.

Content type

text

Media type

computer

Carrier type

online resource

Contents

v. 1. Equipment of the Blake -- Historical sketch of deep-sea work -- The Florida reefs -- Topography of the eastern coast of the North American continent -- Relations of the American and West Indian fauna and flora -- The permanence of continents and of oceanic basins -- Deep-sea formations -- The...

Publication information

Publisher

Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888.

Place of Publication

Massachusetts

Date Published

1888.

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Alternative Titles

Full title

A contribution to American thalassography : three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880 / by Alexander Agassiz : in two volumes.

Running title

Three cruises of the "Blake"

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Notes

General note

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature

Published also as Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, v. 14 and 15.

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Record Identifier

74VKVEaPgjQd

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MMS ID

991024131166502626