Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey Showing the Progress of the Work for the Fiscal Year Ending with June, 1877
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1880.
Hardcover Quarto. Pp. xxiii, [1], 194 plus 24 large folding maps, one folding illustration, text diagrams. Appendices, index. Original dark brown cloth, gilt. Repairs to spine and corner bumped otherwise in very good condition.
Provides the progress made in the survey of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts. Includes charts of parts of New York; the East coast of Florida; the coasts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana; the coast of Texas; three charts of the coast of California; and the coasts of Oregon and Washington Territory as listed in the index. The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was first established in 1807 and is the oldest scientific organization in the U.S Government. After the Civil War, the bureau took responsibility for mapping and conducting geodetic surveys of the the interior of the expanding country. This map was compiled by various sources under the supervision of Carlile Pollock Patterson, who was the superintendent from 1874 to 1881. It was under Pattersons superintendence in 1878 that the U. S. Coast Survey was reorganized as the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey to include topographic as well as nautical surveys.
Language: English
Price: $600.00
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