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1. Mountain observatories in America and Europe

Creator/Contributor:
Holden, Edward S. (Edward Singleton), 1846-1914, creator
Creation Date:
1896
Subjects:
Astronomical observatories
Astronomical observatories--United States
Astronomical observatories--Europe
Astronomy--instrumentation
Astronomy--methods
Europe
Americas

2. A catalogue of 1963 stars reduced to the beginning of the year 1850: Washington observations for 1868. Appendix I: together with a catalogue of 290 double stars : the whole from observations made at Santiago, Chili, during the years 1850-'51-'52 by the U. S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere

Creator/Contributor:
United States Naval Astronomical Expedition (1849-1852), creator
Phelps, Seth Ledyard, -1885
Gilliss, J. M. (James Melville), 1811-1865
MacRae, Archibald, 1820-1855
Smith, E. R.
United States Naval Observatory
Creation Date:
1870
Subjects:
Stars--Catalogs
Double stars--Catalogs

3. Catalogue of plants collected in the years 1871, 1872 and 1873: Engineer Department, U.S. Army: Catalog of plants collected in the years 1871, 1872, and 1873: with descriptions of new species

Creator/Contributor:
Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.), creator
Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905
Rothrock, Joseph T., 1839-1922
Watson, Sereno, 1826-1892
United States, Army., Corps of Engineers.
Creation Date:
1874
Subjects:
Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)--Catalogs
Plants--West (U.S.)
Vegetation surveys--West (U.S.)

4. Compilation of narratives of explorations in Alaska

Creator/Contributor:
United States, Congress., Senate., Committee on Military Affairs., creator
Thomas, G. B. (George B.)
Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909
Abercrombie, W. R. (William Ralph), 1857-1943
Allen, Henry T. (Henry Tureman), 1859-1930
Babcock, Walter C.
Bagg, John S.
Bell, Edwin.
Brookfield, R. M.
Brown, Charles.
Cashman, Edward.
Castner, Joseph C., 1869-1946
Cleave, John W.
Elliott, Charles P.
Fickett, Fred Wildon, 1857-1928
Gillette, Edward, 1854-1936
Glenn, Edwin F. (Edwin Forbes), 1857-1926
Griffiths, C. E.
Heiden, Robert.
Kelly, Luther S. (Luther Sage), 1849-1928
Koehler, Robert.
Learnard, H. G.
Lowe, Percival Green, 1828-1908
Mathys, Frederick.
McManus, George.
Pearson, H. Brian.
Petroff, Ivan, 1842-
Powell, Addison M. (Addison Monroe), 1856-
Preston, Guy H.
Rafferty, J. J.
Ray, P. H. (Patrick Henry), 1842-1911
Raymond, Charles P.
Rice, John F.
Richardson, Wilds Preston.
Rohn, Oscar.
Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892
Townsend, Leroy.
Van Schoonhoven, George W.
Wells, E. Hazard.
Yanert, William.
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
Creation Date:
1900
Subjects:
Alaska--Description and travel
Alaska--History
Alaska--Discovery and exploration

5. Early expeditions to the region of Bering Sea and Strait: Notes on an original manuscript chart of Bering's expedition of 1725-1730 and on an original manuscript chart of his second expedition

Creator/Contributor:
Bering, Vitus Jonassen, 1681-1741, creator
Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927
Bering, Vitus Jonassen, 1681-1741
Chaplin, Peter.
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Creation Date:
1891
Subjects:
Bering, Vitus Jonassen--Travel
Kamchatskai͡a ėkspedit͡sii͡a (2nd : 1733-1743)
Kamchatskai͡a ėkspedit͡sii͡a.
Bering Sea--Discovery and exploration
Bering Strait--Discovery and exploration

6. Guatemala: from official and other sources, prepared in the Bureau of the American Republics, William Woodville Rockhill, director

Creator/Contributor:
Hendges, M., creator
Andrew B. Graham Co
Creation Date:
1902
Subjects:
Guatemala--Maps

7. Scientific results of explorations of the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross III Report on the batrachians and reptiles collected in 1887-'88: Report on the batrachians and reptiles collected in 1887-'88: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum

Creator/Contributor:
Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897, creator
Albatross (Steamer)
Creation Date:
1889 [i.e. 1890]
1890
Subjects:
Amphibians
Reptiles

8. Oceanic ichthyology: a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic : with an atlas containing 417 figures

Creator/Contributor:
Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896, creator
Bean, Tarleton H. (Tarleton Hoffman), 1846-1916
Albatross (Steamer)
Blake (Ship)
Fish Hawk (Steamer)
Creation Date:
1895
Subjects:
Pelagic fishes
Deep-sea fishes

9. Scientific results of explorations by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross XIX A supplementary list of fishes collected at the Galapagos islands and Panama, with descriptions of one new genus and three new species: Supplementary list of fishes collected at the Galapagos islands and Panama, with descriptions of one new genus and three new species

Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1859-1928, creator
Albatross (Steamer)
Creation Date:
1891
Subjects:
Fishes--Galapagos Islands
Fishes--Panama

10. Scientific results of explorations by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross V Annotated catalogue of the insects collected in 1887-'88: Annotated catalogue of the insects collected in 1887-'88: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum

Creator/Contributor:
Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950, creator
Albatross (Steamer)
Creation Date:
1889 [i.e. 1890]
1890
Subjects:
Insects--Catalogs

11. Physical observations in the Arctic seas

Creator/Contributor:
Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881, creator
Schott, Charles A. (Charles Anthony), 1826-1901
Creation Date:
1867
Subjects:
Arctic regions

12. Scientific results of explorations by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross XIII Catalogue of skeletons of birds collected at the Abrolhos islands, Brazil, the straits of Magellan, and the Galapagos Islands, in 1887-'88: Catalogue of skeletons of birds collected at the Abrolhos islands, Brazil, the straits of Magellan, and the Galapagos Islands, in 1887-'88: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum

Creator/Contributor:
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929, creator
Albatross (Steamer)
Creation Date:
1890
Subjects:
Birds--South America--Catalogs
Birds--Galapagos Islands--Catalogs
Birds--Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)--Catalogs
Birds--Brazil--Catalogs

13. Scientific results of explorations by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross I Birds collected on the Galapagos islands in 1888: Birds collected on the Galapagos Islands in 1888: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum

Creator/Contributor:
Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929, creator
Albatross (Steamer)
Creation Date:
1889 [i.e. 1890]
1890
Subjects:
Birds--Galapagos Islands

14. Dredging and other records of the United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross: U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries: Dredging and other records of the Steamer Albatross: with bibliography relative to the work of the vessel

Creator/Contributor:
Townsend, Charles Haskins, 1859-1944, creator
Townsend, Charles Haskins, 1859-1944
United States Fish Commission
Creation Date:
1901
Subjects:
Albatross (Steamer)
Albatross (Steamer)--Bibliography
Dredging
Oceanographic research ships--Observations
Oceanography--Observations
Dredging (Biology)
Sounding and soundings
Marine biology--Bibliography

15. Deep-sea exploration: a general description of the steamer Albatross, her appliances and methods

Creator/Contributor:
Tanner, Z. L. (Zera Luther), 1835-1906, creator
Creation Date:
1897
Subjects:
Albatross (Steamer)
Oceanographic research ships

16. Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: made under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior by William H. Emory

Creator/Contributor:
United States, Department of the Interior., creator
Parry, C. C. (Charles Christopher), 1823-1890
Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
Conrad, T. A. (Timothy Abbott), 1803-1877
Engelmann, George, 1809-1884
Hall, James, 1811-1898
Schott, Arthur, 1814-1875
Torrey, John, 1796-1873
Girard, Charles, 1822-1895
United States and Mexican Boundary Survey
Creation Date:
1857-1859
Subjects:
United States and Mexican Boundary Survey.
Geology--Southwest, New
Botany--Southwest, New
Zoology--Southwest, New
Discoveries in geography--United States
United States--Boundaries--Mexico
Mexico--Boundaries--United States
Rio Grande (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)

17. Greely Relief Expedition: reception of Lieut. A. W. Greely, U.S.A., and his comrades, and of the Arctic relief expedition, at Portsmouth, N.H., on August 1 and 4, 1884

Creator/Contributor:
McGinley, William Anderson, 1831-1896, creator
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
United States, Navy Department.
Creation Date:
1884
Subjects:
Greely Relief Expedition (1884)

18. Sailing directions and nautical remarks

Creator/Contributor:
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858
Maury, William L.
Bent, Silas, 1820-1887
Maury, William L., comp.
Bent, Silas, 1820-1887, joint comp.
Maury, William L., compiler.
Bent, Silas, 1820-1887, compiler.
United States
Japan
Creation Date:
1857
Subjects:
United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Pilot guides--Japan

19. Report of the Circumnavigation Committee of the Royal Society on the request of the British Admiralty for suggestions relative to the scientific work of the proposed expedition of Her Britannic Majesty's ship "Challenger" round the world

Creator/Contributor:
Royal Society (Great Britain), Circumnavigation Committee., creator
United States, Navy Department., Bureau of Navigation.
Creation Date:
1872
Subjects:
Challenger (Ship : 1872-1876)
Scientific expeditions
Voyages around the world

20. Alaska: coast pilot notes on Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean

Creator/Contributor:
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, creator
Graves, Herbert C. (Herbert Cornelius), 1869-1919
Gilbert, J. J.
Creation Date:
1909
Subjects:
Pilot guides--Alaska
Pilot guides--Bering Sea
Pilot guides--Arctic Ocean
Alaska
Bering Sea
Arctic Ocean

21. Scientific results of the United States Arctic Expedition Vol. 1 Physical observations: United States Arctic Expedition: United States Navy Department: U.S Arctic Expedition

Creator/Contributor:
Bessels, Emil, 1847-1888, creator
Hall, Charles Francis, 1821-1871
Bessels, Emil, 1847-1888
United States, Department of the Navy.
Creation Date:
1876
Subjects:
Polaris (Ship)
United States North Polar Expedition (1871-1873)
Geophysics--Arctic regions
Physical geography--Arctic regions
Discoveries in geography
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--American
Arctic regions

22. Narrative of the second Arctic expedition made by Charles F. Hall: his voyage to Repulse Bay, sledge journeys to the straits of Fury and Hecla and to King William's Land, and residence among the Eskimos, during the years 1864-'69

Creator/Contributor:
Hall, Charles Francis, 1821-1871, creator
Nourse, J. E. (Joseph Everett), 1819-1889
United States Naval Observatory
United States, Navy Department.
Creation Date:
1879
Subjects:
Franklin, John
Inuit
Arctic regions

23. Contributions to the natural history of Kerguelen Island: made in connection with the American transit-of-Venus expedition, 1874-75

Creator/Contributor:
Kidder, J. H. (Jerome Henry), 1842-1889, creator
Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899
Creation Date:
1878
Subjects:
Natural history--Kerguelen Islands
Birds--Kerguelen Islands
Scientific expeditions--Kerguelen Islands

24. Report on the proceedings of the United States expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land: International Polar Exhibition: Lady Franklin Bay Expedition: International polar expedition

Creator/Contributor:
Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884), creator
Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935
Rice, George W., -1884, photographer.
Lockwood, J. B. (James Booth), 1852-1884, illustrator.
Gardiner, Hampden S., -1884, illustrator.
Moss Engraving Company, engraver.
Creation Date:
1888
Subjects:
Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884)
Scientific expeditions--Arctic regions
Natural history--Arctic regions
Nunavut--Discovery and exploration--American
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--American
Northwest Territories--Discovery and exploration--American
Arctic regions--Description and travel
Northwest Territories--Description and travel

25. Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska: in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of December 11, 1884

Creator/Contributor:
Ray, P. H. (Patrick Henry), 1842-1911
Creation Date:
1885
Subjects:
International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska (1881-1883)
Geophysics--Alaska--Barrow, Point--Observations
Scientific expeditions--Alaska--Barrow, Point
Inuit--Alaska--Barrow, Point
Natural history--Alaska--Barrow, Point
North Slope (Alaska)--Discovery and exploration
Alaska--Discovery and exploration
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--American
Barrow, Point (Alaska)

26. Report on the work of the United States Fish Commission Steamer Albatross from January 1, 1887, to June 30, 1888: Report on the work of the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross from January 1, 1887, to June 30, 1888: Work of steamer Albatross

Creator/Contributor:
Tanner, Z. L. (Zera Luther), 1835-1906, creator
Creation Date:
1890
Subjects:
Albatross (Steamer)
Oceanographic research ships--Observations
Oceanography--Pacific Coast (North America)
Oceanography--Pacific Coast (South America)
Oceanography--Atlantic Coast (North America)
Oceanography--Atlantic Coast (South America)
Scientific expeditions--Pacific Coast (North America)
Scientific expeditions--Pacific Coast (South America)
Scientific expeditions--Atlantic Coast (North America)
Scientific expeditions--Atlantic Coast (South America)

27. Report on the investigations of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross for the year ending June 30, 1889: Report upon the investigations of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross for the year ending June 30, 1889: Investigations of the Albatross

Creator/Contributor:
Tanner, Z. L. (Zera Luther), 1835-1906, creator
Creation Date:
1891
Subjects:
Albatross (Steamer)
Fisheries--Alaska
Fisheries--Pacific Coast (U.S.)
Fisheries--Mexico
Hydrography--Pacific Coast (North America)

28. Report upon the investigations of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross from July 1, 1889, to June 30, 1891

Creator/Contributor:
Tanner, Z. L. (Zera Luther), 1835-1906, creator
Creation Date:
1893
Subjects:
Albatross (Steamer)
Fisheries--Alaska
Fisheries--Pacific Coast (U.S.)
Fisheries--Mexico
Hydrography--Pacific Coast (North America)

29. Report upon the investigations of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross for the year ending June 30, 1892: Investigations of the Albatross

Creator/Contributor:
Tanner, Z. L. (Zera Luther), 1835-1906, creator
United States Fish Commission
Creation Date:
1894
Subjects:
Albatross (Steamer)
Fisheries--Alaska
Fisheries--Pacific Coast (U.S.)
Fisheries--Mexico
Hydrography--Pacific Coast (North America)
Hydrography--North Pacific Ocean
Oceanography--North Pacific Ocean
Oceanography--Observations
Hydrographic surveying--North Pacific Ocean
Fisheries--Washington (State)
Aleutian Islands (Alaska)--Description and travel

30. Report upon the work of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross for the year ending June 30, 1893

Creator/Contributor:
Tanner, Z. L. (Zera Luther), 1835-1906, creator
Creation Date:
1896
Subjects:
Albatross (Steamer)
Fisheries--Alaska
Fisheries--Pacific Coast (U.S.)
Fisheries--Mexico
Hydrography--Pacific Coast (North America)

31. Report upon the operations of the United States Fish Commission Steamer Albatross for the year ending June 30, 1894

Creator/Contributor:
Tanner, Z. L. (Zera Luther), 1835-1906, creator
Drake, F. J.
Creation Date:
1896
Subjects:
Albatross (Steamer)
Fisheries--Alaska
Fisheries--Pacific Coast (U.S.)
Fisheries--Mexico
Hydrography--Pacific Coast (North America)

32. Report upon the investigations of the United States Fish Commission Steamer Albatross for the year ending June 30, 1895

Creator/Contributor:
Tanner, Z. L. (Zera Luther), 1835-1906, creator
Creation Date:
1896
Subjects:
Albatross (Steamer)
Fisheries--Alaska
Fisheries--Pacific Coast (U.S.)
Fisheries--Mexico
Hydrography--Pacific Coast (North America)

33. Records of observations made on board the United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross during the year ending June 30, 1896

Creator/Contributor:
Albatross (Steamer)
Creation Date:
1897
Subjects:
Albatross (Steamer)
Oceanographic research ships--Observations
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