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A history of the first half-century of the National academy of sciences, 1863-1913
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Academy of Sciences (U.S.).
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--United States--History.
- Science.
- National Academy of Sciences (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (427 p.)
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington 1913
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- A History of the First Half-Century of the National Academy of Sciences
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Chapter I The Founding of the Academy
- Chapter II The Annals of the Academy
- 1863-1867 ; 1868-1872 ; 1873-1877 ; 1878-1882 ; 1883-1887 ; 1888-1892 ; 1893-1897 ; 1898-1902 ; 1903-1907 and 1908-1912
- Chapter III Biographical Sketches of the Incorporators
- Louis Agassiz
- John H.Alexander
- Stephen Alexander
- Alexander Dallas Bache
- Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
- John Gross Barnard William
- Holmes Chambers Bartlett
- Alexis Caswell
- William Chauvenet
- John Huntington Crane Coffin
- John Adolphus Bernhard Dahlgren
- James Dwight Dana
- Charles Henry Davis
- George Engelmann
- John Fries Frazer
- Wolcott Gibbs
- James Melville Gilliss
- Augustus Addison Gould
- Benjamin Apthorp Gould
- ASA Gray
- Arnold Guyot
- James Hall
- Joseph Henry
- Julius Erasmus Hilgard
- Edward Hitchcock
- Joseph Stillman Hubbard
- Andrew Atkinson Humphreys
- John Lawrence Leconte
- Joseph Leidy
- J.Peter Lesleymiers Fisher Longstreth
- Dennis Hart Mahan
- John Strong Newberry
- Hubert Anson Newton
- Benjamin Peirce
- John Rodgers
- Fairman Rogers
- Robert Empie Rogers
- William Barton Rogers
- Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
- Joseph Saxton
- Benjamin Silliman, Senior
- Benjamin Silliman, Junior
- Theodore Strong
- John Torrey
- Joseph Gilbert Totten
- Josiah Dwight Whitney
- Joseph Winlock
- Jeffries Wyman
- Chapter IV The Academy as the Scientific Adviser of the Government
- Committees Appointed by the Academy on Behalf of the Government Committee on Weights, Measures, and Coinage. 1863
- Committee on Protecting The Bottoms of Iron Vessels. 1863
- Committee on Magnetic Deviation In Iron Ships. 1863
- Committee on Saxton's Alcoholometer. 1863
- Committee on Wind and Current Charts and Sailing Directions. 1863
- Committee on the Question of Tests for the Purity of Whiskey. 1864
- Committee on Experiments on the Expansion of Steam. 1864
- A Committee on Materials for the Manufacture of Cent Coins. 1864
- Committee on the Explosion on the United States Steamer Chenango. 1864 Committee on Galvanic Action From Association of Zinc and Iron. 1867
- Committee on Proving and Gauging Distilled Spirits and Preventing Fraud. 1866
- Committee on the Improvement of Greytown Harbor, Nicaragua. 1866
- Committee on the Protection of Coal Mines From Explosion By Means of Electricity. 1870
- Committee on the Effect of Chemicals on Internal Revenue Stamps. 1870
- Committee on the Transit of Venus. 1871 and 1881
- Committee on Water-Proofing The Fractional Currency. 1875
- Committees on the Artificial Coloring of Sugars, on the Use of the Polariscope To Determine The of Sugars, and on Demarara.
- Notes:
- Edited by Frederick W. True.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC:
- 560457042
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