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Reports upon the survey of the boundary between the territory of the United States and the possessions of Great Britain from the Lake of the Woods to the summit of the Rocky Mountains : authorized by an act of Congress approved March 19, 1872 / [prepared by] Archibald Campbell [and] W.J. Twining.
Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925 Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States Northern Boundary Commission.
- Series:
- Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 44th Congress, 2nd session, no. 41.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.
- Ex. doc. / 44th Congress, 2d session. Senate ; no. 41
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Borderlands--United States.
- Borderlands.
- Astronomy--United States--Observations.
- Astronomy.
- Geodesy--United States.
- Geodesy.
- Northern boundary of the United States.
- United States--Boundaries.
- United States.
- United States--Surveys.
- United States--Boundaries--Canada.
- Canada--Boundaries--United States.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([1], 624 p., [25] leaves of plates) : ill. (some col.), maps.
- Other Title:
- Reports upon the survey of the boundary between the territory of the United States and the possessions of Great Britain from the Lake of the Woods to the summit of the Rocky Mountains
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : G.P.O., 1878.
- Contents:
- Message from the President of the United States communicating information in relation to the boundary-line between the United States and the possessions of Great Britain ... February 23, 1877
- Reports of the Commissioner and of the Chief Astronomer of the Northern Boundary
- United States Northern Boundary Commission. Report of Commissioner Archibald Campbell. 1872-1876
- United States Northern Boundary Commission. Reports of the Chief Astronomer and his assistants
- Report of Capt. W.J. Twining, Corps of Engineers, Brevet Major, U.S.A., Chief Astronomer and Surveyor
- Appendix A to Report of Capt. W.J. Twining, Corps of Engineers, Chief Astronomer: Report of Capt. James F. Gregory, Corps of Engineers, United States Army
- Appendix B to Report of Capt. W.J. Twining, Corps of Engineers, Chief Astronomer: Report of First Lieut. F.V. Greene, United States Engineers
- Appendix H to Report of Capt. W.J. Twining, Corps of Engineers, Chief Astronomer: Report on the declinations of the stars employed in latitude work with the zenith telescope ... by assistant Lewis Boss, now Director of Dudley Observatory
- Recapitulation of systematic corrections to declinations
- Catalogue of 500 stars for the epoch 1875.0, containing declinations with their annual variations and other terms of precession.
- Notes:
- General index, pp. 623-624 ; special index to Appendix H, pp. 617-19 ; index to subjects, p. 621.
- At head of title: Department of State.
- Prepared by the Northern Boundary Commission.
- "Published in accordance with an Act of Congress approved March 3, 1877."--T.p.
- Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.
- OCLC:
- 1111255573
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