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... Coast Survey with a continuity and a relative permanency that the explora- tions to which it was so closely akin were unable to achieve . The Coast Survey's tendency toward permanence received en- couragement from territorial expansion ...
... Coast Survey with a continuity and a relative permanency that the explora- tions to which it was so closely akin were unable to achieve . The Coast Survey's tendency toward permanence received en- couragement from territorial expansion ...
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... Coast Survey . A temporary agency tended to become permanent . A practical agency tended to go into the theo- retical aspects of the sciences it used . However , even when great generality was reached in this trend , a practical agency ...
... Coast Survey . A temporary agency tended to become permanent . A practical agency tended to go into the theo- retical aspects of the sciences it used . However , even when great generality was reached in this trend , a practical agency ...
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... Coast Survey Records , National Archives . 46. See M. M. Odgers , Alexander Dallas Bache : Scientist and Educator , 1806-1867 ( Washington , 1947 ) , 149-150 . 47. Superintendent of the Coast Survey , Annual Report , 1851 , 32 Cong ...
... Coast Survey Records , National Archives . 46. See M. M. Odgers , Alexander Dallas Bache : Scientist and Educator , 1806-1867 ( Washington , 1947 ) , 149-150 . 47. Superintendent of the Coast Survey , Annual Report , 1851 , 32 Cong ...
Contents
First Attempts to Form a Policy 17871800 | 1 |
Theory and Action in the Jeffersonian Era 18001829 | 20 |
Practical Achievements in the Age of the Common Man | 44 |
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