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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

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 [electronic resource] : authorized by an act of Congress approved March 19, 1872 / [prepared by] Archibald Campbell [and] W.J. Twining.
Author: United States Northern Boundary Commission.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : G.P.O., 1878.

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1 online resource ([1], 624 p., [25] leaves of plates) : ill. (some col.), maps.

Series Statement

Ex. doc. / 44th Congress, 2d session. Senate ; no. 41
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Uniform Title

Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 44th Congress, 2nd session, no. 41.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

Alternative Title

Reports of the Commissioner and of the Chief Astronomer of the Northern Boundary

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Note

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.

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.

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1581714
NCCO2007304

Author

United States Northern Boundary Commission.

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 [electronic resource] : authorized by an act of Congress approved March 19, 1872 / [prepared by] Archibald Campbell [and] W.J. Twining.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : G.P.O., 1878.

Series

Ex. doc. / 44th Congress, 2d session. Senate ; no. 41

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 44th Congress, 2nd session, no. 41.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

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"Library of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia."

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Added Author

Campbell, Archibald, 1813-1887.

Twining, W. J. (William Johnson), -1882.

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.

Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893.

Gregory, James F. (James Fingal), 1843-1897.

Greene, F. V. (Francis Vinton), 1850-1921.

Boss, Lewis, 1846-1912.

United States. Department of State.

Other Title

Reports of the Commissioner and of the Chief Astronomer of the Northern Boundary

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