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Smithsonian contributions to knowledge. v. 13
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This volume forms the thirteenth of a series, composed of original memoirs on different branches of knowledge, published at the expense and under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution.
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- Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution, 1863
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- xiv, 542 pages, [4 plates, 3 maps] : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm
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- ocn609426512
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- Includes bibliographical references.
- Article 1. Introduction. List of Officers of the Smithsonian Institution. Table of Contents. pp. iii-xiv
- Article 2. Tidal observations in the Arctic Seas. Made during the second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, in 1853, 1854, and 1855, at Van Rennselaer Harbor, and other points on the west coast of Greenland. by Elisha Kent Kane. Reduced and discussed by Charles A. Schott. 90 pp. 4 plates
- Article 3. Meteorological observations in the Arctic Seas. by Leopold McClintock. 160 pp. 1 map
- Article 4. Ancient mining on the shores of Lake Superior. by Charles Whittlesey. pp. 32. 1 map
- Article 5. Discussion of the magnetic and meteorological observations made at the Girard College Observatory, Philadelphia, in 1840, 1841, 1843, 1844, and 1845. Part 2. Investigation of the solar-diurnal variation of the magnetic declination and its annual inequality. by A. D. Bache. pp. 28
- Article 6. Discussion of the magnetic and meteorological observations made at the Girard College Observatory, Philadelphia, in 1840, 1841, 1843, 1844, and 1845. Part 3. Investigation of the lunar effects on the magnetic declination. by A. D. Bache. 16 pp
- Article 7. Discussion of the magnetic and meteorological observations made at the Girard College Observatory, Philadelphia, in 1840, 1841, 1843, 1844, and 1845. Second Section, comprising Parts 4, 5, 6. Horizontal Force. Investigation of the ten or eleven year period and the disturbances of the horizontal component of the magnetic force; investigation of the solar-diurnal variation and of the annual inequality of the horizontal force; and of the lunar effect on the same. by A. D. Bache. 78 pp
- Article 8. Records and results of a magnetic survey of Pennsylvania and parts of adjacent States in 1840 and 1841, with some additional records and results of 1834, 1835, 1843 and 1862, and a map. by A. D. Bache. 88 pp. 1 map
- Article 9. Researches upon the anatomy and physiology of respiration in the Chelonia. by S. Weir Mitchell. 50 pp