American Philosophical Society

Commemoration Of The Life And Work of Alexander Dallas Bache And Symposium on Geomagnetism

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1941. First printing. Wraps. Large 8vo, pale green wraps, very good, light wear and corner bumping, 351 pp, illustrated. Bache was an American physicist, scientist, and surveyor who erected coastal fortifications and conducted a detailed survey to map the mideastern United States coastline. Originally an army engineer, he later became Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, and built it into the foremost scientific institution in the country before the Civil War. Very Good. Item #H18707

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