Principal documents relating to the survey of the coast of the United States
Subtitle: and the construction of uniform standards of weights and measures for the custom houses and states ...
Contributors: Hassler, F. R. 1770-1843.; United States. National Bureau of Standards.; Francis Markoe Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress); Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by J. Windt [etc.]
Published: 1834
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; Weights and measures -- United States
Description: The Principal Documents were self-published as part of a campaign by Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler to extricate the Coast Survey from the Navy Department and place it in the Treasury Department.
Notes: Vol. 1-2 printed by W. Van Norden.
Pub. by F.R. Hassler; v. 1-2 as "superintendent of the survey"; v. 3 as "superintendent of both works".
Table of contents: title: [v. 1] Principal documents relating to the survey ... since 1816.; title: [v. 2] Second volume of the Principal documents relating to the survey ... from October, 1834, to November, 1885.; title: [v. 3] Third volume of the Principal documents relating to the survey ... and the construction of uniform standards of weights and measures for the custom houses and states, from November 1835 to November 1836.