The magnetism of ships, and the deviations of the compass.
Contributors: Greene, Benjamin Franklin, 1817-1895.
Series: United States Hydrographic Office.  Publication; no. 8
Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1867
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
Subjects: Magnetism of ships; Compass
Notes: At head of title: Navy Department, Bureau of Navigation.
Various pagings.
Half-title: A series of papers from the transactions of foreign societies, by Poisson ... G. B. Airy ... Archibald Smith ... Frederick John Evans ... W.W. Rundell ... with other papers and documents.  Reprinted by order of the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of Commodore Thornton A. Jenkins ... Ed., and the memoir of Poisson tr. by B. Franklin Greene, C.E.