Science, commerce and the Navy on the seafaring frontier, 1842-1861
Subtitle: the role of Lieutenant M.F. Maury and the U.S. Naval Hydrographic Off ice in naval exploration, commercial expansion and oceanography before the Civil War. --
Published: 1965
Place of publication: [Rochester, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 555
Subjects: Maury, Matthew Fontaine, -- 1806-1873.; United States Naval Observatory.; Oceanography.; United States -- Discovery and exploration.; United States -- History, Naval.; United States -- Commerce -- History.
Notes: Vita (leaf ii)

Facsimile, microfilm-xerography. Ann Arbor: Xerox University Micr ofilms, 1976.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Rochester.

Bibliography: leaves 508-555.