A contribution to American thalassography
Subtitle: three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880
By: by Alexander Agassiz : in two volumes
Contributors: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Published: 1888
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Marine animals; Marine sediments; Oceanography; Research; Scientific expeditions; Blake (Ship)
Other titles: Three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880; Three cruises of the "Blake"
Notes: Published also as Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, v. 14 and 15.

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Equipment of the Blake; title: Historical sketch of deep-sea work; title: The Florida reefs; title: Topography of the eastern coast of the North American continent; title: Relations of the American and West Indian fauna and flora; title: The permanence of continents and of oceanic basins; title: Deep-sea formations; title: The deep-sea fauna; title: The pelagic fauna and flora; title: Temperatures of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic; title: The Gulf Stream; title: Submarine deposits; title: The physiology of deep-sea life; title: v. 2. The West Indian fauna; title: Sketches of the characteristic deep-sea types: Fishes; title: Characteristic deep-sea types: Crustacea; title: Characteristic deep-sea types: Worms; title: Characteristic deep-sea types: Mollusks; title: Characteristic deep-sea types: Echinoderms; title: Characteristic deep-sea types: Acalephs; title: Characteristic deep-sea types: Polyps; title: Characteristic deep-sea types: Rhizopods; title: Characteristic deep-sea types: Sponges.