A history of the first half-century of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1913 [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777579203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, [D.C.], : [National Academy Press], 1913
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (427 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): TrueFrederick William <1858-1914.>
• Disciplina: 507
• Soggetti: Science - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Edited by Frederick W. True.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A History of the First Half-Century of the National Academy of Sciences -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter I The Founding of the Academy -- Chapter II The Annals of the Academy -- 1863-1867 ; 1868-1872 ; 1873-1877 ; 1878-1882 ; 1883-1887 ; 1888-1892 ; 1893-1897 ; 1898-1902 ; 1903-1907 and 1908-1912 -- Chapter III Biographical Sketches of the Incorporators -- Louis Agassiz -- John H.Alexander -- Stephen Alexander -- Alexander Dallas Bache -- Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard -- John Gross Barnard William -- Holmes Chambers Bartlett -- Alexis Caswell -- William Chauvenet -- John Huntington Crane Coffin -- John Adolphus Bernhard Dahlgren -- James Dwight Dana -- Charles Henry Davis -- George Engelmann -- John Fries Frazer -- Wolcott Gibbs -- James Melville Gilliss -- Augustus Addison Gould -- Benjamin Apthorp Gould -- ASA Gray -- Arnold Guyot -- James Hall -- Joseph Henry -- Julius Erasmus Hilgard -- Edward Hitchcock -- Joseph Stillman Hubbard -- Andrew Atkinson Humphreys -- John Lawrence Leconte -- Joseph Leidy -- J.Peter Lesleymiers Fisher Longstreth -- Dennis Hart Mahan -- John Strong Newberry -- Hubert Anson Newton -- Benjamin Peirce -- John Rodgers -- Fairman Rogers -- Robert Empie Rogers -- William Barton Rogers -- Lewis Morris Rutherfurd -- Joseph Saxton -- Benjamin Silliman, Senior -- Benjamin Silliman, Junior -- Theodore Strong -- John Torrey -- Joseph Gilbert Totten -- Josiah Dwight Whitney -- Joseph Winlock -- Jeffries Wyman -- Chapter IV The Academy as the Scientific Adviser of the Government -- ; Committees Appointed by the Academy on Behalf of the Government Committee on Weights, Measures, and Coinage. 1863 -- Committee on Protecting The Bottoms of Iron Vessels. 1863 -- Committee on Magnetic Deviation In Iron Ships. 1863 -- Committee on Saxton's Alcoholometer. 1863 -- Committee on Wind and Current Charts and Sailing Directions. 1863 -- Committee on the Question of Tests for the Purity of Whiskey. 1864 -- Committee on Experiments on the Expansion of Steam. 1864 -- A Committee on Materials for the Manufacture of Cent Coins. 1864 -- Committee on the Explosion on the United States Steamer Chenango. 1864 Committee on Galvanic Action From Association of Zinc and Iron. 1867 -- Committee on Proving and Gauging Distilled Spirits and Preventing Fraud. 1866 -- Committee on the Improvement of Greytown Harbor, Nicaragua. 1866 -- Committee on the Protection of Coal Mines From Explosion By Means of Electricity. 1870 -- Committee on the Effect of Chemicals on Internal Revenue Stamps. 1870 -- Committee on the Transit of Venus. 1871 and 1881 -- Committee on Water-Proofing The Fractional Currency. 1875 -- Committees on the Artificial Coloring of Sugars, on the Use of the Polariscope To Determine The of Sugars, and on Demarara.