'In behalf of the science of the country': The Smithsonian and the U.S. Navy in the North Pacific in the 1850s

Pacific Science

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 301-307

  Rothenberg, Marc ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

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