Politics, Science and Government Mapping in the United States, 1800 to 1925University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1985 - 248 pages |
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... National Academy of Sciences . Sneaked through on the last day of the thirty - fourth Congress , it soon evolved , from the formalization of the individual influence of some of the Lazzaroni , into a genuine national academy by 1865.41 ...
... National Academy of Sciences . Sneaked through on the last day of the thirty - fourth Congress , it soon evolved , from the formalization of the individual influence of some of the Lazzaroni , into a genuine national academy by 1865.41 ...
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... National Academy of Sciences produce a scheme whereby all the different surveys could be consolidated.51 The National Academy took as its brief not just the four Surveys of the West , but also the mapping activities of the other Federal ...
... National Academy of Sciences produce a scheme whereby all the different surveys could be consolidated.51 The National Academy took as its brief not just the four Surveys of the West , but also the mapping activities of the other Federal ...
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... National Academy of Sciences proposed that all Federal mapping activities be combined into a single organization . The new organization , the Geological Survey , was not quite what the Academy envisioned . The direct reason why Congress ...
... National Academy of Sciences proposed that all Federal mapping activities be combined into a single organization . The new organization , the Geological Survey , was not quite what the Academy envisioned . The direct reason why Congress ...
Contents
would like to thank my advisor Professor David Woodward | 10 |
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1 Numbers of State Geological Surveys | 82 |
Common terms and phrases
Academy of Sciences ACIR Allison Commission American Science appropriations Benjamin Peirce Boutelle Civil Coast and Geodetic Coast Survey Coast Survey personnel Congress Congressional Contemporary Federalism cooperative federalism Daniels Davies dual federalism Dupree economic Elazar Federal Government Federal Power Federal science Federal Surveying fiscal funding geodesy Geodetic Survey Geographical geologists Government Printing Office Growth of Federal Hampshire Hassler History Hunter Dupree idem Jersey Kevles Land Office Lapham Papers legislatures levels of government mapping activities mapping agencies mapping organizations Minerals and Lands National Academy National Mapping Policy nineteenth century North American Datum note 12 note 25 note 30 Ordnance Survey Pennsylvania Physicists primary triangulation Prof Public Domain Pure Science Ideal Rabbitt Science in America Science in Federal Science in Society scientists Statutes at Large systematic survey topographic mapping topographical survey triangulation U.S. Geological Survey United University Press USCGS Annual Report USCGS Expenditures Washington Washington D.C. Wheeler Survey Wisconsin