Scientific Results of the United States Arctic Expedition (Polaris Expedition). Vol. I. Physical Observations

Pocketbok.

Gott skick. Steamer Polaris, C. F. Hall Commanding. United States Navy Department / Washington, Goverment Printing Office, 1876. xii,[2],86,56,162,43,[1 blank],69,[1 blank],82,25,[1 blank],110,12,54,17,[1 blank],58,100,6,86 (=984) pp + 12 plates, ?woodcuts and one folding map in pocket of Smith Sound and Baffin Bay (missing). Original cloth, slightly worn spine. Some waterstaining, mostly on margins. Presentation copy from the author with his printed card mounted on the inside front cover. [30,5x25 cm]. - Innehåller: Hydrography; Temperature of the Air; Hygrometrical Obsevations + Atmospheric Precipitation; Atmospheric Pressure; Winds; Solar Radiation; Terrestrial Radiation; Face of Sky and State of Weather; Obsevations of Ozone; Meteorological Obsevations taken at sea; Chronometer-Journal; Astronomical Obsevations; Pendulum Experiments; Magnetic Obsevations and List of Auroras; Psychometrical Tables. Emil Bessels var en tysk naturforskare och polarfarare. Han företog 1869 på August Petermanns initiativ sin första expedition till Norra ishavet mellan Spetsbergen och Novaja Zemlja, varvid särskilt viktiga meteorologiska och oceanografiska resultat vanns. Bland annat påvisades existensen av en arm av Golfströmmen mellan Spetsbergen och Novaja Zemlja. 1871 övertog Bessels den vetenskapliga ledningen av Charles Francis Halls nordpolsexpidition, om vilken han publicerade Scientific results of the USA Arctic Expedition (1876) och Die amerikanische Nordpolexpidition (1878). Ämnesord: Polar, Spetsbergen, Spitsbergen, Spitzbergen, Svalbard, Arktis, Arctis, Polarområdena, Polar, The Polar Regions, USA, Nordamerika, Amerika