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NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 197 
Hydrographic Office of the Navy Department, 
and the Admiral Rickover of his time. 
Matthew Fontaine Maury; scientist of the 
gea, Frances leigh Williams. New Bruns- 
Wick, New Jersey, Ratgers University Press, 
1963. $10.00. In press. 
Matthew Fentaine Maury and Joseph Henry; 
seiextists of the Civil War, Patricia 
James. 308 p. $5.95. Easy. 
Matthew Fontaine Maury; trail maker of the 
sea, Hildegarde Hawthorne. New York, 
Longmans, 1943. 226 p. Fictionized 
biography, easy. 
Trail Blazer of the Seas, Jean Lee Latham. 
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1956. 25 p. 
$2.75. Fine fictionized biography of Maury, 
from birth to about 1858, for ages 10 to 
14. 
The Chequered Career of Ferdinand Rudolph 
Hassler, first Superintendent of the United 
States Coast Survey; a chapter in the 
history of science in America, Florian 
Cajori. Boston, Christopher, 1929. 25 p. 
Swiss-born Hassler, 1770-183, had his 
troubles with a penn-pinching Congress. 
Alexander Dallas Bache; scientist and 
educator, 1806-1867, Merle Middleton Odgers. 
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania 
Press, 197. 223 p. $2.75. Bache was 
Director af the Coast Survey from 183 to 
1867. 
Read 
Letters and Recollections of Alexander 
Agassiz, with a sketch of his life and 
work, George Russell Agagsiz. Boston, 
Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 5) p. Agassiz, 
1835-1910, son of Louis Agassiz, was a 
famed marine biologist. 
The Hidden Coasts; a biography of Admiral 
Charles Wilkes, Daniel MacIntyre Henderson. 
New York, Sloane, 1953. 306 p. $5.00. 
Scholarly life of Admiral Wilkes, 1798- 
1877, of Civil War fame, who led an im- 
portant charting and scientific expedition 
to the Antarctic and Pacific Oceans. 
OCEANOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS, 
Titian Ramsay Peale, 1799-1885, and his 
Journals of the Wilkes Expedition, Jessie 
Poesch. Philadelphia, 1961. 21) p. 
(American Philosophical Society. Memoir 
52), $6.50. Fine account by the scientific 
illustrator who accompanied Wilkes. 
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Yankee Surveyors in the Shogun's Seas; re- 
cords of the United States Surveying Expe- 
dition to the North Pacifie Ocean, 1853- 
1856, Allan Burnett Cole. Princeton, New 
Jersey, Prineeton University Press, 19h7. 
165 p. $2.50. 
The Voyage of the Challenger, Herbert S. 
Bailey, Jr. (Seientific Reet vol.188, 
no.5, May 1953, pp.88-9)). The numerous 
old publications of this famous expedition 
are not listed here. 
The Last Cruise of the Carnegie, John 
Harland Paul. Baltimore, Williams and 
Wilkins, 1932. 331 p. The Carnegie was 
lost by fire in 1929. This and the next 
five titles deal with expeditions which 
specialized in sea-bottom geology and physi- 
cal oceanography. 
Westward Ho with the Albatross, Hans 
Pettersson. New York, Dutton, 1953. 218 p. 
$4.00. About an important Swedish voyage of 
197-198. 
Exploring the Deep Pacific, Helen Raitt. 
New York, Norton, 1956. 288 p. $3.75. 
About the Scripps Institute Capricorn ex- 
pedition of 1952-1953. 
Challenger; the life of a survey ship, 
George Stephen Ritchie. New York, Abelard- 
Schuman, 1958. 270 p. $5.00. Adventures 
of a new Challenger, 1931-1953, mapping the 
coast of Africa and studying the sea bottom. 
Oceanographic Cruise Report, U.S.C.&G.S. 
Ship Explorer--1960, Seattle, Washington, to 
Norfolk, Virginia, February 2--April 27, 
1960. Washington, Government Printing 
Office, 1962. 162 p. $3.00. 
Life on an Ice Floe, Ivan Papanin. New 
York, Messner, 1939. 300 p. Enthusiastic 
account of nine months that four Russian 
scientists spent drifting on an Arctic 
Ocean ice island, making oceanographic 
observations. 
The Galathea Deep Sea Expedition, 1950- 
1952, Anton Frederick Bruun. New York, 
Macmillan, 1956. 296 p. $8.00. Nota 
daily account of life aboard ship, but a 
fine picture of research procedures. This 
and the remaining titles in this section 
deal mainly with marine biology. 
Round the World With Galathea, Hakon Mielche. 
London, Hodge, 1953. p. Fir daily 
account of life aboard ship. 
The Shoals of Capricorn, Francis Downes 
Ommanney. New York, Harcourt, 1952. 322 p. 
