TY - BOOK TI - United States Exploring Expedition. During the year 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 VL - v.4 (1845) [Narrative pt.4] UR - https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/130728 PB - Printed by C. Sherman CY - Philadelphia PY - 1845 N1 - Atlas accompanying v. 1-5: 33 x2 5 cm.; v. 23: 69 x 55 cm. --- Half-title: United States Exploring Expedition. By authority of Congress. --- Vol. 10, Atlas, has imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam; London, Putnam's American agency [n.d.] --- Published under act of Congress of Aug. 26, 1842, which provided: "That there shall be published ... an account of the discoveries made by the Exploring expedition under the command of Lieutenant Wilkes ... which account shall be ... published in a form similar to the voyage of the Astrolabe, lately published by the government of France." --- By the same act, the edition was limited to 100 copies. --- The publication was never completed. Five volumes are unpublished: v. 18 Botany, by Asa Gray; v. 19, Geographical distribution of animals and plants, by Charles Pickering; v. 21-22, Ichthyology, by Louis Agassiz; v. 24, Physics, by Charles Wilkes. --- Vol. 19 was partly printed, and left in sheets. --- Volumes of unfinished plates - some of them in proof before lettering - are found, without t.-p. or other printed matter. The Library of Congress has two such volumes: one of 71 pl. (4 col.) from the atlases to Botany, and one of 32 col. pl., 28 of which belong to the unpublished v. 21-11, Icthyology, and 4 to v. 12, Mollusca and shells. --- Vol. 8 was first published as Mammalia and ornithology, by Titian R. Peale...Philadelphia, Printed by C. Sherman, 1848. This volume was later suppressed and replaced by the one by John Cassin. --- 1. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, vol. 1 - 5 -- [5 atlas]. Atlas of the narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition -- 6. Ethnography and Philology -- 7. Zoophytes -- [7 atlas]. Zoophytes atlas -- 8. Mammalia and ornithology -- [8 atlas]. Mamalia and ornithology atlas -- 9. Races of man -- 10. Geology -- [10 atlas]. Geology atlas -- 11. Meteorology -- 12. Mollusca and shells -- [12 atlas]. Mollusca and shells atlas -- 13. Crustacea pt. 1 -- 14. Crustacea pt. 2 -- [13 & 14 atlas] Crustacea atlas -- 15. Botany, Phanerogamia -- [15 atlas] Botany, Phanerogamia atlas -- 16. Botany Cryptogami -- [16 atlas] Botany, Cryptogami atlas -- 17. Botany, Cryptogami -- 19. The geographical distribution of animals and plants pt. 1 -- 19. The geographical distribution of animals and plants pt. 2 -- 20. Herpetology -- [20 atlas] Herpetology atlas -- [12 & 21 & 22 atlas] Ichthyology and Conchology atlas -- 23. Hydrography -- [23 atlas]. Hydrography atlas (in 2 vol.). --- Plates in the Hydrography volume (v. 23) drawn by W.H. Dougal; drawn by F.D. Stuart. AU - United States Exploring Expedition AU - Dougal, William H., AU - Stuart, Fred D., AU - Wilkes, Charles, AU - Library of Congress. AU - United States. Congress. KW - (1838-1842) KW - Antarctica KW - Northwest Coast of North America KW - Pacific Ocean KW - Scientific Expeditions KW - United States Exploring Expedition ER -