Reports on Scientific Results of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition, 1939-1941.
Hardcover
1945 · Philadelphia
by (Byrd, Admiral Richard E.)
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. Very Good. 1945. Hardcover. Proceedings of Autumn General Meeting of American Philosophical Society held November 21-22, 1941 in Philadelphia. Contains papers which present scientific results of U.S. Antarctic Service Expedition of 1939-1941 commanded by Richard E. Byrd. Expedition on auroral phenomena, bacteriology, botany, cosmic rays, glaciology, magnetism, medicine, meteorology, micropaleontology, ornithology, petrography and petrology, physiography, physiology, seismology, structural geology, and zoology.10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches bound in a rubbed sturdy blue buckram with original wrappers bound in. Contents have been exposed to moisture at some point and the upper margin areas have some faint damp stains and hint of rippling lessening as you page through. Fully illustrated throughout and complete in 398 pages. . (Inventory #: 75233)