Blake, G.S., Appendix No. 1845 - 1. Pp. 40-41. Extract of a
letter containing a description of the position of a rock off
Mishaum Point, of a rock off Cuttyhunk, and of a ledge off Scraggy
Neck, Buzzard's Bay. [Hydrography.]
Davis, C.H., Appendix No. 1845 - 2. P. 41. Extracts
from a letter relating to the determination of Howland's Reef,
off Brandt Point, Massachusetts Bay. [Hydrography.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1845 - 3. Pp. 41-43. Remarks on the currents
in Mississippi Sound and changes in the magnetic variation.
[Oceanography; Currents;
Magnetism]
Mitchell, W., Appendix No. 1845 - 4. Pp. 43-44.
Letter containing account of trade through the Vineyard Sound
for the past three years, and of the Nantucket shoal. [Coast
Pilot; Hydrography;
Miscellaneous.]
Boston Insurance Companies' Presidents, Appendix
No. 1846 - 1. Pp. 44-45. Letter relating to the discovery of
the "New South Shoal" (on Nantucket Shoals) addressed to the
Superintendent of the Coast Survey. [Miscellaneous;
Commerce; Hydrography.]
Davis, C.H., Appendix No. 1846 - 2. P. 45. Letter
with reply to local pilots concerning discovery of shoal spot
in Vineyard Sound not previously known. [Hydrography.]
Bancroft, G. and selectmen of Nantucket, Appendix
No. 1846 - 3. P. 46. Letters of thanks and acknowledgment of
the role of the officers and crew of the Coast Survey vessels
GALLATIN and WAVE in fighting a disastrous fire in Nantucket,
14 July, 1846. [Lifesaving; Assistance Rendered.]
Bache,
G.M., Appendix No. 1846 - 4. Pp. 46-53. Letters on the exploration
of the Gulf Stream. (In these letters, Bache writes to his brother,
Superintendent Bache, of discoveries in the Gulf Stream including
the "Cold Wall." George M. Bache, while engaged in Gulf Stream
explorations, was killed in the hurricane of September 8, 1846,
along with ten of his crew on the Coast Survey Brig WASHINGTON.
They were among early martyrs to the cause of American science.)
[Oceanography; Gulf
Stream; Currents.]
Bache,
G.M. and others, Appendix No. 1846 - 5. Pp. 53-62. Copy of the
log-book of the Coast Survey Brig WASHINGTON up to and following
the disastrous hurricane of September 8, 1846. Includes statement
of ship pilot describing events leading to death of Lieutenant
Commanding G.M. Bache and 10 crew members. [Ship; Disaster.]
Officers of Coast Survey Brig WASHINGTON, Appendix
No. 1846 - 6. Pp. 62. Statement of officers of the United States
Coast Survey Brig WASHINGTON. [Ship; Disaster.]
Bache,
A.D., Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of the Navy, Officers
of the Coast Survey; Appendix No. 1846 - 7. Pp. 63-68. Communications
concerning disaster to Coast Survey Brig WASHINGTON and resolutions
of mourning concerning those who were killed in the hurricane
of September 8, 1846. [Ship; Disaster; Necrology.]
Patterson,
C.P., Appendix No. 1846 - 8. Pp. 68-70. Tides at the entrance
of Mobile Bay. (This was written while Patterson was a Naval
Officer on duty with the Coast Survey. He became the fourth
superintendent of the Coast Survey in 1874. ) [Oceanography; Tides.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1846 - 9. Pp. 70-71. Letter describing Coast
Survey crew members of schooner PHOENIX saving two fishermen
in heavy surf off Dauphin Island, Alabama. [Ship;
Lifesaving; Assistance Rendered.]
Walker,
S.C., Appendix No. 1846 - 10. Pp. 71-72. Differences of longitude
of Philadelphia and Greenwich, by reduction of observations
at Cambridge, Mass. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Walker,
S.C., Appendix No. 1846 - 11. Pp. 72-74. Differences of longitude
by telegraph. Correction for personal equation. (This is one
of the first publications dealing with what came to be known
as the "American Method" of longitude determination.) [Geodesy;
Geodetic Astronomy; Longitude; Error Analysis.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1847 - 1. Pp. 60-62. Table showing the distribution
of parties of the Coast Survey in the several sections during
the past year. [List.]
New York Insurance Companies' Presidents, Appendix
No. 1847 - 2. P. 63. Letter relating to the discovery of New
South Shoal on Nantucket Shoals. [Miscellaneous;
Commerce; Hydrography.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1847 - 3. Pp. 63-64. Letter communicating
discoveries of numerous hazards to navigation by C.H. Davis
in the vicinity of Nantucket Island and Nantucket Shoals. [Hydrography.]
Goldsborough, J.R., Appendix No. 1847 - 4. Pp.
64-66. List of buoys, beacons, and spindles with markings in
the vicinity of New London from Branford Reef to Montauk. Sailing
directions for Long Island Sound and Fishers Island Sound with
reference to buoys. [List; Coast Pilot; Lighthouse.]
Bache,
G.M., Appendix No. 1847 - 5. P. 67. Extract from a report by
the late Lieutenant George M. Bache, U.S. Navy, to the Hon.
Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury, dated November 22,
1838. (Doc. No. 24, House of Representatives, 25th Congress,
3d session.) (This report, written while G.M. Bache was attached
to the Coast Survey during the superintendency of Ferdinand
Hassler, espouses a systematic mode of coloring and designating
buoys. This suggestion was ultimately accepted by the Lighthouse
establishment and resulted in the familiar coloring system of
black and red buoys. Most sailors for the last 150 years learned
early the concept of "Red Right Return." This was first suggested
in the United States by George Bache while on Coast Survey duty.)
[Lighthouse.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1847 - 6. Pp. 67-69. List of buoys placed
in Delaware Bay, by Lieutenant Commanding Richard M. Bache,
U.S.N., Assistant in the Coast Survey. Includes descriptions
of buoys, positions of buoys, and sailing directions. [List;
Lighthouse; Coast Pilot.]
Mussey, T. and Goldsborough, J.R., Appendix
No. 1847 - 7. Communications relating to the coloring and placement
of buoys at New London. (Thomas Mussey was a revenue collector
at New London. He refers specifically to "Mr. Bache's mode of
painting and setting buoys" which establishes the precedence
of the Coast Survey in helping reform and standardize the buoy
system used in United States waters.) [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1847 - 8. Pp. 71-72. List of buoys in Delaware
Bay and River, placed by the Coast Survey schooner NAUTILUS,
Lieut Comdg. Bache, U.S.N., and Coast Survey Schooner WAVE,
Lieut. Comdg. J.R. Goldsborough, Assistants in the Coast Survey.
(This listing ended: "Vessels entering, keep to larboard of
red buoys; to starboard of black; either side of cross striped,
red and black. Black and white perpendicular stripes mark a
channel buoy in best water. By direction of the superintendent
of the United States coast survey.") [List; Lighthouse;
Coast Pilot.]
Perry, M.C., Appendix No. 1847 - 9. Pp. 72-73.
Letter to Lieutenant Commanding S.P. Lee of the U.S. Brig WASHINGTON
commending the officers and crew for their conduct during combat
operations in the Mexican War. Order returning WASHINGTON to
Coast Survey duty. (The WASHINGTON was turned over to the Navy
for use in the Mexican conflict. This was the first of many
Coast Survey and Coast and Geodetic Survey vessels turned over
to the Navy in times of national emergency.) [Ship.]
Hall, J., Appendix No. 1847 - 10. Pp. 73-74.
Statement of Lieutenant John Hall, First Lieutenant of the United
States Coast Survey Brig WASHINGTON, in the autumn of 1846,
relating to part of the disastrous circumstances of that season.
(This is a vivid account of the most dangerous hours experienced
by the WASHINGTON during the hurricane of September 7-8, 1846.)
[Ship; Disaster.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1847 - 11. P. 75. Table showing temperatures at
depths below 700 fathoms, taken by Lieutenants Commanding C.H.
Davis in 1845, George M. Bache in 1846, and Samuel Phillips
Lee in 1847. [Oceanography; Gulf
Stream.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1847 - 12. P. 76. Notice of the finding on the
coast of Kerry, Ireland, of a bottle thrown from the brig WASHINGTON
while in the Gulf Stream. [Oceanography;
Gulf Stream.]
Boutelle,
C.O., Appendix No. 1847 - 13. Pp. 76-77. Extract from letters
relating to the new inlets formed across Bodie's Island in 1846.
(These inlets were formed in the hurricane of September 7-8,
1846. This appendix relates the experience of Mr. Midgett and
derives heights of water above the top of the island during
the storm.) [Miscellaneous;
Topography;
Meteorology.]
Citizens of Mobile with Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1847 - 14. Pp. 77-80. Correspondence of the citizens of
Mobile with the superintendent of the coast survey, in regard
to the survey of Mobile Bay. [Commerce; Miscellaneous.]
Patterson,
C.P., Appendix No. 1847 - 15. Pp. 80-81. Sailing directions
for Mobile Bay. [Coast Pilot; Hydrography.]
Bache,
A.D., and officers of Survey, Appendix No. 1847 - 16. Pp. 81-82.
Letters of condolence relative to the decease of Passed Midshipman
and Acting Master Richard Allison. [Necrology.]
Blake, G., Davis, C.H., and Bache, G.M., Appendix
No. 1847 - 17. Pp. 83-84. Remarks in regard to the use of steam
vessels in the Coast Survey. (In 1847, Lieutenant Commanding
Charles H. Davis took command of the steamer BIBB for work on
Nantucket Shoals. This use of a new technology increased productivity
fifteen-fold by Davis's reckoning at a cost of only four times
as much for ship operations. The use of steam vessels as opposed
to sailing vessels for hydrographic surveying was the single
greatest advancement in offshore surveying in the Nineteenth
Century.) [Ship.]
Davis, C.H., Appendix No. 1847 - 18. Pp. 85-86.
On the use of steam-vessels in sounding, made subsequent to
the use of the revenue steam-vessel BIBB, under his command.
(Davis eloquently discusses the merits of steam over sail for
hydrographic surveying purposes in this appendix.) [Ship; Hydrography.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1848 - 1. Pp. 60-62. Table showing the distribution
of parties of the Coast Survey in the several sections during
the past year. [List.]
Mitchell, W., Appendix No. 1848 - 2. P. 74.
Extracts from a letter to Lieut. Comdg. C.H. Davis relating
to the packet LOUIS PHILIPPE when off Nantucket in December,
1847. [Miscellaneous;
Hydrography;
Lighthouse.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1848 - 3. Pp. 74-76. Notice to mariners,
concerning discoveries made by C.H. Davis off Nantucket. [Coast Pilot; Hydrography.]
Walker,
S.C., Appendix No. 1848 - 4. Pp. 77-83. Recapitulation of results
for personal equations, 1844-1848. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Error Analysis.]
Davis, C.H., Appendix No. 1848 - 5. Pp. 84-87.
On the expediency of a light at Sankaty Head, Nantucket. [Lighthouse.]
Davis, C.H., Appendix No. 1848 - 6. Pp. 87-89.
On buoys, beacons, landmarks, etc., on Nantucket Shoals and
at Boston Harbor. [Lighthouse;
Hydrography.]
Ammen, D., Appendix No. 1848 - 7. Pp. 89-90.
Report on survey of Cashes Ledge and Tippanny's Bank. [Hydrography.]
Davis, C.H., Appendix No. 1848 - 8. Pp. 90-91.
Report relating to the necessity for a landmark on Long Island,
Boston Harbor. [Lighthouse.]
Davis, C.H., Appendix No. 1848 - 9. Pp. 91-92.
Letter relating to the invention of a cheap fog trumpet. [Lighthouse.]
Wetmore, P., Appendix No. 1848 - 10. Pp. 92-93.
Letters from Chamber of Commerce of New York thanking C.H. Davis
for making suggestions for the improvement of Hell Gate Channel.
[Commerce; Hydrography;
Miscellaneous.]
Davis, C.H., Appendix No. 1848 - 11. Pp. 93-96.
Report on examination of Hell Gate Channel. (At the end of this
report Davis suggests the removal of rocks and reefs in Hell
Gate Channel by blasting, a project that was adopted by the
city of New York to make it more desirable for maritime traffic
to use the port facilities of that city.) [Hydrography;
Commerce.]
Porter, D.D., Appendix No. 1848 - 12. Pp. 97-100.
Report on the dangers in Hell Gate and the improvement of the
passage. [Hydrography;
Commerce.]
Porter, D.D., Appendix No. 1848 - 13. Pp. 100-101.
Extracts from a report on the examination of Buttermilk Channel
into the inner harbor of New York. (Includes comments on characteristics
of the steamer JEFFERSON.) [Hydrography;
Ship.]
Lee, S.P., Appendix No. 1848 - 14. Pp. 101-104.
Report on the expediency of placing two small lights on Sand
Island, in the Chesapeake. [Lighthouse.]
McArthur,
W.P., Appendix No. 1848 - 15. Pp. 104-105. Report on the utility
of a light on Blackiston Island, in the Potomac River. [Lighthouse;
Coast Pilot.]
Boutelle,
C.O. and Neilson, J.C., Appendix No. 1848 - 16. Pp. 106-107.
Extracts from letters relating to the formation of new inlets
across Bodie's Island, North Carolina. [Hydrography;
Topography.]
Patterson,
C.P. and officials of Mobile, Alabama, Appendix No. 1848 - 17.
Pp. 107-109. Correspondence relative to surveys of Mobile Bay.
[Miscellaneous;
Commerce; Hydrography.]
Patterson,
C.P., Appendix No. 1848 - 18. Pp. 109-112. Letter relative to
suitable anchorages on the gulf coast, in Mobile Bay, and Lake
Borgne for the British West India mail steamers. [Coast Pilot.]
Walker,
S.C., Appendix No. 1848 - 19. Pp. 112-118. Longitude computations.
[Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude; Computations.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1849 - 1. Pp. 63-68. Table showing the distribution
of parties of the Coast Survey in the several sections during
the past year. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1849 - 2. Pp. 69-70. Results of the Coast Survey
at different periods from 1807 to 1849. [Statistics; List.]
McBlair, C.H., Appendix No. 1849 - 3. Pp. 71-72.
Letter in relation to the discovery of four shoals in the main
ship channel over the Nantucket Shoals. [Hydrography.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1849 - 4. P. 72. Letter commending services
of Lieutenant C.H. Davis, U.S.N., upon his detachment from the
Coast Survey. [Miscellaneous.]
Mitchel,
O.M., Appendix No. 1849 - 5. Pp. 72-78. Mechanical record of
astronomical observation. Revolving disk; arrangement for recording
differences of declination. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Instrumentation; Latitude.]
Davis, C.H., Appendix No. 1849 - 6. Pp. 78-79.
Report on the determination of the position of Cashes Ledge,
off the coast of New England. [Hydrography.]
Hydrographer to the Admiralty Board, Appendix
No. 1849 - 7. P. 79. Letter concerning Cashes Ledge. [Miscellaneous.]
Goldsborough, J.R., Appendix No. 1849 - 8. P.
80. Report of the circumstances of the rescue of three persons
from a vessel capsized in a squall of wind, October 24, in the
Vineyard Sound. [Ship; Lifesaving;
Assistance Rendered.]
Alexander, E. and Walker, S.C., Appendix
No. 1849 - 9. Pp. 80-81. Correspondence giving free use of Washington
and New Orleans telegraph line to Coast Survey for longitude
determination. [Geodesy; Longitude.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1849 - 10. Pp. 82-86. Tables showing operating
costs of steamer LEGARE in 1848 and 1849. [Ship.]
Boyce, W.M., Appendix No. 1849 - 11. P. 87.
Extract from a letter. [Miscellaneous.]
Page, J.W., Appendix No. 1849 - 12. Pp. 87-88.
Extract from a letter from Page, Merry Hill, Bertie County,
North Carolina, relating to finding of a current bottle thrown
from the Coast Survey Steamer JEFFERSON. [Oceanography; Gulf
Stream; Currents.]
Maffitt,
J.N., Appendix No. 1849 - 13. P. 88. Report concerning a lighthouse
at Bulls Bay, on the coast of South Carolina. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1849 - 14. P. 89. Extract from the annual register
of marine disasters on the Florida Reef. (Received from F.H.
Gerdes.) [List; Miscellaneous.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1849 - 15. P. 90. Tabular statement of losses
and damages that occurred in the years 1844 and 1848 at the
Florida reef, designating the different localities and the damages
at each. [Coast Pilot.]
Patterson,
C.P., Appendix No. 1849 - 16. Pp. 91-92. Extracts from report
on the hydrography of the head of Mobile Bay, including a description
of Dog River Bar, and of Southwest and South Apalacha Bars,
and of Blakely River Bar. [Hydrography.]
Patterson,
C.P., Appendix No. 1849 - 17. Pp. 92-93. Report on beacons and
buoys on Dog River Bar and Choctaw Pass, head of Mobile Bay.
[Lighthouse.]
Patterson,
C.P., Appendix No. 1849 - 18. Pp. 93-95. Report on buoys and
beacons at the entrance to Mobile Bay. [Lighthouse.]
Patterson,
C.P., Appendix No. 1849 - 19. P. 96. Report on buoys for Cat
and Ship Island Harbors. [Lighthouse.]
Patterson,
C.P., Appendix No. 1849 - 20. P. 97. Description of a float
for observations of surface currents. [Oceanography; Currents.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1850 - 1. Distribution of the parties of the coast
survey upon the coast of the United States, during the surveying
season, in different parts of the coast, from November, 1849,
to November, 1850. [List.]
Bartlett,
W.A., Appendix No. 1850 - 2. Report of the landmarks of the
coast of Oregon from Point Adams to the boundary of Oregon and
California. [Coast Pilot; Geography.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1850 - 2, bis. Letter of the superintendent
of the coast survey, applying for the detail of officers of
the corps of topographical engineers, with the reply of the
Secretary of the Treasury, enclosing a copy of a letter from
the Secretary of War. [Miscellaneous.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1850 - 3. Correspondence in relation to surveys
of portions of San Francisco bay, required by the Engineer department
for the joint commission. [Miscellaneous.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1850 - 4. Letter of the Secretary of War to the
Secretary of the Treasury, declining the service of officers
of the corps of engineers for coast survey service, and enclosing
a letter of the Chief Engineer, stating the reasons the detail
cannot be made. [Miscellaneous.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1850 - 5. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy to
the Secretary of the Treasury, relating to the detail of officers
for the hydrographic party, in section IX, coast of Texas. [Miscellaneous.]
Bond,
W.C., Appendix No. 1850 - 6. P. 79. Differences of longitude
between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Liverpool, England, observatories.
[Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
McBlair, Charles H., Appendix No. 1850 - 7.
Recommendation in reference to buoys in the Vineyard Sound and
Massachusetts Bay. [Lighthouse.]
Pendleton,
A.G., Appendix No. 1850 - 8. Pp. 80-81. Encroachment of the
sea on the south side of Long Island. [Hydrography;
Topography;
Shoreline Changes.]
Whiting,
H.L., Appendix No. 1850 - 9. Pp. 81-82. Progress of Sandy Hook
1848-1850. [Topography;
Shoreline Changes.]
Woodhull, M., Appendix No. 1850 - 10. Extracts
from report in relation to Princes and Diamond reefs, New York
Harbor. [Hydrography.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1850 - 11. Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce
of New York to the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States, in relation to rocks in New York harbor, and
to obstructions at Hell Gate. [Hydrography;
Miscellaneous.]
Newton, I., Appendix No. 1850 - 12. Letter of
Isaac Newton, Esq.., president of the People's Line of steamboats,
to the Superintendent coast survey, offering use of line for
party surveying Hudson River. [Miscellaneous.]
Walker,
S.C., Appendix No. 1850 - 13. Pp. 85-89. Telegraphic longitude
operations and computations. I. Experiments for galvanic wave
time between Washington and St. Louis; II, attempted experiments
on wave time through different conductors; III. Experiments
with the chemical telegraph line; IV, progress of the researches
on the velocity of the galvanic current; the Bond spring governor.
[Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude; Computations.]
Lee, S.P., Appendix No. 1850 - 14. Abstract
of report to the Superintendent of the Coast Survey on lights,
buoys, etc., in the Chesapeake, from the Potomac to the head
of the bay. [Lighthouse.]
Jenkins, T. A. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1850 - 15. Report to Secretary of Treasury on Hatteras Shoals.
[Hydrography.]
Jenkins, T. A., Appendix No. 1850 - 15, bis.
Report recommending a bell beacon and buoy to be placed
on Hatteras Shoals. [Lighthouse.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1850 - 16. Report to the Secretary of the
Treasury in relation to changes in Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
[Hydrography.]
Alden,
J.M. and Jenkins, T.A., Appendix No. 1850 - 17. Report in regard
to fitness of steamer JEFFERSON for hydrographic party on west
coast. [Ship; Condition.]
Maffitt,
J.N., Appendix No. 1850 - 18. Letter to Superintendent in relation
to examination in the vicinity of St. Helena Sound, South Carolina.
[Hydrography.]
Rodgers,
J. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1850 - 19. Letter of the Superintendent to
the Secretary of the Treasury on the reconnaissance of St. Andrews
Shoals, coast of Georgia. [Hydrography.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1850 - 20. Notice of surveying marks on the
Florida reef. (Although initially used as surveying marks, these
signals soon became used by mariners as beacons and served as
the first navigational aids on the Florida reef.) [Lighthouse.]
Alden,
J.M., Appendix No. 1850 - 21. Extract from a letter to the Superintendent
in relation to a light house on Sea Horse Key, Florida. [Lighthouse.]
Rodgers,
J., Appendix No. 1850 - 22. Letters and reports relative to
stranding of Coast Survey Steamer HETZEL near Cape Canaveral,
and her subsequent relief, etc. (In the saving of the HETZEL,
John Rodgers displayed the indomitable spirit that would make
him a scourge of the Confederate Navy.) [Ship; Grounding.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1850 - 23. Pp. 106-110. Extract from the
report of Assistant F. H. Gerdes to the Superintendent on the
reconnaissance of the Florida Keys, etc. [Reconnaissance.]
Rodgers,
J. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1850 - 24. Letter of the Superintendent to
the Secretary of the Treasury on the reconnaissance of Cape
Canaveral Shoals, Florida. [Hydrography.]
Patterson,
C.P., Appendix No. 1850 - 25. Report to the Superintendent on
buoys and beacons in Mobile Bay. [Lighthouse.]
Patterson,
C.P., Appendix No. 1850 - 26. Report to the Superintendent on
buoys and beacons at the entrance to Mobile Bay. [Lighthouse.]
Patterson,
C.P., Appendix No. 1850 - 27. Report to the Superintendent on
buoys for Cat and Ship;
Island Harbors. [Lighthouse.]
Gilbert,
S.A., Appendix No. 1850 - 28. Letter communicating the death
of Assistant Robert H. Fauntleroy, at Galveston, Texas. [Necrology.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1850 - 29. Resolutions in relation to the decease
of Assistant R.H. Fauntleroy, by the officers of the party of
the Superintendent. Letter of Assistant F.H. Gerdes, transmitting
the resolutions of the officers employed in Florida, in relation
to the decease of Assistant R.H. Fauntleroy. [Necrology.]
Bartlett,
W.A., Appendix No. 1850 - 30. Report on the lights necessary
for San Francisco Bay and its approaches. (Included in report
of Lieutenant Commanding William P. McArthur to the Superintendent.)
[Lighthouse.]
McArthur,
W.P., Appendix No. 1850 -31. Pp. 119-120. Report accompanying
a reconnaissance chart of the western coast of the United States
from Monterey, Cal., to the Columbia River, Oregon. [Reconnaissance;
Hydrography.]
McArthur,
W.P., Appendix No. 1850 - 32. Sailing Directions for the western
coast of the United States from Monterey to Columbia River.
[Coast Pilot; Geography.]
McArthur,
W.P., Appendix No. 1850 - 33. Hydrographic notice of the western
coast of the United States from Monterey to Columbia River,
islands and rivers. [Coast Pilot; Hydrography;
Geography.]
Bartlett,
W.A., Appendix No. 1850 - 34. Report in relation to a light-house
at Cape Hancock or Disappointment, entrance to Columbia River.
[Lighthouse.]
McArthur,
W.P., Appendix No. 1850 - 35. Report in relation to lights at
Cape Flattery and New Dungeness, Oregon. [Lighthouse.]
Bartlett,
W.A., Appendix No. 1850 - 36. Report in relation to the draught
of vessels which can pass through the south channel into Columbia
River. [Coast Pilot; Hydrography.]
Stevens,
I.I., Appendix No. 1850 - 37. Extracts from the report of Brevet
Major Isaac I. Stevens, Corps of Engineers, Assistant, in charge
of the coast survey office, to the Superintendent. [Office.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1850 - 38. List of maps engraved and engraving
at the coast survey office. [List; Data
Report.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1850 - 39. Statistics of the coast survey to January,
1850. [List; Statistics.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1851 - 1. Distribution of the parties of the coast
survey upon the coast of the United States, during the surveying
seasons, in different parts of the coast, from November, 1850,
to November, 1851. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1851 - 2. List of army officers on coast survey
duty, September 1, 1851. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1851 - 3. List of navy officers on coast survey
duty, March 1, 1851. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1851 - 3, bis. List of navy officers on
coast survey duty, September 1, 1851. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1851 - 4. List of navy engineers on coast survey
duty , March 1, 1851. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1851 - 4, bis. List of navy engineers on
coast survey duty, September 1, 1851. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1851 - 5. Results of the coast survey at different
periods from 1844 to 1851. [List; Statistics.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1851 - 6. List of coast survey discoveries and
developments. [List.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 7. Pp. 127-136. Notes on Cat Island
tides. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 8. Pp. 136-137. Graphical method of
representing current observations, as used in the Coast Survey.
[Oceanography; Currents.]
Mitchel,
O.M., Appendix No. 1851 - 9. Pp. 137-145. Report on a new method
of recording differences of north polar differences, or declination,
by electro-magnetism. [Geodesy;
Geodetic Astronomy; Latitude; Instrumentation.]
Agassiz,
L., Appendix No. 1851 - 10. Pp. 145-160. Florida reefs, keys,
and coast. Topography of Florida; mode of formation of the reef;
animal life; the keys; coral reefs; ship channel; the mainland;
coast survey; physical changes in the Gulf Stream; changes in
ages to come. [Geology; Topography;
Marine Biology; Hydrography.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1851 - 11. List of coast survey maps, sketches,
and preliminary charts, engraved and engraving. [List; Data Report.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1851 - 12. Pp. 162-442. List of geographical positions
determined by the Coast Survey. (This was the first great data
report for providing the information derived from Coast Survey
observations to the general public for use in land surveys,
civil works, and Government projects. This enlightened policy
helped maximum utility of Coast Survey work for the citizens
of the United States.) [Data
Report; List; Geographic Positions.]
Secretary of the Treasury, Appendix No. 1851
- 13. Letter to the Superintendent of the Coast Survey communicating
the act of Congress requiring examinations to be made in relation
to
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 14. Letter to the Secretary of the
Treasury applying for information in regard to light-house matters
referred to in the act of Congress. [Lighthouse.]
Secretary of the Treasury, Appendix No. 1851
- 14, bis. Letter to the Superintendent of the Coast
Survey communicating reports from the Fifth Auditor in relation
to light-house matters referred to in the act of Congress. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1851 - 15. Table showing the results of examinations
for sites of light-houses, beacons, buoys, etc., referred to
the Superintendent of the Coast Survey by the Secretary of the
Treasury in accordance with the acts of Congress. [Lighthouse.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 16. Letter to the chiefs of hydrographic
parties in the coast survey, enclosing a communication of the
secretary of the Light-house Board asking for suggestions for
the improvement and extension of the present light-house establishment;
and extracts from their replies. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1851 - 17. Table of light-houses, beacons, buoys,
etc., recommended by chiefs of hydrographic parties of the coast
survey, for which no appropriations have been made. [Lighthouse.]
Walker,
S.C., Appendix No. 1851 - 18. Pp. 462-463. Arrangement with
the president of the Maine Telegraph Company to determine the
difference of longitude between Cambridge and Halifax. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Bache,
A.D. and Woodhull, M., Appendix No. 1851 - 19. Letter communicating
the results of an examination to determine the necessity for
certain aids to navigation on the coast of Maine, in accordance
with the act of Congress and instructions of the Treasury Department.
[Lighthouse.]
Woodhull, M. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1851 - 20. Letters recommending placing lightboat on Shovelful
Shoals. [Lighthouse.]
McBlair, C.H. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1851 - 21. Letter communicating a report on erecting a "bug"
or harbor lights at Holmes Hole, Massachusetts. [Lighthouse.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 22. Letter to the Secretary of the
Treasury recommending certain aids to navigation required by
act of Congress and instructions of the Treasury Department.
[Lighthouse.]
Gluck , J.B. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1851 - 23. Letter transmitting report on ranges in New York
Harbor. [Lighthouse.]
Jenkins, T., Woodhull, M., and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1851 - 24. Letter communicating the report of Jenkins and
Woodhull. [Lighthouse.]
Walker,
S.C., Appendix No. 1851 - 25. Pp. 476-479. Measures of wave
time, made from 1849 to 1851. Specifications and tables of results.
[Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Walker,
S.C., Appendix No. 1851 - 26. Pp. 480-481. Abstract of reports
on longitudes. By moon culminations, eclipses, transits, occultations,
and telegraph. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Almy, J.J. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1851 - 27. Report recommending a light-house at Fishing
Battery, in Chesapeake Bay and a report by Almy. [Lighthouse.]
Whiting,
H.L., Appendix No. 1851 - 28. Pp. 482-484. Beaufort Harbor,
North Carolina. Operative causes of its physical permanency.
[Oceanography; Currents;
Topography;
Shoreline Changes.]
Maffitt,
J.N., Appendix No. 1851 - 29. Report upon the necessity for
certain aids to navigation in Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina.
[Lighthouse.]
Maffitt,
J.N., Appendix No. 1851 - 30. Report on the necessity for a
light-house upon the Upper Jettee, Cape Fear, River. [Lighthouse.]
Appendix No. 1851 - 30, bis. Letter from
the president of the Chamber of Commerce, of Charleston, South
Carolina, to the Superintendent of the United States coast survey,
requesting a tracing of the chart of Charleston harbor. [Miscellaneous.]
Maffitt,
J.N. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 30 tris. Sailing directions
for the entrance into North Edisto Harbor. [Coast Pilot; Hydrography.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1851 - 31. Pp. 488-494. Florida coast reconnaissance
from the Suwannee River to St. Martins reef. A. description;
B, survey; C, tides and currents; D, railroad across the peninsula;
E, lighthouses and buoys; F, general remarks on the Cedar Keys
Harbor. [Reconnaissance.]
Rodgers,
J., Appendix No. 1851 - 32. Extracts from report of a reconnaissance
of Mosquito Inlet. [Hydrography.]
Rodgers,
J. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 33. Letter of the Superintendent to
the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to the expediency of
placing buoys in Mosquito Inlet, Florida, and transmitting the
report of Lieutenant Commanding John Rodgers. [Lighthouse.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 34. Report of the Superintendent upon
the necessity for a light-house or permanent beacon on the Rebecca
Shoal, between the Tortugas and Marquesas, coast of Florida.
[Lighthouse.]
Patterson,
C.P., Appendix No. 1851 - 35. Report to the Superintendent on
buoys and beacons for entrances to Mobile Bay. [Lighthouse.]
Patterson,
C.P., Appendix No. 1851 - 36. Report to the Superintendent on
buoys for Cat and Ship Island Harbors. [Lighthouse.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 37. Letter communicating sailing directions
for Horn Island Pass. [Coast
Pilot; Hydrography.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 38. Report to the Secretary of the
Treasury on light-houses in Galveston Bay. [Lighthouse.]
Craven,
T.A.M., Appendix No. 1851 - 39. Report of examination of Aransas
Pass included in report of Superintendent to the Secretary of
the Treasury recommending a light-boat and buoys. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1851 - 40. Tribute of respect to the memory of
Lieutenant Commanding W.P. McArthur, United States Navy, Assistant
in the Coast Survey. [Necrology.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 41. Report showing the most suitable
site for a light-house at Point Conception, California. [Necrology.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 41, bis. Report on the latitude
and longitude of Point Conception, California. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Latitude; Longitude.]
Harrison,
A.M. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 42. Letter communicating report on
site for a light-house at Point Pinos, near Monterey, California.
[Lighthouse.]
Harrison,
A.M. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 43. Letter communicating report on
site for a light-house at Point Loma, near San Diego, California.
[Lighthouse.]
Harrison,
A.M. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 44. Letter communicating report of
a survey for a site for a light-house at Cape Hancock or Disappointment,
Oregon Territory. [Lighthouse.]
Alden,
J.M., Appendix No. 1851 - 45. Extracts from a letter relating
to Humboldt Harbor and Trinidad Bay, California. [Coast Pilot.]
Cutts,
R.D. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 46. Letter and report with sketches
of survey of Fort Point, entrance of San Francisco Bay, and
of Alcatraz or Bird Island, within the bay, proposed as sites
for light-houses. [Lighthouse.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 47. Report correcting important errors
in the positions of the Farallones and Point Lobos, entrance
to San Francisco. [Coast Pilot.]
Bartlett,
W., Appendix No. 1851 - 48. Report on the general character
of the coast of California. [Reconnaissance;
Coast
Pilot.]
Bartlett,
W., Appendix No. 1851 - 49. Report on the commerce of the Columbia
River. [Coast Pilot; Commerce.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 50. Report relating to Trinidad, Humboldt,
and San Diego Bays. [Coast
Pilot.]
McArthur,
W.P., Appendix No. 1851 - 51. Sailing directions for entering
the Columbia River as far as the harbor of Astoria. [Coast Pilot.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 52. Letter reporting two sunken rocks
in the harbor of San Francisco as reported by the collector
of that port. [Hydrography.]
Alden,
J.M., Appendix No. 1851 - 53. Report of the death of Passed
Midshipman William De Koven, United States Navy, Assistant in
the Coast Survey, on the 31st of May, 1851. [Necrology.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 54. Letter with accompanying reports
and documents reporting the loss of the Coast Survey Steamer
JEFFERSON on the coast of Patagonia. (The JEFFERSON had a history
as a hard-luck ship and was severely damaged in heavy weather
prior to being beached in a sinking condition. This ship was
being sent to conduct surveys on the Pacific coast of the United
States.) [Ship; Disaster.]
Mathiot,
G., Appendix No. 1851 - 55. Pp. 541-553. Electrotyping operations
of the Coast Survey. Adhesion of deposit to matrix; actions
in the electrolytic solution; laboratory apparatus; manipulation
of apparatus. [Cartography;
Printing; Instrumentation; Electromechanics.]
Bartlett,
W. A., Appendix No. 1851 - 56. Pp. 553-558. Hell Gate Channel.
Examination of reefs and changes produced by blasting. [Hydrography.]
Alden,
J.M., Bartlett,
W.A., and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1851 - 57 and 1851 - 57 bis. Report
upon an examination in reference to a light-house at Humboldt
Harbor, California. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 1. Pp. 71-75. Distribution of parties in
the field during the year. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 2. P. 76. List of army officers on Coast
Survey, July 1, 1852. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 2, bis. P. 76. List of army officers
on Coast Survey, January 1, 1853. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 3. Pp. 76-77. List of naval officers on
Coast Survey July 1, 1852. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 3, bis. P. 78. List of naval officers
on Coast Survey January 1, 1853. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 4. P. 79. Results of Coast Survey from 1844
to 1852. [List; Statistics.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 5. P. 80. Coast Survey discoveries and developments
during 1852. [List; Hydrography.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 6. Pp. 81-83. Coast Survey maps, sketches,
and preliminary charts engraved and engraving. [List; Data Report.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 7. P. 83. Information furnished by the Coast
Survey in reply to calls. [List; Miscellaneous.]
Bartlett,
W.A., Appendix No. 1852 - 8. P. 84. On Pot Rock, Hell Gate.
[Hydrography.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1852 - 9. P. 85. Letter to Secretary of the
Treasury requesting authority to publish results of recent surveys
at Pot Rock, Hell Gate, N.Y. [Miscellaneous.]
Rodgers,
J., Appendix No. 1852 - 10. P. 85. Discovery of Isaac Shoal,
near Rebecca Shoal, Florida. [Hydrography.]
Rodgers,
J., Appendix No. 1852 - 11. P. 86. Discovery of Legare harbor
of refuge, under Triumph reef, Florida. [Hydrography.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1852 - 12. Pp. 87-94. Extracts from the report
of Assistant F. H. Gerdes on a reconnaissance from Suwannee
River, Florida, to Delta of Mississippi. [Reconnaissance.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1852 - 13. Pp. 95-97. On the reconnaissance
of St. Marks, Florida. [Hydrography.]
Totten,
J.B., Appendix No. 1852 - 14. Pp. 97-98. Screw-pile signals
along the Florida reef. [Hydrography;
Signals.]
Gilbert,
S.A., Appendix No. 1852 - 15. Pp. 99-100. Report on the survey
of Milneburg Harbor, Louisiana. [Hydrography.]
Sands,
B.F., Appendix No. 1852 - 16. P. 100. Report on Horn Island
Passage, Mississippi. [Hydrography.]
Davidson,
G.O., Appendix No. 1852 - 17. Pp. 101-103. Extracts from the
report of Assistant George Davidson of work executed by him
in California and Oregon, 1852. (Recounts some of the travails
of the early pioneering work on the West Coast. [Miscellaneous.]
Alden,
J., Appendix No. 1852 - 18. Pp. 104-107. Report of Lieut. Commanding
James Alden, U.S.N., Assistant in the Coast Survey, on the reconnaissance
from San Francisco to San Diego, including Santa Barbara Islands
and channel. [Reconnaissance.]
Alden,
J.M., Appendix No. 1852 - 19. P. 107. Report on the reconnaissance
of Shoal Water Bay, Oregon. [Hydrography.]
Cutts,
R.D., Appendix No. 1852 - 20. P. 107. Letter discussing channels
of Columbia River and Lieut. Comdg. McArthur's survey. [Hydrography.]
Stevens,
I.I., Appendix No. 1852 - 21. Pp. 108-111. Lithographic transfer
printing. [Cartography;
Printing.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1852 - 22. Pp. 111-122. Discussion of Cat
Island tides. Diurnal and semidiurnal curves deduced from observations,
with curves of sines; diurnal wave; heights and times; maximum
ordinates of diurnal curve, etc.; effect of sun's declination
on height; effect of moon's parallax; coefficients; computed
diurnal ordinates compared with observations; residuals classed
by moon's ages; same corrected by change of cosines; difference
of diurnal maximum ordinates, from last and from first methods
of groups -- semidiurnal effect; correction to maximum diurnal
ordinate for high-water ordinate; further residual corrections;
comparison with hypothesis; semidiurnal curve; half monthly
inequality in height; discrepancies between observations and
formulas. (Alexander Dallas Bache was quite interested in tides
even prior to his association with the Coast Survey. This appendix,
besides being his first major technical foray into the realm
of tides, presented his analysis of tides in the Gulf of Mexico,
a phenomena which had defied rational explanation prior to sustained
Coast Survey observations.) [Oceanography; Tides.]
Secretary of Treasury, Appendix No. 1852 - 23.
Pp. 122-123. Letter in relation to detail of brevet second lieutenants
of the army for Coast Survey duty. [Miscellaneous.]
Totten,
J., Appendix No. 1852 - 24. P. 123. Letter to Secretary of War
in relation to assistance rendered by Coast Survey to Pacific
Board of Engineers. (Totten was then Chief of Engineers, U.S.
Army, and remained a life-long friend of Alexander Dallas Bache.
He served with Bache on numerous harbor improvement boards and
on the Lighthouse Board.) [Miscellaneous;
Assistance Rendered.]
Cutts,
R.D., Appendix No. 1852 - 25. Pp. 123-124. Correspondence with
Secretary of Commission for locating naval depot at San Francisco.
[Miscellaneous;
Assistance Rendered.]
Perry, M.C., Appendix No. 1852 - 26. P. 125.
Letter acknowledging receipt of articles sent by Coast Survey
to the government of Japan. (As the Federal science agency,
the Coast Survey produced a number of exhibits for display when
Commodore Perry entered Japanese waters. Among them was a working
scale model electrotype system prepared by George Mathiot.)
[Miscellaneous.]
Chase, W.H., Appendix No. 1852 - 27. P. 125.
Letter in relation to information furnished to the army engineers
concerning Dog River Bar and Choctaw Pass, Alabama. [Miscellaneous;
Assistance Rendered.]
Comstock, S.W., Appendix No. 1852 - 27, bis.
P. 126. Correspondence with Lieutenant Commanding James Alden
regarding his assisting Pacific Mail Steamship CALIFORNIA, disabled
at San Pedro. [Ship; Assistance Rendered.]
Hoyt, J.C., Appendix No. 1852 - 28. P.126-127.
Letter giving list of vessels lost or ashore on Florida reef
in 1852. [List; Miscellaneous.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1852 - 29. Pp. 127-130. Letter of Superintendent
to Secretary of the Treasury in relation to proposed reconnaissance,
south from San Diego to Cape St. Lucas. [Reconnaissance.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 30. P. 131. Resolutions in relation to decease
of Assistant J.B. Gluck. [Necrology.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 30, bis. P. 131. Resolutions in relation
to decease of Assistant J.B. Gluck. [Necrology.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 31. P. 132. Resolutions in relation to decease
of Assistant Woods Baker. [Necrology.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 32. P. 131. Resolutions in relation to decease
of Assistant Joseph Ruth. [Necrology.]
Secretary of the Treasury, Appendix No. 1852
- 33. Letter directing examinations of sites for light-houses,
beacons, buoys, etc. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1852 - 34 and 1852 - 34 bis. P. 135. Table
of results of examinations of sites of light-houses, beacons,
buoys, etc., by the Coast Survey. Table of examinations of sites
of light-houses, beacons, buoys, etc., to be made by Coast Survey.
[Lighthouse.]
Woodhull, M., Appendix No. 1852 - 35. Pp. 136-140.
Light-house examinations of Herring Neck and Condon Point, or
Pumpkin Island. [Lighthouse.]
McBlair, C.H., Appendix No. 1852 - 36. Pp. 140-142.
Examination of Succonesset Shoal and Killpond Bar, as sites
for light-boats. [Lighthouse.]
Bartlett,
W.A., Appendix No. 1852 - 37. Pp. 142-143. Light-house examination
of Mill Reef, New Jersey. [Lighthouse.]
Woodhull, M., Appendix No. 1852 - 38. Pp. 143-145.
On placing of buoys in Fire Island Inlet. [Lighthouse.]
Hunt, M., Appendix No. 1852 - 39. Pp. 145-146.
On examination of necessity of beacon in West Oyster Bed, Newark
Bay, New Jersey. [Lighthouse.]
Almy, J.J., Appendix No. 1852 - 40. Pp. 147-148.
Recommendation for placing spar-buoys in Metomkin Inlet, Virginia.
[Lighthouse.]
Whiting, W.B., Appendix No. 1852 - 41. Pp. 148-150.
Report on light-house examination of Jones Point, Alexandria,
Virginia. [Lighthouse.]
Almy, J.J., Appendix No. 1852 - 42. Pp. 150-152.
Lighthouse examination of Pungoteague Creek, Virginia. [Lighthouse.]
Wainwright, R.B., Appendix No. 1852 - 43. P.
152. Letter designating position of beacons, etc., in James
River, Virginia. [Lighthouse.]
Craven,
T.A.M., Appendix No. 1852 - 44. P. 153. Report on the trial
of the Hatteras bell-beacon at Philadelphia. [Lighthouse.]
Craven,
T.A.M., Appendix No. 1852 - 44 bis. Pp. 153-154. Report
on the placing of the bell- beacon on outer Hatteras shoal.
[Lighthouse.]
Maffitt,
J.N., Appendix No. 1852 - 45. Pp. 154-157. Report on examination
of Winyaw Bay, South Carolina with reference to location of
a beacon-light. [Lighthouse.]
Craven,
T.A.M., Appendix No. 1852 - 46. Pp. 157-159. Report on examination
of Cape Roman Shoals, South Carolina, with reference to location
of a bell-boat. [Lighthouse.]
Steele, Judge, Appendix No. 1852 - 47. P. 159.
Letter on utility of a beacon on reef of Sea-Horse Key. [Lighthouse.]
Craven,
T.A.M., Appendix No. 1852 - 48. P. 160. Letter in reference
to Half-Moon shoal, Galveston. [Lighthouse.]
Alden,
J.M., Appendix No. 1852 - 49, 1852 - 50, 1852 - 51, and 1852
- 52. Pp. 160-167. Letter showing advantages of Point Bonita
over Fort Point as the location of light-house. (San Francisco
Bay entrance.) [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 1. Pp. 1-6. Distribution of parties in the
field during the year. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 2. P. 7. List of army officers on Coast
Survey, March 1, 1853. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 2, bis. P. 7. List of army officers
on Coast Survey, September 1, 1853. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 3. P. 7. List of naval officers on Coast
Survey March 1, 1853. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 3, bis. P. 8. List of naval officers
on Coast Survey September 1, 1853. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 4. P. 9. List of naval engineers on Coast
Survey March 1, 1853. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 4, bis. P. 10. List of naval engineers
on Coast Survey September 1, 1853. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 5. P. 10. Coast Survey maps, sketches, and
preliminary charts engraved and engraving. [List; Data Report.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 6. P. 12. List of information furnished
by the Coast Survey in reply to calls. [List; Miscellaneous.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 7. Pp. 14-42. List of geographical positions.
[List; Data Report; Geographic
Positions.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 8. P. 43. List of capes, headlands, harbors,
&c., of which the geographic positions have been determined,
topographical surveys made, and charts and sketches issued,
to date of report of 1852. [List.]
Woodhull, M., Appendix No. 1853 - 9. P. 43.
Report on the location of surf-boats on the coast of Maine and
New Hampshire. [Lighthouse;
Lifesaving.]
Stellwagen, H.S., Appendix No. 1853 - 10. Report
on the location of surf-boats on the coast of Massachusetts.
[Lighthouse;
Lifesaving.]
Stellwagen, H.S., Appendix No. 1853 - 11. P.
45. Extracts from a letter in relation to a rock in the harbor
of Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts. [Hydrography.]
Stellwagen, H.S., Appendix No. 1853 - 12. P.
46. Extracts from a report in relation to soundings near Fippennies
Ledge. [Hydrography.]
Fairfield,
G.A., Appendix No. 1853 - 13. P. 46. Extracts from the report
in relation to establishing a tide gauge at Siasconsett. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Palmer, W.R., Appendix No. 1853 - 14. P. 47.
Report upon the reconnaissance of the Rappahannock River, Virginia,
from Fredericksburg to Chesapeake Bay. (This reconnaissance
and subsequent work along the river led to the remarkable finding
that the distance along the river to Fredericksburg had been
over-estimated by 50 miles. The best information available felt
that the distance was approximately 150 miles while the true
distance was closer to 100 miles. Such errors, even in the relatively
civilized areas of the east, were quite common and reflected
the general ignorance of geography prevalent prior to the advent
of modern surveys.) [Reconnaissance.]
Almy, J.J., Appendix No. 1853 - 15. P. 48. Report
upon the observations of off-shore tides seaward of Sand Shoal
Inlet, Virginia. (This limited attempt to observe offshore tides
was the first attempt by the Coast Survey to carry direct tide
observations into offshore waters.) [Oceanography; Tides.]
Almy, J.J., Appendix No. 1853 - 16. P. 49. Report
upon the determination of two shoals at the entrance into Chesapeake
Bay. [Hydrography.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1853 - 17. P. 50. Letter of Superintendent
to Secretary of the Treasury, reporting the discovery, by Lieutenants
Commanding Craven and Maffitt, of a bank lying to the east of
the Gulf Stream. (This "discovery" led to Bache making the erroneous
assumption that the configuration of the sea floor led to the
banding of the Gulf Stream into warm and cold bands. ) [Oceanography; Gulf
Stream; Marine Geology.]
Totten,
J.B., Appendix No. 1853 - 18. Pp. 50-51. Climate, soil, and
general character of Florida Keys. [Geography; Geology; Topography;
Meteorology.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1853 - 19. P. 51. Report on the reconnaissance
of the entrance of Barataria Bay, coast of Louisiana. [Reconnaissance;
Hydrography.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1853 - 20. P. 51. Report on the reconnaissance
of the entrance of Timbalier Bay, coast of Louisiana. [Reconnaissance;
Hydrography.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1853 - 21. P. 51. Extracts from the report
on the survey of Isle Derniere and Ship Shoal, coast of Louisiana.
[Hydrography.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1853 - 22. P. 54. Extracts from the report
in relation to the channels of trade of Attakapas Plantations,
Louisiana. [Hydrography.]
Alden,
J.M., Appendix No. 1853 - 23. P. 55. Extracts from a letter
on the results of a reconnaissance of the coast, harbors, etc.,
between San Francisco and the Columbia River. [Reconnaissance.]
Alden,
J.M., Appendix No. 1853 - 24. P. 55. Extracts from the report
upon the determination of the position of Cortez Bank, off the
coast of southern California. [Hydrography.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 25. Pp. 56-57. Extracts from the reports
of the chiefs of the different divisions of the office to the
assistant in charge, showing details of the work executed in
each division during the year. [Office.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1853 - 26. Pp. 67-70. Tide tables for the
use of navigators, with descriptions of bench marks, explanations
and examples for use. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1853 - 27. Pp. 71-76. Notes on tides at Key
West. Half-monthly inequality of tides, one year's observations;
diurnal inequality with formula; decomposition of the curves
of observation; effect of moon's declination and moon's age;
changes of mean level; height of high water referred to moon's
age; etc. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1853 - 28. Pp. 77-81. Notes on tides at Rincon
Point, Cal. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1853 - 29. Pp. 81-82. Notes on the tides
at San Francisco, Cal. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Pourtales,
L. F. , Appendix No. 1853 - 30. Pp. 82-83. Examination of specimens
of bottom obtained in Gulf Stream. [Oceanography; Deep
Sea Soundings; Gulf Stream; Marine Geology.]
Peirce,
B., Appendix No. 1853 - 31. P. 84. On longitude from moon culminations.
On the determination of longitude from observation of moon culminations;
standard probable error of observation of interpolated lunar
transits; constant errors of epoch and periodical one of half
lunations. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude; Error Analysis.]
Bond,
W.C., Appendix No. 1853 - 32. Pp. 84-86. On moon culminations
observed by the "American method," with remarks on the performance
of Bond's spring governor. Comparison of records made by two
spring governors differing one-tenth of a second in time of
vibration of their respective pendulums; table of star transits;
amount of probable errors. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Instrumentation; Longitude; Error Analysis.]
Gould,
B.A., Appendix No. 1853 - 33. Pp. 86-88. Telegraphic longitude
of Charleston, S.C. Results of observations for the determination
of difference of longitude between Seaton station, Washington,
D.C., and Charleston, S.C. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Appendix No. 1853 - 34. P. 88. Computations
of the chronometer expeditions for determining the difference
of longitude between Cambridge and Liverpool. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude; Computations.]
Hewston,
J., Jr., Appendix No. 1853 - 35. P. 89. Boiler incrustation.
Analysis of two specimens of deposit from the boiler of the
Coast Survey steamer HETZEL. [Ship; Boiler.]
Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. 1853 - 36. Pp. 90-93. Notes on lithography
and lithographic transfer. [Cartography;
Printing.]
Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. 1853 - 37. Pp. 93-94. Hunt's aligning reflector
or interranger. [Hydrography;
Instrumentation.]
Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. 1853 - 38. Pp. 94-96. Saxton's self-registering
tide gauge. (This was the first automated tide gauge used by
the Coast Survey and was designed and made by Joseph Saxton,
the great Coast Survey instrument maker.) [Oceanography; Tides; Instrumentation.]
Schott,
C.A. and Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. 1853 - 39. Pp. 96-163. Tables for projecting
maps, with notes on map projection. C.A. Schott and E.B. Hunt.
Map projections classified and defined; Bonne's or modified
Flamsteed's projection; the polyconic, its properties and varieties;
formulas used for the computation of projection tables in use
at the Coast Survey Office; graphic construction of polyconic
projections; rectangular polyconic method; Table I, relation
between the measures of length used in different countries;
II, tables for converting (A) meters into statute miles; (B)
statute miles into meters; C) meters into yards; (D) yards into
meters; (E) yards into miles; III, length of a degree of the
meridian in nautical statute miles for each fifth degree of
latitude between 20o and 50 o ; IV (A) length of a degree of
longitude between the parallels of 17o and 50o, for each degree
of latitude, expressed in nautical miles; (B) length of a degree
of longitude between the parallels of 17o and 50o for each degree
of latitude, expressed in statute miles; V (A), length, in meters,
of 1o of latitude and longitude for each degree of latitude
between 17o and 50o; (B) coordinates of curvature for each degree
of longitude from 1o to 35o between latitudes 17o and 50o; VI,
projection tables giving latitude and longitude arcs and coordinates
of curvature, from latitude 24o to 50o. [Cartography;
Projections.]
Craven,
T.A.M., Appendix No. 1853 - 40. P. 164. Correspondence between
Lieutenant Commanding T.A.M. Craven and Captain T.E. Shaw, of
the steamer WILLIAM GASTON, in relation to assistance rendered
that vessel by the Coast Survey Steamer CORWIN. [Ship;
Assistance Rendered.]
Alden,
J.M., Appendix No. 1853 - 41. P. 164. Letter in regard to the
wreck of the ship ABERDEEN, lying in the entrance of the harbor
of San Francisco, California. [Ship; Disaster.]
Alden,
J.M., Appendix No. 1853 - 42. P. 165. Letter recognizing the
services of acting Lieut. R.M. Cuyler in rendering assistance
to the steamer TENNESSEE wrecked near the entrance of San Francisco
harbor. [Ship; Disaster; Assistance
Rendered.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 43. P. 166. Resolutions in relation to the
decease of Assistant S.C. Walker. [Necrology.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 44. P. 167. Resolutions in relation to the
decease of Lieutenant J.S. Totten. [Necrology.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 45. P. 168. Resolutions in relation to the
decease of Sub-Assistant B.F. West. [Necrology.]
Secretary of the Treasury, Appendix No. 1853
- 46. P. 169. Letter directing surveys and examinations to be
made with reference to the location of lights and other aids
to navigation. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 47. P. 170. Table showing the results of
re-examination of sites of light-houses, beacons, buoys, etc.,
referred to Superintendent by Secretary of the Treasury. [Lighthouse.]
Stellwagen, H.S., Appendix No. 1853 - 48. P.
170. Report on the lighthouse survey of Minot's Ledge, Cohasset
Rocks, Boston Harbor. [Lighthouse.]
Woodhull, M., Appendix No. 1853 - 49. P. 171.
Report upon the light-house examination of Deep Hole Rock, Vineyard
Sound, Massachusetts. [Lighthouse.]
Woodhull, M., Appendix No. 1853 - 50. P. 172.
Report upon the light-house survey of the "Sow and Pigs" Rocks,
off Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts. [Lighthouse.]
Blunt, E., Appendix No. 1853 - 51. P. 173. Report
upon the selection and marking of positions for range-beacons
in New York harbor. [Lighthouse.]
Totten,
J., Appendix No. 1853 - 52. Pp. 173-175. Report upon the results
of his examinations of Coast Survey signals along the Florida
reef. [Lighthouse.]
Sands,
B.F., Appendix No. 1853 - 53. P. 175. Report upon the light-house
examination and survey of the eastern entrance to Pascagoula
River, Mississippi. [Lighthouse.]
Sands,
B.F., Appendix No. 1853 - 54. P. 176. Report upon the light-house
examination and survey of Ship Shoal, Louisiana. [Lighthouse.]
Wilkinson, J., Appendix No. 1853 - 55. P. 176.
Report upon the selection of a site for a light-house at Sabine
Pass, Texas; also a letter from Lieut. M. Hunt, U.S.N., light-house
inspector. [Lighthouse.]
Stellwagen, H.S., Appendix No. 1853 - 56. P.
178. Report on the light-house examination of Aransas Pass,
Texas. [Lighthouse.]
Cutts,
R.D., Appendix No. 1853 - 57. P. 179. Report upon the light-house
examination and survey of Point Bonita, California. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1853 - 58. P. 181. Errata in the list of geographical
positions in the annual report of the Coast Survey for 1851,
discovered since the publication of the list. [List; Data Report; Geographic
Positions.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 1. Pp. 1-7. Distribution of Coast Survey
parties upon the U.S. coast, during the surveying season 1853
-'54. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 2. P. 7. List of army officers on Coast
Survey duty, March 1, 1854. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 2, bis. P. 8. List of army officers
on Coast Survey duty, September 1, 1854. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 3. P. 8-9. List of navy officers on Coast
Survey duty, March 1, 1854. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 3, bis. P. 9-10. List of naval officers
on Coast Survey September 1, 1854. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 4. P. 10. List of assistant engineers U.S.
navy, on Coast Survey duty, March 1, 1854. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 4, bis. P. 10. List of assistant
engineers U.S. navy, on Coast Survey duty, September 1, 1854.
[List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 5. Pp. 11- 12. List of information furnished
by the Coast Survey in reply to special calls. [List; Miscellaneous.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 6. Pp. 12-13. List of capes, headlands,
islands and anchorages, on the Western coast of the U.S., of
which the geographic positions have been determined, topographical
surveys made, or charts or sketches issued, to date of report
of 1854. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 7. Pp. 13-14. Results of Coast survey at
different periods, from 1844 to 1854. [Statistics; List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 8. Pp. 14-17. General list of Coast Survey
Discoveries and Developments to 1854, inclusive. [List.]
Stellwagen, H.S. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 9. Pp. 17-18. Stellwagen's Bank entrance of Massachusetts
Bay, concerning its importance and priority of discovery. [Hydrography.]
Davis, C.H. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 10. Pp. 18-19. Rocks in Boston Harbor. The position
of three dangerous rocks in the channel-way, and ranges for
avoiding them. (Commander Charles H. Davis was head of the Nautical
Almanac Office at the time of his positioning these rocks. Prior
to this, he had served seven years on the Coast Survey. A brother-in-law
of Benjamin Peirce, Davis was a favorite of Bache and remained
a life-long friend and defender of the Coast Survey.) [Hydrography.]
Davis, C.H. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 11. P. 19. Letter communicating notice of a dangerous
sunken ledge in the vicinity of Minot's Ledge, approaches to
Boston Bay. [Hydrography.]
Almy, J.J. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 12. P. 20. Letter communicating the discovery of
New Point Shoal and the description of York Spit, Chesapeake
Bay. [Hydrography.]
Craven,
T.A.M. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 13. Pp. 20-21. Letter communicating the results of
reconnaissance of Wimble Shoals, coast of North Carolina. [Hydrography.]
Maffitt,
J.N., Appendix No. 1854 - 14. Pp. 21-23. Beaufort Harbor, North
Carolina. Its capacity, changes, and improvements. [Hydrography.]
Craven,
T.A.M. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 15. Pp. 23-24. Letter communicating discovery of
Turtle Harbor, a harbor of refuge near Carysfort Reef, coast
of Florida. [Hydrography.]
Craven,
T.A.M. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 16. P. 24. Letter communicating a safe and convenient
passage across the Florida reef at Indian Key. [Hydrography.]
Wright, H.G. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 17. P. 24. Letter communicating the discovery of
a three-fathom shoal, near the entrance of Garden Key Channel,
Florida. [Hydrography.]
Sands,
B.F. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1854 - 18. P. 25. Letter on search for an
alleged twenty-fathom shoal in N. Lat. 270, W. Long. 890, in
Gulf of Mexico. [Hydrography.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1854 - 19. Pp. 25-28. Letter to the Commissioner
of the general Land Office, communicating the results of the
survey of the Florida Keys, near Key West and Spanish Harbor;
method of marking lines, etc.; description of the keys surveyed.
[Geodesy; Triangulation.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1854 - 20. Pp. 28-30. Extracts from the report
of F. H. Gerdes on the reconnaissance of the coast of Louisiana
in 1854 (Mississippi Delta.) [Reconnaissance.]
Greenwell,
W.E., Appendix No. 1854 - 21. Pp. 30-31. Extracts from a report
by W.E. Greenwell on the general features and peculiarities
of the coast of Lower Texas, with suggestions in regard to facilities
for navigation, from the harbor of the Brazos de Santiago to
the mouth of the Rio Grande. [Reconnaissance.]
Johnson,
W.M., Appendix No. 1854 - 22. P. 31. Extract on report of the
features of the country between the Pajaro and Salinas Rivers.
[Reconnaissance.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 23. P. 32, 229. Table of entering depth
of harbor, etc. (Withdrawn.)
Almy, J.J., Appendix No. 1854 - 24. P.32. Letter
reporting on amount of Chesapeake Bay commerce. [Miscellaneous;
Commerce; Coast
Pilot.]
Berryman, O.H., Appendix No. 1854 - 25. P. 32.
Tampa Bay, letter on its entrance and anchorages. [Coast Pilot; Hydrography.]
Berryman, O.H., Appendix No. 1854 - 26. Pp.
33-34. Letter describing commercial facilities of Cedar Keys,
on the west coast of Florida. [Miscellaneous;
Coast
Pilot; Commerce.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1854 - 27. P. 34. Letter describing commercial
facilities and resources of Cedar Keys, Florida. [Miscellaneous;
Coast
Pilot; Commerce.]
Davidson,
G.O., Appendix No. 1854 - 28. P. 35. Letter stating the commerce
of Humboldt Bay, California, from July 1, 1853 to May 31, 1854.
[Miscellaneous;
Coast
Pilot; Commerce.]
Mitchell,
H., Appendix No. 1854 - 29. Pp. 35-37. Nantucket and Vineyard
Sound tides. Method of securing Mitchell's tide gauge; remarks
on swells. [Oceanography; Tides; Instrumentation.]
Trowbridge, W.P.,
Appendix No. 1854 - 30. Pp. 37-40. Western coast tidal and magnetic
observations. Report on observations at San Diego, San Pedro,
San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Francisco, Humboldt, Port Orford,
Columbia River, and Cape Disappointment. [Oceanography; Tides; Magnetism.]
Office, Appendix No. 1854 - 31. Pp. 40-61. Reports
of Divisions. C.A. Schott on Computing Division; L.F. Pourtales
on Tidal Division; Capt. A.A. Gibson, U.S.A., on the Drawing
Division; Lieut. J.C. Clark on the Engraving Division; George
Mathiot on the Electrotyping Division; S.D. O'Brien, printing;
V.E. King on publication, distribution, and sale of maps. [Office.]
Mathiot,
G., Part of Appendix No. 1854 - 31. Pp. 54-57. On electrotype
operations and chemiglyphic experiments. [Cartography;
Printing; Instrumentation; Electromechanics.]
Tidball, J.C., Appendix No. 1854 - 32. Pp. 61-63.
Description of the Congress Map. (This map was mandated by Act
of Congress and was a primary means of keeping Congress informed
of the progress and operations of the United States Coast Survey.
It was a map of the United States that was updated each year
and presented to Congress and put on display.) [Miscellaneous.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1854 - 33. Pp. 63-95. Computation of triangulation.
Comparison of the reduction of horizontal angles by the methods
of "dependent directions" and of "dependent angular quantities'
by the method of least squares.-- A.D. Bache. Adjustment of
horizontal angles of a triangulation. Probable error of observation,
derived from observations of horizontal angles at any single
station. -- C.A. Schott. [Geodesy; Triangulation;
Computations; Error Analysis.]
Cram,
T.J., Appendix No. 1854 - 34. Pp. 95-103. Measurement of heights.
Experimental comparison of the methods of measuring heights
by leveling, by vertical angles, by the barometer, and by the
boiling-point apparatus. Experimental work done on Mt. Washington.
[Geodesy; Leveling;
Instrumentation.]
Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. 1854 - 35. Pp. 103-108. Base-measuring apparatus,
description of as used in the Coast Survey. [Geodesy; Base Line
Measurement; Instrumentation.]
Peirce,
B., Appendix No. 1854 - 36. Pp. 108-120. Longitude by moon culminations.
General considerations; constant errors and personal equations;
correction of the lunar ephemeris; standard probable error of
observation of a lunar transit; limit of accuracy attainable;
longitude of the National Observatory, Washington, D.C.; three
forms of correcting lunar ephemeris and modes of computation.
[Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Error Analysis; Longitude; Computations.]
Bond,
W.C., Appendix No. 1854 - 37. P. 120. Moon culminations. Observed
by the American method; chronometric longitude of Cambridge
and probable error. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Kendall,
E.O., Appendix No. 1854 - 38. P. 120. Moon culminations observed
at the Central High School Observatory, Philadelphia. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Hilgard,
J.E., Appendix No. 1854 - 39. P. 121. Discussion of probable
error of observation with a Wurdemann 26-inch portable transit;
from observations by G. Davidson in 1853. [Instrumentation;
Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Computations.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 40. Pp. 122-127. Solar Eclipse, May 26,
1854. Observations made at Brooklyn, Long Island, reported by
E. Blunt; at Seaton Station, Washington, D.C., by C.O. Boutelle;
at Roslyn Station, near Petersburg, Virginia, by L.F. Pourtales;
Black Mountain Station, California, by R.D. Cutts; Benicia,
California, by Professor James Nooney; and Humboldt Bay, California,
by George Davidson. [Geodetic Astronomy; Geodesy; Longitude.]
Gould,
B.A., Appendix No. 1854 - 41. Pp. 128-138. Telegraphic longitude.
On telegraphic observations for the difference of longitude
between Raleigh, N.C., and Columbia, S.C. Directions and tables
for the use of "Peirce's Criterion" for the rejection of doubtful
observations. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude; Computations; Error Analysis.]
Bond,
W.C., Appendix No. 1854 - 42. Chronometric longitude expeditions
(Cambridge - Liverpool.) Results of the expeditions of 1849,
1850, and 1851, and on the method of computation. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 43. Pp. 142-145. Table of magnetic declination.
Results of Coast Survey magnetic observations at 136 stations
along the coast of the United States. [Geophysics;
Magnetism; Data
Report.]
Dean,
G.W., Appendix No. 1854 - 44. P. 146. Meridian lines. Establishment
of meridian lines at Petersburg, Virginia, and Raleigh and Wilmington,
North Carolina. [Geophysics;
Magnetism; Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1854 - 45. Pp. 147-152. Cotidal lines, Atlantic.
Preliminary determinations of cotidal lines on the Atlantic
coast of the United States, from observations by the U. S. Coast
Survey; observations for cotidal hours; cotidal hours of ports
on the Atlantic coast; rate and trend of cotidal lines. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1854 - 46. Pp. 152-155. Diurnal inequality,
western coast tides. Comparison of the diurnal inequality of
the tides at San Diego, San Francisco, and Astoria. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1854 - 47. Pp. 156-161. Gulf Stream temperatures.
On the distribution of temperatures on and near the Gulf Stream:
(1) at different depths; (2) at the same depths on sections
across the axis of the Gulf Stream with probable uncertainty
in determination of the maximum and minimum points; (3) connection
with the figure of the sea bottom with the distribution of temperature;
(4) the "cold wall;" (5) reference to shifting; and (6) chart
of Gulf Stream. [Oceanography; Gulf
Stream.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1854 - 48. Pp. 161-166. On the currents of
Nantucket Shoals from Coast Survey current observations. Mean
direction, maximum velocity, groups of luni-current intervals.
[Oceanography; Currents.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1854 - 49. Pp. 166-168. Muskeget Channel
and Marthas Vineyard currents. Tables showing the currents and
rate of current in Muskeget Channel and the northeast coast
of Marthas Vineyard; velocity of current; duration of ebb, flood,
and slack water; current establishments. [Oceanography; Currents.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1854 - 50. Pp. 168-179. Tides, Long Island
Sound and approaches. Range, or mean of rise and fall of tides,
to April, 1853; set and maximum rates of ebb and flood streams;
luni-current interval for beginning of outgoing streams; eastern
part of the sound 1846-'47; western part of New York Bay and
channel, 1844; New York Harbor, 1844-'45; Hell Gate, 1845; Hell
Gate and Throgs Neck, 1846; mean duration of slack waters and
of respective ebb and flood streams, from the middle of one
slack-water period to that of the next; irregularity of luni-current
intervals of successive tides. [Oceanography; Currents.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1854 - 51. Pp. 180-189. Tide tables for the
use of navigators. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 52. Pp. 189-190. Current bottles. One from
Mobile Bay to Mosquito Inlet and one from Cape Florida to Jupiter
Inlet. [Oceanography; Currents.]
Mitchell,
H., Appendix No. 1854 - 53. Pp. 190-191. Seacoast tide-gauge.
Description of tide-gauge used at stations on the open seacoast
and in situations exposed to strong currents. [Oceanography; Tides; Instrumentation.]
Craven,
T.A.M., Appendix No. 1854 - 54. Pp. 191-192. Craven's specimen
box for deep-sea bottoms. [Oceanography; Deep
Sea Soundings; Marine Geology; Instrumentation.]
Hilgard,
J.E., Appendix No. 1854 - 55. P. 192. On the action of sea water
on metals. On the action of sea water on metals used in the
construction of instruments and on magnetic needles. (This short
paper resulted from Hilgard's observation of the instruments
submerged in sea water for approximately three weeks and then
recovered following the sinking of the Coast Survey Schooner
PHOENIX in Mississippi Sound in January, 1854. The PHOENIX was
struck and sunk by a tornado. It was subsequently raised. Fortunately,
no lives were lost in this disaster as the PHOENIX sunk in relatively
shallow water and all hands clung to the mast and rigging of
the PHOENIX until the storm abated. [Miscellaneous.]
Mathiot,
G., Appendix No. 1854 - 56. Pp. 193-201. Mathiot's self-sustaining
battery. Its principles and workings. [Miscellaneous;
Electromechanics.]
Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. 1854 - 57. Pp. 201-212. Art and practice
of engraving. Coast Survey topographic engraving; the office,
its organization and history. [Cartography;
Printing.]
Edgartown Citizens, Appendix No. 1854 - 58.
P. 212. Letter of thanks from Edgartown citizens to Lieut. Comdg.
H.S. Stellwagen, for services of the steamer BIBB to the brig
B.M. PRESCOTT. [Ship; Assistance Rendered.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1854 - 59. Pp. 212-213. Letter on the stranding
of the Coast Survey Schooner GERDES in a hurricane, near Fourchon
Pass, Gulf of Mexico, March 30, 1854. (The Coast Survey Schooner
PHOENIX was sunk during this storm and subsequently raised.
See Appendix No. 1854 - 55.) [Ship; Disaster.]
Davidson,
G.O., Appendix No. 1854 - 60. P. 213. Letter on the wreck at
Tomales Bay, California, of a vessel carrying Coast Survey instruments
and camp equipage, under charge of Assistant James S. Lawson.
[Ship; Disaster.]
Alden,
J.M., Appendix No. 1854 - 61. P. 214. Letter on his search,
by owner's request, for the SEA BIRD, disabled near Ano Nuevo.
[Ship; Assistance Rendered.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 62. Pp. 214-215. Letters of thanks for facilities
afforded at California drydock to Coast Survey Steamer ACTIVE.
[Ship.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 63. Pp. 215-216. Table of recommendations
in regard to aids to navigation. [Lighthouse.]
Woodhull, M., and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 64. Pp. 216-217. Alden's Reef light-boat and fog-bell.
Letters on the location of a light-boat and fog-bell near Alden's
Reef, Portland, Maine. [Lighthouse.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1854 - 65. P. 217. Letter on an additional
beacon for Romer Shoal, New York Harbor. [Lighthouse.]
Stevens, T.H., and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 66. Pp. 218-219. Letters on an examination for a
light-house site, Anacapa Island, California. [Lighthouse.]
Alden,
J.M., Stevens, T.H., Harrison, A.M.,
and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1854 - 67. Pp. 219-221. Letter relative to
a light-house at Point Ano Nuevo or at Santa Cruz, California.
[Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1854 - 68. Pp. 221-222. Table of results of examinations
for sites of light-houses, beacons, buoys, etc., made by Coast
Survey at the request of the Light-house Board. [Lighthouse.]
Craven,
T.A.M., and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 69. Pp. 223-224. Letters on examinations for light-house
sites of Noddle's Island, Castine, Eggemoggin Reach, Isle au
Haut Thoroughfare, Tenant's Harbor, and Dry Point, Damariscotta
River, Maine. [Lighthouse.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1854 - 70. P. 224. Letter on light-house
examination at Nubble of Cape Neddick, York Harbor, Maine. [Lighthouse.]
Stellwagen, H.S., and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 71. Pp. 225-227. Letters on examinations of sites
for light-houses at Westport, Massachusetts; Niantic, Black
Point, and Southport, Connecticut; and Race Point and Horton's
Point, New York. [Lighthouse.]
Stellwagen, H.S., and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 72. P. 227. Letters on an examination of Pine Island
and vicinity, Fishers Island Sound, relative to placing a fog
signal there. [Lighthouse.]
Jenkins, T.A., Meade, G., and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1854 - 73. Letters relative to the reconnaissance of Coffins
Patches, Florida reef. [Lighthouse.]
Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. (Not Numbered) - 1854. Pp. 230-279. Consolidated
alphabetical index of the annual Coast Survey Reports from 1844
to 1853 inclusive. [Index.]
Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. (Not Numbered) - 1854. Pp. 280-285. Index
of sketches contained in the annual Coast Survey reports for
1844 to 1853 inclusive. [Index.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 1. Pp. 105-112. Distribution of Coast Survey
parties upon the U.S. coast, during the surveying season 1854
-'55. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 2. P. 112. List of army officers on Coast
Survey duty, March 1 and September 1, 1855. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 3. P. 113. List of navy officers on Coast
Survey duty, March 1, 1855. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 3, bis. Pp. 113-114. List of naval
officers on Coast Survey September 1, 1855. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 4. Pp.114-115. List of assistant engineers
U.S. navy, on Coast Survey duty, March 1, 1855. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 4, bis. P. 115. List of assistant
engineers U.S. navy, on Coast Survey duty, September 1, 1855.
[List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 5. Pp. 115- 116. List of information furnished
by the Coast Survey in reply to special calls. [List; Miscellaneous.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 6. P. 117. List of capes, headlands, islands,
harbors, and anchorages, on the Western coast of the United
States, of which the geographic positions have been determined,
topographical surveys, charts, or sketches made to date of report
of 1855. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 7. P. 118. Results of Coast survey at different
periods, from 1844 to 1854. [Statistics; List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 8. Pp. 119-148. List of latitudes, longitudes,
azimuths, and distances of stations, with introductory notes.
(Continued from the Coast Survey reports of 1851 and 1853.)
[List; Data Report; Geographic
Positions.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 9. Pp. 148-152. General list of Coast Survey
Discoveries and Developments to 1855, inclusive. [List.]
Davis, C.H., Appendix No. 1855 - 10. Pp. 152-153.
Rocks in Boston Harbor. Letter giving information on and on
questions touching the accuracy of hydrographic surveys. [Hydrography.]
Rodgers,
C.R.P. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1855 - 11. P. 153. Letter communicating discovery of shoals
south of Nantucket light-boat. [Hydrography.]
Craven,
T.A.M. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1855 - 12. Pp. 153-154. Letter communicating discovery and
position of shoal in New York Harbor. [Hydrography.]
Almy, J.J. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1855 - 13. P. 154. Letters communicating the discovery and
character of a shoal on York Spit, Chesapeake Bay. [Hydrography.]
Wainwright, R., Appendix No. 1855 - 14. P. 155.
Report on character of bars on Rappahannock River. [Hydrography.]
Maffitt,
J.N., Appendix No. 1855 - 15. Letter with comparative chart
of his survey of Maffitt's Channel, Charleston Harbor. [Hydrography.]
Totten,
J.B., Appendix No. 1855 - 16. Pp. 157-160. Florida reef screw-pile
beacons. Description of signals. [Hydrography;
Lighthouse.]
Sands,
B.F., Appendix No. 1855 - 17. P. 160. Report on examination
and changes of channel between Pelican and Dauphine Islands,
west of Mobile Entrance. [Hydrography.]
MacRae, A. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1855 - 18. P. 160-161. Letter on the determination of the
position of a dangerous rock on Cortez Bank, southern California.
[Hydrography.]
MacRae, A., and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1855 - 19. P. 161-162. Letter with position, etc., of rock
on which the ship UNCLE SAM struck. [Hydrography.]
Alden,
J.M. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 20. P. 162. Letter communicating discovery
of red sand inside the bar of San Francisco Entrance. (This
was a very important discovery, as it allowed mariners to position
themselves while entering or departing the Golden Gate even
in very poor visibility.) [Hydrography;
Marine Geology.]
Gerdes,
F.H., Appendix No. 1855 - 21. Pp. 162-163. Topography of Manhattan
Island, New York City. [Topography.]
Gilbert,
S.A., Appendix No. 1855 - 22. P. 164. Report on topography executed
on the western and southern sides of Long Island. [Topography.]
Harrison,
A.M., Appendix No. 1855 - 23. Pp. 164-165. Report on topography
on the coast of New Jersey, Raritan Bay to Shrewsbury Inlet.
[Topography;
Shoreline Changes.]
New York Commissioners, Appendix No. 1855 -
24. Pp. 165-171. Documents relating to the resurvey of New York
Harbor for the Commissioners on Harbor Encroachments: resolutions
and correspondence; description of manuscript chart of New York
Harbor, Bay, and approaches; Boschke's remarks on New York Harbor
surveys at different times. [Hydrography;
Topography;
Oceanography;
Social Issues.]
Boschke,
A., Appendix No. 1855 - 24. Pp. 170-171. Remarks on surveys
made at different periods in New York Harbor. [Oceanography; Topography;
Shoreline Changes.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 25. Pp. 171-176. Florida Keys. Survey of
the General Land Office, including reports on the general topography
and triangulation , on the determination of the shore-line ,
and reconnaissance of Barnes Sound, Florida. [Reconnaissance;
Triangulation; Topography.]
Davidson,
G.O., Appendix No. 1855 - 26. Pp. 176-185. Descriptive report
of localities on the western coast, from the north end of Rosario
Strait, Washington Territory, to the southern boundary of California.
[Coast Pilot; Geography;
History.]
Trowbridge, W.P.,
Appendix No. 1855 - 27. Pp. 185-186. Descriptive report of Bodega
Bay and South Farallon. [Topography;
Reconnaissance.]
Johnson,
W.M., Appendix No. 1855 - 28. Pp. 186-188. Descriptive report
of Santa Cruz, valley of San Buenaventura, and coast north of
Santa Barbara Channel. [Topography;
Reconnaissance.]
Alden,
J.M., Appendix No. 1855 - 29. Pp. 188-192. Pp. 188-192. Letter
communicating information concerning Washington Territory; its
coast, harbors, and commerce, and Shoalwater Bay commerce, Puget's
Sound, and Hood's Canal sawmills. [Coast Pilot.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 30. Pp. 193-200. Coast Survey Sailing
Directions. Catalogue of sailing directions, list of dangers,
etc., contents of a collection supplementary to the Coast Survey
reports. Prepared for publication under the direction of the
Superintendent. [Coast Pilot; List.]
Portland Harbor Commissioners, Appendix No.
1855 - 31. Pp. 200-219. First report of commissioners to regulate
the shoreline; second report, concerning inner and outer harbor,
plans and recommendations; the commercial importance of Portland
Harbor (Maine). [Hydrography;
Topography;
Oceanography;
Social Issues.]
Pourtales,
L.F., Appendix No. 1855 - 32. Pp. 220-222. Report on field work
and office work of the Tidal Division and observations received.
[Oceanography; Tides.]
Mitchell,
H., Appendix No. 1855 - 33. Pp. 222-223. Nantucket Sound. Tidal
observations. Interference phenomena. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Trowbridge, W.P.,
Appendix No. 1855 - 34. Pp. 223-227. Report on the tidal and
magnetic observations under his charge on the Western coast.
[Oceanography; Tides; Geophysics;
Magnetism.]
Trowbridge, W.P.,
Appendix No. 1855 - 35. Pp. 227-228. Report of Mr. C.J. W. Russell's
trip to Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, for tide observations.
Extraordinary measures to secure tidal observations in face
of hostile natives. [Oceanography; Tides; History.]
Benham, H.W. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1855 - 37 and 1855 - 38. Letters concerning need for skilled
engravers and the state and needs of the office engraving. [Cartography;
Engraving.]
Office, Appendix No. 1855 - 36. Pp. 228-250.
Reports of Divisions. C.A. Schott on Computing Division; L.F.
Pourtales on Tidal Division; Lieut. J.C. Tidball, U.S.A., on
the Drawing Division; Lieut. J.C. Clark on the Engraving Division;
George Mathiot on the Electrotyping Division; S.D. O'Brien,
printing; V.E. King on publication, distribution, and sale of
maps. [Office.]
Benham, H.W. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1855 - 37 and 1855 - 38. Letters concerning need for skilled
engravers and the state and needs of the office engraving. [Cartography;
Engraving.]
Tidball, J.C., Appendix No. 1855 - 39. Pp. 253-255.
Description of the Congress Map. [Miscellaneous.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1855 - 40. Pp. 255-264. Normal equations.
Solution of normal equations by indirect elimination. [Computations;
Geodesy.]
Boutelle,
C.O., Appendix No. 1855 - 41. Pp. 264 -267. Description of preliminary
base apparatus devised to measure the Savannah and Georgetown
bases. [Instrumentation; Geodesy; Base Line
Measurement.]
Peirce,
B., Appendix No. 1855 - 42. Pp. 267-274. Longitudes. - Report
on the method of determining longitudes by occultations of the
Pleiades. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude; Computations.]
Bond,
W.C., Appendix No. 1855 - 43. Pp. 275-276. Chronometric longitudes.
On moon culminations observed by him, and the chronometric expedition
for determining the longitude difference between Cambridge,
Mass., and Liverpool, England. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Dean,
G.W., Appendix No. 1855 - 44. Pp. 276-278. Description of Wurdemann's
zenith telescope of 1855, used at Dixmont, Me. [Instrumentation.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1855 - 45. Pp. 278-286. Star Catalogs. Comparison
of star places given in Rumker's and the Twelve-Year Catalogues.
Table I -- comparison of right ascensions. Table II -- comparison
of north polar distances. [Geodetic Astronomy; Geodesy; Latitude;
Longitude.]
Gould,
B.A., Appendix No. 1855 - 46. Pp. 286-295. Telegraphic longitudes.
Report on telegraphic operations for difference of longitude
between Columbia, S.C., and Macon, Ga.; program of telegraphic
campaign; for instrumental corrections and longitude reductions;
battery memoranda; to put up Bessel's clock. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude; Instrumentation; Computations.]
Bache,
A.D. and Hilgard,
J.E., Appendix No. 1855 - 47. Pp. 295-306. Table of magnetic
declinations in geographical order from Coast Survey observations.
Discussion of magnetic declination: (1) Northern part of the
Gulf of Mexico; (2) Atlantic coast; (3) Pacific coast. [Geophysics;
Magnetism; Data
Report.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1855 - 48. Pp. 306-337. (1717-1855) Secular
variation in the magnetic declination. Discussion of the secular
change in the magnetic declination at sixteen locations on the
Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States and Havana, Cuba.
[Geophysics;
Magnetism; Data
Report; History.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1855 - 49 P. 337. (1855) Magnetic observations.
Results for declination, dip, and horizontal intensity, at sixteen
eastern stations, July to September, 1855. [Geophysics;
Magnetism; Data
Report.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 50. Pp. 338-342. Pacific cotidal lines.
Tide stations on the western coast of the United States; data
for cotidal lines; cotidal hours; cotidal groups; discussion
of the middle group between Cape Mendocino and Point Conception.
Chart of cotidal lines. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 51. Pp. 342-346. Earthquake waves,
Pacific Ocean. Notice of earthquake waves observed on newly
installed self-registering tide gauges on the western coast
of the United States; December 23 and 25, 1854; computation
of ocean depth. (This remarkable appendix derives a relatively
accurate oceanic depth between Japan and the Pacific coast of
the United States. Bache computed tsunami velocities as well
as depth of the ocean. Without the new technology of the self-registering
tide gauge, the necessary observations would not have been made.)
[Oceanography; Tides; Geophysics;
Seismology.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 52. Pp. 346-347. Gulf of Mexico tides.
Observations and type curves at the several stations, showing
their decomposition into diurnal and semidiurnal tides. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 53. Pp. 347-359. Tide tables for the
use of navigators. (These tables represented an early experiment
in co-operation between private industry and Government as they
were prepared for publication by the nautical firm of E. &
G.W. Blunt.) [Oceanography; Tides.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 54. P. 359. Bottle paper. Current bottle
card thrown over near Sandy Hook and picked up at the bar at
Santa Cruz, one of the Western Islands. [Oceanography; Currents.]
Bailey,
J.W., Appendix No. 1855 - 55. P. 360. Gulf stream bottoms. On
the characteristics of some bottoms from the Cape Florida Gulf
Stream section. [Oceanography; Gulf
Stream; Marine Geology.]
Sands,
B.F., Appendix No. 1855 - 56. P. 361. Specimen box. Instrument
for procuring specimens of bottoms in sounding. [Hydrography;
Instrumentation; Marine Geology.]
Boutelle,
C.O., Appendix No. 1855 - 57. Pp. 361-363. Boutelle's tripod
and scaffold. Description of, as constructed and used by him
at the stations of the primary triangulation in section V. [Geodesy; Triangulation;
Instrumentation.]
Farley,
J., Appendix No. 1855 - 58. Pp. 363-364. Farley's signal. Description
and drawing of a convenient signal for observing on secondary
stations. [Geodesy; Triangulation;
Instrumentation.]
Appendix No. 1855 - 59. P. 364. Sands' heliotrope.
Description of a revolving heliotrope devised for geodetic purposes.
[Geodesy; Triangulation;
Instrumentation.]
Sands,
B.F., Appendix No. 1855 - 60. Pp. 365-366. Sand's hydrographic
signal. Description and drawing of his gas-pipe signal used
in the breakers at Dog Island Bar. [Hydrography;
Signals.]
Mathiot,
G., Appendix No. 1855 - 61. Pp. 366-368. Galvanic experiment.
Time required to produce the maximum intensity of a voltaic
current. [Miscellaneous;
Electromechanics.]
Mathiot,
G., Appendix No. 1855 - 62. P. 369. Electrotype art. Improved
method for joining detached plates by electrotyping. [Cartography;
Electromechanics.]
Mathiot,
G., Appendix No. 1855 - 63. Pp. 370-373. Mathiot's branch-circuit
galvanometer. On a method of measuring galvanic currents of
great quantity. [Miscellaneous;
Electromechanics.]
Kohl,
J.G., Appendix No. 1855 - 64. Pp. 374-375. Abstract of a complete
historical account of the progress of discovery on the western
coast of the United States from the earliest period. [History;
Geographical Exploration.]
Blake,
W.P., Appendix No. 1855 - 65. Pp. 376-398. Geological report,
western coast. Observations on the physical geography and geology
of the coast of California, from Bodega Bay to San Diego; physical
geography of the mountain ranges adjoining the coast; geology
of the principal bays and ports from Point Reyes to San Diego.
[Geology; Geographical
Exploration.]
Almy, J.J. and Gibson, A.A., Appendix No. 1855
- 66. Pp. 398-400. Letters giving particulars of Coast Survey
Steamer HETZEL boiler explosion, and its fatal effects. (Six
men died as the result of an explosion of the boiler of the
Steamer HETZEL and the ship was nearly lost.) [Ship; Disaster.]
De Haven, E.J., Appendix No. 1855 - 67. Pp.
400-401. The stranding of the Coast Survey Schooner ARAGO on
the Texas coast. [Ship; Disaster.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 68. Pp. 401-402. Letter of detachment
expressing high appreciation for the services of Major Henry
Prince, U.S.A. [Miscellaneous.]
Alden,
J.M. and Prince, H., Appendix No. 1855 - 69. Letter of Lieut.
Comdg. J. Alden, and order by Major Henry Prince, relative to
the rescue of the shipwrecked command of Major Prince on the
Oregon Coast. [Ship; Assistance Rendered.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 70. Pp. 403-404. Aids to navigation recommended
in reports of Coast Survey assistants. [List; Lighthouse.]
Almy, J.J., Appendix No. 1855 - 71. P. 404.
Letter recommending a light or day-beacon on York Spit, Chesapeake
Bay. [Lighthouse.]
Craven,
T.A.M. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1855 - 72. P. 405. Letters on aids to navigation for the
Eastern coast and reefs of Florida. [Lighthouse.]
De Haven, E.J. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1855 - 73. P. 406. Letters on aids to navigation in Matagorda
Bay, Texas. [Lighthouse.]
Johnson,
W.M. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 74. Pp. 406-407. Superintendent's
letter on W.M. Johnson's report on the facilities and advantages
of Pigeon Point for a light. [Lighthouse.]
Alden,
J., Stevens, I.I., Hunt,
J.M., and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1855 - 75. Pp. 407-408. Letters on the necessity of a light
at Point Wilson, Admiralty Inlet, Washington Territory. [Lighthouse.]
Davidson,
G.O. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 76. Pp. 409-410. Letter of the Superintendent
and report of George Davidson relative to light-houses and other
aids to navigation on the western coast. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1855 - 77. Pp. 410-411. Results of examinations
for light-houses, beacons, buoys, etc. [Lighthouse.]
Craven,
T.A.M. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1855 - 78. Pp. 411-412. Letter of Superintendent with results
of T.A.M. Craven on examination for light-house sites at Wood
Island and Kennebunk, Maine. [Lighthouse.]
Woodhull, M. Appendix No. 1855 - 79. P. 412.
Report on examination of Absecom Inlet, New Jersey, for the
location of a bell-buoy. [Lighthouse.]
Sands,
B.F. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 80. P. 413. Letters on the expediency
of discontinuing the light at Vermilion Bay, Louisiana. [Lighthouse.]
Sands,
B.F. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 81. Pp. 413-414. Letters on an examination
made relative to the necessity of a light at the entrance of
Calcasieu River, Louisiana. [Lighthouse.]
De Haven, E.J. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1855 - 82. Pp. 414-415. Letters on an examination relative
to the expediency of a light at Gallinipper Point, Lavacca Bay,
Texas. [Lighthouse.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 83. Pp. 415-417. Letter with results
of examinations for light-house sites, California and Washington
Territory coasts. [Lighthouse.]
MacRae, A. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1855 - 84. P. 417. Letter of Superintendent on the progress
of the re-examination of Santa Cruz Island, California. [Lighthouse.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 85. P. 417-418. Letter with results
of examinations for light-house sites at Crescent City and Trinidad
Bay. [Lighthouse.]
Alden,
J.M. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1855 - 86. P. 418. Letter of Superintendent
with results of examinations relative to sites for light-houses
on the Western Coast. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 1. Pp. 92-100. Distribution of parties on
the coast during the surveying season 1855 -'56. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 2 and 1856 - 2, bis. P. 101. Army
officers on Coast Survey duty, March 1 and September 1, 1856.
[List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 3. P. 102. Navy officers on Coast Survey
duty, March 1, 1856. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 3, bis. P. 103. Navy officers on
Coast Survey September 1, 1856. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 4. P.103. Assistant engineers U.S. navy,
on Coast Survey duty, March 1, 1856. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 4, bis. P. 104. Assistant engineers
U.S. navy, on Coast Survey duty, September 1, 1856. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 5. Pp. 104- 106. Titles of tracings and
data furnished by the Coast Survey in reply to special calls.
[List; Miscellaneous.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 6. Pp. 106-107. Capes, headlands, islands,
anchorages, etc., on the Pacific coast of the United States,
of which the geographic positions have been determined, topographical
surveys, charts, or sketches made to date of report of 1855.
[List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 7. P. 118. Results of Coast survey at different
periods, from 1844 to 1854. [Statistics; List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 8. Pp. 148-152. General list of Coast Survey
Discoveries and Developments to 1856, inclusive. [List.]
Trenchard, S.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 9. Pp.
113-114. Report on position of rock struck on by Steamer DANIEL
WEBSTER in Casco Bay, Maine, and recommendation for buoy. [Hydrography;
Lighthouse.]
Stellwagen, H.S., Appendix No. 1856 - 10. P.
114. Letter communicating the discovery of Stellwagen Reef and
detached rocks in Massachusetts Bay. [Hydrography.]
Stellwagen, H.S., Appendix No. 1856 - 11. P.
115. Letter communicating discovery of new shoals off Nantucket
and recommendation for buoy. [Hydrography;
Lighthouse.]
Rodgers,
C.R.P., Appendix No. 1856 - 12. Pp. 115-116. Letter communicating
the result of a minute examination of Edwards Shoal and sand
ridges near Great Point. [Hydrography.]
Whiting,
H.L., Appendix No. 1856 - 13. Pp. 116-117. Report on re-survey
and development of changes in beach and shoreline of Muskeget
Channel. [Topography.]
Maffitt,
J.N., Appendix No. 1856 - 14. P. 118. Re-examination of North
Edisto Bar, South Carolina. [Hydrography.]
Maffitt,
J.N., Appendix No. 1856 - 15. P. 118. Letter communicating notice
of discovery of channel through Martins Industry Shoal, South
Carolina. [Hydrography.]
Anonymous,
Appendix no. 1856 - 16. P. 119. Letter communicating remarks
by commanders of Pacific Coast Steamers on the services to navigation
rendered by Commander James Alden in developing the extent of
red sand as marking the locality of the San Francisco Bar. (Included
in this appendix is a remarkable letter from Captain W.H. Dall
detailing his navigation into San Francisco Bay in a period
of extremely limited visibility.) [Hydrography.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 17. Pp. 120-133. Tide tables for the
use of navigators. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 18. Pp. 133-137. Depths in channel entrances
of harbors, rivers, ports, and anchorages on the coasts of the
United States. [Hydrography;
Coast
Pilot; List.]
Office, Appendix No. 1856 - 19. Pp. 137-163.
Reports of Divisions. C.A. Schott on Computing Division; L.F.
Pourtales on Tidal Division; Lieut. J.C. Tidball, U.S.A., on
the Drawing Division; Lieut. Rufus Saxton on the Engraving Division;
George Mathiot on the Electrotyping Division; S.D. O'Brien,
printing; V.E. King on publication, distribution, and sale of
maps. [Office.]
Gould,
B.A., Appendix No. 1856 - 20. Pp. 163-166. Telegraphic longitudes.
Operations for difference of longitude between Wilmington, N.C.,
and Montgomery, Ala., with list of stars for observation. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude; List.]
Dean,
G.W., Appendix No. 1856 - 21. Pp. 167-181. Telegraphic method
of determining differences of longitude. Details of the methods
used by the Coast Survey for telegraphic determinations of difference
of longitude; transit instrument; astronomical clock; chronographic
register; batteries; list of stars arranged from the British
Association Catalogue for determining the difference of longitude
between Macon, Ga., and Montgomery, Ala., March, 1856; exchange
of star signals; reading off the chronographic sheets; example
of reduction; observations for determining the inequality of
the pivots of Coast Survey transit No. 8; personal equations.
(This appendix is among the first full descriptions of what
was known as the "American Method" of longitude determination.
Although William Dean was not among the developers of the method,
he worked continuously making field observations almost from
the inception of the method and was active in developing refined
field techniques for Coast Survey longitude determinations.)
[Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Instrumentation; Longitude.]
Bond,
W.C., Appendix No. 1856 - 22. P. 181. Chronometric and astronomical
longitudes. On longitude computations and occultations observed;
lunar spot transits. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude; Computations.]
Bond,
W.C., Appendix No. 1856 - 23. Pp. 182-191. Chronometric results.
Results of the longitude expeditions of 1849, 1850, 1851, and
1855 for difference of longitude between Cambridge, Mass., and
Liverpool, England; table of longitudes by voyages of 1855.
[Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Peirce,
B., Appendix No. 1856 - 24. Pleiades . - On the determination
of longitude by occultations of the Pleiades; formulas for the
correction of the coordinates of the stars; table for 1840;
table of logarithms for h and k for the principal
observatories. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude; Computations.]
Peters,
C.H.F., Appendix No. 1856 - 25. Pp. 198-203. Lunar-spot transits.
On the substitution of lunar spots for the moon's limb in observing
culminations. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Davidson,
G.O., Appendix No. 1856 - 26. Pp. 203-208. Occultations on the
western coast. Observations made at Port Townsend, Wash. Ter.,
April and May, 1856; tables and remarks. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Hilgard,
J.E., Appendix No. 1856 - 27. Pp. 208-209. Azimuth. Method of
using the transit instrument for azimuth observations; form
of record and reduction. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Azimuth.]
Bache,
A.D. and Hilgard,
J.E., Appendix No. 1856 - 28. Pp. 209-225. (1839-1855.) Terrestrial
magnetism. A. D. Bache and J.E. Hilgard. Discussion relative
to its distribution in the United States. Methods and sources
used; corrections for secular variation; construction of maps;
comparison of maps for declination, dip, and intensity; supplementary
note on Mexican observations; Table I, Atlantic Gulf and Pacific
coast sections; Table II, near parallel 35o, Whipple's expedition;
III, from various new sources -- lakes, territories, Panama;
IV, residual differences between the Coast Survey observations,
reduced to 1850, and the values obtained from the accompanying
map. [Geophysics;
Magnetism; Data
Report.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1856 - 29. P. 226. Magnetic observations.
Methods used in observations of the present year; Magnet H.
[Geophysics;
Magnetism; Instrumentation.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1856 - 30. P. 227. (1856.) Magnetic elements.
Results of observations for declination, dip, and intensity
at stations in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. [Geophysics;
Magnetism; Data
Report.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1856 - 31. Pp. 228-235. (1792-1855.) Secular
change of declination; Western coast. List of magnetic declinations
observed on the western coast from the earliest to the present
ones, arranged in order of geographical latitudes. Annual change
at San Diego, San Pedro, Monterey, San Francisco, Cape Mendocino,
and Cape Disappointment. [Geophysics;
Magnetism; Data
Report; List; History.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1856 - 32. Pp. 235-245. (1780-1855.) Secular
change of inclination; at eleven Atlantic coast locations from
Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Baltimore, Maryland. Also includes
data from Toronto, Canada. Includes: geographical positions
and number of dip observations; formula for each station; probable
error, epoch of minimum dip, and annual variation in current
year. [Geophysics;
Magnetism; Data
Report; Error Analysis; Computations; History.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1856 - 33. Pp. 246-249. (1790-1855.) Secular
change of inclination; Western coast. Approximate determination
of the secular change of inclination determined at San Diego,
San Pedro, Monterey, San Francisco, Cape Mendocino, and Cape
Disappointment. [Geophysics;
Magnetism; Data
Report; History.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 34. Pp. 249-251. Prediction tables.
Notes on the progress made in their preparation with reference
to tides of Boston harbor. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 35. Pp. 252-260. Cotidal lines, Gulf
of Mexico. Discussion and preliminary determination; diurnal
waves; stations; diurnal intervals; tide elements of the stations;
semidiurnal tides; comparison of establishments of diurnal and
semidiurnal tides in the Gulf of Mexico. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 36. Pp. 260-261. Type curves, Gulf of Mexico.
Descriptive references to Sketch No. 38, representing the decomposition
of curves of observation. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Mitchell,
H., Appendix No. 1856 - 37. Pp. 261-263. Interference tides.
On observations made in Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard Sounds.
[Oceanography; Tides.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 38. Pp. 263-264. Tidal currents at
Sandy Hook. Notes on the causes of northwardly increase of the
peninsula. [Oceanography; Tides; Currents;
Topography;
Shoreline Changes.]
Mitchell,
H., Appendix No. 1856 - 39. Pp. 264-266. New York Harbor and
dependencies. On tidal and current observations made in New
York Harbor, city docks, Newark Bay, and the Kills. [Oceanography; Tides; Currents.]
Wurdemann,
G., Appendix No. 1856 - 40. Pp. 266-267. Hudson River, tidal
observations made between Albany and New York City. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Pourtales,
L.F., Appendix No. 1856 - 41. Pp. 267-269. General report on
the Coast Survey tidal observations made during the year. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Trowbridge, W.P.,
Appendix No. 1856 - 42. Pp. 269-270. Concluding report on being
relieved from Coast Survey duty on the Pacific Coast. [Oceanography; Tides; Geophysics;
Magnetism.]
Pourtales,
L. F. , Appendix No. 1856 - 43. Pp. 271-272. Winds of Albemarle
Sound. Discussion of their effect upon the tide. [Oceanography; Tides; Meteorology.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 44. Pp. 272-276. Winds in the Gulf
of Mexico. Discussion relative to the disturbance caused in
the intervals of successive tides at several stations on the
Gulf Coast. Observations at Key West, Fort Morgan, Ala., and
Galveston, Tex. [Oceanography; Tides; Meteorology.]
Dean,
G.W., Appendix No. 1856 - 45. Pp. 276-278. Winds and tides of
Cat Island Harbor. Results deduced by G.W. Dean from observations
made by G. Wurdemann and R. T. Bassett. [Oceanography; Tides; Meteorology.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 46. Pp. 279-280. Cards from current bottles.
Picked up on the shore of Loggerhead Key, Fla. And on the North
Caicos, Bahamas. [Oceanography; Currents.]
New York Commissioners, Appendix No. 1856 -
47. Pp. 280-281. Correspondence with the Commissioners on Harbor
Encroachments, and resolutions adopted in reference to completion
of the re-survey. [Hydrography;
Topography;
Oceanography;
Social Issues.]
Boschke,
A., Appendix No. 1856 - 48. Pp. 281-282. Comparative maps, New
York Harbor. Method of survey. [Topography;
Shoreline Changes.]
Trenchard, S.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 49. Pp.
282-283. Report on the results of hydrographic survey of Brunswick
Harbor, Georgia. [Hydrography.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 50. P. 284. Letter communicating results
of hydrographic survey of Fernandina Harbor, Florida. [Hydrography.]
Harrison,
A.M., Appendix No. 1856 - 51. Pp. 284-286. Report on concluding
the topographical survey of St. John's River, Florida. [Topography.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 52. Pp. 286-289. Report of the Superintendent
to the Commissioner of the General land Office on progress made
in survey and marking in quarter sections of the Florida keys.
[Geodesy; Reconnaissance.]
Harrison,
A.M., Appendix No. 1856 - 53. Pp. 289-290. Report on topographical
reconnaissance of Waccassa and Crystal Rivers, Florida. [Topography;
Reconnaissance.]
Duer, J.K., Appendix No. 1856 - 54. P. 290.
Crystal River offing. Letter containing suggestions in regard
to entering Crystal River. [Coast Pilot; Hydrography.]
McCorkle, S.C., Appendix No. 1856 - 55. P. 291.
Report with remarks on the local features and facilities of
St. Marks and Apalachicola, Florida. [Coast Pilot; Commerce.]
Hilgard,
J.E., Appendix No. 1856 - 56. Pp. 291-292. Mississippi sound.
Details of the work of triangulation; signals and station marks.
[Geodesy; Triangulation.]
Goldsborough, H.A., Appendix No. 1856 - 57.
Pp. 293-295. Communication regarding local resources of Washington
Territory. [Coast Pilot; Commerce.]
Hilgard,
J.E., Appendix No. 1856 - 58. Pp. 296-307. Projection tables.
Table applicable to the projection of maps of large extent and
minimum distortion in presented area; method; earth's dimensions;
Table I, of coordinates for projecting the points of intersection
of meridians and parallels; II, length , in meters, of one degree
of latitude and longitude from latitude 20o to 54o; values of
the corresponding radii of the developed parallel, and angles
at each pole for 10o of longitude; III, tables for converting
measures (A) of meters into statute miles; (B) of statute miles
into meters; (C) of meters into yards; (D) of yards into meters;
(E) of yards into miles; IV, length of a degree of the meridian
in nautical and statute miles for each fifth degree of latitude
between 20o and 50o; V, length of a degree of longitude for
each degree of latitude from 19o to 54o, expressed in nautical
and statue miles; VI, radii and polyconic development of a sphere
with radius = 1. [Cartography;
Projections.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1856 - 59. Pp. 307-308. Probable error. Article
from "Astronomische Nachrichten, No. 1034," translated by C.A.
Schott. [Miscellaneous;
Computations.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 60. Pp. 308 -310. Subsidiary base apparatus.
Description of a modification devised for ascertaining the temperature
of rods in use. [Instrumentation; Geodesy; Base Line
Measurement.]
Hilgard,
J.E., Appendix No. 1856 - 61. Pp. 310-316. Theodolite test.
Examination and trials made of a 10-inch theodolite, applicable
to the testing of instruments of like construction. [Instrumentation;
Geodesy.]
Mathiot,
G., Appendix No. 1856 - 62. Pp. 316-317. Electrotypes. On the
result of experiments made in printing from thin plates. [Cartography;
Printing; Electromechanics.]
Gibbs,
W., Appendix No. 1856 - 63. Pp. 317-318. Analysis of sea water.
Chemical analysis of the water of New York Harbor. [Oceanography; Miscellaneous.]
Gibbs,
W., Appendix No. 1856 - 64. Pp. 318-319. Analysis of sands from
base-sites near east and south coasts of Florida. Examination
of specimens of sand taken from the base-sites at Cape Florida
and Cape Sable. [Geology; Miscellaneous.]
Kohl,
J.G., Appendix No. 1856 - 65. Pp. 319-322. Annals of discovery
on the Atlantic coast. Abstract of a history of the progress
of discovery on the Atlantic coast of the United States. [History;
Geographical Exploration.]
Kohl,
J.G., Appendix No. 1856 - 66. Pp. 322-324. Annals of discovery,
Gulf of Mexico. Abstract of a memoir on the discovery and geographical
development of the shores of the Gulf of Mexico within the limits
of the United States. [History; Geographical Exploration.]
Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. 1856 - 67. Pp. 325-330. Index of scientific
subjects. Report of the plan adopted and progress made in its
preparation. [Index.]
Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. 1856 - 68. Pp. 331-333. Abbreviations of
scientific terms with suggestions for securing uniformity in
scientific references. On systematizing the abbreviations of
titles of periodicals, transactions, etc. [Index.]
Trenchard, S.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 69. Pp.
333-335. Correspondence relative to the rescue of the British
bark ADIEU by the Coast Survey Steamer VIXEN. [Ship; Assistance Rendered.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 70. Pp. 335-340. Letter transmitting
report of the commission called to investigate the causes which
led to the explosion of the port boiler of the Coast Survey
Steamer HETZEL in 1855. [Ship; Disaster.]
Harrison,
A.M., Appendix No. 1856 - 71. Pp. 341-342. Report detailing
the actions of sailing-master P.R. Hawley of the Coast Survey
Schooner BENJAMIN PEIRCE in saving his vessel and others from
the drift of the burning steamer SEMINOLE. [Ship; Disaster; Assistance
Rendered.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 72. P. 343. Correspondence concerning
the transfer of Coast Survey parties from sections of the Florida
Peninsula subject to Indian hostilities. [Miscellaneous.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 73. Pp. 343-345. Correspondence detailing
the actions of Lieut. Comdg. J.M. Alden, Coast Survey Steamer
ACTIVE, in assisting War Department in resisting Indian depredations
in Washington Territory. [Ship; Assistance Rendered.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 74. Pp. 345-346. Letter acknowledging
services of Captain A.A. Gibson, U.S.A., upon detachment from
Coast Survey. [Miscellaneous.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 75. Pp. 346-347. Letter acknowledging
services of Captain W. R. Palmer, U.S. Topographical Engineer,
upon his relief from Coast Survey duty. (William Palmer was
among Bache's closest personal friends although he is never
mentioned as a member of Bache's inner circle of colleagues
known at one time as the Lazzaroni. Bache roomed with Palmer
when Bache was assigned as a professor at West Point and while
Palmer was a civilian employee of the West Point Foundry. It
is unclear how Palmer attained his commission as he was not
a graduate of West Point.) [Miscellaneous.]
Secretary of the Treasury, Appendix No. 1856
- 76. P. 347. Letter relative to the detail of Lieutenant Otway
Berryman, U.S.N., Assistant in the Coast Survey, for special
duty under orders of the Secretary of the Navy, on the Steamer
ARCTIC. (Berryman's duty in the ARCTIC culminated in a continuation
of the Coast Survey feud with Matthew Fontaine Maury, as Berryman
sounded the North Atlantic and found significantly deeper depths
than found on Maury's supposed Telegraphic Plateau.) [Miscellaneous.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1856 - 77. Pp. 347-348 . Letter to Colonel
R.E. De Russy in relation to the offer of services by Lieutenant
N.F. Alexander, U.S. Engineers, for maintaining the permanent
tide stations on the Western Coast. [Miscellaneous.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 78. P. 349. Table specifying recommendations
by Assistants in the Coast Survey relative to aids to navigation,
with dates of reference to the Light-House Board. [Lighthouse.]
Stellwagen, H.S. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1856 - 79. Letter of Superintendent transmitting recommendation
for a buoy to mark a shoal north of Davis Bank on Nantucket
Shoals. [Lighthouse.]
Craven,
T.A.M. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1856 - 80. Letter of Superintendent communicating suggestions
in regard to the designation of coastal buoys south of Savannah
River entrance. [Lighthouse.]
Trenchard, S. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1856 - 81. P. 351. Letter of Superintendent communicating
recommendation for buoys on St. Simons Bar, Georgia. [Lighthouse.]
Craven,
T.A.M. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1856 - 82. P. 351. Letter of Superintendent communicating
recommendation for a buoy between Cape Florida and Fowey Rocks.
[Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1856 - 83. P. 352. Results of examinations directed
from the Light-House Board, and made during the year. [Lighthouse.]
Rodgers,
C.R.P. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1856 - 84. Pp. 353-354. Letter of Superintendent transmitting
report on the result of examinations for light-house sites at
Bowers Beach and Old Duck Creek, Delaware Bay. [Lighthouse.]
Berryman, O.H. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1856 - 85. Pp. 354-355. Letter of Superintendent communicating
report in reference to aids for navigation on St. Andrews Bay,
Florida. [Lighthouse.]
MacRae, A. And Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1856 - 86. Pp. 355-356. Letter of Superintendent transmitting
report on examination for a light-house site on the coast at
Santa Barbara Channel. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 1. Pp. 121-129. Distribution of parties
on the coast during the surveying season 1856 -'57. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 2 and 1857 - 2, bis. P.130. Army
officers on Coast Survey duty, March 1 and September 1, 1857.
[List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 3. P. 131-132. Navy officers on Coast Survey
duty, March 1, 1857. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 3, bis. P. 133. Navy officers on
Coast Survey September 1, 1857. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 4. P.134. Assistant engineers on Coast Survey
duty, March 1, 1857. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 4, bis. P. 134. Assistant engineers
on Coast Survey duty, September 1, 1857. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 5. Pp. 135-136. Titles of tracings and data
furnished by the Coast Survey in reply to special calls. [List;
Miscellaneous.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 6. Pp. 137-139. Western localities included
in Coast Survey operations. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 7. Pp. 140-141. Statistics of Coast Survey
work. [Statistics; List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 8. Pp. 142-147. General list (discoveries
and developments) brought up to 1857, inclusive. [List.]
Temple,
W.G., Appendix No. 1857 - 9. P. 147. Temples Ledge, off Cape
Small Point, Maine. Letter communicating its position and cross
bearings. [Hydrography.]
Whiting,
H.L., Appendix No. 1857 - 10. Pp. 148-149. Report on a resurvey
of Provincetown and East Harbor, Cape Cod, and development of
changes in shoreline. [Topography.]
Rodgers,
C.R.P., Appendix No. 1857 - 11. P. 149. Letter relative to the
gradual decrease in depth of Georges Bank, off Cape Cod peninsula.
[Hydrography.]
Rodgers,
C.R.P., Appendix No. 1857 - 12. P. 150. Letter communicating
approximate position of shoal southwest of little Georges Bank.
[Hydrography.]
Temple,
W.G., Appendix No. 1857 - 13. Pp. 150-151. Depths at Hell Gate
on several rocks determined by the method of sweeping. (This
is a description of using a weighted spar suspended at set depths
by ropes between two boats. The sweeping was done in Hell Gate,
New York Harbor, in conjunction with blasting operations over
Pot Rock and other obstructions. This is an early reference
to the method that ultimately evolved into wiredrag and wiresweep.)
[Hydrography;
Instrumentation.]
Temple,
W.G., Appendix No. 1857 - 14. P. 151. Report on wreck in New
York Bay as a danger to navigation. [Hydrography.]
Muse, W.T., Appendix No. 1857 - 15. Pp. 151-152.
Report on changes in the bars of Hatteras and Ocracoke Inlets,
North Carolina. [Hydrography.]
Rodgers,
C.R.P., Appendix No. 1857 - 16. Pp. 152-153. Beaufort Harbor,
North Carolina. Present condition of bar and anchorage. [Hydrography.]
Maffitt,
J.N., Appendix No. 1857 - 17. Pp. 153-155. Cape Fear entrances,
North Carolina. Report showing the results of comparison between
the surveys of 1851 and 1856. [Hydrography.]
Trenchard, S.D., Appendix No. 1857 - 18. P.
156. Report on development of shoal in Amelia River, Florida.
[Hydrography.]
Davidson,
G.O., Appendix No. 1857 - 19. P. 156-157. Report of discovery
and approximate position of Allens Bank, Washington Territory.
[Hydrography.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1857 - 20. Pp. 157-158. Tide tables for the
use of navigators. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 21. Pp. 178-184. Depths in channel entrances
of harbors, rivers, ports, and anchorages on the coasts of the
United States. [Hydrography;
Coast
Pilot.]
Smith, M.L., Appendix No. 1857 - 22. Pp. 185-222.
Report of Assistant in charge of Coast Survey office. Includes
reports by C.A. Schott on Computing Division; L.F. Pourtales
on Tidal Division; Lieut. J.C. Tidball, U.S.A., on the Drawing
Division; Lieut. Rufus Saxton on the Engraving Division; George
Mathiot on the Electrotyping Division; Lt. A.P. Hill, printing;
V.E. King on publication, distribution, and sale of maps. [Office.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 23 and 1857 - 24. Pp. 223-264. List of topographic
and hydrographic sheets, showing their titles, dates, scales,
and registered numbers, as filed in the office. (Encompassed
in this listing are many of the first accurate surveys of much
of the United States coastline from Maine to Mexico on the Atlantic
and Gulf coasts and from San Diego to Puget Sound on the Pacific
coast.) [Data
Report; List; Topography;
Hydrography.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 25. Pp. 264-301. List of geographical positions.
[Data Report; Geographic
Positions; List.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1857 - 26. Pp. 302-305. Epping Base, Maine.
Notes on the preparation of site, measurement of line, and progress,
as compared with other measurements of the Coast Survey. (This
base line was the last to be measured by Bache and the first
to be measured on irregular ground.) [Geodesy; Methods;
Base Line Measurement.]
Gould,
B.A., Appendix No. 1857 - 27. Pp. 305-310. Telegraphic longitudes.
On the progress made in the different campaigns. List of time-stars
adopted; difficulties and discrepancies of transmission for
signals between Wilmington, N.C., and Columbia, S.C. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; List; Longitude; Instrumentation.]
Bond,
W.C., Appendix No. 1857 - 28. Pp. 310-311. Moon culminations.
On the number observed during the year at Cambridge, cooperative
with those on the Pacific side; star occultation photographs;
connection with Quebec. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Peirce,
B., Appendix No. 1857 - 29. Pp. 311-314. Longitude methods.
On the relative precision of determinations by occultations
and solar eclipses; upon the use of solar eclipses; upon the
occultations of the Pleiades. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1857 - 30. Pp. 314-324. Chronometric determination
of the difference of longitude between Savannah, Ga., and Fernandina,
Fla., and discussion of the method. Alexander Dallas Bache and
Charles Anton Schott. Chronometers used; personal equation;
temperature compensation; chronometer comparisons - table; stationary
and traveling rates; tables of comparison and discussion. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1857 - 31. Pp. 324-334. Latitude. - On the
method of determination with the zenith telescope. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1857 - 32. Pp. 334-342. Magnetism. Reports
upon the gradual loss of magnetism of the several magnets in
use in the Survey of the Coast. Account of magnets: S 8, C 32,
C 9, D, C 6, H, and Smithsonian magnet used in 1855. [Geophysics;
Magnetism; Instrumentation.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1857 - 33. Pp. 342-347. Atlantic coast tides.
Generalization of heights relative to the configuration of the
coast. Heights of tides on the Atlantic coast of the United
States and on the coast of Cape Breton and New Brunswick. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Pourtales,
L.F., Appendix No. 1857 - 34. Pp. 348-350. General report on
the Coast Survey tidal operations during the year. [Oceanography; Tides.]
Mitchell,
H., Appendix No. 1857 - 35. Pp. 350-354. Tides and currents
in the Nantucket and Vineyard Sounds and in the East River.
Hell Gate and vicinity, tides and currents; Hudson River levelings;
Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard sounds, tides and currents. [Oceanography; Tides; Currents.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1857 - 36. Pp. 354-358. Winds on the western
coast. Tables for deducing from the three daily observations
the mean of the quantities of wind for Astoria, San Francisco,
and San Diego. Includes wind statistics. [Meteorology.]
Advisory Council to Commissioners of New York
Harbor, Appendix No. 1857 - 37. Pp. 358-373. Report transmitting
the comparative map of the harbor and bay, with extracts from
a report of Mr. A. Boschke. Physical causes of change: (1) Changes
at Sandy Hook; (2) northern side of entrance, Coney Island and
south shore of Long Island; (3) New York bar; (4) New York upper
bay; (5) Newark Bay; (6) Hudson River; (7) East River to Throgs
Neck; statistical extracts. [Oceanography; Tides; Currents;
Hydrography;
Shoreline Changes; Topography;
Social Issues.]
Boschke,
A., Appendix No. 1857 - 38. Report on progress on Commissioners'
Map of New York Harbor. [Hydrography;
Topography.]
Evans, A.W., Appendix No. 1857 - 39. Pp. 374-377.
Report on a reconnaissance for base sites on Sapelo Island,
Georgia. [Geodesy; Base Line
Measurement; Reconnaissance.]
Harrison,
A.M., Appendix No. 1857 - 40. P. 377-379. Plane table survey
of a base line site on Cumberland Island, Georgia. [Topography.]
Simpson,
J.H., Appendix No. 1857 - 41. Pp. 379-382. Florida Peninsula
airline. Report of a reconnaissance between Fernandina and Cedar
Keys. By Captain James H. Simpson, United States Topographical
Engineers and Assistant in the Coast Survey. (Air-line refers
to an overland route for the primary triangulation across the
Florida Peninsula. The goal was to extend primary triangulation
to the West Coast of Florida without following hundreds of miles
of coast line. This line was the first major incursion of the
triangulation into the interior of the country.) [Reconnaissance;
Triangulation.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1857 - 42. Pp. 382-390. Florida Keys. Superintendent's
report to Commissioner of General Land Office on progress made
in survey and marking of the keys. [Geodesy; Reconnaissance.]
Johnson,
W.M., Appendix No. 1857 - 43. Pp. 390 - 391. Report on the topographical
characteristics of the coast of Santa Barbara Channel. [Reconnaissance;
Topography.]
Greenwell,
W.E., Appendix No. 1857 - 44. Pp. 391-395. Report on the character
and progress of the work on the Santa Barbara Islands and the
mainland. [Geodesy; Triangulation.]
Hilgard,
J.E., Appendix No. 1857 - 45. Pp. 395-398. Base apparatus for
measuring subsidiary lines. [Geodesy; Base Line
Measurement; Instrumentation.]
Sands,
B.F., Appendix No. 1857 - 46. P. 398. Deep-sea sounding apparatus.
Description of a form proposed and used by B. F. Sands. [Oceanography; Deep
Sea Sounding; Instrumentation.]
Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. 1857 - 47. Pp. 398-401. Sounding apparatus.
(The described apparatus was a novel invention by E.B. Hunt
that employed an India rubber bag that was lowered to the bottom.
Pressure changes would determine depths which in turn were automatically
recorded on paper. This was one of the earliest self-recording
depth finding instruments and was one of the earliest to diverge
from "line-and-sinker" technology.) [Hydrography;
Instrumentation.]
Temple,
W. G., Appendix No. 1857 - 48. Pp. 401-402. Experimental soundings
made with Hunt's sounding apparatus. (Experiments were made
with Edward Bissell Hunt's pressure sounding apparatus. This
instrument was an example of an early attempt to devise an operational
sounding device that did not employ "line and sinker" technology.
It also employed an automatic recording device.) [Hydrography;
Instrumentation.]
Trenchard, S.D., Appendix No. 1857 - 49. Pp.
402-403. Description of Trenchard's tide gauge. [Oceanography; Tides; Instrumentation.]
Mitchell,
H., Appendix No. 1857 - 50. Pp. 403-404. Mitchell's tide gauge
for deep water. [Oceanography; Tides; Instrumentation.]
Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. 1857 - 51. Pp. 404-414. Index of scientific
references, progress made toward completion. [Index.]
Kohl,
J.G., Appendix No. 1857 - 52. Pp. 414-433. Western coast annals
of maritime discovery and exploration. Report of the method
and scope of a memoir on. [History; Geographical Exploration.]
Greenwell,
W.E., Appendix No. 1857 - 44. Pp. 392-395. Santa Barbara Islands
and main. Report on the character and progress of the work.
[Reconnaissance;
Topography.]
Muse, W. T., Appendix No. 1857 - 53. Pp. 434-436.
Relief of the Ship MANLIUS by the hydrographic party in the
Coast Survey Steamer HETZEL. [Ship; Assistance Rendered.]
Duer, J.K., Appendix No. 1857 - 54. Pp. 436-437.
Providing passage to the crew of the Ship JULIA HOWARD after
the wreck of that vessel in the Bahamas. [Ship; Assistance Rendered.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 55. P. 438. Tabular list of localities for
light-house sites referred for examination. [Lighthouse;
List.]
Rodgers,
C.R.P. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1857 - 56. Pp. 438-439. Letter of Superintendent reporting
the result of an examination made at the Point of Rocks, Westport,
Massachusetts, for a light-house site. [Lighthouse.]
Alden,
J.M. and Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1857 - 57. Pp. 439-440. Letter of Superintendent
communicating the conclusions relative to the expediency of
erecting a light on the adjacent main of Santa Barbara Channel,
California. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 58. Pp. 440-441. Correspondence relative
to the establishment of a light-house and fog-bell at Point
Wilson; and fog-bells at Smith's Island, Rosario Strait, and
New Dungeness, Strait of Fuca, Washington Territory. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1857 - 59. P. 442. Tabular list of recommendations
made during the year by assistants in the Coast Survey relative
to aids to navigation. [Lighthouse;
List.]
Rodgers,
C.R.P. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1857 - 60. P. 442. Letter of Superintendent communicating
the recommendation for a buoy at Flat Ground, Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
[Lighthouse.]
Almy, J.J. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1857 - 61. P. 443. Letter of Superintendent communicating
the recommendation for a buoy at Middle Ground, near Cape Henry,
Virginia. [Lighthouse.]
Rodgers,
C.R.P. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1857 - 62. Pp. 443-444. Letter of Superintendent transmitting
recommendations for buoys to mark a new channel at Beaufort
Harbor, North Carolina. [Lighthouse.]
Trenchard, S.D. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1857 - 63. P. 444. Letter of Superintendent communicating
recommendations for buoys at St. Simons Entrance and St. Marys
River, Georgia. [Lighthouse.]
Trenchard, S.D. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1857 - 64. P. 445. Letter of Superintendent transmitting
a recommendation for an additional buoy at the bar of the St.
Marys River, Georgia. [Lighthouse.]
Craven,
T.A.M. and Bache, A.D., Appendix
No. 1857 - 65. P. 445. Letter of Superintendent communicating
a recommendation for a beacon at Looe Key, Florida reef. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1858 - 1. Pp. 121-130. Distribution of parties
on the coast during the surveying season 1857 -'58. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1858 - 2. P.131. Army officers on Coast
Survey duty, March 1, 1858. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1858 - 3. P.131. Army officers on Coast
Survey duty, September 1, 1858. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1858 - 4. P. 131. Navy officers on Coast Survey
duty, March 1, 1858. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1858 - 5. P. 133. Navy officers on Coast
Survey duty, September 1, 1858. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1858 - 6. Pp. 134-135. Information furnished in
reply to special calls. [List; Miscellaneous.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1858 - 7. Pp. 136-138. Western coast localities
included in Coast Survey operations. [List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1858 - 8. Pp. 139-141. Statistics (revised) of
Coast Survey work. [Statistics; List.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1858 - 9. Pp. 142-148. General list (discoveries
and developments) brought up to 1858, inclusive. [List.]
Murray,
A., Appendix No. 1858 - 10. P. 148. Letter stating the position
with ranges for clearing it while entering the harbor of a rock
off Portsmouth, New Hampshire. [Hydrography.]
Temple,
W.G., Appendix No. 1858 - 11. P. 149. Letter recommending a
buoy to mark the sand spit south of Sunken Ledge, Boston Harbor.
[Hydrography;
Lighthouse.]
Temple,
W.G., Appendix No. 1858 - 12. Letter stating the position, etc.,
of Luddington Rocks, southwest of the lighthouse near New Haven,
Connecticut. [Hydrography.]
Huger,
T.B., Appendix No. 1858 - 13. Pp. 150-151. Cape Fear entrances.
Recent changes in hydrography. [Hydrography.]
Bolles, C.P., Appendix No. 1858 - 14. Pp. 150-151.
Report on alteration to the shoreline of Cape Fear Entrances.
[Topography.]
Huger,
T.B., Appendix No. 1858 - 15. P. 152. Letter communicating the
results of the resurvey of Maffitts Channel, Charleston Harbor.
[Hydrography.]
Duer, J.K., Appendix No. 1858 - 16. Pp. 152-153.
Letter communicating the discovery and development of Dog Island
Channel, St. Georges Sound, Florida. [Hydrography.]
Duer, J.K., Appendix No. 1858 - 17. Pp. 152-153.
Letter communicating the positions of shoals located at the
East and West Passes of St. Georges Sound, Florida. [Hydrography.]
Cuyler, R.M., Appendix No. 1858 - 18. Pp. 154-155.
Letter giving the position and depth of Whiting's Rock and Contra
Costa Reef, San Francisco Bay, California. [Hydrography.]
Palmer, W.R., Appendix No. 1858 - 19. Pp. 185-222.
Report of Assistant in charge of Coast Survey office. Includes
reports by C.A. Schott on Computing Division; L.F. Pourtales
on Tidal Division; Lieut. J.C. Tidball, U.S.A., on the Drawing
Division; Lieut. Rufus Saxton on the Engraving Division; George
Mathiot on the Electrotyping Division; Lt. J.P. Roy, printing,
publication, distribution, and sale of maps. [Office.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1858 - 20. Pp. 184-186. Personal equation.
On the use of the zenith telescope for determining latitude
by Talcott's method - table showing results of observations
for personal equations. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Error Analysis.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1858 - 21. Pp. 186-189. Method of computing from
moon culminations; notes on observations of moon culminations;
forms and example. [Geodetic Astronomy; Longitude; Computations.]
Bond,
W.C., Appendix No. 1858 - 22. P. 189. Occultations and star
transits made for the Coast Survey at the Harvard Observatory.
[Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Mitchel,
O.M., Mitchel,
O.M., Appendix No. 1858 - 23. P. 190. Moon culminations, etc.
Number of observations made by him for the Coast Survey. [Geodesy; Geodetic
Astronomy; Longitude.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1858 - 24. Pp. 191-192. Magnetic elements.
Continuation of Appendix No. 1856 - 28. [Geophysics;
Magnetism; Data
Report.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1858 - 25. Pp. 192-195. (1680-1850.) Secular
variation of magnetic declination at Hatboro, Pa. Discussion
and development of an intermediate period. Table of declinations
from 1680 to 1850. [Geophysics;
Magnetism; Data
Report.]
Schott,
C.A., Appendix No. 1858 - 26. Pp. 195-197. (1809-1857.) Secular
variation at Washington, D.C. Declination from 1809 to 1857.
Dip from 1839 to 1858. [Geophysics;
Magnetism; Data
Report.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1858 - 27. Pp. 197-203. New York Bay and
Sandy Hook. On the character of the tidal currents in the vicinity
of the bar; normal currents at the entrance to New York Bay
and False Hook Channel and the approaches; currents of Sandy
Hook Bay. Tables of lunar time, duration, velocity, and direction
of currents; velocities corrected for diurnal and half-monthly
inequalities. [Oceanography; Tides; Currents.]
Mitchell,
H., Appendix No. 1858 - 28. Pp. 204-207. East River and New
York Bay. On the observations of surface currents and subsurface
currents. [Oceanography; Tides; Currents.]
Pourtales,
L.F., Appendix No. 1858 - 29. Pp. 208-209. Report of activities
of Tidal Division including stations occupied and series observed.
[Oceanography; Tides.]
Peirce,
B., Appendix No. 1858 - 30. Pp. 210-213. Cotidal lines of an
inclosed sea, as derived from the equilibrium theory. General
theory and its modification by the incompleteness of the inclosure.
[Oceanography; Tides.]
Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. 1858 - 31. Pp. 213-216. Dynamics of ocean
currents. [Oceanography; Currents;
Gulf Stream.]
Hunt,
E.B., Appendix No. 1858 - 32. Pp. 217-222. Florida Gulf Stream.
Notices of certain anomalies; changes of current depending upon
the wind and season. [Oceanography; Gulf
Stream; Currents; Meteorology.]
Harrison,
A.M., Appendix No. 1858 - 33. Pp. 222-224. Report on topographical
features of Ossabaw Sound, Georgia. [Topography.]
Mechan,
J., Appendix No. 1858 - 34. P. 224. Report on local characteristics
of eastern coast of Florida, south of St. Johns River. [Topography;
Reconnaissance.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1858 - 35. Pp. 225-227. Florida Keys. Superintendent's
report to Commissioner of General Land Office on progress made
in survey and marking of the keys. [Reconnaissance.]
Dorr, F.W., Appendix No. 1858 - 36. Pp. 227-228.
Report on the surface features of Pine and Sanibel Islands at
the entrance to Charlotte Harbor, Florida. [Topography.]
Trowbridge, W.P.,
Appendix No. 1858 - 37. Pp. 228-246. Deep-sea soundings. Investigation
of the laws of motion governing the descent of the weight and
line; formulae of velocity of descent - rates of descent and
resistance, in pounds, upon the sinker and line, with one and
with two 32-pound shot, attached to a line 0.07 inch in diameter;
same with 96 and 128 pound weights, deep-sea line; III, influence
of different lengths of line moving with the same velocity;
ratios of lengths to ratio of resistances; comparison of resistances
upon the same lengths of lines of different diameters, moving
at the same velocity; influence of lengths at different depths;
rates of descent, velocity, resistance to sinker and line, and
weight of line in water, from observations made by Joseph Dayman;
diameter of line, 2 inches; weight 96 pounds; specific gravity,
1.3. [Oceanography; Deep
Sea Soundings; Error Analysis; Computations; Instrumentation.]
Batchelder, J.M.,
Appendix No. 1858 - 38. Pp. 247-248. Sounding apparatus and
tide meter proposed by E.B. Hunt. (Notes on the principles and
applications of this early pressure sounding device.) [Hydrography;
Oceanography;
Tides; Instrumentation.]
Pourtales,
L. F. , Appendix No. 1858 - 39. Pp. 248-250. Analysis, microscopical,
of specimens of bottom taken in sounding. Green and ochraceous
incrustation of Foraminifera, and jet tint of specimens.
[Oceanography; Deep
Sea Soundings; Gulf Stream; Marine Geology; Marine Biology.]
Trowbridge, W.P.,
Appendix No. 1858 - 40. Pp. 270-271. Foreign geodetic surveys.
Review showing their cost and progress, and other data, for
comparison with the results of the United States Coast Survey;
trigonometrical surveys of England, Ireland, and Scotland; hydrography
of England; analysis of report of the select committee appointed
to consider the ordnance survey of Scotland, etc., 1856; France;
India; Russia; Prussia; table of statistics of topographical
maps in Europe; recapitulation; marine disasters -- United States
vessels, 1855, 1856, and 1857; imports, exports, tonnage, etc.;
Great Britain, 1852 to 1855; Gulf of Mexico shipping; Florida
reef. [Miscellaneous.]
Trowbridge, W.P.,
Appendix No. 1858 - 41. Pp. 270-273. Progress of the United
States Coast Survey. Ratio of results for consecutive periods
of twelve years. [Miscellaneous.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1858 - 42. P. 274. List of papers which accompanied
a report on Coast Survey progress made to the Treasury Department
in December, 1857. (See also Senate Report No. 6; Thirty-fifth
Congress, second session, volume 6. [Miscellaneous.]
Bache,
A.D., Appendix No. 1858 - 43. Pp. 275-297. Tide tables and sailing
lines for the use of navigators. [Oceanography; Tides; Coast Pilot.]
Davidson,
G.O., Appendix No. 1858 - 44. Pp. 297-458. Directory for the
Pacific Coast of the United States, with sailing directions,
geographical positions, etc. (This document is a source document
for those interested in the evolution of geographic and maritime
knowledge on the western coast of North America. It is comprised
of Davidson's personal observations, the observations of other
Coast Surveyors, and historical records researched by Davidson.
This work is unique as it provides a picture of our western
coast as it was beginning the transition from a relatively pristine
state to a modern agricultural and industrial region.) [Coast
Pilot; Geographical Exploration; History.]
Alden,
J.M., Appendix No. 1858 - 45. P. 459. Letter communicating the
recommendation relative to a light-house site at Red Bluff,
Washington Territory. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1858 - 46. P. 460. List of recommendations relative
to aids to navigation made by Assistants in reports to the Superintendent
of the Coast Survey. [Lighthouse.]
Temple,
W.G., Appendix No. 1858 - 47. P. 460-461. Letter transmitting
recommendations for a small light and fog-bell at Halfway Rock,
Casco Bay, Maine. [Lighthouse.]
Anonymous,
Appendix No. 1858 - 48. Pp. 461-462. Correspondence relative
to the necessity for a beacon at "The Elbow", Florida reef.
[Lighthouse.]
Duer, J.K., Appendix No. 1858 - 49. Pp. 462-463.
Letter communicating recommendation for a permanent beacon at
West Pass, St. Georges Sound, Florida. [Lighthouse.]
Cuyler, R.M., Appendix No. 1858 - 50. P. 463.
Letter transmitting the recommendation for buoys south of Point
San Mateo, San Francisco Bay, California.
