The Admiralty Chart: British Naval Hydrography in the Nineteenth CenturyHollis & Carter, 1967 - 388 pages Includes much of interest to the polar historian. Reviewed in International Hydrographic Review, vol. 44, no. 2, 1967, p.169-70. |
Contents
List of Hydrographers of the Navy | 2 |
Introduction | 3 |
Dalrymple Becomes the First Hydrographer of the Navy | 7 |
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