Botanical Notes on Alaska.
Introducing his ""Botanical Notes,"" Muir writes: ""Inasmuch as the flora of the arctic and subarctic regions is nearly the same everywhere, the discovery of many species new to science was not to be expected . In general the physiognomy of the vegetation of the polar r...
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ftunivpacific:oai:cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org:p16745coll2/1483 2023-05-15T14:46:32+02:00 Botanical Notes on Alaska. 1883 Treasury Dept. Document No. 429. 120 pp., 30 cm. Brown buckram with gilt-stamped title on front cover. Illus. http://cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16745coll2/id/1483 unknown Cruise of the Revenue-Steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic Ocean in 1881. Notes and Memoranda . Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883 See also no. 161; no. 341, v. 7, pp. 281-[295]; no. 347, pp. 259-[272]. 1883 ftunivpacific 2016-07-27T10:19:38Z Introducing his ""Botanical Notes,"" Muir writes: ""Inasmuch as the flora of the arctic and subarctic regions is nearly the same everywhere, the discovery of many species new to science was not to be expected . In general the physiognomy of the vegetation of the polar regions resembles that of the alpine valleys of the temperate zones; so much so that the botanist on the coast of Arctic Siberia or America might readily fancy himself on the Sierra Nevada at a height of 10,000 feet."" Other/Unknown Material Arctic Subarctic Alaska Siberia University of the Pacific: Holt-Atherton Special Collections Arctic |
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Introducing his ""Botanical Notes,"" Muir writes: ""Inasmuch as the flora of the arctic and subarctic regions is nearly the same everywhere, the discovery of many species new to science was not to be expected . In general the physiognomy of the vegetation of the polar regions resembles that of the alpine valleys of the temperate zones; so much so that the botanist on the coast of Arctic Siberia or America might readily fancy himself on the Sierra Nevada at a height of 10,000 feet."" |
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Cruise of the Revenue-Steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic Ocean in 1881. Notes and Memoranda . Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883 |
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See also no. 161; no. 341, v. 7, pp. 281-[295]; no. 347, pp. 259-[272]. |
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