Surveying the record : North American scientific exploration to 1930 / edited by Edward C. Carter II.

Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1999.

xv, 344 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.

Pt. I. The cartographic record. Where we are and how we got there : surveying the record of exploration studies / John L. Allen ; A new mode of thinking : creating a national geography in the early republic / John Rennie Short ; Toward a reliable geologic map of the United States, 1803-1893 / Clifford M. Nelson -- Pt. II. Oceanic exploration. Science as a landed activity : scientifics and seamen aboard the U.S. exploring expedition / Elizabeth Green Musselman ; Elisha Kent Kane and the Eskimo of Etah : 1853, 1854, 1855 / Barry Alan Joyce ; A pioneering oceanic exploration : Spencer Baird in the Northeast Atlantic, 1871-1887 / Dean C. Allard -- Pt. III. Exploratory art - spreading the image. Legible landscapes : text and image in the expeditionary art of Frederic Church / Katherine I. Manthorne ; Illustrated government publications related to the American west, 1843-1863 / Ron Tyler ; Science and art meet in the parlor : the role of popular magazine illustration in the pictorial record of the "great surveys" / Debora Rindge -- Pt. IV. Exploration and anthropology. From Thomas Jefferson to the Pecos conference : changing anthropological agendas in the North American southwest / Don D. Fowler, David R. Wilcox ; The Boasian anthropological survey tradition : the role of Franz Boas in North American anthropological surveys / Douglas Cole, Alex Long -- Pt. V. Lewis and Clark. Strategies for finding the northwest passage : the roles of Alexander Mackenzie and Meriwether Lewis / Gunther Barth ; Do or die, but then report and ponder : Palpable and mental adventures in the Lewis and Clark journals / Albert Furtwangler -- Pt. VI. New thoughts on the west. Traversing the fortieth parallel : the experiences of Robert Ridgway, teenage ornithologist / Matthew Godfrey ; The romantic and the technical in early nineteenth-century American exploration / Bran D. Hume ; The second Colorado river expedition : John Wesley Powell, Mormonism and the environment / Donald Worster.

Includes bibliographical references and index.