"Coast and Geodetic Survey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a dedicated group, high in morale, enthusiastic about their work which evidently involved the combined duties of a Navy, a Coast Guard, and a Coast and Geodetic Survey system, if we use the ocean going services of ...
— Ultima Thule • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... first man appointed to that office. Two bureaus, those of corporations and of manufactures, were created for the department. The other bureaus, such as the Bureau of Statistics, Bureau of Standards of Weights and Measures and Coast and Geodetic Survey, were transferred from the other departments. The place of this new department was defined by the President in the following: "to aid in strengthening our domestic and foreign markets, in perfecting our transportation facilities, in building ...
— History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews
... "An Attempt to solve the Problem of the First Landing Place of Columbus in the New World," in United States Coast and Geodetic Survey—Report ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske |
