Reports from the Secretary of the Treasury, of Scientific Investigations in Relation to Sugar and Hydrometers

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Reports from the Secretary of the Treasury, of Scientific Investigations in Relation to Sugar and Hydrometers, Made Under the Superintendence of Professor A.D. Bache. BOUND WITH: A Report of the Computation of Tables, to be Used With the Hydrometer Recently Adopted for Use in the United States Custom-Houses Made Under the Superintendence of Professor A.D. Bache Washington (DC): Wendell and Van Benthysen, 1848; 1851 8vo 19th century green cloth binding with leather label on spine. The 1848 work includes reports beginning in 1845; the 1851 work is a supplement to the 1848 work: viii + 653 pp + huge folding table followed by 7 folding plates. (1851 Supplement has stamp of Coast Survey Office on title page): 168 pp + 6 plates (Plates II-VI are large folding graphs). Covers soiled, bumped, cloth ripped about 5 inches on front hinge. Generally, G+. McCulloh (1818-1894) born in Baltimore MD graduated College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1836; later studied chemistry with James Curtis Booth in Philadelphia and was a contributor to Booth s 1850 Encyclopedia of Chemistry; employed as chemist at U.S. Mint in Philadelphia (1846-9). Appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy Princeton University (1849); moved to Columbia University in 1854. In 1863 consulting chemist to Confederate Nitre and Mining Bureau- expelled from Columbia. He is reported to have designed and tested a chemical weapon (poison gas) to be used against the Union (Jane Singer, The Confederate Dirty War: Arson, Bombings, Assassinations and Plots for Chemical and Germ Attacks on the Union, McFarland & Co., Inc., Jefferson, NC, 2005; Also, Jane Singer, Washington Post, Sunday, June 1, 2003, p. W18).…

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Title
Reports from the Secretary of the Treasury, of Scientific Investigations in Relation to Sugar and Hydrometers
Author
McCULLOH, Professor R.S. (Richard Sears)
Publication year
1848
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Good
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Hardcover
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