Whitney, Josiah Dwight

Die höchste Partie der Felsengebirge.

Separatum aus: Mittheilungen...über wichtige neue Forschungen...der Geographie von A. Petermann.
Gotha, Justus Perthes 1871. 1 Blatt (S. 55-56). 4°. Fadenheftung mit Rückenstreifen. - First report!
* Translated: "The highest part of the Rocky Mountains". Dieses Dokument berichtet vom Versuch der Erstbesteigung 1869 zusammen mit William H. Brewer und Dr. Hoffmann. - "In 1869, with William H. Brewer, he determined the heights of the principal Rocky Mountain summits; and in recognition of his labours Mount Whitney (14,502, in Inyo county, California, the highest peak in the United States) received its name from him. From 1865 until his death he was professor of geology and director of the school of mining and practical geology at Harvard University, residing in Cambridge" (EB). * (Ein Titel aus unserem Online-Katalog "Geographie - Nordamerika". A title from our internet catalogue "Geography - North America").

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