Manuscript and papers regarding The Oceans, 1937-1943, bulk 1937-1943 / by Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Martin Wiggo Johnson and Richard Howell Fleming.

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Manuscript and papers regarding The Oceans, 1937-1943, bulk 1937-1943 / by Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Martin Wiggo Johnson and Richard Howell Fleming.

The collection consists of four bound volumes. The first three volumes contain a carbon typescript of the manuscript for The Oceans together with some correspondence concerning the book. The fourth volume contains all the comments in print gathered during the first year after publication.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Library. Archives.

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Sverdrup, H.U. (Harald Ulrik), 1888-1957

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Sverdrup, meteorologist, oceanographer, and Polar explorer, was the chief of the scientific staff on Raold Amundsen's Maud expeditions (1917-1925) and on the Wilkins-Ellsworth submarine expedition (1931) to the Arctic. From the description of Papers, 1928-1942. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237352129 ...

Johnson, Martin W. (Martin Wiggo), 1893-1984

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Fleming, Richard H. (Richard Howell), 1909-1989

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Richard H. Fleming (1909-1986), was an oceanographer and chaired the University of Washington Oceanography Department from 1951 to 1967. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Fleming received his Ph. D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He worked for the Division of War Research of the University of California and then served as the chief oceanographer for the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office in Washington, D.C., 1946-1951, joining the UW faculty in 1951. Fleming was an active advocate of...