Abstract
PROF. C. S. LYMAN was connected with Yale University for thirty-two years as professor of physics and astronomy and director of the observatory. He died in 1890 at the age of seventy-six. This book is the diary which he kept as a young man during several years in the Sandwich Islands and California. The long sea voyage round Cape Horn occupies only a few pages. His observations on the people of the Sandwich Islands are of value as a record of past conditions, and there is a good account of the volcano of Kilauea. Most of the diary has little scientific interest, though some of the descriptive matter is vivid. There are many interesting illustrations taken from old prints.
Around the Horn to the Sandwich Islands and California, 1845–1850.
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F. J.
Teggart
Being a Personal Record kept by Prof. Chester S. Lyman. Edited by. Pp. xviii + 328 + 16 plates. (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1924.) 16s. net.
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Around the Horn to the Sandwich Islands and California, 1845–1850. Nature 115, 418 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115418c0
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