- Authorization of the Naval Exploring Expedition in the South Seas and Pacific Ocean
Features the 1830 report to Congress listing the costs for the proposed expedition's scientific gear.
www.du.edu/~ttyler/ploughboy/usexex415.htm
- Engines of Our Ingenuity: The Wilkes Expedition
Audio and transcript of John Lienhard's program describing the United States Exploring Expedition.
www.uh.edu/engines/epi1904.htm
- Expedition Artists of the Wilkes Expedition
Describes the visual records of Mount Shasta and its region made by Alfred Thomas Agate, Titian Ramsay Peale, George Foster Emmons, Henry Eld, and James Dwight Dana.
www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/art/e40.htm
- Expeditions: 150 Years of Smithsonian Research in Latin America
Offers sections on the U.S. Exploring Expedition, William Henry Holmes, Caribbean archaeology, and Alexander Wetmore.
www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/laexped/opener1.htm
- United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
Smithsonian Institution site featuring the official reports of the expedition plus illustrations and artifacts, information on the ships and crew, and more.
www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex
- USS Vincennes@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Historic/USS_Vincennes
- Voyages: United States Exploring Expedition
Information about the expedition and its accomplishments.
www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/voyages/wilkes.shtml
- Wikipedia: United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
Hyperlinked article devoted to the exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Exploring_Expedition%2C_1838-1842
- Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Wilkes__Charles__1798_1877_
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