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Private Weather Organizations and the Founding of the United States Weather Bureau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Erik D. Craft
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , December 1999 , pp. 1063 - 1071
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999

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