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Abstract<br />

This publication compiles remarks, papers, and photographs associated with several events held over<br />

the past twenty years honoring <strong>Ferdinand</strong> <strong>Rudolph</strong> <strong>Hassler</strong>, first Superintendent of the Survey of the<br />

Coast and first Superintendent of Weights and Measures. These related events begin with the 180 th<br />

anniversary of the establishment of the "Survey of the Coast," celebrated in 1987, and continue with<br />

the renovation the <strong>Hassler</strong> memorial monument on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Out of that<br />

monument renovation, completed in 1993, came two additional memorials, one at NOAA<br />

headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1995, and another at <strong>NIST</strong> in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in<br />

2004. This publication also presents materials previously unknown to earlier <strong>Hassler</strong> historians such<br />

as the recently uncovered <strong>Hassler</strong> correspondence to Admiral Adam J. von Krusenstern obtained<br />

from the Russian State Archive of the Navy in St. Petersburg. A comprehensive <strong>Hassler</strong> bibliography<br />

is also included.<br />

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