During the summer of 1872, Grant served Sandford Fleming as secretary on an exploratory journey from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean in search of a route for a transcontinental railway.
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This book includes a valuable and extensive bibliography with historical introduction on pages 3-44. It is a detailed study of the physiology of skeletal muscle.