Creator:
Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878.
Inclusive Dates:
1863- 1877
Abstract:
Papers of the American physicist, first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Five outgoing items of correspondence, most of which is in response to requests for the Smithsonian Institution's publications (James A. Dix, Washington Townsend). There are three letters to botanist Charles E. Bessey, one of which defines the Smithsonian's system of exchange of scientific information with regard to natural history specimens.
Type of Material:
Letters (correspondence)
Subject:
Physicists.
Scientists.
Science and medicine
Physicists, United States.
Scientists, Correspondence.
Creator:
Hyatt, Alpheus, 1838-1902.
Inclusive Dates:
1854- 1958
Abstract:
Correspondence, diary, expedition journal, financial material, scientific notebook and sketches, photographs, published material, including articles and newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks.
Correspondence (1854-1902) includes that of Alexander Agassiz, Charles E. Beecher, E.D. Cope, James D. Dana, J.S. Diller, G.K. Gilbert, G. Brown Goode, Asa Gray, Robert T. Hill, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Hyatt’s father, Alpheus Hyatt, Audella Beebe Hyatt, Jules Marcou, Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor, A.S. Packard, Charles Schuchert, and Charles Walcott.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Drawings (visual works)
Notebooks.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Sketches.
Subject:
Scientists.
Paleontologists.
Paleontologists -- United States.
Paleontology.