Gray, John Edward

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Spencer Fullerton Baird papers
Letter, July 1870 (Box 1, folder 7)
1868-1873

Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887) was a Dickinson College graduate (class of 1840) and a professor of natural history and science at the college from 1845 until 1850, when he became assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institute (1850-1878). He was later promoted to secretary of that...

Location: MC 2000.11

Subject: Science and Technology, Travel and Tourism

Format: Letters/Correspondence

Time Period: 1860-1879

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2000.11.pdf

Letters from Spencer Baird to George Lawrence (Oct. - Dec. 1869)
Letters from Spencer Baird to George Lawrence (Oct. - Dec. 1869)
October - December 1869

Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes five letters to George Lawrence in which he discusses a collection of birds to be sent to the latter, Zeladon's studies in Central America and the West Indies, John Edward Gray's catalogue of species, and the...

Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F4

Subject: Science and Technology

Format: Letters/Correspondence

Time Period: 1860-1879
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