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Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to Professor Robert Bell of the Canadian Geological Survey. Baird is anxious to receive geological specimens from someone at the Survey. He also thanks Bell for his "intervention with the private exhibition" and answers a...
Location: I-Friends-1987-3
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to Professor Robert Bell of the Canadian Geological Survey. Baird is grateful to have received Professor Selwyer's stratigraphical series of American rocks, but he is disappointed at not being able to obtain other...
Location: I-Friends-1987-3
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to Professor Robert Bell of the Geological Survey of Canada, regarding a paper Bell ordered that was lost in the mail. Baird writes that he will send another and adds: "Any other Smithsonian publications you desire, you...
Location: I-Friends-1987-4
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to Professor Robert Bell of the Geological Survey of Canada, regarding books that were lost in the mail.
Location: I-Friends-1987-4
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to Professor Robert Bell of the Geological Survey of Canada, thanking him for his advice on how to get alcohol to researchers in Canada. Baird also writes that he will add Queen's College, McGill University, the Peter...
Location: I-Friends-1987-5
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
This receipt, signed by Smithsonian Institution Secretary Spencer Fullerton Baird, documents the Institution's acceptance of "'The 'Medicine Man'; or, Indian and Eskimo National of Medicine" from Dr. Robert Bell, Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of Canada.
This receipt, signed by Smithsonian Institution Secretary Spencer Fullerton Baird, documents the Institution's acceptance of "The Mineral Resources of the Hudson's Bay Territories" and "The Forests of Canada" from Dr. Robert Bell, Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of Canada.
