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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: 
mc2000.11.pdf
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
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes four letters to George Lawrence in which he discusses the exchange of various specimens as well as funding for Sumichrast's explorations. Transcripts included.
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F5
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to George N. Lawrence regarding the Sumichrast Collection. "As the number of additional species is not so great as I was led to suppose," Baird warns Lawrence that he will likely be "disappointed in it." In...
Location: I-SpahrB-1966-13
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
