Number of Pages
3
Date
March 6, 1883

Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullteron Baird writes to his colleague Winfrid A. Stearns regarding a request for a steamer to use in research. Despite Baird's enthusiasm for steamer technology, the Smithsonian cannot offer Stearns the use of one, nor can they afford to rent one for him.

Time Period
Location
I-Friends-1989-1
Origin
Gift of Friends of the Library
Letter from Spencer Baird to Winfrid Stearns