Letter from Spencer Baird to Winfrid Stearns

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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.

People:

Baird, Spencer Fullerton

Stearns, Winfrid A.

Verrill, Addison E.

Subject:

Science and Technology

Format:

Letters/Correspondence

Time Period:

1880-1899

Location:

I-Friends-1989-1