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Letter from Spencer Baird to James Ames
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December 21, 1872
Naturalist Spencer Fullerton Baird (Class of 1843) writes to James T. Ames, requesting specimens from Ames' emery mine for display at the Smithsonian. According to Baird, "Centuries ago, if not still earlier, you promised us a good series of specimens from your emery mine to place in the Mineralogical Museum of the Smithsonian Institution."
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I-Friends-1983-12
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Gift of Friends of the Library