Letter from Spencer Baird to James Ames

Letter from Spencer Baird to James Ames
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PDF icon Letter from Spencer Baird to James Ames
Number of Pages: 
3
Date: 
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."

People: 
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Ames, James T.
Subject: 
Education
Science and Technology
Format: 
Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 
1860-1879
Location: 
I-Friends-1983-12
Origin: 
Gift of Friends of the Library