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Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to Professor Robert Bell of the Canadian Geological Survey. Baird is grateful to have received Professor Selwyer's stratigraphical series of American rocks, but he is...
Location: I-Friends-1987-3
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
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Letter from Spencer Baird to Robert Bell
Engraving by G. Stodart from the Dr. Joseph Priestley statue by J. F. Williamson, from The Art Journal (New York: D. Appleton & Co.), 3: 57.
Location: I-BassertD-2004-1
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Engravings and Illustrations
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Engraving of Joseph Priestley Statue
Engraving based on a daguerreotype of James Buchanan by New York's H. B. Hall & Sons.
Location: I-AsbellY-2002-36
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Engravings and Illustrations
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Engraving of James Buchanan
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1876-1877 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1860-1879
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Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to Professor Robert Bell of the Geological Survey of Canada, regarding a paper Bell ordered that was lost in the mail. Baird writes that he will send another and adds: "Any...
Location: I-Friends-1987-4
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Spencer Baird to Robert Bell
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to Professor Robert Bell of the Geological Survey of Canada, regarding books that were lost in the mail.
Location: I-Friends-1987-4
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Spencer Baird to Robert Bell
Amy A. Carothers writes to Doctor Cornelius Rea Agnew regarding the delayed admittance of some of Carothers' students to the Hampton Normal School. Carothers also requests financial support from Agnew to pay for the students' fees. Transcript...
Location: CIS-MC-001, B1, F2
Subject: Education, Native Americans
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Amy A. Carothers to Cornelius R. Agnew
Charles F. Deems thanks Mrs. Lausing Thurber for her "kind note" and asks for her attention "to Frank Leslie Sunday Magazine." Deems, a member of the Class of 1839, explains how he is "now editing" that publication. Transcript included...
Location: I-AsbellY-2005-4
Subject: Business and Industry, Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Charles Deems to Mrs. Lausing Thurber
Spencer F. Baird writes to Horatio R. Storer about collecting specimens of fish. Baird describes how to outfit a boat with trawls, dredges, and nets to collect fish for study. He thanks him for his help and explains that "although by the kind...
Location: I-SpahrB-1966-10
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Spencer Baird to Horatio Storer
Commanding General of the United States Army William Tecumseh Sherman writes Horatio Collins King to discuss the military's political tensions with Congress that exist despite the fact that US Army "Regulars... are surrounded by Indians and...
Location: I-SpahrB-1965-22
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Native Americans, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from William Sherman to Horatio Collins King
Raphael Benham prepared this oration, entitled "Dante," for the Union Philosophical Society's Sophomore Contest held May 24, 1878. Transcript included.
Location: OrationsX-1878-B466d
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: "Dante," by Raphael Benham
This broadside announces that Professor Charles F. Himes will deliver a lecture on "The Telephone" in Carlisle on June 13, 1878.
Location: OC 2000.1, F5
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Science and Technology
Format: Broadsides and Posters
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Broadside of "Lecture on the Telephone"
The Carlisle Herald describes Dickinson College Professor Charles F. Himes' lecture on the telephone, held the previous week on June 13, 1878, in this report.
Location: MC 2000.1, B22, F4
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Events, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Carlisle Herald, "Telephonic Entertainment"
John Henderson Ahl (Class of 1875) receives his Master of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 27, 1878.
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Master of Arts Diploma - John Ahl
William M. Beetem Glanding receives his Bachelor of Arts from Dickinson College on June 27, 1878.
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Bachelor of Arts Diploma - William Glanding
James Henry Morgan receives his Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 27, 1878.
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Bachelor of Arts Diploma - James Morgan
Spencer F. Baird asks Brantz Mayer to consider "turning over" his collections to the Smithsonian Institution. Baird, who is particularly interested in the "Mexican Collection," promises Mayer that the items would be on exhibit in "the finest...
Location: I-SpahrB-1963-3
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Spencer Baird to Brantz Mayer
Publisher: Harrisburg: Lane's Hart
In this first comprehensive history of the school, Charles F. Himes details the first century of Dickinson College, giving the science program particular attention. Himes, a member of the...
Location: DC 378.748 DEH
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: "A Sketch of Dickinson College," by Charles F. Himes
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1878-1879 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1860-1879
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The Extracts from the Laws and Regulations of Dickinson College lists important information and guidelines regarding admissions, instruction, student behavior, the academic calendar, commencement, religious duties, student bills,...
Location: RG 1/2 10.1.13
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Extracts from the Laws and Regulations of Dickinson College, 1879
This broadside announces that Professor Charles F. Himes will deliver a lecture on Thomas Edison's phonograph and the "speaking telephone" at Rheem's Hall in Carlisle on February 18, 1879.
Location: OC 2000.1, F5
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Science and Technology
Format: Broadsides and Posters
Time Period: 1860-1879
Civil engineer Montgomery C. Meigs writes to Smithsonian Secretary Spencer Fullterton Baird, regarding building plans with offices for science professors, laboratories, a library, and a museum.
Location: I-Original-1879-1
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Edwin Austin Abbey writes to George Henry Boughton apologizing for not having said goodbye before leaving. Abbey further seeks forgiveness for having disliked Moncure Conway prior to formally meeting him with Boughton. Abbey describes the time he...
Location: I-Purchase-1954-2
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Edwin Abbey to George Boughton
An anonymous author writes this obituary for Marcus J. Parrott soon after his death in Dayton, Ohio on October 4, 1879. "Mr. Parrott," as the author observes, "was known all over Kansas as one of the most eloquent men in the state and when...
Location: I-Friends-2004-3
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Miscellaneous
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: "Death of Hon. M. J. Parrott," by Anonymous
Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior in President James Buchanan's administration, writes Jeremiah Sullivan Black and asks for advice on what to do about the slander in John Bonner's Child's History of the United States. Black also...
Location: I-Friends-1991-12
Subject: Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Jacob Thompson to Jeremiah Black