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Found in 6 Collections and/or records:

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A. D. Bache Papers

Identifier: MSS11494
Abstract

Scientist, educator, and superintendent of the United States Coast Survey. Correspondence, a journal, and miscellaneous material reflecting Bache’s service with the United States Coast Survey, his work at the Dudley Observatory, and his European trip to study educational methods.

Dates 1828-1863; Majority of material found within ( 1836-1863)
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George F. Becker Papers

Identifier: MSS12229
Abstract

Geologist, mathematician, engineer, and physicist. Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, notebooks, notes, memoranda, maps, charts, tables, landscape sketches, and printed matter primarily relating to Becker's service at the United States Geological Survey, Carnegie Institution of Washington, and as president of the Geological Society of America.

Dates 1814-1928; Majority of material found within 1870-1919
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John William Draper Family Papers

Identifier: MSS18986
Abstract

Scientist and historian. Correspondence, family papers, subject files, manuscript and printed copies of speeches, articles, and books, financial papers, and miscellany relating to Draper's scientific work and as a historian and including the papers of his son, Daniel Draper (1841-1931), and other family members.

Dates 1777-1951; Majority of material found within 1860-1882
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Lewis Reeves Gibbes Papers

Identifier: MSS22707
Abstract Scientist and professor. Chiefly correspondence along with specimen lists, resolutions, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Gibbes's career as professor of astronomy, mathematics, and physics at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Includes his correspondence with other scientists on the subjects of astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, meteorology, physics, and zoology. Other subjects relate to the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Dates 1793-1894; Majority of material found within ( 1838-1894)
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Edward Williams Morley Papers

Identifier: MSS33506
Abstract

Chemist and physician. Correspondence, certificates, and printed matter, including letters from Myron A. Munson, Morley's college roommate and lifelong friend, written while Munson was serving in the Union Army in 1864, and extensive correspondence with prominent European and American scientists.

Dates 1833-1923; Majority of material found within 1863-1899
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Charles Wilkes Papers

Identifier: MSS45716
Abstract Naval officer and explorer. Official and family correspondence, journals and diaries, legal and financial papers, autobiography and other writings, and scientific notebooks relating to Wilkes's command of an expedition (1838-1842) to the Antarctic, Hawaii and various other Pacific islands, and the northwest coast of the United States; his capture of J. M. Mason and John Slidell in the Trent affair (1861); and his command of the James River Flotilla and West...
Dates 1607-1959; Majority of material found within ( 1841-1865)