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Document
- Title:
- Board of Regents Adopts Organization Plan
- Dates:
- 1847, January 26, 1847
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- Title:
- Publication of Annual Reports Commences
- Date:
- 1847
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Document
- Title:
- Jewett Submits Library Survey and Plan
- Dates:
- 1848, December 13, 1848
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- Title:
- Progress on Smithsonian Building & Grounds
- Dates:
- 1848, December 31, 1848
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- Appointment of Accountant for Smithsonian
- Dates:
- 1849, January 3, 1849
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- Title:
- Full Compensation Approved for the Assistant Secretary and Librarian Charles Coffin Jewett
- Dates:
- 1849, January 6, 1849
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- Title:
- Joseph Henry Gives Directives for Smithsonian Publications
- Dates:
- 1849, February 19, 1849
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Document
- Title:
- Topics for Volume 2 of Contributions to Knowledge
- Dates:
- 1849, February 19, 1849
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- Title:
- Baird Receives Funds to Collect for SI
- Dates:
- 1849, June 27, 1849
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- Title:
- International Exchange Service Begins
- Date:
- 1849
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