Joseph Henry's Letter to Benjamin Silliman, Sr. (December 10, 1830)

Summary

Letter from Joseph Henry, then a teacher at the Albany Academy and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Benjamin Silliman, Sr., a chemist and professor at Yale University, December 10, 1830. In the letter, Henry seeks to have the results of his experiments in electromagnetism published in the "American Journal of Science," of which Silliman was the founder and editor.

Subject

• Silliman, Benjamin 1816-1885
• Albany Academy
• Yale University

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

2 pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 1, pages 301-302.

Contained within

Reingold, Nathan, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 1, The Albany Years: December 1797-October 1832 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1972), 301-302

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

December 10, 1830

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Publishers and publishing
• Chemistry
• Publications
• Scientific apparatus and instruments
• Secretaries
• Editors
• Letters
• Science
• Electromagnets
• Educators
• Experiments
• Electromagnetism
• Teachers
• Science--Experiments

Place

United States

Form/Genre

• Document
• Paper

ID Number

SIA2012-0930 and SIA2012-0931

Physical description

Number of Images: 3 ; Color: Color ; Size: 7w x 10h ; Type of Image: Document ; Medium: Paper

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