Joseph Henry's Letter to James Hadley (May 7, 1869)
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Request permissionsDownload image PrintLetter from Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to James Hadley, a professor of Greek at Yale University, May 7, 1869. In the letter, Henry discusses National Academy of Sciences business, and expresses a wish that the Academy would publish its transactions through its own means, rather than rely on government funding for publication.
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The accompanying PDF contains SIA2011-2807, SIA2011-2808, and SIA2011-2809, which are pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 11, pages 242-244 (Document 120).
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
May 7, 1869
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