Joseph Henry's Letter to Alexander Dallas Bache (March 19-27, 1839)
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Request permissionsDownload image PrintLetter from Joseph Henry, then a professor at Princeton University and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to his close friend Alexander Dallas Bache, a physicist and later Smithsonian Institution Regent, March 19-27, 1839. In the letter, Henry describes his activities in meteorology, as a collaborator with the University of the State of New York.
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Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
March 19-27, 1839
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