Joseph Henry and Alexander Dallas Bache's Letter to John Pendleton Kennedy (December 1, 1852)
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Request permissionsDownload image PrintLetter from Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Alexander Dallas Bache, a physicist, superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and Smithsonian Institution Regent, to John Pendleton Kennedy, United States Secretary of the Navy, December 1, 1852. In the letter, Henry and Bache suggest to Pendleton that scientific work should be conducted during an expedition to Greenland.
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3 pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 8, pages 408-410 (Document 249).
Rothenberg, Marc, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 8, The Smithsonian Years: January 1850-December 1853 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1998), 408-410
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
December 1, 1852
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Greenland
SIA2012-0419 and SIA2012-0420 and SIA2012-0421
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