Joseph Henry and Alexander Dallas Bache's Letter to John Pendleton Kennedy (December 1, 1852)

Summary

Letter 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.

Subject

• Regents Smithsonian Institution
• United States. Secretary of the Navy
• United States Coast Survey

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

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).

Contained within

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

Contact information

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

Date

December 1, 1852

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Scientific expeditions
• Secretaries
• Letters
• Physicists
• Expeditions

Place

Greenland

Form/Genre

• Document
• Paper

ID Number

SIA2012-0419 and SIA2012-0420 and SIA2012-0421

Physical description

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

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