Joseph Henry Endorses Hayes' Arctic Expedition

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Summary

In a letter to the American Geographical and Statistical Society, first Smithsonian Secretary Joseph Henry endorses Isaac Israel Hayes' expedition to the Arctic, which launches in July 1860. Henry and Smithsonian Assistant Secretary Spencer Fullerton Baird provide magnetic and meteorological instruments for the expedition, along with a dredge and collecting equipment for organic specimens. Hayes collects two thousand plant specimens, two hundred bird skins, and live fish for the Smithsonian's tanks. Upon his return, he gives a lecture at the Smithsonian on the expedition. In 1867, Hayes' "Physical Observations in the Arctic Seas" is published in volume 15 of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge.

Subject

  • Henry, Joseph 1797-1878
  • Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887
  • Hayes, I. I (Isaac Israel) 1832-1881
  • Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge (Publication)
  • Arctic Expedition
  • National Collections
  • American Geographical and Statistical Society

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • For Hayes' "Physical Observations in the Arctic Seas," see http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32534060.
  • Kazar, John Dryden, The United States Navy and Scientific Exploration, 1837-1860 (Ph.D diss., The University of Massachusetts, 1973).
  • Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian for the year 1861, pp. 149-60.

Contact information

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

Date

March 16, 1860

Topic

  • Scientific expeditions
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Secretaries
  • Birds
  • Plants
  • Animals
  • Lectures and lecturing
  • Aquariums
  • Citizen science
  • Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Fishes
  • Botany
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Specimens
  • Magnetism
  • Meteorology
  • Arctic

Place

  • Arctic Ocean
  • Arctic regions

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