Joseph Henry's Letter to Alexander Dallas Bache (November 12, 1843)

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Summary

Letter from Joseph Henry, then a professor at Princeton University and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Alexander Dallas Bache, a physicist and later Smithsonian Institution Regent, November 12, 1843. In the letter, Henry discusses the "American Journal of Science," which was founded and edited by Benjamin Silliman, Sr., a chemist and professor at Yale University. Henry alludes to certain things that Silliman should, and must do in order to keep his publication from falling off, and instead, possibly becoming the best of its kind in the world. Henry mentions the possibility of he and Bache becoming involved in the publication and the potential impact it would have on American science.

Subject

  • Bache, A. D (Alexander Dallas) 1806-1867
  • Silliman, Benjamin 1816-1885
  • Regents Smithsonian Institution
  • Princeton University
  • Yale University
  • Joseph Henry Papers Project

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

The accompanying PDF contains SIA2012-3035, SIA2012-3036, and SIA2012-3037, which are pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 5, pages 448-450.

Contained within

  • Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7053, Box 3, Folder: 14
  • Reingold, Nathan, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 5, The Princeton Years: January 1841-December 1843 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1985), 448-450

Contact information

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

Date

November 12, 1843

Restrictions & Rights

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Topic

  • Publishers and publishing
  • Chemistry
  • Publications
  • Letters
  • Editors
  • Secretaries
  • Science
  • Physicists

Place

United States

Form/Genre

  • Document
  • Paper

ID Number

SIA2012-2562 and SIA2012-2563 and SIA2012-2564

Physical description

Number of Images: 3 ; Color: Color ; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper

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