Mahlon Dickerson's Letter to Joseph Henry (December 15, 1836)
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintLetter from Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy, to Joseph Henry, then a professor at Princeton University and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, December 15, 1836. In the letter, Dickerson acknowledges Henry's work in the field of magnetism, and asks him to provide some topics of inquiry for the United States Navy's South Sea Exploring expedition to consider in order to further promote the research and work on the subject of magnetism.
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1 page scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 3, page 131.
Reingold, Nathan, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 3, The Princeton Years: January 1836-December 1837 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 131
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December 15, 1836
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