American Philosophical Society Memorial's Letter to Joel R. Poinsett (December 20, 1839)
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Letter from the American Philosophical Society Memorial committee to Joel R. Poinsett, United States Secretary of War, December 20, 1839. In the letter, the committee members request that Poinsett provide Department of War support to an Antarctic Expedition of the British Government to study terrestrial magnetism. They also requests that magnetic observatories be built throughout the United States for further study of magnetism and meteorology. Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was one of the committee members.
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6 pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 4, pages 315-320.
Reingold, Nathan, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 4, The Princeton Years: January 1838-December 1840 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1981), 315-320
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
December 20, 1839
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