Joseph Henry's Letter to Edward Sabine (June 1, 1853)

Summary

Letter from Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Edward Sabine, President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, June 1, 1853. In the letter, Henry details the continuing efforts of the coastal survey of Alexander Dallas Bache, a physicist, head of the United States Coast Survey, and Smithsonian Institution Regent, and the need for the United States and Great Britain to collaborate in order to complete a study of the Gulf Stream.

Subject

• Bache, A. D (Alexander Dallas) 1806-1867
• Regents Smithsonian Institution
• United States Coast Survey
• British Association for the Advancement of Science

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

2 pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 8, pages 445-446 (Document 272).

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), 445-446

Contact information

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

Date

June 1, 1853

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Letters
• Secretaries
• Physicists
• Collaboration

Place

Great Britain

Form/Genre

• Document
• Paper

ID Number

SIA2012-3435 and SIA2012-3436

Physical description

Number of Images: 2 ; Color: Black and White ; Size: 6 3/4w x 10h ; Type of Image: Document ; Medium: Paper

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