Excerpt from Joseph Henry's Desk Diary (October 10, 1866)
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Request permissionsDownload image PrintExcerpt from the Desk Diary of Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, October 10, 1866. In the note, Henry discusses attending a meeting of Asa Gray's, a botanist, scientific club at Harvard University that was very interesting and included Gray's account of the additions to a new edition of Charles Darwin's work on evolution, On the Origin of Species.
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4 pages scanned Henry Desk Diary
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7001, Box 14, Folder: 1866
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
October 10, 1866
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