The Smithsonian Institution: Its Legitimate Mission
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PrintWritten by a close friend of Spencer Fullerton Baird's, the piece's laudatory description of Joseph Henry signals his victory in the Henry/Jewett controversy over the fate of the library at the Smithsonian. See in contrast Edward Bissell Hunt's article on the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Putnam's September 1853 which attacked Henry.
Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography
Putnam's Monthly Magazine Vol. 4 (Book)
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
August 1854
pp. check, c. 124