Eulogy on Professor Alexander Dallas Bache, Late Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey

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Summary

Biographical sketch of Joseph Henry's good friend, Alexander Dallas Bache, superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, which traces his family history, youth, education, teaching, work at the Franklin Institute and U.S. Coast Survey, and role as a Regent of the Smithsonian. Includes bibliography of his scientific papers. Bache's "Lecture on Switzerland" follows the bibliography, pp. 117- 140, as an example of his observational and descriptive abilities.

Subject

  • Bache, A. D (Alexander Dallas) 1806-1867
  • Board of Regents
  • United States Coast Survey

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1870 (Book)

Contact information

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

Date

1871

Topic

  • Franklin Institute
  • SI, Early History
  • Bibliography
  • Biography

Physical description

pp. 91-116

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