Suggestions for Russian America Collecting

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Summary

At the request of John F. Hartley, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Smithsonian Secretary Joseph Henry sends suggestions for collecting activities that would be helpful to scientific investigations, to be distributed to members of an expedition to Russian America. Henry prepared the meteorological suggestions, the ethnological suggestions were done by George Gibbs, and those relating to natural history by Spencer F. Baird.

Subject

  • Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887
  • Henry, Joseph 1797-1878
  • Gibbs, George 1815-1873

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 8. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1869, Article VI.

Contact information

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

Date

May 27, 1867

Topic

  • Assistant Secretaries
  • Scientific expeditions
  • Colonies
  • Natural History
  • Secretaries
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Interagency Cooperation
  • Anthropology
  • Ethnology
  • Memorandums
  • Meteorology
  • Natural history

Place

  • North America
  • Russia

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