Results for "Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851"
Joel Roberts Poinsett
- Date: 1850
- Creator: Longacre, James Barton
- Creator: Longacre, James Barton
- Online Publications
American Philosophical Society Memorial's Letter to Joel R. Poinsett (December 20, 1839)
- Date: December 20, 1839
- Creator: American Philosophical Society Memorial,Joseph Henry Papers Project
- Creator: American Philosophical Society Memorial,Joseph Henry Papers Project
- SI History Chronology
National Institution Established
- Date: May 15, 1840
- SI History Bibliography
A Step Toward Scientific Self-Identity in the United States: The Failure of the National Institute, 1844
- Date: 1971
- Creator: Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory
- Creator: Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory
- SI History Bibliography
The Great United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842
- Date: 1975
- Creator: Stanton, William
- Creator: Stanton, William
- SI History Bibliography
Discourse, on the Objects and Importance of The National Institution for the Promotion of Science, Established at Washington, 1840, Delivered at the First Anniversary
- Date: 1841
- Creator: Poinsett, Joel Roberts
- Creator: Poinsett, Joel Roberts
- Finding Aid
SIA RU007058, National Institute, Records, 1839-1863 and undated
- Date: 1839 1839-1863 1839-1863 and undated
- Creator: National Institute
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Document
May 15 Organizers Plan National Institution for the Promotion of Science | Smithsonian Institution A
- SI History Chronology
Robert Mills Submits Design for Smithsonian Institution Building
- Date: 1841
- SI History Bibliography
The Founding of the Institution, 1835-1846
- Date: 1897
- Creator: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown) 1851-1896
- Creator: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown) 1851-1896
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000073, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Mollusks, Records, 1851-1982 and undated
- Date: 1851 1851-1982 1851-1982 and undated
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Division of Mollusks
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
All-American Compromise
- Date: February 16, 2017
- Description: Laying the Foundations: Early Schools of ThoughtWith few national institutions on which to model their thinking, many Americans built their plans for the Smithsonian around the notion of a national university.The debate moved quickly from, Should we create a national university? This page describes the 1838-1846 debates about what form the Smithsonian Institution should take.
