NOTES

1. Document 15. [Return to text.]

2. Doc. 223. [Return to text.]

3. Hugh R. Slotten, Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey (New York, 1994), pp. 148-149. [Return to text.]

4. Doc. 165. [Return to text.]

5. Doc. 49. [Return to text.]

6. Doc. 303. [Return to text.]

7. Desk Diary, Henry Papers, Smithsonian Archives, April 24 and June 8, 1850. [Return to text.]

8. Smithsonian Report for 1852, p. 14. [Return to text.]

9. Doc. 226. [Return to text.]

10. New York Times, September 30, 1852. [Return to text.]

11. Desk Diary, October 5, 1852. [Return to text.]

12. Smithsonian Report for 1853, p. 7. [Return to text.]

13. Smithsonian Report for 1852, p. 28. [Return to text.]

14. Doc. 100. [Return to text.]

15. Doc. 281. [Return to text.]

16. Doc. 161. [Return to text.]

17. Doc. 76. [Return to text.]

18. Desk Diary, June 15 and 17, 1850. [Return to text.]

19. Doc. 52. [Return to text.]

20. Doc. 52. [Return to text.]

21. Doc. 195. [Return to text.]

22. Doc. 236. [Return to text.]

23. Doc. 266. [Return to text.]

24. Doc. 31. [Return to text.]

25. John K. Kane to Alexander Dallas Bache, December 3, 1851, RH 1627, Rhees Collection, Huntington Library. [Return to text.]

26. Doc. 30. [Return to text.]

27. Doc. 31. [Return to text.]

28. Doc. 205. [Return to text.]

29. The Papers of Joseph Henry, 7:146. [Return to text.]

30. Doc. 219. [Return to text.]

31. Doc. 76. [Return to text.]

32. Doc. 14. [Return to text.]

33. Doc. 36. [Return to text.]

34. Doc. 156. [Return to text.]

35. Doc. 156. [Return to text.]

36. National Intelligencer, June 26, 1852. [Return to text.]

37. Doc. 218. [Return to text.]

38. Proceedings of the Third Session of the American Association for the Advancement of Education, Held at Pittsburgh, Pa., August 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th, A.D. 1853 (Newark, 1854), p. 28. [Return to text.]

39. Doc. 218. [Return to text.]

40. National Intelligencer, June 26, 1852. [Return to text.]

41. Doc. 218. [Return to text.]

42. Doc. 221. [Return to text.]

43. Smithsonian Report for 1850, p. 10. [Return to text.]

44. Smithsonian Report for 1851, p. 41. [Return to text.]

45. Smithsonian Report for 1851, p. 9. [Return to text.]

46. Doc. 119. [Return to text.]

47. Smithsonian Report for 1852, p. 12. [Return to text.]

48. Doc. 152. [Return to text.]

49. Doc. 174. [Return to text.]

50. Doc. 301. [Return to text.]

51. Smithsonian Report for 1851, p. 10. [Return to text.]

52. Smithsonian Report for 1851, p. 10. [Return to text.]

53. Smithsonian Report for 1849, p. 15. [Return to text.]

54. Smithsonian Report for 1852, pp. 24, 85. [Return to text.]

55. Doc. 166. [Return to text.]

56. Doc. 293. [Return to text.]

57. Doc. 15. [Return to text.]

58. Smithsonian Report for 1851, p. 26. [Return to text.]

59. Doc. 160. [Return to text.]

60. Patsy Gerstner, Henry Darwin Rogers, 1808-1866: American Geologist (Tuscaloosa, 1994), p. 166. [Return to text.]

61. Doc. 225. [Return to text.]

62. Doc. 172. [Return to text.]

63. Doc. 85. [Return to text.]

64. Smithsonian Report for 1852, p. 28. [Return to text.]

65. Smithsonian Report for 1849, p. 32, and Smithsonian Report for 1853, p. 27. [Return to text.]

66. Smithsonian Report for 1853, p. 28. [Return to text.]

67. Norton's Literary Gazette, 1852, 2:23. [Return to text.]

68. Doc. 260; Smithsonian Report for 1851, p. 22. [Return to text.]

69. Doc. 76. [Return to text.]

70. Henry to Baird, April 24, 1850, Baird Papers, Smithsonian Archives. [Return to text.]

71. Doc. 156. [Return to text.]

72. Doc. 145. [Return to text.]

73. Doc. 24. [Return to text.]

74. Smithsonian Report for 1853, p. 53. [Return to text.]

75. Doc. 77. [Return to text.]

76. Doc. 72. [Return to text.]

77. Smithsonian Report for 1852, pp. 48-49. [Return to text.]

78. Pp. 46-47. [Return to text.]

79. Smithsonian Report for 1852, p. 20. [Return to text.]

80. Doc. 199. [Return to text.]

81. Doc. 4. [Return to text.]

82. Doc. 264. [Return to text.]

83. Smithsonian Report for 1850, p. 10. [Return to text.]

84. Doc. 218. [Return to text.]

85. Smithsonian Report for 1850, p. 6; Smithsonian Report for 1851, p. 10. [Return to text.]

86. Doc. 272. [Return to text.]

87. Desk Diary, March 19, 1850. [Return to text.]

88. Doc. 291. [Return to text.]

89. Doc. 293. [Return to text.]

90. Doc. 15. [Return to text.]

91. Doc. 41. [Return to text.]

92. William J. Rhees, editor, The Smithsonian Institution: Journals of the Board of Regents, Reports of Committees, Statistics, Etc., 1879, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 18 (Washington, 1880), p. 707. [Return to text.]

93. Doc. 70. [Return to text.]

94. Doc. 91. [Return to text.]

95. Doc. 117. [Return to text.]

96. Doc. 253. [Return to text.]

97. Doc. 102. [Return to text.]

98. Doc. 46. [Return to text.]

99. Doc. 234. [Return to text.]

100. Doc. 150. [Return to text.]

101. Doc. 193. [Return to text.]

102. Smithsonian Report for 1851, p. 10. [Return to text.]

103. Doc. 218. [Return to text.]

104. Arthur P. Molella, et al., eds., A Scientist in American Life: Essays and Lectures of Joseph Henry (Washington, 1980), p. 53. [Return to text.]

105. Doc. 97. [Return to text.]

106. Henry to Bache, April 11, 1861, RH 1491, Rhees Collection, Huntington Library. [Return to text.]

107. Smithsonian Report for 1849, p. 21. [Return to text.]

108. Smithsonian Report for 1849, pp. 20-21. [Return to text.]

109. Doc. 291. [Return to text.]

110. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1850, 4:378. [Return to text.]

111. Doc. 138. [Return to text.]

112. 1851, 5:42-43. [Return to text.]

113. 1851, 6:84-91. [Return to text.]

114. Pp. 85-86; for a discussion of this paper, see Charles I. Weiner, "Joseph Henry's Lectures on Natural Philosophy: Teaching and Research in Physics, 1832-1847" (Ph.D. diss., Case Institute of Technology, 1965), pp. 111-113. [Return to text.]

115. Doc. 153. [Return to text.]

116. Doc. 274. [Return to text.]

117. Annual Report of the Light-House Board for the Year 1882 (Washington, 1882), pp. 130-131. [Return to text.]

118. Rhees, compiler and editor, The Smithsonian Institution: Documents Relative to Its Origin and History, 2 vols., 1901, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vols. 42 and 43 (Washington, 1901), 1:807. [Return to text.]

119. John O. Sands, "The U.S. Light-House Board: Progress through Process," American Neptune, 1987, 47:176-179. [Return to text.]

120. Doc. 150. [Return to text.]

121. Doc. 299. [Return to text.]

122. Doc. 54. [Return to text.]

123. Doc. 54. [Return to text.]

124. Doc. 54. [Return to text.]

125. Henry Papers, 7:26, 27n. [Return to text.]

126. Pp. 21-26. [Return to text.]

127. Desk Diary, August 18 and August 19, 1852. [Return to text.]

128. Doc. 260. [Return to text.]

129. Doc. 266. [Return to text.]