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Virginia. Board of Public Works. Geological survey records, 1837-1853.

Title: Geological survey records, 1837-1853.

These records contain letters received from William E. A. Aikin, James B. Rogers and William Barton Rogers, and accounts and receipts for expenses of the geological survey of Virginia, covering the years 1837-1845, 1849, 1851-1853.

ArchivalResource: 2 in.

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Smith, Edgar Fahs, 1854-1928. Papers and addresses, together with biographical notices and memorial services [Collected and bound together by Dr. B.F. Fackenthal].

Title: Papers and addresses, together with biographical notices and memorial services [Collected and bound together by Dr. B.F. Fackenthal]. 1906-1936.

ArchivalResource: 35 pamphlets bound in 1 v. 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11661942 View

Rogers, William Barton papers

Title: William Barton Rogers papers

This collection contains the personal correspondence of William Barton Rogers, the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Family and professional correspondence, notes, articles, lectures, clippings, and drafts of articles on scientific topics, documents relating his philosophy on science and technology education, and many antecedent documents relating to the establishment and early years of MIT are included. An important part of the collection is drafts of documents prepared during Rogers's efforts to establish a new kind of scientific Institute and to organize the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which was formally incorporated on April 10, 1861, in Boston, Massachusetts. Later documents relate to the development of the educational curriculum, finances, faculty, and facilities of the Institute. There are also papers relating to Rogers' term as president of the National Academy of Sciences, and his involvement with the American Social Science Association and the American Association of Geologists and Naturalists (later the American Association for the Advancement of Science).

ArchivalResource: 5.0 cubic feet; (14 manuscript boxes, 1 flat box, 1 oversize enclosure)

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Rogers, James B., 1803-1852. Letter, 1849.

Title: Letter, 1849.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63645109 View

Rogers II, William Barton papers

Title: William Barton Rogers II papers

The substance though not the bulk of the papers consists of letters from Henry Darwin Rogers to his nephew William Barton Rogers II, son of James Blythe Rogers. From 1852 to about 1857 William Barton Rogers II worked as an assistant to Henry D. Rogers on the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, and the papers of are interest because they shed light on the working methods of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. The collection includes correspondence from Henry Darwin Rogers instructing William Barton Rogers II in survey methods, and requesting progress reports on his work with the survey. Also included is William Barton Rogers II's personal correspondence with his father, James Blythe Rogers, and uncle, Robert Empie Rogers; papers concerning family history; and pamphlets about family members and on scientific subjects.

ArchivalResource: 0.3 cubic feet; (1 manuscript box)

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