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Vaughan, Petty, 1788-1854

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Petty Vaughan was a merchant and lieutenant in the Maine Militia. He went to London as a teenager to work with his uncle, William Vaughan, and returned later to spend most of his commercial career there. From the guide to the Vaughan family papers, 1768-1950 (Massachusetts Historical Society ...

Hilgard, J. E. (Julius Erasmus), 1825-1891

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Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an important scientific reformer during the early nineteenth century. From his position as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and through leadership roles in the scientific institutions of the time, Bache helped bring American science into alignment with the professional nature of its European counterpart. In addition, Bache fostered the reform of public education in America. On July 19, 1806 Alexander Dallas Bache wa...

Mitchell, John H. (John Hipple), 1835-1905

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John Hipple Mitchell (1835-1905) was a senator from Oregon. From the description of John H. Mitchell telegram to James Lotan [manuscript], 1890 May 8. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 708374022 From the description of John H. Mitchell letter to Thomas Guinean [manuscript], 1891 May 8. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 708362955 From the description of John H. Mitchell correspondence and speeches [manus...

Owsley, J. B. (Dr.)

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Jones, W. A.

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Vogt, Mr. (Norway)

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Saxton, Joseph, 1799-1873

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Davis, Jefferson, formerly President of the Confederate States of America

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Epithet: formerly President of the Confederate States of America British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x00023b ...

Green, James

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Epithet: fl 1880s British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001150.0x0001c2 James Green was a contemporary of Henry Grinnell (1799-1874) co-founder of Fish, Grinnell and Co. (later renamed Grinnell, Minturn and Co) From the guide to the James Green collection, 1851, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) Epithet: Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms British Library Archives an...

Bethune, George W. (George Washington), 1805-1862

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Hill, A. P. (A. Powell)

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Confederate general. From the description of Civil War letter, 1863 June 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70973315 Confederate army general. From the description of Letter, 1856-1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38196552 ...

Hare, Robert

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Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864

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Epithet: Vice-president of the American Ethnological Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x0000a9 Author, Indian agent and ethnologist. From the description of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft papers, 1826-1841. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418398 Henry Schoolcraft was an ethnologist, geologist, Indian agent, and glass manufacturer. From th...

Tockman, G.

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Hassler, Ferdinand R.

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McClintock, Frank

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Hulsse, Professor (Dresden)

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Sherman, W. T. (Gen.)

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Cuyler, Theodore, 1819-1876

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Spencer, John Canfield

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Raynolds, W. F.

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White, G.B.

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Gagiello, Mr.

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English, C. G.

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Benham, A. E. K. (Capt.)

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Dannell, A. N.

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Frazer, Professor

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Goodfellow, E.

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Alexander, John H.

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Guyot, A. (Arnold), 1807-1884

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Arnold Henry Guyot was a geographer and the first to formulate laws of structure and movement of glaciers. He published geography textbooks, 1866-1875, and was professor of physical geography and geology at Princeton University, 1854-1884. From the description of Correspondence, 1857-1882. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122316399 Geographer and geologist. From the description of Letter of A. Guyot, circa 1857. (Unknown). WorldCat re...

Field, Cyrus W.

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Epithet: projector of the Atlantic cable British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001088.0x0001ae ...

Gibbs, George

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Epithet: of Croydon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000565.0x0002d7 Parker Cleaveland worked as a mineralogist and geologist. From the guide to the Parker Cleaveland papers, [ca. 1806]-1844, Circa 1806-1844, (American Philosophical Society) Epithet: Clerk of the Crown in Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_1000000005...

Corcoran And Riggs

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Polk, Leonidas (Bishop)

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Palmer?, W. R.

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Dean, George W. (George Washington), 1825-1897

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Leverrier, U. J. J.

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Coast Survey Office

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Henry, William Alexander (Henry's Son)

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Lane, J. C

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Mechanics Institute

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Sampson, Rev.

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Baker, F. H.

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Harrison, A. M. (Alexander Medina), 1829-1881

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Alexander Medina Harrison (1829-1881) was born in New Haven, Conn., and worked as an engineer for the U.S. Coast Survey. In 1875, while he was stationed in Plymouth, Mass., Harrison was instructed to gather information about the origins of the inscriptions on Dighton Rock, located near Taunton, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1875-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207142312 ...

Walden, C. C.

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Hawley, H. T.

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Wheatstone, Charles

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Epithet: FRS British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000699.0x000373 Epithet: scientist; Knight 1868 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001086.0x00024f ...

Cummings, Alexander, + Green

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Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885

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Titian Ramsay Peale was a naturalist, explorer, and artist. From the description of Sketches, 1817-1875, [n.d.]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122624313 From the description of Correspondence, 1820-1868. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523569 From the guide to the Titian Ramsay Peale correspondence, 1820-1868, 1820-1868, (American Philosophical Society) Painter and naturalist. From...

Quackenbush, George S.

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Bossange, Gustave

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Cameron, Gilbert

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Pott, Mr.

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Blunt, George William

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Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880

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Haldeman was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Letters and papers, ca. 1855-1879. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122490919 Samuel Stehman Haldeman was a scientist and philologist. From the description of Letters, 1859-1875. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122540802 Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1812-1880, APS, 1844) American naturalist and philologist, w...

Ames, S. D.

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Seress?, W.

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American Association For Education

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Perkins, George H. (George Henry), 1844-1933

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Wheeler, George Montague, 1842-1905

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Wheeler was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the son of John Wheeler and Miriam P. Daniels. He graduated from West Point in 1866, ranked sixth in his class, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers. He first served in California from 1866 to 1871. In 1869 General Edward O. C. Ord sent him on a reconnaissance through the eastern Nevada. In 1872, the US Congress authorized an ambitious plan to map the portion of the United States west of the 100th meridian at a sc...

Henry, James, Jr.

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Valentiner, Dr.

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Strong

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Hilgard, Eugene W. (Eugene Woldemar), 1833-1916

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Eugene Woldemar Hilgard was born in Bavaria in 1833. He was raised in America and educated in the U.S., Switzerland, and Germany. Hilgard spent his professional life in the South and later in Calif. In his work and publications, he made contributions of great significance by furthering the application of scientific knowledge to the field of agriculture. As director of the Mississippi geological survey, and in his work elsewhere, he established himself as one of the first to recognize the relatio...

Hamilton, William, Sir

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George Combe was a phrenologist. From the guide to the George Combe Papers, [ca. 1822-1836], Circa 1822-1836, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Mcmurtrie, Falkner

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Corwin, Thomas M.

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Hunt, Lt.

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Bonnycastle, C.

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Hergesheimer, E. (Edwin)

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Smith, M. L. (Capt.)

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Platt, Robert

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Societe Vaudoises Des Sciences Naturelles, Lausanne

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Gibbs, Wolcott

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Harrison, B. F., Dr.

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Patterson, C. P. (Carlile Pollock), 1816-1881

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Tyssowski, John

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Girard College

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Sabine, Edward

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Kellam, G. A. (B. A.?)

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Humphreys, A. A. (General)

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Bland, Thomas

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Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914

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Charles Sanders Peirce was an American logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peirce was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years, but is appreciated largely by his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and semiotics (and his founding of pragmatism). Peirce was intermittently employed in various scientific capacities by the United States Coast Survey between 1859 and 1891. From the description of Charles...

Jennings, S. K., Jr. (Dr.)

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Thompson, William

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Walker, Sears C.

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Mitchel, Ormsby Mcknight

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Bryan, P. O.

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Semple, M., Dr.

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Nautical Almanac

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Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909

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American astronomist and political economist. From the description of Typed letter : [Washington, D.C., to the editors of The Critic, Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder, 1884 Aug. 19]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 645229686 American astronomer. From the description of Typewritten letters signed (3) : Washington, D.C., to Harper & Brothers, 1886 Mar. 16-1883 Apr. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612661 Astronomer, mathematician, and economist. ...

Lambdin, Mr.

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Ranchenstein, R.

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Mechan, John

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Capitol Building

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Brodhead, J. R.

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Elliott, Lt.

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Allen, W. N.

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Greenwell, W. E.

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Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880

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Peirce (Harvard, A.B., 1829) taught astronomy and mathematics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Benjamin Peirce, 1846-1851 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972841 Peirce (A.B. 1829), mathematician and astronomer, was a tutor (1831-1833) and professor (1833-1880) at Harvard University, where he established the Harvard Observatory. From the description of Correspondence, ca. 1835-1880. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79...

Davidson, George R.

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Lawrence, George N. (George Newbold), 1806-1895

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Ornithologist. From the description of George N. Lawrence collection of ornithological correspondence, 1865-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155485273 George Newbold Lawrence was an ornithologist and wholesale druggist. He was one of the founders of the American Ornithologists' Union and of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. From the description of Papers, ca. 1860s-1870s. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122316346 ...

Light House Board

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Wheeler, R. T.

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Geological Society Of Zurich

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Bailey, W. H.

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Hamilton, William

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Epithet: KB, Envoy at Naples British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000083 Epithet: of Crieff British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001299.0x000211 Epithet: of Add MS 34048 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001299.0x0001f9 Epithet: of Add MS 35646 ...

Lavender, Thomas

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Stimpson, William

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Smith, E.A.

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Venable, Charles S. (Charles Scott), 1827-1900

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Confederate officer, aide to Robert E. Lee, and professor of mathematics at South Carolina College (1857-1862) and at the University of Virginia following the Civil War until retirement in 1893; author of several mathematics text books; born at "Longwood", in Prince Edward County, Va.; husband of Margaret Cantey McDowell. From the description of Charles S. Venable papers, 1858-1934. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 43541303 Confederate officer, aide to Rob...

Royal society of New South Wales

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Ewald, Dr. (Gotha)

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Hector, James (Dr.)

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Bristow, Benjamin Helm, 1832-1896

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Lawyer, railroad entrepreneur, Secretary of the Treasury, and Republican politician. From the description of Benjamin Helm Bristow [microform] : papers, selections from Library of Congress. (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 62534698 From the description of Benjamin Helm Bristow : miscellaneous papers, 1832-1896. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46737472 Army officer, lawyer, and U.S. secretary of the treasury and soli...

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