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Tait, Peter-Guthrie 1831-1901

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Mathematician and physicist. From the description of Treatise on the dynamics of a particle, 1856. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80398005 Scottish physicist and mathematician. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Edinburgh, to W. A. Knight, 1880 Jul. 24-1895 Aug. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580382 ...

Day, Robert, Jr.

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Wilmot, Colonel

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Dreble, Edwin

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Hoffman, Adolph

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Gray, Asa

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Rogers, Henry Darwin

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Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859

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Physician and professor of Connecticut. From the description of Letter, 1838, Sept. 22 : New Haven, Connecticut, to Thomas Cushing. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35201351 Denison Olmsted taught mathematics, natural philosophy, and astronomy at Yale College from 1825-1859. From the description of Notes taken from Profr. Olmsted's lectures on natural philosophy, 1827-1829. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122689401 Fro...

Tyndall, John

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Epithet: FRS; Superintendent of the Royal Institution British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x000303 Epithet: FRS; of Add MS 48341 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x0002c0 Epithet: FRS; of Add MS 42582 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x...

Barton, A. B.

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Poore, Ben Perley

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Harris, Miss

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Mercantile Library Association

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Bessels, Emil

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Davis, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1845-1921

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Rear admiral, U.S.N. Author of his father's biography, "Life of Charles Henry Davis, Rear-Admiral, 1807-1877.". Superintendent of U.S. Naval Observatory, 1897-1902. From the description of Charles Henry Davis letters to Henry Oscar Houghton, Jr. and Houghton Mifflin & Co., [manuscript], 1899 Mar 24 and Apr 16. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 247517738 ...

Cogswell, Joseph Green, 1786-1871

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Joseph Green Cogswell was a native of New England and graduate of Harvard. Throughout his long and active life, he was a scholar, educator, editor, bibliographer, and author, as well as superintendent of the Astor Library. Through his reputation, connections, and extensive travelling, he was known by many of the most notable figures of the nineteenth century, including Goethe, Irving, Byron, Scott, and Humboldt. From the description of Joseph Green Cogswell letter, 1852 April 5. (Pen...

Randall, Henry Stephens, 1811-1876

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Henry Stephens Randall (1811-1876), educator and historian, author of Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858). Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881), newspaper editor, man of letters, and Virginia historian. From the description of Correspondence between Henry Stephens Randall and Hugh Blair Grigsby, 1856-1861. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228736119 Agriculturalist, educator, politician, and writer. Author of numerous books and articles...

Lippincott, J. S.

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Forbes, James David

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Epithet: DCL British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001242.0x0002fe Balfour Stewart was born in Edinburgh on 1 November 1828. He was educated in Dundee, at St. Andrews University and then at Edinburgh University. At the latter, he attended the lectures of Professor James David Forbes (1809-1868). For a time he worked in the office of a Leith merchant and went to Australia on business in 1855. There he acquired a taste...

Shea, John D.

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Davis, C. H., Mrs.

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Miller, L. A.

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Mills, Henry

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Earle, Pliny

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Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858

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Parker Cleaveland (1780-1858) was a professor at Bowdoin College from 1805 until his death in 1858. For the school terms 1840-41, 1841-42, and 1842-43, he was Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Natural Philosophy, as well as Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and Lecturer on Civil Polity. From the description of Lecture notes, c. 1840? (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191259246 Parker Cleaveland (1780-1858) was a scientist and professor of chemistry, ...

Page, Charles Grafton, 1812-1868

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Silliman, Benjamin, Jr.

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Rogers, William Barton, 1804-1882

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Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Virginia from 1835-1853. In the years following his departure, he founded and was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Boston. From the description of Papers of William Barton Rogers [manuscript], 1843 December 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647837261 Shields was a student from Cumberland County, Va.; afterwards a captain and surgeon, C.S.A., then physician and farmer in Union Count...

Henry, William Alexander (Henry's Son)

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Pimby, F. R.

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University of the State of New York. Board of Regents

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The Regents' Inquiry into the Character and Cost of Public Education conducted studies in seven major areas. The study of the State Education Department produced separate reports for each division or bureau in the Department which include the unit's history and legal status, functions, major activities, personnel and costs, publications, relations with other departmental units, as well as recommendations by the Study 7 staff. From the description of Correspondence and working files f...

Michler, Nathaniel (General)

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Robinson, Joseph A.

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Morton, S. G.

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

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Putnam, George P.

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Belcourt, Father

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Henry, Mary Anna (Henry's Daughter)

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Bowman, Colonel

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Varnum, G. W.

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Hare, Robert

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Schaeffer, E. M.

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Barnes, Albert

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Child, H. P.

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