Financial records of the Board of Visitors of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, 1805, 1807-1814

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Financial records of the Board of Visitors of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, 1805, 1807-1814

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The Financial records of the Board of Visitors of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History offer a glimpse into the financial management of the Professorship and Botanic Garden from 1805 to 1814. The records include account statements for William Dandridge Peck documenting the expenses he incurred traveling in Europe from 1805 to 1808, bills and receipts, orders to pay from the Board of Visitors to the treasurer of Harvard College, promissory notes, stock account statements, and a draft of the rules and regulations of the Board of Visitors (ca. 1805).

.14 cubic feet; (1 flat box)

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In January 1830 the Board of Visitors of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History informed the Harvard Corporation that efforts to secure additional funding for the Professorship and botanic garden had been unsuccessful and that the best interests of the garden would be served if control was given to the Corporation. The Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, along with a botanic garden, was endowed in 1805 by a group of prominent Massachusetts citizen...