William Louis Abbott papers, 1887-1923 [microform]. 1887-1923.
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Abbott, William Louis, 1860-1936
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A native of Philadelphia, William Louis Abbott (1860-1936) was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (A.B., 1881; M.D., 1884). He continued his medical education in England, attaining Licentiates from the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians. Upon receiving his inheritance, however, Abbott left the practice of medicine forever, and from then on indulged his avocation for travel and the study of natural history. Abbott had already made collections of birds in Iowa an...
Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Although the first Smithsonian Secretary, Joseph Henry, had seen the need for an archives to preserve the records of the Institution, the Smithsonian Institution Archives had its real origins in 1891, when William Jones Rhees, who had been Chief Clerk since 1852, was given the title Keeper of the Archives. Rhees served in the post until his death in 1907. For the first half of the twentieth century, the administrative staff of the Office of the Secretary cared for the historical records while ma...
