Miscellany, 1867-1869, 1927.

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Miscellany, 1867-1869, 1927.

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Miscellaneous items relating to Chadbourne and his work as president at the University of Wisconsin including a letter, 1869, to F. E. Parkinson of Fayette, Wis., urging him to study at the university; letters, 1867, to A. E. Verrill of Chicago, Ill., asking him about the lectures he was scheduled to give on domestic animals, insects, and science, and where he might find a professor of agriculture; extracts from a diary Verrill kept describing his 1868 trip to Madison and his lectures; and correspondence between G. E. Verrill and U.W. President Edward A. Birge, 1927, donating the diary and letters.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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University of Wisconsin

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Chadbourne, Paul A. (Paul Ansel), 1823-1883

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Paul Ansel Chadbourne was born Oct. 21, 1823 in North Berwick, Me. After graduating from Williams College in 1848, he served for several years as principal of the high school and academy at Great Falls, N.H. From 1853 to 1867, he taught botany, chemistry and natural history at Williams, and guest-lectured at other institutions. Beginning in 1867, Chadbourne held a series of posts as college president: President of the New Agricultural College at Amherst, Mass., 1867-1869, President of the Univer...

Verrill, A.E. (Addison Emery), 1839-1926

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Addison Emery Verrill (1839-1926) earned his Harvard SB summa cum laude in 1862 and an honorary AM from Yale in 1867. As an undergraduate student, he spent much of his time in the study of zoology, spending many hours cataloging specimens in the museum of comparative zoology and joining expeditions. In the summer of 1861, Addison Emery Verill, a Harvard undergraduate, joined an expedition to Anticosti. He worked closely with Professor Louis Agassiz. Verrill became Professor of Comparative Anatom...