Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1893.

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Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1893.

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Item is addressed to Brinton is his capacity as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and asks him to nominate a committee-member to the Smithsonian Hodgkins Fund Prize board. The item is written by Langley in his capacity as secretary for the Smithsonian Institute.

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Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906

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