Charles Frederick Hartt papers, 1863-1874.

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Charles Frederick Hartt papers, 1863-1874.

Letters about a proposed Brazilian expedition, geology, zoology, and related subjects from Joel Asaph Allen, James Dwight Dana, Arnold Henry Guyot, James Hall, Thomas Sterry Hunt, Alpheus Hyatt, Alpheus Spring Packard, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, Addison Emery Verrill, Jeffries Wyman, and other scientists; also notification of Hartt's membership in the Boston Society of Natural History, his US citizenship papers, and other documents.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7905868

Cornell University Library

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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...

Wyman, Jeffries, 1901-1995

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Jeffries Wyman (1901-1995) was Professor of Biology at Harvard from 1928 to 1951. From the description of Papers of Jeffries Wyman, 1957-1985 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77061123 Jeffries Wyman (1901-1995) was a biophysicist . A professor of Biology at Harvard from 1928 to 1951, he spent his later years at the University of Rome . He was the author of numerous papers on the biophysical properties of proteins and a member of scientific ...

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Cornell University. Dept. of Geology.

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Hyatt, Alpheus, 1838-1902

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Hunt, Thomas Sterry, 1826-1892

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Scudder, Samuel Hubbard, 1837-1911

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Epithet: palaeontologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x0001c4 Samuel H. Scudder was an American entomologist and paleontologist. Scudder specialized in the study of Orthoptera, which at that time was defined to include grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches and other insects. He also did extensive work on the classification of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera (beetles), and was a pion...

Hall, James A., 1944-

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The Hall family came to Clinton, Iowa in November of 1856, just as the town was developing. By 1861 they returned to Portland, Maine. James Hall may have been associated with railroad or land companies. From the description of Diaries kept by James Hall's daughter, 1856 Oct.-1857 Dec., 1861. (Iowa Sate Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70070231 ...

Hartt, Charles Frederick, 1840-1878

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First professor of Geology at Cornell University. From the description of Charles Frederick Hartt papers, 1863-1874. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937372 Louis Agassiz (1807-1873, APS 1843) was a zoologist and geologist. A student of Georges Cuvier, Agassiz was renown for his six-volume work Poissons fossils, a study of more than 1,700 ancient fish. Equally important was his Ètudes sur les glaciers (1840). In 1845 Agassiz moved to the Unite...

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Guyot, A. (Arnold), 1807-1884

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Arnold Henry Guyot was a geographer and the first to formulate laws of structure and movement of glaciers. He published geography textbooks, 1866-1875, and was professor of physical geography and geology at Princeton University, 1854-1884. From the description of Correspondence, 1857-1882. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122316399 Geographer and geologist. From the description of Letter of A. Guyot, circa 1857. (Unknown). WorldCat re...