Pencil drawing of Bellona Arsenal [manuscript], [1833?]

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Pencil drawing of Bellona Arsenal [manuscript], [1833?]

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Note on verso: "Bellona Arsenal. Whitman's first residence after leaving West Point." Possibly the "picture" mentioned in Bailey's letter of July 3, 1883.

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Bellona Arsenal (Chesterfield County, Va.)

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Bailey, Jacob Whitman, 1811-1857

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Jacob Whitman Bailey (1811–1857) was an American naturalist, known as the pioneer in microscopic research in America. Jacob Whitman Bailey was born in Auburn, Massachusetts on April 29, 1811, and in 1832 graduated at West Point, where, after 1834, he was successively assistant professor, acting professor, and professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology. At West Point he studied with John Torrey. He devised various improvements in the construction of the microscope and made an extensive co...