A Memorial of George Brown Goode: Together with a Selection of His Papers on Museums and on the History of Science in America, Part 2

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1901 - 515 pages

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Memoir of George Brown Goode By Samuel Pierpont Langley
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Meriwether Lewis 17741809 explorer From an engraving by Strick
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MuseumHistory and Museums of History
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Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel 18091862 astronomer From an engraving
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Thomas Nuttall 17861859 naturalist From an engraving by Thom
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John Grubb Parke 18271900 army explorer From an engraving
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The Genesis of the United States National Museum
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Thomas Say 17871834 naturalist From an engraving by Hoppner
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John Smith 15791632 English explorer From an engraving 422
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engraving by Freeman
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James Buchanan Eads 18201887 civil engineer From an engraving by A H Ritchie
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Amos Eaton 17761842 botanist From an engraving by A H Ritchie
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Andrew Ellicott 17581820 astronomer and civil engineer From a photograph of a painting
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George William Featherstonhaugh 17801866 explorer and geologist From a photograph
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William Ferrell 18171891 meteorologist From a photograph
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John Reinhold 17291798 and John George 17541794 Forster natu ralists From an engraving by D Berger
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Benjamin Franklin 17061790 scientist From an etching by Albert Rosenthal of the painting by C W Peale
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The Principles of Museum Administration
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John Charles Frémont 18131890 army explorer From an engraving by T Knight of a photograph
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George Gibbs 18151873 ethnologist From a photograph
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James Melville Gilliss 18111865 astronomer From a photograph
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Augustus Addison Gould 18051866 conchologist From an engraving by Wright Smith
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Asa Gray 18101888 botanist From a wood engraving by G Kruell
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Jacob Green 17901841 chemist From an engraving by J Sartain of a painting by H Bridgport
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Arnold Guyot 18071884 geographer From a photograph
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Stephen Hales 16771761 botanist From a steel engraving
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Charles Frederic Hartt 18401878 naturalist and explorer From a wood cut engraving of a photograph
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Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler 17701843 first superintendent of the U S Coast Survey From a photograph of a painting
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Isaac Israel Hayes 18321881 Arctic explorer From an engraving by Jackman
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Joseph Henry 17991878 first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
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The Origin of the National Scientific and Educational Institutions of
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Edward Hitchcock 17931864 geologist From a photograph of a painting
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Eben Norton Horsford 18181893 chemist From an engraving
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Benjamin Peirce 18091880 mathematician From a photograph
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Timothy Pickering 17451829 statesman From an engraving by T
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Zebulon Montgomery Pike 17791813 army explorer From an engrav
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The Beginnings of Natural History in America
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Joseph Priestley 17731804 chemist From an engraving by W Holl
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Samuel Purchas 15771628 author of Purchas his pilgrimage From
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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque 17841842 naturalist From a wood
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William C Redfield 17891857 meteorologist From an engraving
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Charles Valentine Riley 18431895 entomologist From a photograph
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David Rittenhouse 17321796 astronomer From an engraving by J
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John Rodgers 18121882 naval explorer From an engraving by A
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Henry Darwin Rogers 18081866 geologist From an engraving
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William Barton Rogers 18041882 founder of Massachusetts Institute
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The Beginnings of American Science
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John Torrey 17961873 botanist From a lithograph
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John Tradescant 16081662 traveler and naturalist From a reproduc
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From
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Stephen Van Rensselaer 17651839 founder of the Van Rensselaer
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Garcilaso de la Vega 15391616 Peruvian historian From an early
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Benjamin Waterhouse 17541846 physician From an engraving
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David Ames Wells 18281898 political economist From an engraving
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Hugh Williamson 17351819 promoter of scientific enterprises From
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From an engraving by T
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Alexander Wilson 17661813 ornithologist From an old engraving
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The First National Scientific Congress Washington April 1844 and its Con
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Caspar Wistar 17611818 professor of anatomy From an engraving
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Jeffries Wyman 18141874 comparative anatomist From an engrav
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De Witt Clinton 17691828 chief promoter of the Erie Canal From
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