George P. Merrill correspondence and autographs, 1803-1926.
- 1,800 items. 5 containers. 2 linear feet.
Open to research.
Autographs and letters of geologists and other scientists collected by Merrill while writing The First One Hundred Years of American Geology (1924). Includes letters addressed to James Hall, F.V. Hayden, and others. Correspondents include Cleveland Abbe, Louis Agassiz, Amos Binney, Thomas Cooper, Asa Gray, Clarence King, Robert E. Peary, Raphael Pumpelly, W.C. Redfield, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, David Humphreys Storer, Eduard Suess, and John Torrey.
One hundred eighty-eight letters Smithsonian Institution. transferred to
Geologist.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009027
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Abbe, Cleveland, 1838-1916 --Correspondence. Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 --Correspondence. Binney, Amos, 1802-1878 --Correspondence. Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 --Correspondence. Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 --Correspondence. Hall, James, 1811-1898 --Correspondence. Hayden, F. V. 1829-1887 --Correspondence. King, Clarence, 1842-1901 --Correspondence. Peary, Robert E. 1856-1920 --Correspondence. Pumpelly, Raphael, 1837-1923 --Correspondence. Redfield, W. C. 1789-1857 --Correspondence. Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 --Correspondence. Storer, David Humphreys, 1804-1891 --Correspondence. Suess, Eduard, 1831-1914 --Correspondence. Torrey, John, 1796-1873 --Correspondence.
Geology. Geology--United States. Science--United States.