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  <titleInfo>
    <title>George P. Merrill correspondence and autographs, 1803-1926</title>
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    <namePart>Merrill, George P. (George Perkins)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1854-1929</namePart>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>One hundred eighty-eight letters transferred to Smithsonian Institution.</note>
  <note>Geologist.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Abbe, Cleveland</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1916</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Agassiz, Louis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1807-1873</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Binney, Amos</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1802-1878</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cooper, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1759-1839</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gray, Asa</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1810-1888</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hall, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1898</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1887</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>King, Clarence</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1842-1901</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1920</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pumpelly, Raphael</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1923</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Redfield, W. C. (William C.)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1857</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1793-1864</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Storer, David Humphreys</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1804-1891</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Suess, Eduard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1914</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Torrey, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1796-1873</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Geology</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Geology</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Science</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <occupation>Geologists</occupation>
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