George P. Merrill correspondence and autographs, 1803-1926.
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 1,800 items; 5 containers; 2 linear feetSubject(s): - 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. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887 -- Correspondence
- King, Clarence, 1842-1901 -- Correspondence
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 -- Correspondence
- Pumpelly, Raphael, 1837-1923 -- Correspondence
- Redfield, W. C. (William 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
- Geologists
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 transferred to Smithsonian Institution.
Geologist.
Collection material in English.
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