Letter to Professor A. Ramsay
Overview
Swiss-born Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910) immigrated to the United States, where he attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts to study engineering, chemistry, and marine ichthyology. Agassiz developed an interest in mining, and later donated $500,000 of his mining fortune to Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology in the early 1870s.The letter in this collection, sent to Alexander Ramsay (1822-1909) and written on Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College letterhead, discusses trading the Museum's scientific journals in exchange for The Scientific Roll, of which Ramsay was editor.
Dates
- Creation: July 28, 1882
Creator
- Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Extent
1 folder (1 leaf)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
MS P653
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchase, Maggs Bros Rare Books, June 27, 1966.
Processing Information
Former SC temporary call number: MS (Box) 38: 85, formerly part of temporary collection "Collection of 19th c. letters: Miscellaneous group of mainly English letters: mostly 19th c, some 20th c, a few 18th c."
Subject
- Ramsay, Alexander, 1822-1909 (Person)
- Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 -- Correspondence (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Alexander Agassiz Collection
- Subtitle
- Letter to Professor A. Ramsay.
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by mt, 2008. Finding aid encoded by mt, 2008.
- Date
- 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/3617747459
- Preferred citation
-
Letter to Professor A. Ramsay, MS P653, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository