Guide to the Alexander Agassiz Letter Letter to Professor A. Ramsay. Cambridge, Mass. July 28, 1882

Guide to the Alexander Agassiz Letter

Letter to Professor A. Ramsay. Cambridge, Mass. July 28, 1882


COLLECTION SUMMARY
Repository:	University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Department of Special Collections 1450 Poplar Lane, Lawrence, KS 66045-7616 Phone: (785)864-4334 Fax: (785)864-5803 URL: http://spencer.lib.ku.edu Finding aid prepared by mt, 2008. Finding aid encoded by mt, 2008
Creator:	Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910
Title:	Letter to Professor A. Ramsay.
Dates:	July 28, 1882
Quantity:	1 folder (1 leaf)
Place:	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Abstract:	Swiss-born Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910) immigrated to the United States, where he attended Harvard 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. This letter, to a Alexander Ramsay (1822-1909) and written on Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College letterhead, discusses the exchange of the Museum's scientific journals in exchange for The Scientific Roll, of which Ramsay was editor.
Identification:	MS P653
Language(s):	English

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910. Letter to Professor A. Ramsay. Department of Special Collections, MS P653, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries

Acquisition Information

Purchased from Maggs Bros Rare Books, June 27, 1966

Processing Information

Former SC temporary call number: MS (Box) 38: 85

Former temporary collection name: Collection of 19th c. letters: Miscellaneous group of mainly English letters: mostly 19th c, some 20th c, a few 18th c.

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INDEX TERMS

Names:

Ramsay, Alexander, b. 1822 (creator)

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