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Heading: (Science and Technology)
Author: Henry, Joseph
Title: First Report of The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to the Board of Regents
Place Published: Washington, D.C.
Publisher:
Date Published: 1847
Description: 48 pp. Disbound, removed from larger volume with remnants of original spine. December 8, 1847.The original first report of the Smithsonian. Joseph Henry, its first secretary, intended the museum to be the fundamental institution for the promotion of early American Science and technology.

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The beginnings of the Smithsonian

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