Number of Images: 3 ; Color: Color ; Size: 8w x 10h ; Type of Image: Document ; Medium: Paper
Type:
Document
Paper
Date:
August 13, 1846
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
The accompanying PDF contains SIA2012-3276, SIA2012-3277, SIA2012-3278, SIA2012-3279, and SIA2012-3280, which are pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 6, pages 474-478.
Summary:
Letter from Joseph Henry, then a professor at Princeton University and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Benjamin Silliman, Jr., a chemistry professor at Yale University, August 13, 1846. In the letter, Henry discusses recent requests made upon him to recommend candidates for professorships, and his thoughts about what traits make a good professor. He writes that decisions should be made based upon whoever has provided the most original research and has made the most important additions to his specific branch of knowledge.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7001, Box 8, Folder: 21 - July-September 1846
Rothenberg, Marc, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 6, The Princeton Years: January 1844-December 1846 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1992), 474-478
