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Benjamin Silliman letter to Edward Hitchcock, 1836 June 7
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1836-06-07
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1 item (4 pages)
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A letter to Edward Hitchcock in which Benjamin Silliman warns him to decline his appointment to geologist of the first district of the survey of New York, and explains why he should decline. Silliman also responds to Hitchcock's proposal that Silliam create an index to the first 30 volumes of the American Journal of Science, and he discusses some recent geological specimens found by Dr. Joseph Barratt.
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English
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