It has frequently been remarked, that in the extensive regions of the United States, there are boundless fields of inquiry, hitherto, almost untrodden ...

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 2381.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harvard University--Endowments.

Harvard University.

Endowments.

Harvard University--Faculty.

Natural history--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Natural history.

Natural history--Study and teaching (Higher).

Botanical gardens.

Natural history museums.

United States.

Natural history museums--Massachusetts--Cambridge.

Botanical gardens--Massachusetts--Cambridge.

Massachusetts--Cambridge.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1802]

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Notes:

Proposal for establishing a professorship of natural history at Harvard University, to be connected with a botanic garden and museum.

Followed by: We the subscribers agree to pay the sums by us respectively subscribed ... subject to such terms and conditions, as shall be determined by the subscribers ... at a meeting to be convened, when the sum of [blank] thousand dollars shall be subscribed; the first professor to be nominated by the subscribers ... Boston, March 25, 1802.

The original, held by Massachusetts Historical Society, is filled out in ms. soliciting twenty thousand dollars to support the professorship.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 2381).

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