Letter from John Wesley Powell to James Curtis Booth, April 26, 1886
- 1886-Apr-26
John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), first director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution and director of the U.S. Geological Survey, writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) to express his concern at Booth's delay in sending a promised geological survey of Delaware.
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Powell, John Wesley. “Letter from John Wesley Powell to James Curtis Booth, April 26, 1886,” April 26, 1886. Papers of James Curtis Booth, Box 2, Folder 9. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/ipu28p8.
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