James Smithson's Scientific Notes
Object Details
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Handwritten scientific notes by James Smithson (1765-1829), chemist, mineralogist, and founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, concerning his mineral collection of some 10,000 specimens.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7000, Box 2, Folder 2, and Box 11
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Date
- c. 1820s
- Standard number
- 96-1640
- Author
- Smithson, James 1765-1829
- Subject
- Smithson, James 1765-1829
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Paper
- Document
- Physical description
- Size: 2.5w x 3.75h to 6.5w x 7.75h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper
- Topic
- Benefactors
- Collectors and collecting
- National Collections
- Chemistry
- Mineralogy
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10300
