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Antoine-François de Fourcroy and Gaspard Monge letter to the Minister of the Marine
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Gaspard Monge wrote this letter in Paris while he held the position of the Minister of the Marine. The letter is in French and deals with war against England. The letter may have been intended for Edmond Charles Genet, the French Ambassador to the United States who was sent to the US to promote American support for France's wars with Spain and Britain.
mssHM 81229
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This document certifies that Andre Jean Henri Lucas has completed a course in mineralogy at the Le Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. It is dated 11 Frimaire de l'an 6 and signed by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. In French.
mssHM 81246
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Letter written by François Arago to James Silk Buckingham. Arago wrote the letter from Paris in his capacity as secretary of the Académie Royale des Sciences, Institutes de France, addressing Buckingham as the Commandent de Buckingham, Paris. The letter regards Buckingham's published prospectus for a voyage around the world, Esquisse d'un Plan de Voyage autour du Monde par la Route des Indes, de la Chine, du Japon et des îles de l'Océan Pacifique: Ayant pour but les Intérêts Combinés des Découvertes, de la Civilisation et du Commerce. The letter is in French. A second page of writing consists of Buckingham's address.
mssHM 83058
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In this letter, van Marum is thanking Monge for a conversation they had in Paris in 1785. After this exchange, van Marum became all the more determined to study the new Chemistry and is now sending a volume he has just published, much of which is the product of what he has learned from Monge. He then asks Monge to send feedback of the book after he reads it. With the letter is a transcription that was done by Barbara Dibner. The letter is in French and was written from Haarlem.
mssHM 81087
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Two autographed letters signed, from Coast Survey Office, Washington, March 25 and August 27, 1857, from Louis François de Pourtalés to E. Meriam, of New York, requesting information about an earthquake off the California coast in August, 1856, and subsequently thanking Meriam for information received.
mssHM 70411-70412
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M. le comte de La Cépède wrote this letter as the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor to the minister of the interior.
mssHM 81245