
Lot #0002A: "National Institute For The Promotion of Science; 1840"; leather bound ledger. This is an important historical, scientific and cultural artifact. Every page and piece of paper has been photographed. The National Institute was the initial repository for collections of artifacts brought to the U.S. by the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838, as well as various other objects accumulated by the government, such as items owned by early American politicians, patent models, and natural objects. There is an entry on page 25 that records the transfer of a desk used by George Washington to the Institute, as Directed by the President of the United States, with a signature of Z. Taylor.
The signature has not been authenticated, but it does appear to be in a hand other than the recording secretary. Such artifacts were the precursor to the Smithsonian Institution collection. (142 photos) {Description Altered: Feb. 18; 7:42pm ET; 2019}
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High Bid: | $14,000.00 |
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Bidding Ended: | Thu, Feb 21 9:00:00 pm ET |
High Bidder: | 581 |
Bid Increment: | $250.00 |
Starting Bid: | $1.00 |
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Additional info on period signatures associated with the National Institute for The Promotion of Science volume. Included are several membership nomination sheets signed by members, including:
Peter Force, printer and historian, dominant signature
Jonathan Homer Lane, an astronomer and scientist at the US Patent Office
Leonard Dunnell Gale, worked with Morse on the electronic telegraph
Robert Mills, architect who designed the Washington Monument
Charles Coffin Jewett, Library of Congress
Joseph Camp Griffith Kennedy, ran the 1850 and 1860 census
William P Elliot, a South Carolina politician and author of ‘Agricola’ ?
Others not fully identified:
Charles F Stansbury; Foreman; M. Catts or Cotts; Baker; Walter R Johnson; James Wynne; T. or J. J. Everett; H. C. Coffin
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