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

Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1802]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
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Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 2381. ^A575643
General noteProposal for establishing a professorship of natural history at Harvard University, to be connected with a botanic garden and museum.
General noteFollowed 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.
General noteThe original, held by Massachusetts Historical Society, is filled out in ms. soliciting twenty thousand dollars to support the professorship.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 2381
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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).
Genre/formBroadsides.

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