About the time when Mr. Silliman was appointed a professor (1804) , the entire mineralogical and geological collection of Yale College was transported to Philadelphia in one small box, that the specimens might be named by Dr. Adam Seybert, then fresh... The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 41865Full view - About this book
| 1864 - 504 pages
...From this small beginning grew the present cabinet. In 1810, owing to personal regard for Professor Silliman, Col. George Gibbs deposited with Yale College...the college, chiefly through the instrumentality of Professor Silliman, subscribed for its purchase the sum of $20,000. Other important accessions were... | |
| 1864 - 526 pages
...Philadelphia in one small box, that the specimens might be named by Dr. Adam Seybert, then fresh from Werner's School at Freiberg, the only man in this...present cabinet. In 1810, owing to personal regard for Professor Silliman, Col. George Gibba deposited with Yale College his valuable collection of minerals;... | |
| University of the State of New York - 1869 - 232 pages
...Philadelphia in one small box, that the specimens might be named by Dr. Adam Seybert, then fresh from Werner's school at Freiberg, the only man in this country who could be regarded as a mineralogist sufficiently trained for that work." This illustrates the facilities for the study and illustration... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1872 - 522 pages
...Philadelphia in one small box, that the specimens might be named by Dr. Adam Seybert, then fresh from Werner's school at Freiberg, the only man in this country who could be regarded as a mineralogist sufficiently trained for that work." This illustrates the facilities for the study and illustration... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1871 - 524 pages
...Philadelphia in one small box, that the specimens might be named by Dr. Adam Seybcrt, then fresh from Werner's school at Freiberg, the only man in this country who could bo regarded as a mineralogist sufficiently trained for that work." This illustrates the facilities... | |
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