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Letter from Eben Norton Horsford to James Curtis Booth

  • 1850-Sep-19

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Eben Norton Horsford (1818-1893) requests information concerning a muffle furnace from James Curtis Booth (1810-1888). Horsford was an American scientist who taught agricultural chemistry in the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard from 1847 to 1863.

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  • Box 1, Folder 6

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Horsford, Eben Norton. “Letter from Eben Norton Horsford to James Curtis Booth,” September 19, 1850. Papers of James Curtis Booth, Box 1, Folder 6. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/1l4zrrn.

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