Today, it is easy to take typescript for granted. However, can you image what a relief it must have been for Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Smithsonian Secretary and Director of the National Museum. Baird had a voluminous correspondence with authorities across the United States and abroad as he worked to develop the national collection. This annual report from the Materia Medica Section was typed. A hint of things to come.
Please join us in transcribing this curatorial annual report.
Today, it is easy to take typescript for granted. However, can you image what a relief it must have been for Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Smithsonian Secretary and Director of the National Museum. Baird had a voluminous correspondence with authorities across the United States and abroad as he worked to develop the national collection. This annual report from the Materia Medica Section was typed. A hint of things to come.
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