The American Republic

The American Republic
ISBN-10
088273251X
ISBN-13
9780882732510
Series
The American Republic
Category
History
Pages
607
Language
English
Published
1978
Publisher
Harlan Davidson
Authors
John A. Schutz, Richard Stewart Kirkendall

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At Harvard University , President Charles W. Eliot pressed his colleagues in the medical school to make significant ... in the Bureau of Ethnology and the Geological Survey , recruiting J. Wesley Powell as head of these organizations .

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