Rogers, William Barton, 1804-1882.
William B. Rogers papers, 1804-1911.
The collection includes family and professional correspondence, including drafts of letters; many are reprinted in the two-volume Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers (1896). Records relating to the founding of MIT include drafts of Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology (1860); a facsimile of an Act to Incorporate the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1861); and drafts of Scope and Plan of the School of Industrial Science (1864). Also included are papers about Rogers's term as president of the National Academy of Sciences; and his involvement with the American Social Science Association and the American Association of Geologists and Naturalists (later the American Association for the Advancement of Science). Also includes copies of articles by Rogers and his brothers on geology and related sciences.
William Barton Rogers, 1804-1882, the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was educated at the College of William and Mary but apparently did not receive a degree. He was professor of natural phlilosophy and chemistry at the College of William and Mary from 1828 until 1835, when he was elected to the chair of natural philosophy at the University of Virginia. At about the same time he was appointed to lead the first geological survey of the state of Virginia, which he worked on for the next six years. In 1853 he resigned from the University of Virginia and moved to Boston, where he enlisted the support of the scientific community to create an institution for technical and scientific education. Largely through his efforts, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was incorporated in 1861. He served as president of MIT from the first meeting of the incorporators in 1862 until 1870, then served a second term from 1878 to 1881.
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910.
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873.
Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867.
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886.
Atkinson, Edward, 1827-1905.
Atkinson, W. P. (William Parsons), 1820-1890.
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867.
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887.
Barker, George F, (George Frederick), 1835-1910.
Barnard, Frederick A. P. (Frederick Augustus Porter), 1809-1889.
Bigelow, Erastus B. (Erastus Brigham), 1824-1879.
Brush, George Jarvis, 1831-1912.
Bullock, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1816-1882.
Coffin, J. H. C. (John Huntington Crane), 1815-1890.
Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897.
Crafts, J. M. (James Mason), 1839-1917.
Crosby, William Otis, 1850-1925.
Cross, Charles R. (Charles Robert), 1848-1921.
Dalton, Charles Henry.
Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895.
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926.
Francis, James Bicheno, 1815-1892.
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888.
Hall, James, 1811-1898.
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893.
Henck, John B. (John Benjamin), 1816-1903.
Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
Hilgard, J. E. (Julius Erasmus), 1825-1891.
Hitchcock, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1836-1919.
Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911.
Holman, Silas W. (Silas Whitcomb), 1856-1900.
Howison, George Holmes, 1834-1917.
Hubbell, Henry.
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883.
Hunt, Thomas Sterry, 1826-1892.
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895.
Hyatt, Alpheus, 1838-1902.
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907
Kneeland, Samuel, 1821-1888.
Lanza, Gaetano, 1848-1928.
LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence) 1825-1883.
Lowell, Augustus, 1830-1901.
Luce, Stephen Bleeker, 1827-1917.
Macfarlane, James, 1819-1885.
Maclaurin, Richard C. (Richard Cockburn), 1870-1920
Marcou, Jules, 1824-1898.
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899.
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871.
Newberry, J. S. (John Strong), 1822-1892.
Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909.
Nichols, Wm. Ripley (William Ripley), 1847-1886.
Niles, William Harmon.
Noyes, Arthur A. (Arthur Amos), 1866-1936
Ordway, John M. (John Morse), 1823-1909.
Osborne, George A. (George Abbot), 1839-1927.
Philbrick, Edward Southwick, 1827-1889.
Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley), 1818-1886.
Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939.
Richards, Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta), 1842-1911.
Richards, Robert H. (Robert Hallowell), 1844-1945.
Rockwell, Alfred Perkins.
Rogers, John Augustus, 1848-1933.
Rogers, Emma.
Rogers, Henry D. (Henry Darwin), 1808-1866.
Rogers, James B., 1803-1852.
Rogers, James Harvey, 1886-1939.
Rogers, Patrick Kerr, 1776-1828.
Rogers, R. E. (Robert Empie), 1813-1884.
Rood, Ogden N. (Ogden Nicholas), 1831-1902.
Ross, Matthew, 1750-1828.
Runkle, John D. (John Daniel), 1822-1902.
Russell, Andrew.
Savage, James Francis, b.1849.
Scudder, Samuel Hubbard, 1837-1911.
Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864.
Silliman, Benjamin, 1816-1885.
Storer, Frank H. (Frank Humphreys), 1832-1914
Swain, George Fillmore, 1857-1931.
Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873.
Tyler, John M. (John Mason), 1851-1929.
Venable, Charles S. (Charles Scott), 1827-1900.
Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897.
Ware, William R. (William Robert), 1832-1915.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
Webb, Thomas H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1801-1866.
Whitaker, Channing.
Williams, H. Clay.
Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875.
Zalinski, Edmund Louis Gray.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Social Science Association.
Association of American Geologists and Naturalists.
Boston Society of Natural History.
College of William and Mary.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alumni Association.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Presidents -- Rogers -- 1862-1870.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Presidents -- Rogers -- 1879-1881.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Society of Arts.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
University of Virginia.
Virginia Geological Survey.
Exposition universelle de 1867 a Paris.
Paris Universal Exposition of 1878.
Physicists. lcsh
AIP-ICOS
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