Brush, George Jarvis, 1831-1912.
George Jarvis Brush family papers, 1834-1960 (bulk 1834-1939).
Correspondence, writings, lectures, notes, printed material, and other papers, principally of George Jarvis Brush (1831-1912), mineralogist, geologist, and educator; and of his son-in-law, Louis Valentine Pirsson (1860-1919), also a geologist. There are also papers of Brush's wife, Harriet Silliman Trumbull Brush and of other family members. A good deal of the papers are scientific in nature, with some relating to the early history of the Yale Sheffield Scientific School. Important correspondents include William H. Brewer, Charles F. Chandler, Josiah P. Cooke, Whitman Cross, James Dwight Dana, Timothy Dwight, Charles W. Eliot, Joseph Henry, Lyman Trumbull, Joseph Wharton, and Josiah Dwight Whitney.
George Jarvis Brush (1831-1912): 1852-1853 taught chemistry at the University of Virginia and did mineralogical experiments; 1855 appointed professor of metallurgy at Yale Univesity Sheffield Scientific School, and in 1864 this position was expanded to include mineralogy; became president of Sheffield Scientific School in 1872, and continued until 1898; served as trustee, and other positions on the Board of the school until 1912; author of books and articles.
Louis Valentine Pirsson (1860-1919): 1892 began teaching mineralogy and lithology at Yale; also held administrative posts in Sheffield Scientific School and was the author and editor of various books, articles, and journals.
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910.
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873.
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887.
Bauerman, Hilary, 1834-1909.
Blake, Eli Whitney, 1836-1895.
Blanford, William Thomas, 1832-1905.
Brewer, William Henry, 1828-1910.
Brush, George Jarvis, 1831-1912.
Brush family.
Chandler, Charles Frederick, 1836-1925.
Chittenden, Russell Henry, 1856-1943.
Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894.
Cross, Whitman, 1854-1949.
Dana, Henrietta Frances Silliman, 1823-1907.
Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895.
Des Cloizeaux, Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand, 1817-1897.
Dwight, Timothy, 1828-1916.
Egleston, Thomas, 1832-1900.
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926.
Eschweiler, Charles F.
Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867.
Fisher, Robert A., b.ca. 1833.
Genth, Frederich August Ludwig Karl Wilheim, 1820-1893.
Gibbs, Wolcott (Oliver Wolcott), 1822-1908.
Gilman, Daniel Coit, 1831-1908.
Gold, Theodore Sedgwick, 1818-1906.
Grimes, Elizabeth Sarah Nealley.
Hagemann, Gustav, 1853-
Hague, James Duncan, 1836-1908.
Hawes, George Wesson, 1848-1882.
Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878.
Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911.
Jeffries, William W.
King, Clarence, 1842-1901.
Kobell, Franz von, 1803-1882.
Krantz, Jean Baptiste S ebastien, b. 1817.
Longfellow, Alice Mary.
Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford, 1838-1915.
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899.
Moore, George Henry.
Pirsson, Louis Valentine, 1860-1919.
Ramsay, Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891.
Rockwell, Alfred Perkins, 1834-1903.
Roepper, William Theodore.
Rood, Ogden N. (Ogden Nicholas), 1831-1902.
Root, Oren, 1838-1885.
Silliman, Benjamin, 1816-1885.
Smith, John Lawrence, 1818-1883.
Smyth, Warington Wilkinson, 1817-1890.
Storer, Frank H. (Frank Humphreys), 1832-1914.
Taylor, William J, 1833-1864.
Teall, Jethro Justinian Harris, 1849-1924.
Torrey, John, 1796-1873.
Trautwine, John Cresson, 1810-1883.
Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896.
Trumbull, Julia Maria Jayne, 1823-1868.
Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897.
Washington, Henry S, (Henry Stephens), b. 1867.
Weed, Walter Harvey, 1862-1944.
Weld, Mason Cogswell, 1829-1887.
Wharton, Joseph, 1826-1909.
Whitney, Josiah Dwight, 1819-1896.
Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894.
Williams, George Huntington, 1856-1894.
Yale University -- Faculty.
Yale University. Sheffield Scientific School.
Yale University -- Students.
Family.
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Mineralogy.
Science.
Europe.
Europe -- Description and travel.
New York (State)
West (U.S.)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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