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| | Nat' Academies Press, The National Academy of Sciences: The First Hundred Years, 1863-1963 (1978) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Before long, with some assistance from their "Chief," as they called Bache, members of the Lazzaroni were spread all along the coast, with Gould in Albany, Peirce and Agassiz in Cambridge, Dana in New Haven, Wolcott Gibbs in New York, Frazer and his brilliant student Fairman Rogers2 in Philadelphia, and Bache and Henry in Washington. |
 | | Intent on seeking government recognition and in- stitutional support of science, they used their influence to secure university appointments for those who had their approval, promoted the operations of the Coast Survey and the Smithsonian from the forums of the American Journal and the AAAS, and exposed charlatanry in science wherever it appeared. |
 | | Caswell, the Secretary, Gould and other politic ones urged all the while that when the time of penitence and reconciliation should come, the oath should be set asides. |
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