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Authorised form of nameHunt; Thomas Sterry (1826 - 1892); mineralogist
Dates1826 - 1892
NationalityAmerican
Place of birthNorwich, Connecticut, USA
Date of birth05 September 1826
Place of deathNew York, New York, USA
Date of death12 February 1892
OccupationMineralogist; Chemist
ActivityEducation:
AM (Harvard)
Career:
Chemist and Mineralogist to the Geological Survey of Canada
Memberships:
American Academy of Sciences, Boston; FGS France; Natural History Society, Boston
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/06/1859
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DAB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1892 vol 51 pp xxiv-xxvii signed by J W D
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/12608053
CodeNA3684
Archives associated with this Fellow
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MM/18/29Letter from Thomas Sterry Hunt to Herbert Rix30 October 1889
NLB/4/260Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Thomas Sterry Hunt, Park Avenue31 March 1890
MC/11/44Letter from T [Thomas] Sterry Hunt, St James Hotel, Boston, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]3 April 1877
EC/1859/07Hunt, Thomas Sterry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/3/912Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Thomas Sterry Hunt, Fellow of the Royal Society8 November 1889
NLB/5/317Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Thomas Sterry Hunt, Park Avenue Hotel, New York, [USA]13 May 1891
MC/12/318Letter from T [Thomas] Sterry Hunt, Montreal, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]28 March 1883
MC/10/381Letter from T [Thomas] Sterry Hunt, St James Hotel, Boston, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]9 April 1876
MC/9/49Letter from T [Thomas] Sterry Hunt, Institute of Technology, Boston, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society31 March 1870
MC/9/350Letter from T [Thomas] Sterry Hunt, Montreal, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society22 November 1872
MC/10/96Letter from T [Thomas] Sterry Hunt, St James Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]17 April 1874
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
MC/10/234Letter from T [Thomas] Sterry Hunt, St James Hotel, Boston, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]31 March 1875
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
MC/11/186Letter from T [Thomas] Sterry Hunt, 26 Marlborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]19 March 1878
MC/11/332Letter from T [Thomas] Sterry Hunt, Montreal, Canada, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society], London9 April 1879
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
AP/39/22Paper, 'On the serpentines of Canada and their associated rocks' by Thomas Sterry Hunt1857
AP/39/27Paper, 'On the part which the silicates of the alkalies may play in the metamorphism of rocks' by Thomas Sterry Hunt1857
AP/40/19Paper, 'On the probable origin of some magnesian rocks' by T [Thomas] Sterry Hunt1857
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
MC/13/30Letter from T [Thomas] Sterry Hunt, Montreal, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]16 March 1884
MC/13Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1884
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