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Description Albert Herter, Founders of the National Academy of Sciences (1924), National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
This group portrait depicts President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1863, signing legislation to create the National Academy of Sciences.
Left to right: Benjamin Peirce, Librarian of Harvard University; Alexander Dallas Bache, Superintendent of U.S. Coastal Survey; Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Jean Louis Agassiz, Founder of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States; Henry Wilson, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory; Benjamin A. Gould, Astronomer.
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Source Artists of Abraham Lincoln Portraits: Albert Herter (Lincoln Financial Foundation, 1924), p. 55.
Author Albert Herter (2 March 1871 - 15 February 1950), artist

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