Henry James Anderson (February 6, 1799 – October 19, 1875) was an American scientist and educator who worked with the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Dallas Bache.
[3][4][5][6] From 1840 to 1844, Anderson remained briefly in Paris where he worked closely with the anti-Newtonian astronomer François Arago, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Alexander Dallas Bache (Benjamin Franklin's great-grandson), who later established the "Magnetische Verein" (Magnetic Association).
[7] In 1848 as a geologist, he accompanied the United States Dead Sea exploration expedition, commanded by Captain William F. Lynch.
His reports from the expedition, Geological Reconnaissance of Part of the Holy Land, were published by the United States government in 1848 and 1849.
[9] He visited Pope Pius IX in Rome several times, and was eventually made a Knight Commander of the order of St. Gregory the Great.