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Abbot, Griffith Evans (b. 1850)
Abbot-Charnay Photograph Collection, 1859-1882 (123 photographs, 2.0 lin. feet)

A traveler, archaeologist, and photographer, Désiré Charnay (1828-1915) was one of the most important early expeditionary photographers. During his tours of Yucatan, Oaxaca, and Chiapas in 1858-1860 and 1880-1886, Charnay became one of the first to use photography in documenting the great Meso-American archaeological sites and to make ethnographic photographs of indigenous Mexicans. His major publications Cités et Ruines Américaines (Paris, 1862) and Les Anciennes Villes du Nouveau Monde (Paris, 1885) are important transitional works to the later scientific archaeology of Alfred Maudslay.

The collection of photographs taken by Desire Charnay are representative of the range of images he took of Meso-American archaeological sites during three tours of Mexico in 1858-1860 and 1880-1886. Although some of the images have suffered an unfortunate degree of fading, they convey the power and fascination that these sites held for Charnay and his contemporaries, and include some of the best early examples of the use of photography in the documentation of Mexican archaeology. The collection includes 123 images of the sites at Tula, Teotihuacan, Iztaccihuatl, Chichen Itza, Comalcalco, and Palenque, of archaeological specimens held at the Museum of Mexico, and of landscape and villages in Yucatan, Chiapas, and Oaxaca, as well as a series of Lacandon, Mayan, Mixtec, and Yucatec "racial types."

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Académie des Sciences, Paris
Selections from the Procès-verbaux, 1758-1789. Film. 1 reel.

Minutes of meetings, mainly dealing with astronomy; added papers by Jean Paul Grandjean de Fochy and Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan.

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Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Minutes and correspondence, 1812-1924. Film. 38 reels.

For the contents of this collection, see Venia T. and Maurice E. Phillips, Guide to the microfilm publication of the minutes and correspondence of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1812-1924, Philadelphia, 1967.

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Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Autograph letters of naturalists, 1744-1894. Film. 1 reel.

Collection of 283 letters assembled and presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by John Torrey.

Correspondents include: Louis Agassiz, Zaccheus Collins, Peter S. DuPonceau, Elie M. Durand, Asa Gray, William Hembel, Alexander von Humboldt, William H. Keating, James Mease, Samuel G. Morton, George Ord, Charles Pickering, Constantine S. Rafinesque, Benjamin Silliman, Sr., John Torrey, Charles Waterton, Alexander Wilson.

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Accademia delle Scienze, Turin
Correspondence with Philadelphia institutions, 1824-1912.Film. 1 reel.

From Accademia delle Scienze. Letters, principally of a formal character, from APS, Academy of Natural Sciences, Wistar Institute, Wagner Free Institute of Science, and other learned societies and institutions; also a letter from John Vaughan to Prospero Balbo, 1832; with drafts of some replies.

Table of contents (3 pp.).

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Adair, William
Meteorological notebook, 1776-1788. 1 vol.

Meteorological observations taken at Lewes, Del.

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Adams, Charles Christopher (1873-1955)
Ecologist, Zoologist
Papers, ca. 1888-1955. 15 ln. ft.

Correspondence, diaries, field notes, manuscripts, and photographs, all reflecting Adams's interests in biology, ecology and human ecology, geography, and zoology. The field notebooks are extensive, spanning the years 1888-1948. Of special interest are those on the Adirondack regions, 1919-48 (2 boxes) and from his Latin American trip of 1948. The photographs are both family and professional, with many from his numerous field trips. Of significance are the photos and negatives from the Roosevelt Wild Life Experiment Station (N.Y. State College, Syracuse) and from the University of Montana Biological Station at Flathead Lake, Montana (1913). There is much personal correspondence with Wilda P. Mackenzie. A part of the collection pertains to his daughter, Harriet Adams, including exchanges with the Charles C. Adams Center for Ecological Studies at Western Michigan University, and her unfinished biography of her father.

Correspondents include: Edwin G. Conklin, Wallace Craig, John Dewey, Morton J. Elrod, Roland M. Harper, Wilton M. Krogman, Eduard C. Lindeman, Lewis Mumford, Frank H. Pike, George Sarton, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Wilfred Thomas, Edwin B. Wilson, Clark Wissler.

Table of contents (4 pp.).

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Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)
President of the United States. APS, 1818.
Material from the administrative and chancellery files.

These papers contain mostly correspondence, with a few printed statements and articles. From originals in the Archive of the Foreign Policy of Russia, U.S.S.R.

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Adams, Walter Randolph
Collector
Recordings concerning religious practices of southeastern Chiapas, Mexico, 1977. Recording. 7 reels.

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Adams, Walter Sydney (1876-1956)
Astronomer, APS, 1915
Papers, 1881-1939. 0.25 lin. feet.

An expert in stellar spectroscopy, Walter Sydney Adams made important empirical contributions to the analysis of the physical conditions of stellar and planetary atmospheres, determining the distances to extragalactic objects, and understanding stellar evolution. Adams succeeded his mentor George Ellery Hale as director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, serving in that capacity from 1923 to 1946.

The Adams Papers contains approximately 100 letters addressed to the astronomer Walter Sydney Adams, dating primarily from the period after his move to Mount Wilson Observatory in 1904. Much of the correspondence is relatively perfunctory, however a few letters include interesting scientific content, including Harlow Shapley discussing his photometric study of HV 3435 and interest in Alpha Circini, Arthur Compton's comments on Keener's photoelectric method, Svante Arrhenius on the possibilities of constructing a new observatory for the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Arthur Eddington discussing the implications of the spectrum of the companion to Sirius. Among Adams' other correspondents are J. C. Kapteyn, James H. Jeans, Henry Norris Russell, Elihu Thomson, and Willem de Sitter.

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Adams Family
Adams Papers, 1639-1899. Film. 608 reels.

From Massachusetts Historical Society. Papers of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams, their wives, children, and others. See Wendell D. Garrett, "Opportunities for Study: The Microfilm Edition of the Adams Papers," Dartmouth College Library Bulletin, n.s., 5 (1962): 26-33.

Table of contents.

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Adye, Stephen Payne (d. 1794)
British jurist; APS, 1772.
Correspondence, 1769-1783. 38 items. Photocopy.

Adye was the Deputy Judge Advocate for the British Army in North America. The letters concern British court martial proceedings in the Colonies, with references to the armed conflict in America. They are primarily to Sir Charles Gould, who was the Judge Advocate General in England.

Table of contents (1p.).

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Agassiz, Louis Jean Rodolph (1807-1873)
Naturalist; APS, 1843.
Papers, 1833-1873. 50 items.

A miscellaneous collection of letters written by Agassiz and concerning a wide range of topics: natural history and naturalists, geology, mineralogy, fossils, publications, expeditions, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. There are additional Agassiz letters indexed in other APS collections. The correspondents include: William Buckland, Charles H. Davis, Charles W. Eliot, Charles E. Emery, Asa Gray, Charles F. Hartt, Franklin Haven, Alpheus Hyatt, Frederic Kidder, Sir Austen H. Layard, Joseph Le Conte, Leo Lesquereux, Allan McLane, Henri Milne-Edwards, Thomas W. Parsons, Benjamin B. Washburn, Henry Wilson, Justin Winsor.

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Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892)
Astronomer; APS, 1879.
Papers, 1840-1890. ca.40 items.

The collection is divided into two series. The first contains disparate letters from Airy relating to his publications and his position as Astronomer Royal of England, with mentions of topics such as: electrical experiments, magnets, Observatoire de Paris, stars, and telescopes. Correspondents in this series include: Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Challis, Alexander S. Herschel, Balfour Stewart, Septimus Tebay, John Washington. The second series features a group of documents put together by George May of the Harton Colliery at South Shields (1889) relating to Airy's pendulum experiments at Harton Pit in 1854 to measure the density of the earth.

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Aitken, Jane (1764-1832)
Philadelphia printer and bookbinder
Papers, 1784-1814. 145 items.

Jane Aitken (1764-1832) is a significant historical figure for several reasons. One of the first American female printers, Jane Aitken was also a bookseller, bookbinder, businesswoman, and employer during the early nineteenth century, a time when the independence of women was actively discouraged. There is a dearth of personal information about Jane Aitken, an unfortunate fact that is reflected in her surviving papers.

This small collection, 145 items, is representative of her severely compromised financial situation and her constant failed efforts to rectify the situation. Her correspondence consists primarily of appeals to John Vaughan, a member and librarian of the American Philosophical Society, for loans. Vaughan was evidently a reliable and sympathetic supporter.

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Albright, William Foxwell (1891-1971)
Orientalist, archaeologist, linguist; APS, 1929.
Papers, ca. 1920-71. 49 ln. ft.

This collection, presently unorganized, contains extensive correspondence (27 ln. ft.), mostly of a professional nature but there are some family or personal letters. The present organization does not allow a listing of important correspondents, but there is extensive correspondence with Samuel Geiser.

In addition, the collection contains material concerning numerous lectures and papers he read (drafts or copies of the talks, supporting correspondence, etc.); his publications, field work, etc.; and material (documents, diaries, photos) portraying the Timna expedition,1950-1951, in South Arabia. There is also significant documentation on the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem beyond his years as Director (it was renamed the William Foxwell Albright Institute of Archaeological Research a year before his death). On the whole this collection documents in great detail the course of Albright's life as the leading Orientalist of his age.

William Foxwell Albright was an Orientalist, archaeologist, and linguist. He received his Ph.D. from John Hopkins in 1916 and then took a professorship there in 1927, and was the W. W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages, 1930-1958. He was the Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, 1922-1929, 1933-1936. He did important archaeological work and excavated at such sites in Palestine as Gibeah (Tell el-Fûl, 1922) and Tell Beit Mirsim (1933-1936). He was also involved with interpretation of the Qumrân, or Dead Sea, scrolls.

Restrictions: Literary rights in the collection have been retained by the descendants of Dr. Albright.

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Alexander, Caleb (1755-1828)
Clergyman, author, principal of Onondaga Academy (Onondaga, N.Y.).
A grammatical institute of the Latin language intended for the use of Latin schools in the United States. 1 vol. (212 pp.)

With a covering letter from the author to Isaiah Thomas, 1793; the manuscript was published by Thomas at Worcester, Mass., 1794.

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Alexander, William, earl of Stirling (1726-1783)
Astronomer, member of New Jersey Council; major general, Continental Army. APS, 1770.
Variation of the compass, 1773. (7 pp.)

Written at Basking Ridge, N.J., March 27, 1773, this essay appeals to the APS to collect and publish astronomical observations; it was sent to the APS, where it was duly read in May 1773.

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Allen, Harrison (1841-1897)
Physician, surgeon, anatomist. APS, 1866.
Papers, 1861-1897. 3 vols.

Two volumes contain genealogical data on the Allen family; one volume is a scrapbook of miscellaneous material on Allen and his family and there are nine diplomas and certificates of membership in learned societies, military associations, etc.

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Allen, Willard Myron (1904- )
Physician, scientist.
Papers, 1934-1962. 9 items.

Concerning the nomenclature of the hormone progesterone. Included are letters to or from George W. Corner, Karl Mason, K.H. Slotta, and O. Wintersteiner. There are originals and copies.

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American Council of Learned Societies.
Correspondence, 1926-1927. 174 items.

This small but important collection of correspondence relates to the formation of the Committee on Research in the Native American Languages, its grants, and its publications. Correspondents include: Edward C. Armstrong, Leonard Bloomfield, Franz Boas, R. W. Bryan, James McKeen Cattell, Pliny Earle Goddard, Charles H. Haskins, J. W. Hewitt, Melville Jacobs, Roland G. Keat, Alfred L. Kroeber, Waldo G. Leland, Robert M. Lester, Fang-Kuei Li, Adrien G. Morice, William A. Oldfather, Gladys A. Reichard, Edward Sapir, E. H. Sturtevant, John R. Swanton, Walter F. Willcox. The collection is not calendared.

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American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages
Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics, 1882-1958. 80 linear ft.

Formed in 1927 under the initiative of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and other academic linguists, the Committee on Native American Languages of the American Council of Learned Societies was charged with documenting the rapidly disappearing languages of American Indians.

The materials assembled by the Committee record at least 166 Native American languages or dialects collected by dozens of linguists, and include ranging from complete field notes and ethnographic texts to slip files, vocabularies, lexica, and grammars. A small number of non-linguistic works are also included in the collection, and additional linguistic material has subsequently been added, extending the range of dates represented both backward and forward in time.

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American Eugenics Society
Records, 1916-1973. 9 lin. ft.

The American Eugenics Society Records is a small, selective collection offering information on various periods of the Society's development, including correspondence, membership records, and formal and informal material on its history. Of particular interest are the records of the Society's numerous committees, including the Executive Education, Population Genetics Research, Legislative, and local and state committees, and documentation of AES educational initiatives at state fairs and eugenic health exhibits and contests, especially the Fitter Family Contests.

A scrapbook containing 83 images of Fitter Family and eugenic health exhibits, 1924-1926, provides valuable visual information of AES activities. One series in the collection relates to the numerous Princeton Conferences and to a genealogical survey of the populations of Shutesbury and Leverett, Massachusetts, and there is also material on the Population Council. The collection largely revolves around Frederick Osborn, the moving force in the Society for most of its later history, and it includes approximately 100 papers written or delivered by Osborn concerning eugenics, genetics, or population related topics.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

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American Institute of Architects. Philadelphia Chapter
Records, 1869-1910. 7 vols.

Transferred to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1987.

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American Philosophical Society
Archives, 1743-1984, 192.25 ln ft.

Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society was the first learned society in the United States. For over 250 years, the Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Society fulfiled the role of a national academy of science, national library and museum, and even patent office. Early members of the Society included Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Peter Du Ponceau, George Washington, and many other figures prominent in American history.

The Archives of the American Philosophical Society consists of 192.25 linear feet of material, organized into thirteen record groups dating back to 1743. The Society's archives extensively documents not only the organization's historical development but also its role in American history and the history of science and technology.

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American Philosophical Society. Historical and Literary Committee
American Indian Vocabularies Collection, 1784-1828. 49 items.

Beginning in the 1790s, the American Philosophical Society began to accumulate vocabularies and texts written in Native American languages, guided by Thomas Jefferson's idea of using comparative linguistics to reconstruct the histories of Indian peoples and discern their origins.

The American Indian Vocabulary Collection was initially assembled by the Historical and Literary Committee of the APS for publication in 1816. They include information on seventeen North American languages and one each from the Caribbean and Central America, collected between 1784 and 1828. A number of individuals were involved in recording the vocabularies, including Benjamin Hawkins, William Thornton, David Campbell, Daniel Smith, Constantine Volney, Constantine Rafinesque, William Vans Murray, John Heckewelder, Martin Duralde, Campanius Holm, and Jefferson himself. Most followed the standardized word set established by Jefferson.

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American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research
Collection, 1960-present. 27 lin. feet

The Phillips Fund Collection consists of materials submitted to the APS by recipients of grants from its Phillips Fund for Native American Research. The materials are very varied in scope, ranging from linguistics to ethnography, musicology, religion, ethnobotany, and history, and including study of Indian cultures from Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

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American Physical Society and the American Philosophical Society
Joint Committee on the History of Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century
Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, ca. 12,500 items. (107 recordings. ca. 300 reels of film.)

Primary source materials for the history of quantum physics in the twentieth century, collected under the auspices of the APS and the American Physical Society, with a grant from the National Science Foundation. T here are transcripts of the oral history interviews, as well as the working papers of the Committee. These include correspondence with famous figures in physics, with some memoirs, photographs, lectures, etc. On microfilm are manuscripts of Niels Henrick David Bohr and his scientific correspondence (62 reels from the Niels Bohr Archives, Universitets Institut for Teoretisk Fysik, Copenhagen).

Among the physicists whose correspondence and/or manuscripts are on microfilm are:

• Max Abraham
• Edoardo Amaldi
• Edward N. da Costa Andrade
• Ernst Back
• Edmond Bauer
• Jean Becquerel
• Carl Benedicks
• Arnold Berliner
• Raymond T. Birge
• Patrick M. S. Blackett
• Niels H. D. Bohr
• Max Born
• Gregory Breit
• Louis de Broglie
• Sir John D. Cockroft
• Arthur H. Compton
• Dick Coster
• Sir Charles G. Darwin
• Peter J. W. Debye
• Gerhard H. Dieke
• Paul A. M. Dirac
• Sir Arthur S. Eddington
• Paul Ehrenfest
• Albert Einstein
• Enrico Fermi
• Adriaan D. Fokker
• Alfred Fowler
• James Franck
• Walther Gerlach
• Samuel A. Goudsmit
• Fritz Haber
• Werner Heisenberg
• David Hilbert
• Frederic Joliot
• Pascual Jordan
• Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes
• Peter Kapitza
• Heinrich Kayser
• Edwin C. Kemble
• Oskar Klein
• Hendrik A. Kramers
• Rudolf Ladenburg
• Paul Langevin
• Max von Laue
• Philipp Lenard
• Fritz London
• John C. McLennan
• Lise Meitner
• Gustav Mie
• Robert A. Mullikan
• Robert S. Mulliken
• Johann von Neumann
• Yoshio Nishina
• J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Friedrich Paschen
• Wolfgang Pauli
• Linus Pauling
• Max Planck
• Leon Rosenfeld
• Svein Rosseland
• Heinrich Rubens
• Carl Runge
• Ernest Rutherford
• Karl Scheel
• Erwin Schredinger
• Arnold Sommerfeld
• Johannes Stark
• Sir Joseph J. Thomson
• George E. Uhlenbeck
• John H. Van Vleck
• Woldemar Voight
• Emil Warburg
• Victor F. Weisskopf
• Pieter Zeeman

This collection is described and analyzed in Sources for the History of Quantum Physics: An Inventory and Report, by Thomas S. Kuhn, John L. Heilbron, Paul Forman, and Lini Allen (Philadelphia, 1967).

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American Society of Human Genetics.
Records, 1948-1981. 14 linear ft.

The American Society of Human Genetics was founded in 1948 by Herluf H. Strandskov, Charles Cotterman, H.J. Muller, and L.H. Snyder. This archive is composed chiefly of correspondence and membership applications. Also included are minutes of Board of Directors meetings, a few annual reports from officers, and materials relating to annual meetings, awards, committees, and associated organizations. Presented by the American Society of Human Genetics, 1978-1988.

The collection is arranged into seven series: Series I, Constitution and Minutes; Series II, Officers; Series III, Membership; Series IV, Committees; Series V, Annual Meetings; Series VI, Travel Grants and Awards; Series VII, Miscellaneous.

Finding aids: Table of contents (5 pp.) available in the repository.

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American Society of Naturalists
Records, 1883-1983. (42 lin. ft.).

Transferred to the Archives of the Smithsonian Institution, September 1995.

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Amoss, Harold Lindsay (1886-1956)
Physician
Papers, 1918-1922. 2 lin. feet

A pathologist and researcher at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, 1914-1922, Harold Lindsay Amoss specialized in research on infectious diseases ranging from poliomyelitis to meningitis, erysipelas, brucellosis, and encephalitis.

The Amoss Papers are comprised primarily of materials relating to Harold Amoss' medical service in the United States Army during the First World War (1918-1919), to his research at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, 1920-1922, and to his efforts to develop vaccines for meningitis and poliomyelitis.

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Ancona, Mirella Levi d' (1919- )
Florentine book-illumination of the Renaissance, 1956. (113 pp.) Typed.

Material collected for, but not published in d'Ancona's Miniatura e miniatori a Firenze del XIV al XVI secolo. Documenti per la storia della miniatura (Florence, 1962). The study was made with the assistance of an APS grant.

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Anderson, Thomas Foxen, 1911-1991
Papers, 1928-1989. 43 lin. ft.

Thomas F. Anderson was a biophysicist and electron microscopist whose research included Raman spectroscopy; the physiology of yeast; the biological effects of radiation; the biological applications of electron microscopy; and the genetics of bacteria, bacterial viruses, and bacteriophage. He was a Professor of Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Member of the Institute for Cancer Research in Fox Chase.

The Anderson collection is organized into seven series: I. Correspondence, 1932-1989; II. Subject Files, 1928-1989; III. Grant Files, 1940-1983; IV. Works by Anderson, 1934-1985; V. Works by Others, 1933-1988; VI. Research Notes and Notebooks, 1931-1977; VII. Photographs, 1938-1988. Arrangement: Alphabetical by folder title and then chronological within each folder.

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Andreani, Count Paolo (1763-1832)
Aeronaut, traveler. APS, 1792
Journals, 1783?-1791. In Italian. Film. 1 reel.

Manuscripts in possession of Count Antonio Sormanni Verri, Milan. Includes a fragment of a dairy kept on a trip to Britain, 1783?; journal of a voyage from Milan to Paris, 1784; journal of a trip through New York state (including visits to Albany, the reservations of the Six Nations, Saratoga, and the Shaker community at New Lebanon); also typed transcriptions of the journal of 1790 and of a journal from Philadelphia to Quebec,1791.

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Andrews, Emma B. (1837-1922)
A Journal on the Bedawin, 1889-1913. 2 vols. (1058 pp.). Typescript copy.

A wealthy retired businessman and art collector from New York and Newport, R.I., Theodore M. Davis financed a series of archeological excavations in Egypt between 1889 and 1912. Avid, but not necessarily disciplined in his approach, he supported a remarkably productive series of excavations at Thebes and, in the work for which he is best remembered, in the Valley of the Kings. On many of these expeditions, Davis was accompanied by his relative, Emma B. Andrews.

The diary that Andrews kept during these expeditions is valuable on two scores. First, at its best, it provides a literate and often detailed record of an adventurous American woman traveling in fin de siecle Egypt and (to a lesser degree) Italy and her encounters with life in the colonial British settlements along the Nile. Second, it provides some important details on the appearance of tombs in the Valley of the Kings as they were first unearthed, with interesting comments upon Davis and a number of his fellow Egyptologists.

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Anguiano, Ramón de
Spanish general
Descripción geografica del reyno de Guatemala, 1818. 1 vol. (37 pp.)

A report on the geography, resources, and population of Central America.

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Anonymous
L'État indépendant du Congo, ca. 1895. (42p.).

The Congo Free State was formally established in 1885 under the Belgian King Léopold II. With the use of forced labor, the governors rapidly developed agriculture and mining during their repressive twenty year administration, making the Free State the world's largest exporter of rubber by 1903. However due in part to international opposition to the abuses of power, the Free State was annexed to Belgium by act of parliament in 1908.

The essay L'État Indépendant du Congo was written by an unknown Belgian some time during the period 1895-1908. Apologetic in tone, it discusses the political and social organization and religion of the Congolese natives, the geography and productions of both Bas Congo and Haute Congo, and the civil administration.

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Anonymous
Journal of a voyage in the Ship Sampson, May 23-Aug. 23, 1819 . 1 vol. (36 pp.).

Journal of an unknown author emigrating from Liverpool, England, to Philadelphia.

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Anonymous
Libro de govierno en donde se sientan las cordilleras y edictos de los illustrissimos señores obispos el que se hiso siendo cura y vicario y interino de este veneficio de Tusta Don Dionicio Josse Canales; y Comenso el dia 17 de Julio, del año de 1793 [corr. from 1796]. 1 vol. (ca. 250 pp).

There are a few additions to the above, until the year 1818. The volume appears to be an administrative account relating to the tracts of land controlled by the church near the border of Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Guatemala.

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Anonymous
Vocabulaire Chacta, ca.1820. 1 vol. (48p.)

The anonymous compiler of the Vocabulaire Chacta, ca.1820, gathered 149 elementary words in the Choctaw language, the basic numerals, and six "useful" (if not always appropriate) phrases. The notebook was donated to the American Philosophical Society by Peter Stephen Duponceau in 1827.

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Anonymous
A vocabulary of the most common words in use among the Sac & Fox Indians, n.d. 1 vol. (27 pp.).

Sak and Fox words with their English equivalents. A note inside the back cover states "C.S.F. to Mrs. S.," asking her to excuse the "erroz in Spelling They are not mind (sic.). written on the night of my return from a memorable Expedition."

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Aquarium Society of Philadelphia
Archives, 1902-1906, 1913-1925. ca. 75 pp. & 1 vol.

Primarily records kept by the Secretary, Herman T. Wolf, but includes treasurer's records, membership information, presidential addresses, etc.

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Araujo, Antonio de (1566-1632)
Jesuit priest
Catecismo brasilico da doutrina Christ a, 1686. 1 vol. (93 pp.)

In Portuguese and Brazilian. Manuscript copy of a printed work; includes poems, statement of Christian doctrine with Portuguese translation, three catechetical dialogues.

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Archivo General de Indias, Seville
Audiencia de Guatemala, 16th c. Film. 129 reels.

Collection of documents relating to post-conquest social and cultural processes in Guatemala, which were culled from the AGI in Seville by the Hispanic-Latin American Research Project beginning in 1967. There is a 65-page guide to the collection, Guide to the Documents from the Archivo General de Indias pertaining to the Audiencia de Guatemala.

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Artificial Language
Collection, 1880-1891. 0.25 lin. feet

See Volapük Collection

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Association of American Geographers
Archives, 1904 .135 lin. ft.

Collection transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 1997.

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Astronomy
Eclipses of the sun and moon, ca. 1820-1838. 1 vol. (11 pp., plus 20 additional loose items).

Presents an astronomical sketch of the eclipses, some of which could be seen from Philadelphia and Canton, China. By an unknown author.

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Astronomy
Esfera Astronomica Composta e divida en Circulos, ca. late 17th c. 1 vol. (ca. 900 pp).

A Portuguese maritime treatise, in Portuguese, on spherical and planetary astronomy, based on the Ptolemaic system, but with presentation of the Copernican system. There are numerous diagrams and a few interesting sketches.

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L'Athené de Paris
Letters, 1792-1853. 227 items.

Letters of French scientists, collected for autographic value, on education, natural history, physics, chemistry, and other topics; practically all pertain to lectures at the Athene; and many are addressed to Andreé Marie Ampère.

Table of contents (5 pp.).

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Audubon, John James (1785-1851)
Artist and naturalist. APS, 1831.
Papers, 1821-1845. 0.75 linear feet.

John James Audubon, the American Woodsman, is a legendary naturalist and bird artist. His technique of painting North American birds dramatically as they appeared in their natural habitat was a major contribution to the emerging discipline of ornithology in the nineteenth century. His masterpiece, The Birds of America (1827-1838), elephant folio, was followed by a companion text edition, Ornithological Biography (1831-1849), a smaller octavo edition of Birds (1840-1844) and The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, published posthumously in 1848.

This collection of original letters of publication information, ornithology, and some personal notes were sent primarily to Lucy Bakewell Audubon, his wife, from 1826-1834, and to Victor Gifford Audubon, his son, from 1833-1834, 1840-1844, with some sporadic contact with both between 1836-1839. Of note, while Audubon's Florida, Great Egg Harbor, and Great Pine Forest expeditions are contained within, his final expedition, up the Missouri River, is not. Of particular note, late letters of 1833 and early 1834, contain references to his response to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia president George Ord's attacks on his credibility. A partial journal entry from New Orleans in 1821 and a few letters to other correspondents, including John Bachman, round out the material.

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Ayer, Edward Everett (1841-1927)
Business man, bibliophile.
Reminiscences of the Far West, and other trips, 1861-1918. 1 vol. (206 pp.). Typed, carbon.

A long account of a journey from Harvard, Ill., to the Nevada mines and to San Francisco, and of military service in the Southwest, 1860-1864; shorter accounts of 12 trips by train and automobile in the western and eastern states, Mexico, and Europe, 1881-1918. The original manuscript is in Newberry Library, Chicago.

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Azambuja, Jacob Frederico Torlade Pereira de
Portuguese chargeé d'affaires
Memoria sobre o valor das moedas, 1833. 1 vol. (159 pp.).

Jacob Frederico Torlade Pereira de Azambuja was the Portuguese chargé d'affaires in the United States from 1829-1834. His essay on the monetary system of Portugal was presented to the American Philosophical Society in October 1833, and was read at the meeting of Oct. 18. Written in Portuguese, the essay deals with one of the burning issues of the Jacksonian era, the money system, by examining the history of coinage and the money system in Portgual from the earliest times. The essay was dedicated to the APS and read at the meeting of October 18, 1833.

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