American Philosophical Society,
Manuscript Communications
1756-1837
(3.5 linear feet)

APS Archives III, 1

© American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street * Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386
 American Philosophical Society 105 South Fifth Street Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386
Table of contents Abstract
Scientific communications, about 560 in number, originally a part of the "Archives" but removed at an earlier date, bound in volumes, and arranged chronologically under one of seven topics. They are now organized alphabetically in one series under the author's name.
Background note
Scientific communications, about 560 in number, originally a part of the "Archives" but removed at an earlier date, bound in volumes, and arranged chronologically under one of seven topics. They are now organized alphabetically in one series under the author's name.


Scope and content
A portion of the APS Archives, the Manuscript Communications consists of letters and papers on a variety of topics sent to the APS between the 1770s and 1830s. Many of the papers were read at meetings of the Society, some were published in the APS Transactions, and others were submitted for consideration for the premiums offered by the APS for best paper on the topic of education.

Once part of the general APS Archives, the Manuscript Communications were separated at an early date, arranged in chronological order, and bound into volumes under seven topical series:
  1. Mechanics, Machinery, and Engineering
  2. Trade, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Economics
  3. Medicine, Anatomy, Physiology
  4. Natural History
  5. Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics
  6. Natural Philosophy
  7. Mathematics and Astronomy

The Manuscript Communications have subsequently been disbound and rearranged in a single alphabetic series, with a reference to their original topical series.

Administrative information
Restrictions
None.

Provenance
Part of the APS Archives.

Preferred citation
Cite as: American Philosophical Society, Manuscript Communications, American Philosophical Society.

Processing information
Recatalogued by rsc, 2003.

Other finding aids
A comprehensive finding aid is also available for the APS Archives.

Added entries
Subjects
  • Astronomy--18th century
  • Education
  • Indians of North America--Northwest Coast
  • Natural History--18th century
  • Natural History--19th century

    • Contributors
  • American Philosophical Society
  • Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
  • Bartram, Moses, d.1791
  • Brown, Samuel, 1768-1805
  • Churchman, John, 1753-1805
  • Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817
  • Dunbar, William, 1749-1810
  • Duponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
  • Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820
  • Evans, Oliver, 1755-1819
  • Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
  • Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843
  • Hassler, F. R. (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843
  • Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820
  • Legaux, Peter, 1748-1827
  • Logan, George, 1753-1821
  • Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864
  • Matlack, Timothy, 1736-1829
  • Nicola, Lewis, 1717-1807
  • Page, John, 1744-1808
  • Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854
  • Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824
  • Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851
  • Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
  • Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796
  • Rumsey, James, 1743-1792
  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
  • Say, Thomas, 1787-1834
  • Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864
  • Thornton, William, 1759-1828
  • Valltravers, Johann Rodolph
  • Varle, Charles
  • Vaughan, John, 1755-1841
  • Warden, David Baillie, 1772-1845
  • Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819

    • Genre terms
  • Pencil works

    		•
    Contact information
    American Philosophical Society
    105 South Fifth Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386
    [http://www.amphilsoc.org/]

    ©2006


    Detailed inventory

    		 A.L.O.T.A. (pseud).
    ALS to David Rittenhouse     		1795 June 19 1 item Box 1

    		Originally enclosed in ALOTA to David Rittenhouse, 1795 June 19
    Includes pen and ink sketches of ships pumps.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		A.L.O.T.A. (pseud).
    Concerning improvements in ship pumps     		1795 June 19 5 items Box 1

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Academicus .
    ALS to Thomas Jefferson     		1797 Jan. 13 1 item Box 1

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Academicus .
    Plan for the education of youth     		ca.1797 Jan. 1 item Box 1

    		Originally enclosed in Academicus to Jefferson, 1797 Jan. 13
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Account of two parhelia (rainbows) 1756 Dec. 21 1 item Box OS

    		For account of this, see H. Williamson, 'Concerning parhelia rainbows,' 1816 May 20
    Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Acosta, Joaquim.
    ALS to the American Philosophical Society. Secretary     		1832 May 24 1 item Box 1

    		For enclosure, see Jean Boussingault, Researches on the cause of goiter, 1830 Oct.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Adrain, Robert.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1810 June 12 1 item Box 1

    		Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Alden, Timothy.
    Concerning a plan for exciting ambition in schools     		1813 Jan. 1 1 item Box 1

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Alison, Francis.
    Hints for the American Philosophical Society     		1773 April 2 1 item Box 1

    		Regarding fences and a 'diligent attention to husbandry' and agriculture
    Printed: Phila. Soc. For Promoting Agriculture Memoirs 6, 127ff.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Allison, Burgiss.
    Concerning a pneumatometre rain gage and an improved anemoscope     		1801 Jan. 16 3 items Box 1

    		note; contains sketches of Anemoscope, Pneumatometre and Rain Gage
    Natural Philosophy

    		American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
    ALS to James Ewing     		1780 Nov. 20 1 item Box 1

    		Enclosing J. Williard, Observations of the solar eclipse, 1780 Nv. 20, and AAAS, Catalogue of officers, 1780 Nov. 20
    Mathematics and Astronomy

    		American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
    Catalogue of officers elected Aug. 30, 1780     		1780 Nov. 20 1 item Box 1

    		Originally enclosed in AAAS to James Ewing, 1780 Nov. 20
    Mathematics and Astronomy

    		American Philosophical Society.
    ALS to I. Caffrey     		1797 June 1 item Box 1

    		Invitation to collect fossils for APS, including mention of mastodon and Megalonyx.
    Natural History

    		American Philosophical Society.
    Concerning inquiries to be made by Major Long of the Indians     		ca.1819 Mar. 30 2 items Box 1

    		Originally enclosed in Robert Walsh to John Caldwell Calhoun, 1819 March 30
    4 sets of queries by Peter S. DuPonceau, Dr. Samuel Brown, Dr. R. M. Patterson, and Robert Walsh, concerning: government, family, social organization, disease, origins, mental traits, virtues and vices, traditions, warfare, language, environment, horses, general character; origins and connections, manners and customs, language; specific diseases, incidence and treatment; childbirth and attendant medical phenomena.
    Freeman and Smith 1408
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		American Philosophical Society.
    NS to Jared Mansfield     		1816 ca. Sept. 1 item Box 1

    		Mathematics and Astronomy

    		American Philosophical Society.
    Report of Committee on Hosack's paper on the communication of contagious diseases     		1812 Dec. 3 1 item Box 1

    		For paper see Hosack, David to Colin Chisholm, 1812 July 10
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		American Philosophical Society.
    Report of Committee on J.J. Hawkins' Plan of a City     		1800 ca. Nov. 1 item Box 1

    		For paper reported on, See Hawkins, John J., Plan for Building a City, 1800, Sept. 19.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		American Philosophical Society.
    Report of Committee on Lime's Paper on Peach Trees     		1800 Oct. 2 1 item Box 1

    		For paper reported on see: Lime (pseud.), Concerning the Prevention of Decay in Peachtrees, 1797 Dec. 15
    Natural History

    		American Philosophical Society.
    Report of Committee on the Preservation of Peach Trees     		1798 April 4 1 item Box 1

    		For papers reported on see: Lime (pseud.), Concerning the Prevention of Decay in Peach Trees, 1797 Dec. 15; and X (pseud.), Concerning the Prevention of Decay in Peach Trees, 1797 Dec. 26.
    Natural History

    		American Philosophical Society.
    Report of Committee on Turner's paper on the prairie squirrel     		1798 June 22 1 item Box 1

    		Natural History

    		American Philosophical Society.
    Report of Committee on VarlÃ(c)'s canal locks     		1807 Mar. 20 1 item Box 1

    		See VarlÃ(c) to Caspar Wistar, 1806 Nov. 20 and B. H. Latrobe to C. W. Peale, 1807 Mar. 4
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		American Philosophical Society.
    Report of Committee on Vauquelin's Papers     		1810 Mar. 16 1 item Box 1

    		See Vauquelin, A.: "Analysis of the Nicotina Latifolia" 1809 Jan 12, and "Analysis of Snuff" 1809 Sept. 15
    Natural History

    		American Philosophical Society.
    Report of Committee on This Paper     		1816 Nov. 15
    		Box 1

    		See "Concerning the Calculation of Surd Decimal Fractions", 1816 Oct. 18
    Mathematics and Astronomy

    		American Philosophical Society.
    Report of Committee on X's Communication on Peachtrees     		1800 Oct. 2
    		Box 1

    		See X (pseud.) Concerning the Prevention of Decay in Peachtrees, 1797, Dec. 26


    		American Philosophical Society.
    Report of Publications Committee on S.C. Walker's Paper     		1834 Aug. 6
    		Box 1

    		See Walker, Sears Cook: "Concerning the Longitude...", 1833 Oct. 18

    		Americanus.
    ALS to David Rittenhouse     		1795 Aug. 1 item Box 1

    		Enclosing Americanus, "A pall lever to be applied to the ends of ships"
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Americanus (pseud.).
    Concerning an Improved Windlass     		1795 Sept. 18 1 item Box 1

    		Originally enclosed with Americanus to Rittenhouse, 1795 Aug.
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Analysis of the saline solution examined at the request of John Vaughan n.d. 1 item Box 1

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Anderson, Henry James.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1827 Nov. 7 1 items Box OS

    		Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Archer, John.
    ALS to Robert Harris     		1773 Dec. 2 1 item Box 1

    		Natural History

    		Archimedes, S. [i.e. Rednap Howell].
    ALS to Isaac Bartram     		1771 Nov. 15 2 items Box OS

    		See APS Archives 1772 Nov. 23
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Arnat, Thomas.
    Concerning the prevention of water leaking into houses     		1805 Feb. 11 1 item Box OS

    		Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Article on Warming Rooms 1791 Mar. 7 1 item Box 1

    		Originally enclosed with Letter to David Rittenhouse, 1791, May 20.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Austin, James.
    ALS to the American Philosophical Society. President     		1816 May 9 1 item Box 1

    		Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Austin, James.
    ALS to Robert Patterson     		1815 June 15 1 item Box 1

    		Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Aveilhi.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1796 Sept. 20 1 item Box 1

    		Relative to a cotton machine left with APS
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Bache, William.
    ALS to the American Philosophical Society     		1806 Oct. 17 1 item Box 1

    		Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Bachman, John.
    An account of some experiments made on the habits of the vultures inhabiting Carolina, the turkey buzzard and the carrion crow     		1834 Jan. 20 1 item Box 1

    		Natural History

    		Barnes, Joseph.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1792 Sept. 21 4 items Box 1

    		On construction of mills
    Ills.
    note: Mill construction designs included.
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Barnwell, William.
    Observations on the climate of New Orleans     		1817 May 22 1 item Box 1

    		Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Barron, James.
    Concerning the ventilation of ships to prevent the rotting of timbers     		1825 Jan. 7 1 item Box 1

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Barton, Benjamin Smith.
    Additional information on Phalaena tinea    		 1812 Dec. 16 1 item Box 1

    		Natural History

    		Barton, Benjamin Smith.
    Cervus (article from Archaeologicae Americanae)     		1806 1 item Box 1

    		Article on animals of America. Refers to his name for elk, Cervus wapiti, derived from the Shawanese.
    Freeman and Smith 3669
    Natural History

    		Barton, Benjamin Smith.
    Concerning Dunbar's paper on swallows     		1803 Jan. 21 1 item Box 1

    		Natural History

    		Barton, Benjamin Smith.
    Miscellaneous facts concerning. . . the genus Bartonia    		 1815 Dec. 15 1 item Box 1

    		Natural History

    		Barton, Benjamin Smith.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1801 April 1 1 item Box 1

    		Natural History

    		Barton, William.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1812 May 30 1 item Box 1

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Barton, William.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1813 Feb. 9 1 item Box 1

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Barton, William.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1813 Jan. 20 1 item Box 1

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Bartram, Moses.
    Some Account of the Naked or Siberian Barley [printed broadside]     		1771 July 19 1 item Box 1

    		Natural History

    		Baudry des Lozières, Louis Narcisse.
    Memoire sur le cotton-animal ou sur l'insecte porte-mouches     		1797 Jan. 3 1 item Box 1

    		In French, with English translation
    Natural History

    		Bennett.
    Concerning a theorem for ascertaining a standard measure     		1808 1 item Box 1

    		Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Bergsten, Nicholas.
    A singular case of chirurgo-medical operation in the Nosocomy of the University of Upsal in Sweden     		1800 Mar. 8 2 items Box 1

    		Note: 1 drawing.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Berthoud, James & Co..
    Directions for putting up beef for exportation     		1805 1 item Box 1

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Berthoud, James & Co..
    Directions for putting up beef for exportation     		1805 1 item Box .1

    		Copy in John Vaughan's hand
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Bill of mortality of Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1803 1 item Box 1

    		Originally enclosed in Lyman Spalding to John R. Coxe, 1803 Feb. 21
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Boussingault, Jean Baptiste Joseph DiedonnÃ(c).
    Researches on the cause of goiter in the mountains of New Granada     		1830 Oct. 1 item Box 1

    		Originally enclosed in Joaquim Acosta to APS Secretary, 1832 May 24.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Bowditch, Nathaniel.
    The Comet: elements of the orbit of the comet now visible [printed circular]     		1811 Dec. 6 1 item Box 1

    		Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Bradford, William.
    LS Cy to American Philosophical Society     		1790 Sept. 30 1 item Box 1

    		Transmitting an "extraordinary radish."
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Bridgman, Elijah Coleman.
    ALS to the Journal of Commerce. Editors     		1831 Feb. 10 1 item Box 1

    		Moral condition of Spanish possessions in Indian archipelago
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Brisbane, James.
    ALS to Benjamin Franklin     		1789 July 4 1 item Box 1

    		Re: "discovery of longitude."
    Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Brooks, Ebenezer.
    ALS to unidentified recipient     		1784 Nov. 6 1 item Box 1

    		Discovery of perpetual motion by Dr. McKinley of Kentucky.
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Brown, Charles.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1814 July 30 3 items Box 1

    		Astronomical observations.
    Ill.
    note: 2 astronomical drawings.
    Natural Philosophy

    		Brown, Samuel.
    Map of the nitre caves of Kentucky     		1805 Feb. 7 1 item Box OS

    		Natural History

    		Browne, Peter Arrell.
    ALS to the American Philosophical Society     		1830 Nov. 29 1 item Box 1

    		Re: deficiencies in Maclure's geological map.
    Natural History

    		Browne, Peter Arrell.
    ALS to the American Philosophical Society     		1830 April 16 1 item Box 1

    		Sending curiosity: a piece of engraved marble recovered from quarry in Montgomery Co.
    Natural History

    		Bruce, James.
    Concerning the simoom     		n.d. 1 item Box 1

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Buchanan, George.
    Concerning a vaccination     		1808 Feb. 19 1 item Box 1

    		Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Busby, C. Augustin.
    Concerning the propelling of vessels by siphon     		1819 Aug. 16 1 item Box 1

    		llus.
    Natural Philosophy

    		Busby, C. Augustin.
    Concerning the propelling of vessels by siphon (2)     		1819 Aug. 16 1 item Box 1

    		Note: Includes diagram of reservoir.


    		Byrnes, Daniel.
    A method proposed which it is apprehended will be an improvement in finding the longitude at sea     		1788 June 19 1 item Box 1

    		Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Byrnes, Daniel.
    ALS to Benjamin Franklin     		1788 Aug. 15 1 item Box 1

    		Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Caire-Morand, Antoine.
    Recherches sur l'asterie des anciens, et remarque d'un caractère singulier que la taille a devoilÃ(c)sur un GrÃ(c)nat     		1807 1 item Box 1

    		Natural History

    		Caire-Morand, Antoine.
    ALS to Thomas Jefferson     		1807 Mar. 20 1 item Box 1

    		Natural History

    		Calhoun, John C..
    ALS to Stephen Harriman Long     		1819 Mar. 8 1 item Box 1

    		Orders to assume command of Long Expedition. Originally enclosed in Calhoun to Robert Walsh, 1819 Mar. 11
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Calhoun, John C..
    ALS to Robert Walsh     		1819 Mar. 11 1 item Box 1

    		Originally enclosing Calhoun to Stephen Harriman Long, 1819 Mar. 8
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Chapman, Isaac A..
    ALS to the American Philosophical Society. Description of a new invented Steam-Boat     		1810 Mar. 20 2 items Box 1

    		With sketch
    Originally enclosed in Chapman to James Mease, 1810 May 1. See also Robert Patterson Re: Chapman's steam boat, 1810 July 27
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Chapman, Isaac A..
    ALS to James Mease     		1810 May 1 1 item Box 1

    		Originally enclosing Chapman to APS, 1810 Mar. 20.
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Chapman, Josiah.
    ALS to Robert Patterson     		1819 Dec. 15 1 item Box 1

    		See also Chapman to Robert Patterson, 1819 Aug. 31 (APS Archives).
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Chesapeake & Delaware Canal.
    Receipt to B.H. Latrobe     		1802 Jan. 4
    		Box 1

    		See Tousard, Louis: "An Inquiry...", 1802 Jan. 4

    		Chipchase, John.
    ALS to Leonard Snowden     		1804 Oct. 8 1 item Box 1

    		Extracts on meteors.
    Natural Philosophy

    		Churchman, John.
    Theory of magnetism     		1787 Feb. 7 1 item Box 1

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Churchman, John.
    Theory of magnetism (2)     		1787 Feb. 7 1 item Box 1

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Churchman, John.
    ALS to the American Philosophical Society     		1787 May 4 1 item Box 1

    		Requesting a report on his memorial.
    Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Churchman, John.
    ALS to the American Philosophical Society     		1787 Aug. 16 1 item Box 1

    		Requesting a report on his memorial.
    Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Churchman, John.
    ALS to Benjamin Franklin     		1789 Mar. 21 1 item Box 1

    		Regarding support for testing theory of magnetism as method of determining longitude.
    Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Clibborn, Edward.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1829 Nov. 23 1 item Box 1

    		Re: electricity.
    Natural Philosophy

    		Clifford, John D..
    ALS Cy extract to Benjamin Smith Barton     		1811 Sept. 4 1 item Box 1

    		Nitre caves in Kentucky.
    Natural History

    		Cloud, Joseph.
    An attempt to ascertain the fusing temperature of metals     		1814 May 20 1 item Box 1

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Clymer, George.
    Concerning the healthiness of Philadelphia     		1802 1 item Box 1

    		Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Coates, Dr..
    Description of a new hydrostatic balance     		1822 July 1 2 items Box 1

    		Illus.
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Colden, Cadwalader.
    Remarks on some obvious phenomena of light     		1771 June 21 1 item Box 1

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Collin, Nicholas.
    ALS to the President of the American Philosophical Society     		1793 Jan. 18 1 item Box 1

    		Re: climate of Pennsylvania.
    Natural Philosophy

    		Collins, Zaccheus.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1826 Mar. 16 1 item Box 1

    		Re: Mexican insect. Originally enclosing Taylor, Sicard and Co. to the APS, 1826 Jan. 20.
    Natural History

    		Concerning a new instrument for describing ellipses 1819 Dec. 3 1 item Box OS

    		Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Concerning a Relief for Sore Eyes 1809 Oct. 1 item Box 2

    		From London, describes a cure of inflamed eyes.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Concerning Articles which may be Usefullly Introduced Among Rude Nations in Africa n.d. 1 item Box 2

    		Re: introduction into Africa certain items from Europe.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Concerning Captain Swift's Observations on the Natives of the North West Coast of America 1805 June 9 1 item Box 2

    		Notes of four voyages of Boston sea captain: description of houses and their ornamentation; mentions slitting of lower lip for decoration.
    Freeman and Smith 2434
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Concerning Certain Grasses ... for Cattle 1805 Sept. 1 item Box 2

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Concerning Cultivable Lands 1819 Aug. 20 1 item Box 2

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Concerning Education in Pennsylvania Ca. 1797 1 item Box 2

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Concerning Education in Public Schools ca. 1797 1 item Box 2

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Concerning the Benefits of Stripping the Bark from Certain Diseased Orchard Trees 1802 June 7 1 item Box 2

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Concerning the calculations of surd decimal fractions; [read]. 1816 Oct. 18 1 item Box 2

    		On last page is APS Report of Committee on this Papers, 1816 Nov. 15, signed by Robert M. Patterson.
    Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Concerning the contents of vol. 1, American Philosophical Society Transactions ca.1771 1 item Box 2

    		Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Concerning the Currents through the Straits of Gibralter n.d. 1 item Box 2

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Concerning the reduction of expenses of public officers 1785 Spring 1 item Box 2

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Concerning Wire Fences 1817 1 item Box 2

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
    Act of incorporation     		1799 1 item Box 2

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
    List of officers     		1799 Oct. 1 item Box 2

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
    ALS to Adam Seybert     		1799 Dec. 25 1 item Box 2

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Conover, Samuel Forman.
    An essay on the vermilion colour of Blood, and on the different colours of the metallic oxides, with an application of these principles to the arts     		1806 June 10 1 item Box 2

    		Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Conrad, Solomon W..
    ALS to Robert Hare     		1830 June 15 1 item Box 2

    		Originally enclosing S. H. Saunders, Concerning light, 1830 May 21.
    Natural Philosophy

    		Conyngham, Redmond.
    Singular phenomenon [concerning phosphorescence]     		1837 Aug. 9 1 item Box 2

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Cooper, Edward Joshua.
    Using the expression of 'transverse' [Pr. Circular letter]     		1835 Nov. 2 items Box 2

    		With engr. of Halley's comet.
    Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Cooper, Thomas.
    ALS to Humphry Davy     		1818 Sept. 9 1 item Box 2

    		On tests of poisons.
    Natural Philosophy

    		Cooper, Thomas.
    ALS to unidentified recipient [on tests of poisons]     		1818 Sept. 18 1 item Box 2

    		With partial copy.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Cooper, Thomas.
    ALS to unidentified recipient [on tests of poisons]     		1818 Sept. 18 1 item Box 2

    		Partial copy.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Cooper, Thomas.
    On boiling sugar     		1801 1 item Box OS

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Cooper, Thomas.
    On the tests of arsenic     		1818 Sept. 18 1 item Box 2

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Cooper, Thomas.
    Syllabus of the Lectures of ...on Geological and Mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania [Pr. Broadside]     		n.d. 1 item Box 2

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Couldery, William.
    ALS to the American Philosophical Society [concerning a new street lamp]     		1797 Jan. 7 1 item Box 2

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Coulter, Thomas.
    ALS to Thomas Jefferson     		1797 Dec. 4 1 item Box 2

    		Re: preventing premature death in peach trees.
    Natural History

    		Coulter, Thomas.
    Article on premature death of peach trees     		n.d.
    		Box 2

    		Notes: c.f. A.P.S. : Report of Committee on the Preservation of Peach Trees 1798, April 4. C.f. Minutes: pp. 24, 269, 303. Enclosed originally with letter from Coulter to T. Jefferson; 1797 Dec. 4.

    		Coxe, John Redman.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1832 Sept. 20 1 item Box 2

    		Re Colchicum.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Cram, John.
    Plan for a fan chair     		1786 Aug. 18 5 items Box 2

    		Illustr. and explanation by Charles Willson Peale. See Peale to Benjamin Smith Barton, 1786 July 31 (Barton Papers).
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Crane, Gabriel.
    ALS to the Secretary of the American Philosophical Society     		1817 May 27 1 item Box 2

    		Re: grub found in a state of vegetation.
    Natural History

    		Creswell, Charles.
    Observations to serve for the mineralogical map of the state of Maryland     		1809 Jan. 20 1 item Box 2

    		Re. Godon's map.
    Natural History

    		Creswell, Charles.
    ALS to Thomas Jefferson     		1809 Jan. 20 1 item Box 2

    		Natural History

    		Crivelli, M..
    ALS to Society of Friends     		1829 June 10 1 item Box 2

    		The potato as counter to poverty.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Croker, A..
    ALS to James Cutbush     		1814 July 1 1 item Box 2

    		On the conversion of a vertical into a rotary motion.
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Croker, Temple Henry.
    ALS to Benjamin Franklin     		1787 June 11 1 item Box 2

    		On the magnetic needle.
    Natural Philosophy

    		Currie, William.
    Concerning the Causes of Animal Heat     		1816 Jan. 19 1 item Box 2

    		Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Currie, William.
    Remarks on such of the experiments of Mr. Daniel Ellis of Edinburgh have a tendency to disprove the generally received doctrine of the causes of animal heat     		1797 April 7 1 item Box 2

    		Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Currie, William.
    Remarks on the effects of Perkins' metallic rods in the cure of diseases     		1797 April 7 1 item Box 2

    		Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Currie, William.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1818 June 2 2 items Box 2

    		"A sketch of some of the errors, which have been discovered in some of the philosophical opinions of the illustrious Sir Isaac Newton."
    Natural Philosophy

    		Currie, William.
    ALS to John Vaughan (2)     		1818 June 2 1 item Box 2

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Curson, S..
    Concerning Arequipa, Peru, and surrounding area     		1819 May 21 1 item Box 2

    		Author describes a climb of Mount Yachi, near Arequipa. Discusses Quechua concept of oxygen deficiency, to them a faintness due to "antimonal loads"; mentions attitude of Indians joining climb toward revelation of mine locations.
    Freeman and Smith 3104.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Curson, S..
    Concerning Arequipa, Peru, and surrounding area (2)     		1819 May 21 1 item Box 2

    		Author describes a climb of Mount Yachi, ner Arequipa. Discusses Queachua concept of oxygen dificiency, to them a faintness due to "antimonal loads": mentions attitude of Indians joining climb toward revelation of mine locations.
    Freeman and Smith 3104.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Cutbush, Edward.
    Thermometrical journal     		1800 Dec. 16-1801 May 12 1 item Box OS

    		Originally enclosed in Cutbush to John Vaughan, 1801 July 10.
    Natural Philosophy

    		Cutbush, Edward.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1801 July 10 1 item Box 2

    		Originally enclosing Cutbush, Thermometrical journal.
    Natural Philosophy

    		Cuthbert, John.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1832 June 1 1 item Box 2

    		Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Cutler, Manasseh.
    ALS to Benjamin Smith Barton     		1792 Aug. 31 1 item Box 2

    		Report on age of Ohio mounds using tree-ring dating.
    Freeman and Smith 1207.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		D.B.T.P.S. (pseud).
    Economy and comfort introduced to the fire-side, or, a hint for saving fuel and procuring a remedy for smoky chimneys     		1796 Dec. 16 1 item Box 2

    		Illus.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Dabney, John B..
    ALS to Thomas Jefferson     		1808 June 20 1 item Box 2

    		Re: volcano at Fayal, Madeira.
    Natural History

    		Da Costa, Francis.
    Concerning Mill Grove lead mine in Pennsylvania     		1805 June 15 2 items Box 2

    		Illus.
    Natural History

    		Da Costa, Francis.
    Statement of the discovery of Mill Grove lead mine on Perkiomen Creek near Philadelphia     		1809 Nov. 18 1 item Box 2

    		Natural History

    		Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1832 May 9 1 item Box 2

    		Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Dandiran.
    Succinct account of the respective charges and profits, in manufacturing hemp after his improved method     		1792 Dec. 9 1 item Box 2

    		Originally enclosed in Valltravers to APS President, 1792 Dec. 13.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Dannery, S..
    ALS to the American Philosophical Society     		n.d. 1 item Box 2

    		In French.
    Natural History

    		Davidson, Robert.
    ALS to Robert Patterson     		1788 April 7 2 items Box 2

    		On a teratological calf. Illus.
    Natural History

    		Davis, John.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1819 May 12 1 item Box 2

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Deabbate, Gaspard.
    The Barbary powers and Sardinia and the situation of Italy generally     		1820 June 17 1 item Box 2

    		In French.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Deabbate, Gaspard.
    Concerning the religious cult of the Vaudois [Waldensians]     		1823 May 29 1 item Box OS

    		Originally enclosed in Deabbate to Robert Walsh, 1823 May 29.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Deabbate, Gaspard.
    ALS to Robert Walsh     		1823 May 29 1 item Box 2

    		Originally enclosing Deabbate, Concerning the religious of the Vaudois.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Dean, Mrs (?).
    Cure for the croup     		1808 Mar. 13 1 item Box 2

    		Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Dearborn, Benjamin.
    ALS to the American Philosophical Society     		1803 Feb. 4 1 item Box 2

    		Suggestions on the abolition of slavery.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Dearborn, Henry.
    Method of splitting stones by wedges     		1801 1 item Box 2

    		Illus.
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Demaree, Samuel R..
    ALS to Thomas Jefferson     		1804 Dec. 28 1 item Box 2

    		Proposal to form society to "alter and improve the orthography of the language of the United States."
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Denmark.
    Progres de l'enseignement mutuel en Dannemarck     		1827 Jan. 28 1 item Box OS

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Description of a Stove 1797 Nov. 3 1 item Box OS

    		Note: c.f. minutes, page 262.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		DeWitt, Simeon.
    ALS to Benjamin Rush     		1807 April 25 1 item Box 2

    		Observations on the eclipse of 1806 June 16.
    Natural Philosophy

    		DeWitt, Simeon.
    2 Pr. Circulars to John Vaughan     		1825 Nov. 24 3 items Box 2

    		Request for mineralogical information for University of the State of New York.
    Natural Philosophy

    		Dietz, R..
    Extracts of notes... concerning a testaceous mass from Anastasia Island, Florida     		1823 July 10 1 item Box 2

    		Natural History

    		Drake, Daniel.
    ALS to Joseph Correa de Serra     		1817 Oct. 1 1 item Box 2

    		On the geology of the Ohio Valley.
    Natural History

    		Drayton, John.
    ALS to Benjamin Smith Barton     		1803 Sept. 9 2 items Box 2

    		On insect infestation and destruction of pine trees. Includes newspaper clipping.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Duffield, Samuel.
    Meteorological observations     		1803 May 1-31 1 item Box OS

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Dufour, John James.
    Map of the saltpetre cave described by Dr. Brown     		1806 Feb. 7 1 item Box OS

    		See Samuel Brown, Map of the nitre cave of Kentucky, 1805 Feb. 7.
    Natural History

    		Du Jareau, G..
    ALS to Thomas Jefferson     		1810 May 9 1 item Box 2

    		In French.
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Du Jareau, J..
    Address to the citizens of New Orleans and to the members of the city council [newspaper clipping]     		1808 Sept. 12-20 2 items Box 2

    		On levee and course of river in New Orleans.
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Dunbar, John R. W..
    ALS to Peter Stephen Duponceau [Pr. Circular letter "Interesting galvanic experiments"]     		1833 July 19 1 item Box 2

    		On effects of galvanism on dead body of "Negro Ben." From the Winchester Virginian, 1833 June 27.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Dunbar, Robert.
    ALS to Benjamin Smith Barton     		1803 Jan. 7 1 item Box 2

    		See also Barton, Conerning Dunbar's paper on swallows, 1803 Jan. 21; APS, Report... 1803 Feb. 4 (APS Archives).
    Natural History

    		Dunbar, William.
    Astronomical observations made at the Forest near Natchez [re: solar eclipse of June 16, 1806]     		1806 Aug. 15 1 item Box 2

    		Mathematics and Astronomy

    		Dunbar, William.
    Monthly and annual results of meteorological observations made at the Forest 4 miles east of the river Mississippi     		1804 April 6 1 item Box 2

    		Natural Philosophy

    		Dunbar, William.
    ALS extract to John Vaughan     		1810 1 item Box 2

    		Re: spinning machine. See Winpenny and Long, Concerning a spinning machine, ca.1810.
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Duponceau, Peter Stephen.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1828 Dec. 17 1 item Box 2

    		On verso is John Vaughan, Memorandum concerning Rafn's communication about Norse relics in North America, 1828 December
    Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

    		Duponceau, Peter Stephen.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1829 June 1 1 item Box 2

    		Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Duponceau, Peter Stephen.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1831 April 18 1 item Box 2

    		Re: American silk.
    Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

    		Du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthère IrenÃ(c)e.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1803 Jan. 18 1 item Box 2

    		On asphyxia and causes of sudden death.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthère IrenÃ(c)e.
    ALS to John Vaughan     		1805 Sept. 19 1 item Box 2

    		Comments on yellow fever. In French.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthère IrenÃ(c)e.
    ALS to John Vaughan (translation)     		1805 Sept. 19 1 item Box 2

    		Comments on yellow fever. English translation.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel.
    Sur le Formation de l'eau dans les corps animal     		1800 June 20 1 item Box 2

    		n French.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel.
    Sur le Formation de l'eau dans les corps animal (Concerning the Water in the Body of an Animal)     		1800 June 20 1 item Box 2

    		English translation.
    Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

    		Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel.
    Aux Americans des Etats-Unis [re: the meaning of the words "country" and "Commonwealth"]     		1815 Oct. 6 1 item Box 2

    		In hand of Alexandre Cardon de Sandrands. Originally enclosed in Du Pont de Nemours