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Babbage, Charles (1792-1871)
Mathematician, inventory.
Selected correspondence, 1827-1871. Film. 1 reel.

From British Museum. Included are letters from the following Americans:

• John H. Alexander
• Alexander D. Bache
• Clement C. Biddle
• Henry I. Bowditch
• Nathaniel Bowditch
• William Ellery Channing
• Edward Everett
• George W. Featherstonhaugh
• Benjamin A. Gould
• Asa Gray
• Joseph Henry
• Henry W. Howgate
• George W. Hughes
• Elias Loomis
• Matthew F. Maury
• John Pickering
• Theodore Sedgwick
• Benjamin Silliman, Sr.
• Benjamin Silliman, Jr.
• Charles Sumner
• Daniel Vaughan
• William Vaughan

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Babcock, Barbara A. and Nancy J. Parezo
"Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1945," 1986. 28p.

Barbara Babcock (Department of English) and Nancy Parezo (American Indian Studies and Anthropology) are members of the faculty at the University of Arizona. Their oral history of women anthropologists in the southwestern United States was published in 1988 as Daughters of the Desert : Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1980.

This related essay includes brief biographical discussions of over 30 women who worked in the southwestern United States between 1880 and 1945. It was published as "The leading edge: Women anthropologists in the native American Southwest, 1880-1945," El Palacio 92 (1986).

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Bache, Albert Dabadie
United States naval officer
Diaries, 1862, 1867-1869. 3 vols. (ca. 550pp.).

The first diary was kept during the American Civil War, when Bache was captain's clerk on the U.S.S. Hartford; the second and third were kept while Bache was an assistant paymaster on the U.S.S. Iroquois, of the Asiatic Squadron.

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Bache, Alexander Dallas (1806-1867)
Physicist, Pres. of Girard College, superintendent of U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. APS 1829.
Papers, 1835-1873. 0.25 lin. feet.

Alexander Dallas Bache was an important scientific reformer during the early nineteenth century. From his position as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and through leadership roles in the scientific institutions of the time, Bache helped bring American science into alignment with the professional nature of its European counterparts. In addition, Bache fostered the reform of public education in America.

The Alexander Dallas Bache Collection consists of 91 letters written primarily by Bache. In most cases, these are brief notes replying to letters that are not part of the collection. The majority of items relate to Bache's work as superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, including letters of recommendation and introduction, and there is minor correspondence regarding the National Academy of Sciences, scientific matters, his travels in Europe, or personal matters. Of particular interest is the letter from Louis Agassiz in 1856 expressing his view of what the natural history museum of the future should be.

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Bache, Benjamin Franklin (1769-1798)
Journalist, printer.
Diary, 1782-1785. 1 vol. Copy.

A record of a schoolboy's life in Switzerland, with comments on his life in Passy with his grandfather. Entries for 1784 were printed by Bernard Fa , Paris, à la fin de l'ancien régime, vu par un petit garçon de Philadelphie, Franco-American Review 1 (1936-1937): 317.

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Bache, Benjamin Franklin (1769-1798)
Papers, 1779-1793. ca. 50 items.

Letters of a dutiful child to his parents Richard Bache and Sarah Franklin Bache, and to his grandfather Benjamin Franklin; also letters to William Jones, Robert Frazer, and Margaret H. Markoe, his fiancée; also photostats of letters to Robert Alexander of Virginia, from the originals in University of Virginia Library.

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Bache, Catherine Wistar (1770-1820)
Daughter of Caspar Wistar.
Papers, 1788-1820. 0.25 lin. feet (114 items)

Catherine Wistar Bache was the point of connection between two of Philadelphia's most illustrious families of the late eighteenth century. Daughter of the physician Caspar Wistar, in November 1797 she married Dr. William Bache, who was the son of Richard Bache and the grandson of Benjamin Franklin.

The papers of Catharine Wistar Bache consist of approximately 114 letters written by and to Catharine Wistar Bache, wife of Dr. William Bache of Philadelphia. Bache's major correspondents include Mary Eddy Hosack (wife of the physician David Hosack), Elizabeth Trist, and Mary Trist Jones.

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Bache, Sarah Franklin (1744-1808)
Daughter of Benjamin Franklin.
Correspondence, 1768-1807. 51 items.

Includes a variety of correspondents, largely women friends writing to Sarah. Of particular note are the letters of Mary Stevenson Hewson and William Temple Franklin. There are many references to Benjamin Franklin.

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Bache, Thomas Hewson (1826-1912)
Philadelphia physician. APS 1887
Diary, 1862. 1 vol. (83 pp.).

Kept during service as a surgeon in the American Civil War, from Cape Hatteras up the Mississippi to Vicksburg, and then home to Philadelphia.

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Bache Family
Papers, 1770-1923. ca. 50 items.

Correspondence on a variety of topics of members of the family of Richard and Sarah Franklin Bache, with some references to Benjamin Franklin and his estate. There is also a family genealogy.

Correspondents include:

• Benjamin Franklin Bache
• Mrs. Catherine Wistar Bache
• Theophylact Bache
• William Bache
• William Franklin
• William Temple Franklin
• Mrs. Mary Stevenson Hewson
• Mrs. Mary Eddy Hosack
• William Livingston
• Thomas Mann Randolph
• Caspar Wistar

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Bagley, Mariana
"The History of the Public Health of Norfolk, Virginia, up to 1860." 139 pp. Typescript, carbon.

Master's thesis, Duke University, 1939.

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Bahr, Donald M. (1940- )
Collector
Papago and Pima oral literature, 1977-1978. Recording. 132 reels.

Restricted access and duplication.

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Baird, Spencer Fullerton (1823-1887)
Naturalist. APS 1855.
Collection, 1869-1874. 12 items.

The naturalist Spencer Fullerton Baird worked as Assistant Secretary and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1850 until his death in 1887. A prolific collector and writer, Baird made important contributions to American ornithology, mammalogy, and herpetology, completing three monumental works, The Mammals of North America (Philadelphia, 1859), Birds of North America (Philadelphia, 1860), written with John Cassin, and History of North American Birds (Boston, 1874-1884), 5 vols., with Brewer and Robert Ridgway.

The Baird Collection includes twelve letters written by Baird to the Boston printing firm, Welch, Bigelow and Co., all regarding editorial details in printing of the History of North American Birds.

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Baker, Oliver Edwin (1883-1949)
Geographer.
Papers, 1913-1949, 2.5 ln. ft.

Baker was a geographer and analyst for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The material pertains chiefly to the 1913-1933 period of his career when he was working on the Atlas of World Agriculture, and on the Pioneer Belts Projects. There is material relating to the American Geographical Society, Economic Geography, and the Institute of Pacific Relations.

Among the prominent correspondents are:

• Isaiah Bowman
• J. Lossing Buck
• Richard Theodore Ely
• Edward Murray East
• Lewis Cecil Gray
• John Bell Condliffe
• Frederick Merk
• Joseph Russell Smith

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Baldwin, Loammi (1780-1838)
Civil engineer.
Diary, Sept.9-Nov. 29, 1823. 1 vol. (109 pp.).

Baldwin constructed Fort Strong in Boston Harbor (1814), as well as the Union Canal in Pennsylvania (1821). This diary records his travels in the Low Countries of Europe, with detailed observations and fascinating sketches of canals and canal machinery.

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Bancker, Charles Nicoll (1778?-1869)
Merchant, financier. APS 1825.
Family Papers, ca. 1733-1894. ca. 1,200 items.

This collection was assembled in three major accessions, one (2 boxes) being a group, 1791-1864, containing letters to and from Bancker and other members of his family on education, business, and personal topics, with such correspondents as: Samuel Hazard, H.M. McIlvaine, James C. Montgomery, and John T. Montgomery.

The bulk of the collection was received after 1966 and is more diverse, with more correspondence both earlier and later, among family members; and also with many extraneous letters from prominent Americans. Many of these letters are addressed to Frederick Beasley of the University of Pennsylvania.

The collection contains, as well, other types of documents, such as a furniture inventory volume (30pp.); a Daybook, 1795-1800 (120pp.); and a very interesting journal (unidentified, but by one of the Banckers, and filed under "Description of a trip..."), from New York to Albany and back, between July 20-Aug. 15, 1793 (1 vol., 31 pp.). It contains detailed observations of the Hudson River and the towns along the way.

C.N. Bancker was in business and trade prior to 1826, and in the insurance business after that date, so there is material relating to those topics in this collection. He owned a substantial library of the period, which was used by Charles Wilkes's Expedition after 1837 (see Reynell Coates to Bancker). This library, along with Bancker's notable scientific instrument collection, was sold after his death and there are published auction catalogues in the collection.

There is much family correspondence from: Anne E. Bancker, Charles Gerard Bancker, Evert Bancker, Sarah U. Bancker, Violetta Bancker Talbot, Elizabeth Bancker Teackle, and John Teackle.

Other correspondents of note include:

• John Adams
• James Buchanan
• Millard Fillmore
• Albert Gallatin
• Stephen Girard
• Joseph Henry
• Thomas Jefferson
• Marie J. P. Lafayette
• James Madison
• John Marshall
• Samuel Miller
• William Augustus Muhlenberg
• Titian R. Peale
• Timothy Pickering
• Joel R. Poinsett
• Winfield Scott
• Christopher Smith
• John Stevens
• Abel P. Upshur
• Bushrod Washington

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Bancker, James A.
Philadelphia and New York merchant
Papers, 1842-1849. 46 items.

Written from China to his family, these letters contain descriptions of the social life of the Americans and English in China, of Hong Kong after the British acquisition of that place, and of anti-British riots in Canton. A long letter describes the outward voyage from New York to Canton; several letters given an account of a visit to the Philippines; and there is a partial journal of Bancker's return home through the Red Sea.

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Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820)
Naturalist, president of the Royal Society. APS 1787.
Papers. Film. 51 reels.

These films were made from the Banks papers in the following depositories:

• National Library, Canberra.
• Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Adelaide.
• Sutro Library, San Francisco.
• Mitchell Library, Sydney.
• Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

In addition, all Banks manuscripts in the APS have been filmed and a table of contents prepared.

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Barbeau, Charles Marius (1883-1969)
Canadian anthropologist
Calendar of Indian captivities and allied documents. 1 vol. Typed.

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Barbeau, Charles Marius (1883-1969)
Checklist of American Indian antiquities found in European institutions. Photostat.

The repositories include British Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Musée de l'Homme, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and Musée du Louvre.

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Barker, Anna E.
Matron, Macdougall Methodist Orphanage, Morley, Northwest Territory, Canada
List of words in the Mountain Stoney dialect. Typed, photostat.

A list of about 500 words collected from a branch of the Sioux Indians at their reservation 40 miles west of Calgary, 1883-1886. Original owned by Lucile Yerdon, Fort Plain, N.Y., 1948.

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Barlow, Robert H.
Collector
Nahuatl texts, 1949?. Recording. 1 reel.

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Bartholomew, Doris
Collector
Matlatzinca verbs, 1966. Recording. 2 reels.

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Bartlett, Harley Harris (1886-1960)
Botanist. APS, 1929
Batak Collection. ca. 600 bamboo sticks.

An expert in tropical botany, Harley Harris Bartlett spent the majority of career in the Department of Botany and Botanical Gardens at the University of Michigan. He traveled widely in tropical Asia and the Americas collecting plants and looking for sources for rubber. While employed by the U.S. Rubber Company to collect in Asahan, in northeastern Sumatra in 1918 and 1927, Bartlett learned the Batak language and made ethnographic, ethnobotanical, and linguistic observations that became the basis for a number of articles.

The Bartlett Batak Collection consists of over 600 bamboo "sticks" collected by Bartlett in 1918 and 1927. Written by informants at Bartlett's request, the bamboo sections are inscribed in Batak, an Austronesian language written in a phonetic alphabet. They include traditional writing- and reading-manuals, short poems, letters, and magical formulae and incantations.

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Barton, Benjamin Smith (1766-1815)
Physician, naturalist. APS, 1789.

• Papers (The Violetta W. Delafield Collection), 1789-1815.

  A physician, natural historian, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Smith Barton was one of the central figures in Philadelphia's early national scientific establishment. Having received his medical training in European universities, Barton was appointed Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789, lecturing on botany, materia medica, natural history. A prolific author, he established his reputation as one of the nation's preeminent botanists through his botanical text book The Elements of Botany (1803), but his contribtions to zoology, ethnology, and medicine were equally noteworthy. Barton's monograph on the "fascinating faculty" of the rattlesnake and his efforts in historical linguistics (New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1797) were widely read, and his Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal (1804-1809) was one of the nation's first medical journals and an important outlet for natural historical research.

  The Barton Papers offer a comprehensive view of the professional work of Benjamin Smith Barton from the time of his return to the United States in 1789 until his death. The collection is divided into five series: Correspondence, Subject Files, Bound Volumes, Graphic Materials, and Printing Plates. The collection includes a particularly valuable series of botanical, medical, and natural historical drawings collected by Barton for research, reference, and publication. Among the many artists represented are William Bartram, Frederick Pursh, Pierre Turpin, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

  Accessioned, 1970
  (B B284.d)

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• A comparative vocabulary of Indian languages. 1 vol. (219 pp.).

  Extracted from Barton's New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (Philadelphia, 1797), with additions by Peter S. Du Ponceau, including a review of Barton's book in Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen, June 17, 1799.

  Presented by Peter S. Du Ponceau, 1840
  (497 B28)

Journals and notebooks, 1785-1806. Photostats and transcripts.

Photostats of journals and notebooks of Barton's survey of the boundary of western Pennsylvania and Ohio, 1785; commonplace book, 1789; journey through New York to Niagara Falls, 1797; and Pennsylvania journal, 1798, all in possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; with transcripts and notes by Waldo L. McAtee.

Presented by Waldo L. McAtee, 1955
(B B284.1 & .2)

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Bartram, John (1699-1777)
Botanist, Original member APS.
Correspondence. 719 pp. Typed.

Compiled by Edward E. Wildman and Francis D. West, chiefly from original letters in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and other depositories, 1956.

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Bartram, John (1699-1777)
Journal to South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, 1765. Film. 1 reel.

From originals in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

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Bartram, John (1699-1777)
Papers. Film. 2 reels.

From originals in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and New York Historical Society.

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Bartram, John (1699-1777) and William (1739-1823)
Papers, ca. 1908-1958. ca. 1,500 items.

This material on the Bartrams and Bartram family history was collected by Francis Darley West, a descendant of John and William Bartram. There are newspaper clippings, postal cards, typed copies of letters, photographs of portraits, reprints of articles, materials from the John Bartram Association which preserves the Bartram house and garden in Philadelphia, typed notes from Bartram's letters and journals, and typed copies of letters in re Bartram. There is also a genealogy prepared by West, and a biography of George Washington Bartram by John Hines Pitman (typescript).

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John Bartram Association
Papers, 1929-1932. 202 items.

Correspondence, chiefly of Francis W. Pennell, concerning the observance of the bicentennial anniversary of the founding of the first botanical garden in the American colonies by John Bartram, and concerning the publication resulting from this observance.

Table of contents (4 pp.).

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Bartram, Moses (1732-1809)
Druggist. APS 1768
Receipt book, 1786, 1801, 1808. Film. 1 reel.

From the original in the possession of Mrs. John Robinson, Cranford, N.J., 1975.

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Bartram, William (1739-1823)
Traveler, naturalist. APS 1768.
Meteorological Diary, Jan. 1790-Sept. 1791, 1 vol. (24 pp.)

These are daily observations kept by Bartram in Philadelphia. He notes such occurrences as, "River froze over" (7 February 1790), referring to the Schuylkill River.

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Bartram, William (1739-1823)
Commonplace book, ca. 1760-1800. Film. 1 reel.

From the original in the possession of Mrs. John Robinson, Cranford, N.J., 1975.

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Bartram, William (1739-1823)
Diary, 1802-1822. Film. 1 reel.

From Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Record of weather; appearances of birds, flowers, insects, etc.

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Baruch, Bernard Mannes (1870-1965)
Financier.
Speech before the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946. 16 pp. Carbon typescript.

This is an edited draft of Baruch's speech, which he dedicates on the first page to Herbert Swope, his speech writer, who he notes is responsible for much of it. It is his exhortation to the Commission, and to the world, for the necessity of controlling atomic energy, and the steps to such control. Signatures at the end are by: John M. Hancock, Richard C. Tolman, Leslie R. Groves, Tom Farrell, F. Eberstadt, Fred Searls, Jr., and Baruch. This volume was once part of Pearl S. Buck's library.

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Barus, Carl (1856-1935)
Physicist. APS 1903.
Autobiography. Typed. Film. 1 reel.

From Brown University Library.

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Bateson, William (1861-1926)
British biologist, geneticist.

One of the principle figures of turn of the century anti-Darwinian evolutionism, William Bateson was a professor at Cambridge University for 23 years before leaving to become first director of the John Innes Horticultural Institute (1910-1926). Developing a unique "vibratory theory" of organismal variability during the 1890s that envisioned evolutionary change as a discontinuous process, Bateson became well known as the first English advocate of the recently rediscovered theories of Gregor Mendel.

The APS houses three collections relating to William Bateson and his family, two of which are comprised of copies from the material held at the John Innes Horticultural Institute.

• William Bateson Collection, 1902-1921. 0.25 ln. ft. Photocopy.

  Consisting of photocopies of letters written by the geneticists Erwin Baur and Leonard Doncaster to their British colleague William Bateson, the Bateson Collection contains important material relating to the early history of Mendelian genetics in Britain and particularly to Bateson's opposition to the chromosomal theory of inheritance. The originals are held in the William Bateson Papers in the Archives of the John Innes Horticultural Institute.

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

  From originals in the John Innes Institute
  Presented by William Coleman, 1978.
  (B B319)

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• William Bateson Papers, ca. 1875-1924. Microfilm. 6 reels.

  A selected portion of the scientific papers of William Bateson that are now at the Cambridge University Library. The entire collection was described by A. G. Cock, "The William Bateson Papers," The Mendel Newsletter 14 (1977).

  Table of contents (28 pp.).

  From originals in the Cambridge University Library
  Gift of William Coleman, 1967.
  (H.S. Film 26)

• Bateson Family Papers, 1829-1940. 2 ln. ft.

  For a man inclined to drama and disputation in science, it was Bateson's family life that took on the airs of Greek tragedy. The two linear feet of correspondence, diaries, and photographs that comprise the Bateson Family Papers provide valuable insight into the social milieu of the Batesons and their decidedly unorthodox upper middle class academic life, as well as their responses to the tragic deaths of two of their sons.

  Deposited by Mary Catharine Bateson, 1980
  (Ms. Coll. 2)

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Bath and West and Southern Counties Society
Records, 1777-1852. Film. 5 reels.

The film records this English society's involvement in the encouragement of agriculture, commerce, manufacturing, and the fine arts.

From originals in the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society.

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Beauchamp, William Martin (1830-1925)
Episcopal clergyman, historian.
Papers on Iroquois personal names, 1914. Film. 1 reel.

These ca. 380 pp. were filmed from originals at the Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse Public Library. The names are taken from treaties, delegations, and other documents, and are often accompanied by English translations of the names as well as biographical information. Collected by Beauchamp in 1909.

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Beccaria, Giovanni Battista (1716-1781)
Professor of experimental physics, University of Turin.
Papers. 64 items (0.75 ln. ft.). In Italian, French, and Latin.

The papers of the Italian natural philosopher and electrician, Giambatista Beccaria contain letters to Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, Laura Bassi, Gian Francesco Cigna, and others on a variety of scientific topics, including atmospheric and terrestrial electricity, the aurora borealis, earthquakes, meteorology, and phosphorescence. In addition to Beccaria's epistolary essays, the collection includes several journals of meteorological observations and notes for Giovanni Eandi's biography of Beccaria.

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Beccaria, Giovanni Battista (1716-1781)
Ex Phisicis Institutionibus, 1769. 1 vol. (ca. 100 pp.). In Latin.

This work contains some material on electricity. There are also 14 plates, representing the essential elements of mathematics, physics, and cosmography.

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Beck, Guido (1903- )
Theoretical physicist
Interview transcript, 1967. 33 pp. Photocopy, typescript.

This transcript is from an oral history interview conducted by John Heilbron for the American Institute of Physics. Aspects of Beck's life are discussed, including his study of physics in Vienna and his later work in Brazil.

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Beck, Richard
English Quaker
Diary, Feb.-Aug., 1880. 1 vol. (289 pp.).

An interesting and detailed journal of his trip to America and travels therein. His base was Philadelphia and there is much comment about its society and institutions, and mentions of people, including an interesting note on T. R. Peale. Other areas visited included: Atlantic City, Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Colorado, Utah, California. There is an interesting description of Henry Ulke. The volume is filled with memorabilia: advertisements, photographs, playbills, menus, original pencil and watercolor sketches, some of machinery.

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Belden, Louise C.
Humphry Marshall: American Quaker botanist. Film. 1 reel.

Master's thesis, University of Delaware, 1958.

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Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)
Inventor. APS 1882.
Address delivered before the APS, 7 May 1909. 23 pp. Typescript, carbon.

Bell's address on "Aerial Locomotion" is a detailed description of kite construction and experiments, and the adaptation of engines to "aeroplanes." This lecture was highlighted by a moving picture of a 4 July 1908 flight (the film is not at the APS). Compare with Bell's, "Aerial Locomotion," National Geographic Magazine 18 (Jan. 1907): 1-34 (with 33 illustrations).

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Bell, Robert (1841-1917)
Geologist
Correspondence, 1874-1908. 77 items.

Bell was a Canadian geologist and director of the Geological Survey of Canada (1901-1906). The letters concern a variety of topics, the most significant being: Canada, geography, North American Indians, paleontology, geology and the Geological Survey of Canada.

The correspondents are:

• Joel Asaph Allen
• Franz Boas
• Elliott Coues
• William Isbister
• Sir James MacPherson Le Moine
• Emile F. S. Petitot
• James Constantine Pilling

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Bellenger, Joseph M.
Catholic missionary, linguist.
Instruction sur la langue Mickmaque, ca.1814. (1 vol., 98p.). In French and Micmac.

From 1735 to 1762, Antoine-Simon Maillard (d.1762) was a Catholic missionary to the Micmac Indians at Restigouche on the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec. Abbé Maillard was the first Frenchman to master the Micmac language, and he collected extensive grammatical and linguistic notes which were edited, arranged, and published by Rev. Joseph M. Bellenger in the 19th century.

The "Instructions sue la langue Mickmaque" is a French-language instructional manual on the grammar of the Micmac language, probably compiled by Rev. Joseph M. Bellenger, ca.1814. The manuscript (identified as Phillips 12343) is based on the grammar of Abbé Maillard, and is arranged on a Latin model. It includes general comments on the structure of the language, orthography, nouns, pronouns, and numerals, with more extensive commentary on verb conjugation. The manuscript appears to be incomplete, ending with the section heading "Verbes réciproque."

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Belling, John, 1866-1933
Collection, ca.1928-1933. 4 photo albums, ca.1.5 linear feet

The cytogeneticist John Belling developed the iron-acetocarmine staining technique, which facilitated detailed study of chromosomal structures. In his work with Arthur F. Blakeslee at Cold Spring Harbor on Datura (1920-1927) and at the University of California, Berkeley (1928-1933) on lilies, hyacinths, and other plants, Belling made accurate estimates of chromosomal numbers, helped to demonstrate the interchange of segments between non-homologous chromosomes, and proposed that the chromomeres (small condensations of stain that appeared along the length of chromosomes) represented individual, physical genes. Although he was a gifted technician and insightful cytologist, his career was hampered by mental instability and curtailed by frequent hospitalizations before his sudden death in 1933.

The Belling Collection consists of four photograph albums, 38 glass slides and approximately 75 glass negatives and positive prints of chromosome preparations made by Belling, primarily during the years at Berkeley, along with an annotated bibliographic card file. The images in the albums are fully identified, but most of the glass slides are not.

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Belmar, Francisco (1859-1926)
Mexican linguist
Writings on Mexican languages, 1895-1902. 1 vol. (ca. 230 pp.).

Consists of a short, elementary text for teaching Mixe to Spanish speakers, entitled "Curso de lengua Mixe;" an exposition of Mexican languages, "Las lenguas habladas por los indigenos de la Republica Mexicana," with special reference to their relations with California languages, prepared for, but not delivered at, International Congress of Americanists, 11th session (1895); and an address on the Indian tribes of the state of Oaxaca and their languages (in English), printed in part in the Proceedings of International Congress of Americanists, 13th session (1902), p.193.

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Bénard de la Harpe, Jean Baptiste
French officer and explorer
Journal historique concernant l'éstablissement des Français à la Louisianne, 1699-1723. 1 vol. (218 pp.).

Taken from the memoirs of d'Iberville and Bienville; copied from the original in possession of Dr. John Sibley, 1805; translated and published in B. F. French, Historical Collections of Louisiana, pt. 3 (New York, 1851).

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Benbow, John
The Bee Book, 1846-1854. 1 vol. (258 pp.).

John Benbow, Jr., of Cowley Hall Mills, Middlesex, England, was an avid amateur beekeeper in the 1840s and 1850s. His "Bee Book" is a small (16mo) copiously illustrated treatise and journal of beekeeping. Divided into three parts -- "Other people's experiments," "Our own experiments," and an annual log (1846-1854) -- the book includes information on hive construction, seasonal management, the cleaning of hives, and other miscellaneous information culled both from printed sources and personal "experiments." The 44 pen and ink drawings include technical drawings of hives and beekeeping apparatus, along with humorous sketches of the activities of an "amateur apiarian."

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Bergmann, Max (1886-1944)
Biochemist.
Papers, ca. 1930-1945. ca. 7,500 items. (7.5 ln. ft.).

Letters, reports, addresses and lectures relating to biochemistry and other scientific topics, the Rockefeller Institute, refugee scientists, professional associations, etc.

Among the correspondents are:

• Lawrence W. Bass
• George W. Beadle
• Franz Boas
• James McKeen Cattell
• Jacques Cattell
• Alfred E. Cohn
• H. D. Dakin
• René J. Dubos
• Albert EinsteinSimon Flexner
• Paul Gyorgy
• Karl Landsteiner
• Irving Langmuir
• Otto Loewi
• Duncan A. MacInnes
• John H. Northrop
• Winthrop J. V. Osterhout
• William J. Robins
• Peyton Rous
• Fred M. Uber
• Harold C. Urey
• Donald D. Van Slyke
• Selman A. Waksman
• Warren Weaver

Also described in Lily Kay, Molecules, Cells, and Life

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Berkhofer, Robert Frederick, Jr.
Protestant missionaries to the American Indians, 1787 to 1862. Film. 1 reel.

Doctoral dissertation, Cornell University, 1960.

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Berkner, Lloyd Viel (1905-1967)
Scientist. APS 1956.
Reminiscences of the International Geophysical Year. Microfiche. 1 card.

From Columbia University Oral History Research Office, 1959.

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Berlin Improvement Society, Adams County, Pennsylvania
Records, 1836-1910. Film. 2 reels.

The archive of this village literary and scientific lyceum contains its constitution and by-laws, minutes, library catalogues, treasurer's accounts, membership rolls, and correspondence. See: George F. Kennan and Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., "Views from another East Berlin," APS Proc. 126:6 (1982): 472-480.

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Berman, Howard
Linguist
Two Chukchansi Coyote Stories, 1970. 19 pp.

These stories, "The Stink Bug and the Coyote" and "Burden Basket Woman," were told to Berman by Mrs. Maryan Ramirez. In English with interlinear Chukchansi translations, grammatical and lexical notes. They were published as Coyote Stories II, IJAL-NATS Monograph 6, 1980.

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Berman, Howard
Miwok myths, n.d. ca. 150 pp.

This includes manuscript and photocopies material of Lucy S. Freeland, in which she records the stories told to her by Thomas Williams and Lena Cox. Also included are offprints from The Hudson Review of translations of these myths by Jamie de Angulo. There are also documents prepared by Berman in preparation for the publication of these myths, which he edited, in Freeland's Central Sierra Miwok Myths, 1982.

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Bernard, H. Russell
Collector
Otomi stories and songs, 1971-1972. Recording. 5 reels.

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Berny, Pierre Jean Paul (1722-1779)
Sketcher and calligrapher.
L'oeil du maître, ou essai sur le ministère, 1778. 1 vol. (75 pp.).

Born in Chartres, France, on August 9, 1722, the chevalier de Berny studied law before entering the military. During the Seven Years War he served in the Low Countries and Germany, retiring to Strasbourg after fifteen campaigns and a number of wounds with the Bavarian Order of St. Michel. He claimed familiarity with a number of European princes and ministers and the protection of the Comte de Vergennes. Berny is known as well as the master of a writing academy in Brussels and as a draftsman. He died on January 22, 1779.

Professing admiration for Franklin's support for the arts and sciences, and ever interested in ingratiating himself to the celebrated and powerful, the chevalier de Berny sent a manuscript copy of his "L'Oeil du Maître" to Franklin in February 1778. In this essay on governance and the qualifications, activities, virtues, and vices of ministers to the king, Berny excuses himself, a draftsman, for commenting upon the affairs of state by insisting that the thoughts in his essay arose from long personal experience: "le fruit de la fréquentation de nombre de Cours où j'ai résidé depuis la paix dernière." Franklin appears never to have acknowledged its receipt.

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Beynon, William (1888-1958)
Papers, 1933-1969 (0.5 linear ft.)

Born to a Welsh father and Niska mother of high status, William Beynon was raised in Victoria, B.C., speaking both Niska and English. A member of the Wolf (Laxgibu) phratry, he became an hereditary Tsimshian chief in 1914 upon the death of his maternal uncle, and a year later, began to work with the anthropologist C. Marius Barbeau, collecting narratives and artifacts. During the mid- to late-1930s, Beynon worked closely with Franz Boas, providing him with an extensive series of narratives and translations from the Tsimshian.

The Beynon Papers includes a series of correspondence between Beynon and Franz Boas, 1933-1937, along with a small number of narratives in Tsimshian with interlinear English translations. The letters complement, but do not overlap with those in the Boas Papers.

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Beynon, William (1888-1958)
The Beynon Manuscripts. Film. 4 reels.

A collection of 252 Tsimshian texts, with interlinear translations collected by the Tsimshian ethnographer, William Beynon. The originals are housed at Columbia University.

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Biddle, Nicholas (1786-1844)
Scholar, statesman, financier. APS 1813.
Notes of queries to William Clark, with replies, 1810. 2 vols. (ca. 65 pp.).

The notes were taken during Biddle's visit to Clark in Virginia in 1810; they relate to the Lewis and Clark expedition. The second volume is in a notebook containing Lewis's journal of the river trip. Printed in Donald D. Jackson, ed., Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Urban, Ill., 1962), p. 497.

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Biddle, Nicholas (1786-1844)
Correspondence concerning the Lewis and Clark expedition. Film. 1 reel.

From the General Manuscript Collection, Princeton University Library.

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Bigelow, John (1817-1911)
Editor, diplomat.
Papers, 1888-1906. 8 items.

These are photostatic copies of correspondence from originals in the Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., between Albert H. Smyth, Constantia Abert, and Bigelow, concerning the Ceracchi bust of Benjamin Franklin and other Franklin topics.

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Billings, William (fl. 1790)
Ship captain
Journals of the Ship Apollo, 1789-1791. 2 vols. (82 pp.).

Record of two voyages (to Corunna, 1789-1790, and to Oporto, 1791, and return to Philadelphia), with observations of differences in temperature between air and water, especially when passing the Gulf Stream or any land or banks.

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Binny, Archibald and James Ronaldson
Ledgers; 1796-1798, 1798-1800, 1800-1801. 3 vols. (ca. 376 pp.). Photocopy.

The transactions of Binny and Ronaldson's Philadelphia type foundry are recorded.

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Black, Robert A.
collector
Hopi songs, 1960. Recording. 14 reels.

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Blake, Sidney Fay (1892-1959)
Botanist
Correspondence, ca. 1920s-1950s. 250 items.

Professional correspondence concerned primarily with botanical nomenclature. Some of the letters touch on personal matters, and there is also a series with the Texas Research Foundation relative to the disposition of Blake's herbarium. The most substantial correspondence is with Liberty Hyde Bailey, Nathaniel Lord Britton, and Waldo Lee McAtee.

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Blakeslee, Albert Francis (1874-1954)
Botanist. APS 1924.
Papers, 1904-1954. ca. 15,000 items. (12.5 ln. ft.).

Mostly concerned with Blakeslee's studies on beans and blood groups, colchicine, Datura, embryo cultures, and horticulture; many letters relate to the support and direction of the Smith College Genetics Experiment Station, which he headed; other letters are with and about the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Biological Abstracts, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Philosophical Society, Institut de France, University of Connecticut; also travel letters from Germany, and miscellaneous lectures.

Principal correspondents include:

• John Theodore Buchholz
• Vannevar Bush
• Ralph E. Cleland
• Charles B. Davenport
• Bradley M. Davis
• John E. Flynn
• James H. Hyde
• William J. Robbins
• George Harrison Shull
• Edmund W. Sinnott
• Selman A. Waksman
• E. B. Wilson

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

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Blodget, Lorin (1823-1901)
Statistician, climatologist, publicist. APS 1872.
Observers and correspondents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1854. 1 vol. (ca. 220 pp.).

A list of names and addresses, with specialties. The "British provinces" of North America, as well as "California & Panama," are included.

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Boas, Ernst Philip (1891-1955)
Physician, scientist.
Papers, ca. 1907-1955. ca. 9,500 items (10 ln. ft.).

Ernst Boas, son of the anthropologist Franz Boas, was a physician noted for his work in cardiology, and like his father, he was very much involved with liberal social causes. Boas was an instructor in pathology and physiology, and an expert in chronic diseases. As a scientific investigator he developed the cardiotachometer and did primary research in many areas, especially on cholesterol and arteriosclerosis. He was one of the primary antagonists of the American Medical Association during the 1940s and 50s, a leading proponent of National Health Insurance, and an organizer of the Physicians Forum.

The Ernst Boas Papers contains correspondence, diaries, notebooks, and manuscripts, relating to all of the varied interests and to his 400 or more publications. There is substantial material on Montefiore Hospital, Mt. Sinai Hospital, the New York County Medical Society, and the New York Heart Association. O f particular note is the correspondence with John P. Peters, a friend and liberal who was dismissed from the Public Health Service because of "disloyalty" to the U.S., in 1953, and whose vindication came from a landmark Supreme Court decision

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Boas, Franz (1858-1942)
Anthropologist. APS 1903.
Collections, ca.1860-1942. (74 ln. ft.).

During the half century leading up to the Second World War, Franz Boas helped to define academic anthropology in the United States. Trained as a geographer at the University of Heidelberg, Boas worked initially on the Inuit of Baffin Island and subsequently on the cultures of the Indians of the Northwest Pacific Coast, becoming a leading figure in American anthropology by the first decade of the twentieth century. As Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, Boas made significant theoretical contributions to ethnology, linguistics, and physical anthropology, helping to ingrain the four fields approach in his discipline and introducing the concept of cultural relativism into wide currency. He was, as well, a committed Socialist and an ardent opponent of both racism and fascism.

The Boas collections at the APS contain a nearly complete assemblage of Boas's professional correspondence, including both in-coming letters and retained copies of out-going letters, along with typescripts and manuscripts of lectures, speeches, and articles by Boas, diaries, field notes, and photographs. These comprise an important resource for documenting the transitions in American and German anthropology during the first half of the twentieth century.

The collections include:

1. Franz Boas Professional Papers I, 1862-1942 (B B61)
2. Franz Boas Professional Papers II, ca.1860-1942 (B B61p)
3. Boas Family Papers, 1862-1942 (B B61f)
4. Boas-Rukeyser Collection, 1869-1940 (B B61ru)
5. Franz Boas Notebooks and anthropometric data, 1891-1930s (B B61.5)
6. Franz Boas FBI File, 1939-1950
7. Franz Boas Photographs, ca.1883-1940

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Boas, Franz (1858-1942)
Correspondence, 1885-1909. Film. 1 reel.

From originals in the Office of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution.

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Boas, Franziska
Daughter of Franz Boas
Reminiscences, 1972. 77 pp. Typescript, copy.

Portions of her life are highlighted but the primary focus is on her father, Franz Boas, with numerous comments on his students and colleagues. This was produced by the Oral History Research Office, Columbia University.

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Bohlen, John
Philadelphia merchant
Collection, 1808-1865. 10 items.

Born in Schiffdorf (near Bremerhafen), John Bohlen became one of Philadelphia's most prominent merchants at the turn of the nineteenth century, running a profitable concern in partnership with his brother Bohl (1754-1836) importing commodities from their native Holland. Thanks to an insatiable American thirst for gin, Bohlen amassed an immense fortune that enabled him to travel in the same social circles as Stephen Girard and others among the mercantile elite and to win a spot in 1816 as one of the Directors of the Bank of the United States. By the time of his death, he was one of only eleven Philadelphians whose personal estates exceeded one million dollars in value.

The Bohlen Collection contains a scant ten letters that appear to have been retained, as much as anything, for their autograph interest. Although they shed relatively little light on the life of John Bohlen, they do offer interesting glimpses into the personalities of Bohlen's famous correspondents, including Stephen Girard, Francis Scott Key, Meriwether Lewis, Virgil Maxcy, Oliver Hazard Perry, and Timothy Pickering.

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Bonaparte, Charles Lucien Jules Laurent, prince of Canino (1803-1857)
Naturalist. APS 1824.
Letters, 1825-1857. ca. 80 items.

The primary correspondence (ca. 65 letters) is with William Cooper (1798-1864) on Bonaparte's publications, especially American Ornithology and Observations on the Nomenclature of Wilson's Ornithology, but also included are many references to American and European men of science and learned societies. There are also letters to: Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, George Robert Gray, Titian R. Peale, and Wilhelm P.S. Rüppell. In addition are photocopies of letters (11 items) to John J. Audubon and C. J. Temminck.

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Bonaparte, Charles Lucien Jules Laurent, prince of Canino (1803-1857)
Correspondence from American scientists. Film. 1 reel.

From Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris. Correspondents include:

• John J. Audubon
• William Cooper
• James Ellsworth DeKay
• Reuben Haines
• Robert Hare
• William H. Keating
• Isaac Lea
• Constantine S. Rafinesque
• Thomas Say
• Jeremiah van Rensselaer

Table of contents (8 pp.).

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Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre (1773-1858)
Archives inédites. Film. 1 reel.

This is a facsimile copy of Alexander von Humboldt's letters to Bonpland (ca. 65 total), as well as Bonpland's botanical journal. This two-volume work was published in facsimile in Buenos Aires in 1914, 1924.

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Boscovich, Roger Joseph (1711-1787)
Italian mathematician and natural philosopher
Papers. Film. 14 reels. In Italian, Latin, and French.

From University of California, Berkeley. Correspondence, including retained copies of ca. 420 letters from Boscovich and ca. 1,500 letters to him from Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Felice Fontana, Paolo Frisi, Charles Marie de La Condamine, Joseph- Jérôme Le Français de Lalande, Joseph Liesganig, Nevil Maskelyne, Charles Morton, Joseph Priestley, and Benedetto Stay; also a travel journal in Europe; also a large number of manuscripts on astronomy, hydrography and hydro-mechanics, mathematics and geometry, mechanics, optics; also a volume of poetry.

Table of contents (9 pp.).

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Bouchard, Randy and Nancy Turner
Ethnobotany of the Squamish Indian people of British Columbia, 1976. 179 pp. Photocopy.

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Boulton, Matthew (1728-1809)
Engineer.
Silver Pattern Books. Film. 2 reels.

From originals in the Birmingham (England) City Library.

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Bowen, Thomas Bartholomew
Captain, 9th Pennsylvania Regiment
Orderly Book, 1780. 1 vol. (52 pp.).

Covering the period October 12-November 11, 1780, in New Jersey, this contains regimental and divisional orders, returns of arms and equipment, lists of officers with their duties, records of courts-martial, etc.

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Bowers, Alfred W.
Collector
Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. Recording. 11 reels.

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Bowers, Alfred W.
Mandan-Hidatsa ethnohistory and linguistics, Fort Berthold Reservation, 1967 1969. Recording. 19 reels.

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Bowers, Stephen (1832-ca. 1907)
Archaeologist, geologist
Correspondence, 1860-1915. 120 items.

Bowers was a Methodist minister who was very much interested in the geology and archaeology of southern California. The letters discuss the fossils of that area, as well as Indian artifacts, skulls, etc.

Most of the correspondents are represented by only one letter:

• Spencer Fullerton Baird
• Daniel Garrison Brinton
• George Brown Goode
• Asa Gray
• Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
• Henry Wetherbee Henshaw
• Eugene Woldemar Hilgard
• Ales Hrdlicka
• George Perkins Merrill
• Benjamin Silliman, Jr.
• Isaac N. Vail

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Boykin, John and Francis P. Lee
Journal, Aug. 15-Sept. 5, 1833. 1 vol. (24 pp.).

This is an account of overland and water travel between Morristown, N.J. and Camden, S.C. Interesting contemporary information on travel conditions is presented.

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Bradford, James S. and Frances M.
Collection of Benjamin Franklin-Mary Stevenson Hewson Correspondence, 1749-1898. 0.5 lin. feet

During the 17 years he served as colonial agent for Pennsylvania in London, Benjamin Franklin developed a strong attachment to the family of his landlady at 36 Craven Street, Margaret Stevenson. Margaret's daughter, Mary (usually called Polly) became a particular intimate, remaining in constant correspondence with Franklin throughout the remainder of his life and moving to Philadelphia in 1786 to be near him.

The James S. and Frances M. Bradford Collection contains a wealth of letters to and from Polly Stevenson Hewson, intimate friend of Benjamin Franklin. At the heart of the collection are approximately 40 letters from Mary Stevenson to Franklin with a smaller number in return. Friendly, increasingly intimate, these provide a glimpse of the domestic life of Franklin and his warm personal relations with the Stevensons and Hewsons. Among the noteworthy individual items is the manuscript "Craven Street Gazette" (Sept. 22-26, 1770), the mock newspaper Franklin produced while in London.

The collection also contains a series of unrelated miscellaneous manuscripts that includes correspondence from William Bradford, Patrick Henry, and George Washington.

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Brainerd, David (1718-1747)
Missionary.
Diary, July 14-Nov. 20, 1745. 1 vol. (46 pp.).

Brainerd was a missionary to the Indians of western Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey. This diary records his sermons and travels among the Indians of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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Brandt, Elizabeth A.
Collector
Linguistic data in the Sandia dialect of Tiwa, n.d. Recording. 29 reels.

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Breck, Samuel (1771-1862)
Philadelphia merchant. APS 1838.
"Historical Sketch of the Continental Bills of Credit, from 1775 to 1781, with Specimens Thereof," 1840. 1 vol.
"Recollections of My Acquaintance and Association with Deceased Members of the American Philosophical Society," 1862. 1 vol., 108p.

Born in Boston and educated there and in France, Samuel Breck was a major figure in the mercantile, philanthropic, and political life of Philadelphia during the first half of the nineteenth century. With an interest in historical and literary affairs, Breck was an active member of the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Phialdelphia Athenaeum, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the American Philosophical Society (elected 1838).

The Breck Collection is comprised of two manuscripts written by Samuel Breck. The first, "Historical Sketch of the Continental Bills of Credit, from 1775 to 1781, with Specimens Thereof" (1840), includes an essay and 153 specimens of Continental Currency. The second essay, "Recollections of My Acquaintance and Association with Deceased Members of the American Philosophical Society" (1862) includes the 92 year-old Breck's reminiscences of his personal relationships with the nationally and internationally prominent membership of the APS.

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Breton, Adela C. (1849-1923)
Papers, 1915-1924. 0.1 lin. ft. Photocopy.

Having inherited a fortune from her father, the middle-aged Adela C. Breton began to indulge her interest in travel and archaeology. Between 1894 and 1908, Breton took thirteen excursions to the Mayan archaeological sites in Yucatan, Mexico, researching the artwork and producing valuable watercolor paintings of the ruins. She died in 1923, during a trip to attend the International Congress of Americanists in Rio de Janeiro.

The Breton Papers consist of one hundred letters written by Adela Breton to her friend and relative Ella Lewis of Philadelphia. Although they offer little insight into Breton's archaeological interests, they do provide a glimpse of her personality and her opinions on everything from American immigration law to the First World War, the malice of Germans, and her experiences traveling in western Canada.

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Brewer, Joseph
The relation of the English Baptists with New England in the seventeenth century. Film. 1 reel.

Thesis for B.D. degree, University of Leeds, 1953.

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Brillon de Jouy, Mme. Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt (1744-1824)
Parisian hostess, friend of Franklin
Musical compositions. 26 items. (ca. 459 pp.).

Principally by Mme. Brillon, these compositions include marches ("La Marche des Insurgents"), sonatas, songs, etc. Some were played at APS, 19 April 1956, under the direction of Henry S. Drinker. For the program, with notes by Gilbert Chinard, see APS Proc. 100 (1956): 331.

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Brillon de Jouy, Mme. Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt (1744-1824)
Plays. 7 pieces. (ca. 250 pp.). In French.

Comedies and tragedies, possibly not all by Mme. Brillon, entitled: "La mort de Sénèque"; "Charles le Mauvais, roi de Navarre; ou, La clémence du roi Jean"; "Charles premier, roi d'Angleterre"; "Marguerite d'Anjou, reine d'Angleterre"; "Molière aux enfers"; "Le songe, opéra comique"; and "Le bienfaisant maladroit; ou, plus de bruit que de besogne."

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British Museum
American manuscripts, 1703-1806. Film. 1 reel.

This is a miscellaneous collection of documents (ca. 35 items) selected for filming by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., in 1949. There are letters, botanical lists, and other types of documents for the following individuals:

• John Adams
• Nathaniel Ames
• John Bartram
• Cadwalader Colden
• Paul Dudley
• Benjamin Franklin
• Alexander Garden
• James Mease
• John Mitchell
• Benjamin Wilson

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Brouda, Howard Spencer
Charles Willson Peale and the Mastodon. 139 pp. Typescript, Photocopy.

Master's thesis, Long Island University, 1969.

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Brown, David J.
Geologist
Papers, 1860-1876. 158 items.

Brown was a Scottish geologist and his collection centers on his geological investigations in various areas of Scotland and England concerning fossils, geological formations, deposits, etc. His activity in the Edinburgh Geological Society is documented in the letters and news clippings.

Correspondents include:

• John Brown
• Thomas McKenny Hughes
• Charles Lapworth (with maps drawn by him)
• David Page
• James Thomson
• Henry Woodward

Table of contents (4 pp.).

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Bruno, M. de
Essai Metaphysique, Physique et Phisiologistique relativement à la découverte de M. Mesmer. 1786. 1 vol. (250 pp.).

In French.

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Bryant, Henry Grier (1859-1932)
Geographer. APS 1898.
Letterbooks, 1884-1918. 4 vols. and ca. 100 items (0.75 lin. feet).

One of Philadelphia's most recognized geographers at the turn of the twentieth century, Henry Grier Bryant was an explorer, traveler, and writer known for an avid interest in the arctic. His financial independence enabled Bryant to devote his life to expanding geographic knowledge, as an officer of the Geographic Society of Philadelphia and Alpine Club of America, and as an explorer and traveler to Labrador, Greenland, the Canadian Rockies, South America, and southern and southeast Asia.

The Bryant Letterbooks include an important slice of outgoing correspondence from the geographer and explorer, Henry G. Bryant, documenting his interest in geography and exploration. The four volumes consist of letterpress copies of outgoing correspondence (1884-1890, 1899-1902, 1902-1903, and 1913-1918) concerning personal and financial matters as well as business conducted as an officer of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia and Alpine Club of America. The collection also includes three folders of correspondence addressed to Bryant, 1886-1911, mostly pertaining to the Alpine Club.

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Bryce, James, viscount Bryce. (1838-1922)
British ambassador to the United States, 1907-1913. APS 1895.
Personal reminiscences of Charles Darwin and of the reception of the Origin of Species, 1909. Typed. (22 pp.).

Corrected typescript of an address to the APS commemorating the centenary of Darwin's birth and the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species, 23 April 1909. Printed in APS Proc. 48 (1909): iii

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Buckland, Francis Trevelyan (1826-1880)
Naturalist.
Letters, 1863-1872. 24 items.

This small collection concerns lectures by Buckland, poisonous snakes and other specimens, salmon fisheries and industry, Darwin and evolution, experimentation with oils, and birds.

Correspondents include:

• Lady William Bovill
• S. J. Crook
• E. D. Davis
• Sir Austen Henry Layard
• William Miller Ord
• G Redmayl

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Buckland, William (1784-1856)
English geologist.
Letters, 1817-1848. 85 items.

These are primarily scientific letters from Buckland, who was also the Dean of Westminster. The subjects mentioned include: Milne-Home's seismological investigations, Wheatstone's self- registering instruments, geology (glacial phenomena in Scotland, mineralogy, etc.), numerous references to fossils, and mentions of Mastodon bones and sloths.

Correspondents include:

• William John Broderip
• Rev. Edward Burton
• Sir William White Cooper
• Charles R. Darwin
• William Gaskill
• John Gibson
• David Milne-Home
• William Hutton
• Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig
• Sir John Lubbock
• Roderick Impey Murchison
• Richard Owen
• Thomas Sopwith
• William Henry Smyth
• Charles Waterton
• Charles Wheatstone

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Buddhist text
Manuscript, n.d. 33 palm fronds.

This is a Khmer (Cambodian) M l script, at least partly in Pali.

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Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788)
Natural philosopher. APS 1768.
Concerning Buffon, 1828-1845. 58 pp.

This includes notes and correspondence, in French, by Humbert-Baziel with descendants of Buffon, concerning Buffon, his work, and his family.

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Bukaty, Franciszek (1747-1797)
Treatise on tobacco cultivation, ca. 1790. Film. 16 frames.

From the original in the Jagiellonian Library, University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland. For a printed translation see: C.C. Davis, William and Mary Quarterly 21 3rd. ser. (1964): 93-117.

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Bunbury, Sir Charles James Fox (1809-1886)
English geologist
Papers, 1845-1852. 20 items.

There are botanical notebooks which concern his study of fossil plants in general, with special studies on the fossil plants in the Geological Society in Richmond (Virginia) and at Aix-la-Chapelle, as well as Cape Breton, and Pennsylvania. There is also a historical sketch of eminent English naturalists.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Burd, James (1726-1793)
Merchant, soldier, farmer
Burd-Shippen Papers, 1708-1792. ca. 1,000 items.

James Burd (1726-1793) was well-known in colonial Pennsylvania through his role in the French and Indian War, as well as his connections to many of the colony's leading families (most notably the Shippen family). Initially starting out as a merchant in Philadelphia, Burd became increasingly involved with colonial affairs after moving to Lancaster County with his family in 1752. It would be on the frontier where Burd would make his mark first as a soldier, and later as a magistrate.

Burd-Shippen Papers consist mainly of letters and business documents sent to James Burd, with the bulk of the collection relating to the French and Indian War, 1754-1763, in which Burd served as an officer commanding troops at Fort Augusta and elsewhere. The 2.5 linear feet in the collection reflects all aspects of Burd's life in Pennsylvania as a merchant, soldier, and magistrate; as well as his involvement with the Shippen family professionally and personally. Intermixed with items sent to Burd are receipts to his wife Sarah Shippen Burd, and correspondence between Edward Shippen and James Hamilton regarding land matters and Indian affairs in Lancaster.

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Burd, James (1726-1793)
Business records and accounts, 1747-1768. 7 vols.

1. Account book, Philadelphia, 1747-1748. 1 vol. Notes of materials in stock (tammys, prunellos, florettas, serpentines, inkpots, knives, rugs, razors, etc.); records of sales. At the end a member of the Burd family at Shippensburg, Pa., has copied legal forms, "Rules for Health," recipes and prescriptions, etc., ca. 1811-1816. (657/B892.3)
2. Sale book, Book C, Philadelphia, 1747-1748. 1 vol. Record of sales. The volume also includes the ledger of Joseph Burd of Tinian, Dauphin County, Pa., 1810, with notes, receipts, memoranda
   (657 B892)
3. Day ledger, Philadelphia, 1747-1749. 1 vol. Record of purchases; customers include: William Biddle, Mrs. Breintnall, Edward Shippen, Joseph Shippen, Dr. William Shippen, and Charles Stedman
   (657 B892.1)
4. Account book, Philadelphia, 1749-1751. 1 vol. Accounts, profit and loss statements, records of shipments
   (657 B89a)
5. Account book, Shippensburg, Pa., 1752-1753, and Philadelphia, 1750-1756. 1 vol. Sales of beer, malt, hops, wood, barrels; also of rugs, blankets, gunpowder, cambric, etc. Customers include: William Allen, James Benezet, Alexander Graydon, Edward Shippen, Joseph Shippen, Robert Smith
   (657 B892.2)
6. Account book and index, 1765-1768. Lancaster, Pa., 2 vols. Among the customers are the suppliers for Fort Augusta
   (657 B89b)

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Burr, Charles H.
Philadelphia lawyer
The treaty-making power of the United States and the methods of its enforcement as affecting the police powers of the states, 1912. (296 pp.). Typed.

This essay won the Henry M. Phillips Prize of APS, 1912; and is printed in APS Proc. 51 (1912): 27.

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Burrough, Marmaduke (1794-1844)
Physician, diplomat
Papers, 1829-1847. 16 items.

Burrough was the U.S. Consul at Calcutta and Vera Cruz. The material in this collection is primarily the receipts for books, clothes, passages, etc., while he was in Calcutta. There is also a small volume (ca. 50 pp.), a duplicate receipt book which he kept as the Consul in Vera Cruz.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Buxtorf, Johann (1564-1629)
German Hebrew scholar.
Hebrew grammar. 1 vol. (270 pp.).

A manuscript translation made by Jonas Altamont Phillips, 1824.

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Byrd, William (1674-1744)
Virginia planter, official, writer.
Histories of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina, 1728. 2 vols. (394 pp.).

History of the dividing line and Secret history of the line. Another version of the History and the manuscript of the Secret history are published in Louis B. Wright, ed., The Prose Works of William Byrd of Westover (Cambridge, Mass., 1966).

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