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Dale, Richard (1756-1826)
Naval Officer.
Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1780-1845. Film. 1 reel.

The collection contains letters of Commodore Dale to the Secretary of the Navy, William Bainbridge, Samuel Barron, William Eaton, David Humphreys, Rufus King, British, Algerian, and Tripolitanian officials, 1801-1802; also a miscellaneous collection of letters of Charles Biddle, James Biddle, Mahlon Dickerson, John Paul Jones, John Y. Mason, Oliver H. Perry, Edward Preble, Benjamin Stoddert, Thomas Truxtun, and others, 1780-1845; and Dale's journal on a voyage to Canton, 1787-1788.

Table of contents.

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Dalhousie Muniments
Papers relating to America, 1748-1759. Film. 2 reels.

These concern James Glen, governor of South Carolina, and John Forbes and his expedition in the French and Indian War. There are references to South Carolina politics and government, Indian policy, and the war itself.
From originals in the Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh.

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Dannemours, Charles François Adrien Le Paulmier, chevalier d'Annemours
French consul for Virginia and Maryland. APS 1783
Mémoire sur le district du Ouachita dans la province de la Louisianne, [1803]. 1 vol. (43 pp.).

In addition to the above original, there is a translation (20 pp., 1973) by Robert H. Cain (restricted access).

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Darlington, William (1782-1863)
Physician and naturalist. APS 1823.
Letters and papers, 1777-1863. Film. 1 reel.

From Free Library of Philadelphia. Miscellaneous letters and drafts of letters; genealogical notes, medical essays, copies of letters and essays sent to newspapers and magazines; bills and receipts; invitations; military and other commissions; biographical memoir of General John Lacey, 1823; also papers, principally official, of his son Lieut. B. S. B. Darlington, U.S.N.

Darlington, William (1782-1863)
Selected letters, 1836-1857. Film.

From New-York Historical Society. A few letters to Darlington from, among others, Spencer F. Baird, Robert Carr, Edward D. Ingraham, Moses Marshall, George Ord, John Jay Smith, and John F. Watson; also from Joseph Johnson, enclosing a sketch of the life of Stephen Elliott (1771-1830).
Table of contents (9 pp.).

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Darnell, Regna
Historian
The emergence of academic anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. 28 pp. Photocopy, typescript.

This paper was published in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 6:80 92 (1970).

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Darrach, Charles Gobrecht
Civil engineer, Philadelphia
Topography of the earth, 1914. Blueprint of typed copy. (12 pp.).

The author claims that studies in paleontology, biology, and topography practically eliminate the Darwinian hypothesis from serious consideration in the study of nature. The essay, which is illustrated by maps, is dedicated to the memory of Henry Pemberton, Member American Philosophical Society.

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Darwin, Charles Galton (1887-1963)
Physicist. APS 1952.
Papers, 1911 ca. 1938. 40 items.

These include numerous Darwin writings, in manuscript and typescript, as well as letters to him from Niels Bohr, Max Born, J. Frenkel, Oskar Klein, J. E. Littlewood, H. Moseley, H. R. Robinson. The writings include such topics as magnetic storms, atom mechanics, wave theory.

There is also a copy of a paper in Darwin's hand by Henri Poincaré, "On the theory of Quanta" (published in Journal de Physique, 1912).

This collection was indexed and filmed for the Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, as described in the above guide entry.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
Naturalist. APS 1869.
Papers, 1837-1882. ca. 950 items.

One of the most important natural historians in nineteenth century Britain, Charles Darwin provided the first compelling mechanism to account for organismal evolutionary change. Although lacking a coherent model of heredity, Darwin's natural selection has exerted an enormous influence over the biological sciences and since the introduction of Mendelian genetics, had remained the key unifying principle in the discipline.

The APS Darwin Papers are a large a valuable assemblage of Darwin's correspondence with scientific colleagues, including Charles Lyell and George J. Romanes. They are included in the print version of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge Univ. Press). This collection includes photostats of 18 letters from Walsh to Darwin, in the Chicago Museum of Natural History, and photostats of Darwin manuscripts in possession of Dr. Robert M. Stecher, Cleveland, Ohio. Many of these letters were described briefly by P. Thomas Carroll, An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of The American Philosophical Society (Scholarly Resources, 1976)., which is now available on-line.

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Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
Diary and correspondence written during the voyage of the Beagle, 1831-1836. Film. 1 reel.

From originals at Down House, Kent.

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Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1831-1882. Microfilms.

From Down House, Kent: Correspondence with his family, Sir William J. Hooker, Sir John W. Lubbock, William Ogle, Daniel Oliver, John Tyndall, and Sir William Ramsay, 1836-1882. (1 reel).

From Cambridge University Library: Theoretical notebooks, 1836-1844 (Red Notebook; Notebooks A, M, and N; Transmutation Notebooks B-E; and Questions and Experiments Notebook). (Film 1451)

From the collection of Dr. Robert M. Stecher, Cleveland, Ohio (1961): Letters to J. Brodie-Innes, W. H. Bates, Lady Dorothy Nevill, and others (1846-1882); also letters to his wife and son and letters and papers about him (1 reel).

From New York Botanical Garden; from Burgerbibliothek, Berne; from Medizinhistorische Institut, Zurich; from University of Basel Library; from Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva; and other sources: Letters from Darwin to G. H. K. Thwaites, William B. Tegetmeier, Albany Hancock, Richard Owen, Bernhard Studer, Auguste H. Forel, J. Moulinie, A. Bohrn, Karl Christoph Vogt, François Joseph Pictet de la Rive, and others.

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Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
Notebooks written during the voyage of the Beagle, 1831-1836. Film. 1 reel.

From eighteen original notebooks at Down House, Kent.

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Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
Charles Darwin Papers Editorial Project Collection. ca. 50 ln. ft. Photocopy.

The project to publish the complete correspondence of the British naturalist Charles Darwin began in 1974 under the editorial guidance of Frederick Burkhardt with the assistance of Sydney Smith. Drawing heavily on the 9,000 letters located at Cambridge University and 950 at the American Philosophical Society, the project has made efforts to locate, transcribe, and publish every known letter written by Darwin. Over 200 institutions in 20 countries have contributed to the project, yielding a total of 15,000 letters.

The Darwin material was assembled in photocopy by the Darwin Papers Editorial Project, and includes a copy of nearly every letter known to have been written by Darwin and many written to him. These are arranged alphabetically by correspondent, and are inventoried thoroughly in Burkhardt, A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882

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There are restrictions on the copying of these photocopied letters and documents, but they may be consulted by all scholars at the APS Library.

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Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Physician. APS 1792.
Commonplace book, ca. 1777. Film. 1 reel.

From original at Down House, Kent.

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Darwin, Francis Galton (1848-1925)
Botanist. APS 1909.
Papers, 1868-1925. 50 items.

Principally letters to Charles Edward Sayle on musical programs; letters to Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing about the Linnean Society, the Royal Society, and the publication of Charles Darwin's papers; also a letter of Charles Darwin to Stebbings and several letters of Francis Darwin to other persons.

In addition, there are several letters to William Bowman (as well as from Theodor Engelmann to Bowman), and one from Raphael Meldola.

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Darwin, George Howard (1845-1912)
Astronomer, mathematician. APS 1898.
Letters, 1834-1881. 5 items.

This small, miscellaneous collection of letters is written to: Alexander Brownlee, C. Stoult, F. W. Surman, and Otto Zacharias. There are references to lunar tidal waves, and mentions of Charles and Erasmus Darwin.

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Darwin, George Howard (1845-1912)
On meteorites and the history of stellar systems, [1889]. 1 vol. (46 pp.).

This essay formed the basis of lectures he delivered before the Royal Institution of London, 25 Jan. 1889. It was a popular account of a paper he read before the Royal Society the previous November (On the Mechanical Conditions of a Swarm of Meteorites, and on Theories of Cosmogony, Royal Society Proc. 45: 3 16).

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Davenport, Charles Benedict (1866-1944)
Biologist; director, Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington, APS 1907.
Papers, 1874-1944. (63 lin. ft.).

Founded by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in 1890, the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., was little more than a languishing outpost until the arrival of Charles B. Davenport in 1898. Over the course of two decades, the ambitious young biologist used his extraordinary administrative skills to transform the institution into the premier center of eugenical study and, as its director, to position himself as the leading spokesman for eugenical research in North America.

The Davenport Papers (ca.43 lin. feet) is a large and nearly comprehensive body of correspondence, lectures, diaries (1878-1942, mostly brief entries of an uneven character), student notebooks and family correspondence pertaining to Charles Davenport and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The collection is divided into two series, the Charles Davenport Papers, which provides valuable documentation of the development of American biology, animal and plant genetics, and eugenics during the period 1898-1942, with some perspective on the international eugenics movement. Series II, the Cold Spring Harbor Records (ca.20 lin. feet), consists largely of administrative correspondence relating to the laboratory, including Davenport's correspondence with Carnegie administrators (esp. Robert Woodward and John Merriam), accounts and reports concerning financial matters, publications, salaries, material relative to the early history of Cold Spring Harbor labs, and records relative to the numerous professional assistants who worked under Davenport.

Among the major correspondents are the American Breeders Association, Committee on Eugenics; American Eugenics Society; American Society of Naturalists; Committee on a Study of the American Negro; Galton Society (see also the extensive correspondence with William K. Gregory); Eugenics Education Society (see Mrs. S. Gotto correspondence); International Congresses of Eugenics; International Federation of Eugenic Organizations, Committee on Race Crossing; National Committee on Mental Hygiene; National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor; and the Pan-American Conference on Eugenics and Homiculture. There are correspondence and papers relating to the Station for Experimental Evolution, the Eugenics Record Office, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a substantial series relating to a long-range study of children carried out at Letchworth Village, Thiles, New York.

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

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David Library of the American Revolution
American Revolution Collection, ca. 1760s-1850s. ca. 2500 items.

This rich collection of letters and documents, which was assembled by Sol Feinstone (1888-1980) over a period of fifty years, includes material on almost all notable Americans of that era, as well as prominent Europeans, and there are documents relating to military affairs. There are substantial groups of letters from: John Adams, Henry Dearborn, Alexander Hamilton, Jedediah Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, George Washington, and a long run of letters from a Massachusetts military surgeon named Samuel Adams. Many letters, though written by Revolutionary figures, relate to events that occurred before or after the War.

This collection was published in a microfilm format (5 reels, Film 1274) by Rhistoric Publications in 1969, with a published listing and index (93 pp.). David Fowler's Calendar of the collection is available in the reading room.

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Davy, Humphry (1778 1829). English natural philosopher
APS 1810.
Collection, 1803-1822. 35 items.

Chiefly correspondence with Alexander John Gaspard Marcet on chemistry, with references to Sir Joseph Banks, Jean Francois Berger, Johan Jakob Berzelius, Jean-Baptiste Biot, and others; a few letters to and from John Bostock, Thomas Cooper, John Wilson Croker, Giovanni Fabbroni, and Henry Penneck.

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Dawes, Elizabeth F.
Collector
Miscellaneous documents of American history, 1681-1921. 77 items.

Principally of Pennsylvania interest, 1757-1809, including letters to Richard I. Manning from John C. Calhoun, Marquis de Lafayette, George McDuffie, and William Wirt; also letters to Clement C. Biddle, James Buchanan, Francis J. Grund, James Madison, Timothy Pickering, and William H. Seward; also several musical scores, and 19 canceled checks drawn by Ticknor & Fields, Boston, to the order of various American authors, 1861-1871.

Table of contents (3 pp.).

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Day, Gordon M.
Compiler
Wampanoag material supplied by Chief Wild Horse. Film. 1 reel & Recording. 1 reel.

From Dartmouth College Library. Word lists, phrases, and sentences, with English equivalents.

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Day, Sherman (1806-1884)
Artist, architect
Ephraim Dyer IV Collection of the sketches of Sherman Day, ca. 1842. ca. 150 sketches, 100 engravings.

There are the original sketches used for the engravings in Day's 1843 publication, Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). They are finely detailed sketches of public and private structures throughout the State. These sketches were reproduced in: Murphy D. Smith, Sherman Day: Artist, Forty-niner and Engineer (Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1980). Accompanying these sketches are 150 pages of photocopied letters of Day, from originals at Yale University. These were used by Smith in his book.

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Deane, Sidney Norton (1878 1943)
A New England pioneer among the Oneida Indians. Film. 1 reel.

From manuscript in possession of Benjamin D. Meritt, Princeton, N.J., 1962. Sketch of the life of James Dean (1748 1823) of Westmoreland, N.Y.; with a version of the Oneida creation myth.

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DeBenneville, George, (1703-1793)
Physician
Medicina Pennsylvania, 1760 1779, with additions to 1841. Film. 1 reel.

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Deering, Frank C.
Collector
Collection of Indian captivities. Photostat, typed. (77 pp.).

A list of titles, with analyses by Charles Marius Barbeau.

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de Laguna, Frederica (1906- )
Anthropologist
Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, ca. 1960, 1968. Recording. 25 reels.

Includes interviews, songs and texts.

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de Laguna, Frederica (1906- )
Notes on recordings of songs and dances, 1960. Film. 1 reel.

From manuscript in possession of Frederica de Laguna, Bryn Mawr College. The recordings were made at Copper River, Alaska.

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de Laguna, Frederica (1906- )
Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, ca. 1952. Recording. 7 reels.

Songs, stories with some translations; 3 Athabascan songs.

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de Laguna, Frederica (1906- )
Tlingit and Yakutat songs, 1954. Recording. 10 reels.

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de Laguna, Frederica and Marie Françoise Guédon
Anthropologists
Atna of the Copper River Valley, 1960, 1968. Film. 2 reels

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de Laguna, Frederica and Catherine McClellan (1921- )
Anthropologists
Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska. ca. 1958. Recording. 8 reels.

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de Laguna, Frederica and Catherine McClellan (1921- )
Field notes on the ethnology of the Tlingit and Copper River Atna, 1949-1960. Film. 6 reels.

Includes notes on archaeological investigations and transcripts of interviews with informants. From originals in possession of the compilers.

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de Laguna, Frederica and Catherine McClellan (1921- )
Tlingit recordings, made in Angoon, Alaska, June 21, 1950. Recording. 1 reel.

This includes How Angoon was destroyed in 1882.

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Delaware, Newcastle
Charter, 1724. 32 pp.

Sir William Keith's copy of the royal charter issued by George I.

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Delaware County Institute of Science (Pennsylvania)
Minutes and papers, ca. 1834-1873. Film. 1 reel.

This includes communications or correspondence from such figures as A. D. Bache, Amos Bonsall, John F. Frazer, and M. F. Maury. There are reports by committees, such as those on agriculture, botany, horticulture, meteorology, etc.

Table of contents (7 pp.).

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Demerec, Milislav (1895-1966)
Geneticist. APS 1952.
Papers, 1919-1966. (10.75 linear feet)

The geneticist Milislav Demerec emigrated from Yugloslavia in 1919, spending nearly his entire career in the Department of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Working initially on the genetics of maize and later on Drosophila virilis, his research interests included radiation and chemical mutagenesis, and during the Second World War, penicillin and the genetics of antibiotic resistance. Demerec served as head of the laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor from 1941 until 1960.

The Demerec collection contains the extant professional papers of Milislav Demerec, dating primarily from the time of his arrival at Cold Spring Harbor until his retirement. In addition to his correspondence with colleagues, the collection includes interesting material on the administration of Cold Spring Harbor laboratory during the 1940s and 1950s, data and research notes, material relating to professional organizations (e.g. Genetics Society of America, American Society of Naturalists), a lengthy series of lectures given by Demerec, and a large number of photographs pertaining to Demerec's research, but also to his colleagues and Cold Spring Harbor itself.

Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections... and in Lily Kay, Molecules, Cells, and Life.

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Demers, Richard
Collector
Lummi recordings, 1974. Recording. 20 reels.

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De Morgan, Augustus (1806-1871)
English mathematician.
Collection, 1841-1866. 30 items.

These letters are to William Hepworth Dixon, editor of the Athenaeum, a journal of literature, science, the fine arts, music and drama. They concern current publications and publishing expenses, Faraday, astronomy, perspective, M. F. Maury, P. Du Chaillu, all in relation to the Athenaeum or letters to the editor thereof.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Demours, Pierre (1702-1785)
French ophthalmologist.
Etat des articles contenus dans le cabinet d'histoire naturelle du jardin du roy, Juillet 1730. 1 vol. (35 pp.). In French.

Demours, keeper of the king's cabinet, prepared this listing, arranged by armoire and bureau, of the natural history specimens: roots, shells, wood, leaves, fruit, etc.

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Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of (1775-1851)
Papers, 1846-1851

Edward Smith Stanley, the 13th Earl of Derby, was an avid naturalist and keeper of one of the great menageries in early Victorian England. The collection consists of fourteen letters and two partial letters written by Derby to Thomas Reade (1785-1849) and his son Richard. From 1846 to 1851, the Reades, British consuls at Tripoli, were an important part of a network of associates that helped secure exotic animals for Derby's private menagerie at Knowsley Park. There is one letter each of Richard Reade to Derby and one from Derby to his "agent," Louis Fraser.

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Dercum, Francis Xavier (1856-1931)
Physician. President of APS. APS, 1892.
Physiology of the Mind, [1922]. 217 pp.

This was published as An Essay on the Physiology of Mind (Phila.: Saunders, 1922). There is also an accompanying manuscript version in French, Physiologie de la pensée (167 pp.).

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Dercum, Francis Xavier (1856-1931)
Biography. 1 vol. (22 pp.).

This is a biographical sketch of Dercum written by Tom Bentley Throckmorton (1885 1961) and delivered before the American Medical Association, June 4, 1941. Dercum, who was also a teacher and philosopher, was a specialist in neurology. Practicing in Philadelphia, he made the first contribution to understanding adiposis dolorosa, or Dercum's disease.

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Diehl, H. C.
Collector
Recordings of Hopi and Navajo Indians, 1955-1957, 1959. 21 reels & 600 pp.

Hopi words, phrases, texts, counting, and grammar (particles), some with English equivalents; Navajo words and phrases with English glosses and Navajo literacy lessons (one reel). Includes duplicates of Hopi recordings made by Carl F. Voegelin. Hopi informants include: Willie Coin, Jimmy Kewanwaytiwa, Bennie Nuvanisa, and Alert Yava. There are also photocopied transcripts of recordings.

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Dobbs, Arthur (1689-1765)
Governor of North Carolina.
Letters to the Earl of Loudoun, 1756-1757. Film.

From Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif.

Table of contents. (1p.).

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Doblaz, Gonzalo de (1774-1809)
Adventurer and official.
Memoira histórica, política y ecónomica de esta provincia de misiones de Indios Guaranís, 1785. 1 vol. (268 pp.)

An account of Spanish policy toward the Guarani Indians in Spanish mission settlements, especially after the suppression of the Jesuits; prepared for Felix de Azara, commandant of Paraguay. Printed from a variant manuscript in Pedro de Angelis, Colección de obras y documentos relativos a la historia antigua y moderna de las provincias del Río de la Plata (Buenos Aires, 1836).

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Dobzhansky, Theodosius (1900-1975)
Geneticist. APS 1942.
Papers, ca. 1917-1975. (12 ln. ft.)

One of the four horsemen of the evolutionary synthesis of the 1940s, Theodosius Dobzhansky played a crucial role in bridging the gap between theoretical and empirical approaches in genetics and in promoting the Neo-Darwinian synthesis. His contributions to the biological species concept and to an understanding the evolutionary dynamics of wild populations of Drosophila were fundamental to the development of modern population genetics and evolutionary thought.

The Dobzhansky Papers are a remnant of the correspondence and writings of the geneticist and evolutionary biologist, Theodosius Dobzhansky. The correspondence (7.5 linear feet) provides insight into Dobzhansky's scientific, philosophical, and social views, particularly during the last decade of his life. Equally valuable are the 54 notebooks (ca.1917-1975) which comprise an almost uninterrupted self-commentary on Dobzhansky's career, replete with typescripts of personal letters and short essays sent to colleagues and friends. The collection also contains two unbound volumes of annotated "reminiscences" from the Columbia Oral History Project, 1962; two bound volumes of papers dedicated to him on his 70th birthday; and 1.5 linear feet of photographs.

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

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Dodge, Bernard Ogilvie (1872-1960).
Botanist, plant pathologist
Papers, 1908-61. 44 items.

Contains letters to Dodge from Charles H. Peck, William G. Farlow, David R. Goddard, Robert A. Harper, and H. Rehm; certificates and diplomas of learned societies; and letters and data about Dodge addressed to William J. Robbins, who used them in preparing his memoir of Dodge for the Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Dolley, Charles Sumner, (1856-1948).
Biologist. APS 1886. WWW
Papers, ca. 1880s. 150 items.

Letters and manuscripts. Primarily personal letters with his wife and family. There are letters from Europe and several that concern Dolley's translation of Ferdinand Julius Cohn's book, Bacteria: the Smallest of Living Organisms (1881).

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Donaldson, Henry Herbert, (1857-1938)
Neurologist. APS, 1906.
Diaries and papers, 1869-1938. 50 vols.

Diaries, 1890-1938, containing brief records of professional work and family events (49 vols.); also autobiography entitled "Memories for my boys," 1930, referring to his childhood and to his professional career and mentioning Franz Boas, William Comstock, Livingston Farrand, William W. Keen, S. Weir Mitchell, Elihu Root, and W. T. Sedgewick and also APS, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, and Wistar Institute (1 vol.); also a few miscellaneous papers, 1869-1932, chiefly letters to and from members of his family, and also Poultney Bigelow, Simon Henry Gage, and W. B. Van Ingen; two essays ("The Days of Man" and "A Venetian Night"): genealogical data; verses dedicated to his wife; extracts of letters to supplement his diaries.

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Donath, Joseph
Journal of bee-keeping, 1787-1788. 1 vol. (19 pp.).

Donath lived at Spring Mill, thirteen miles north of Philadelphia. He describes the procedures and administration of his apiary. There are sketches of the layout of his hive, as well. The diary also mentions a visit by Generals Washington and Mifflin, and other members of the Constitutional Convention, on 22 July 1787.

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Dorr, Dalton (1846-1901)
Museum curator.
Journal, 1869-1885. 1 vol. (328 pp., index).

Dorr was the curator and secretary of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia, the forerunner of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This journal represents a copy of Dorr's notes of travels from memoranda in old diaries. The areas he visited, which he describes in detail, include Greenland (he took a cruise with Isaac I. Hayes, in 1869; described by Hays in his Land of Desolation..., New York; Harper 1872); the Indian Territory, Colorado and the Pacific coast (1872-73); Paris, England, Scotland, and Ireland (1882-85). There are numerous sketches in this volume. The Library also has a companion volume of photographs taken by William Bradford on the cruise to Greenland, which Bradford presented to Dorr.

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Dovaston, John (1740-1808)
British savant.
Astronomical notebook, ca. 1764-99. 1 vol. (135p.). Illus.

The amateur astronomer and scientific instrument maker John Dovaston was born into a long-established Shropshire family on April 25, 1740, the son of John Dovaston and Margaret (Rogers). While still in his twenties, Dovaston used the proceeds from his sugar plantations in Jamaica to build "The Nursery," an estate near West Felton, near Shrewsbury, where he lived until his death on April 4, 1808.

Dovaston's astronomical notebook contains observations on the transits of Venus and Mercury, 1761-1799; the eclipse of the moon, July 1776; and the comet of August 1797; as well as more general notes on stellar positions, astronomical instruments, calendars, and the measurement of latitude and longitude. The volume is illustrated, and includes copies of two letters received from his fellow amateur astronomer, Waldron Hill. Dovaston's interest in astrology is suggested by his detailed notes on casting a horoscope ("The Manner of Erecting a scheme or figure of the Heavens"), as well as by the presence of nativities for his son (1782) and for William Dovaston (1765).

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Driesch, Hans (1847-1941)
Hans Driesch-Thomas Hunt Morgan Collection, 1893-1933. 1 reel of microfilm.

An innovative embryologist and confirmed vitalist, Hans Driesch worked successively at the International Zoological Station in Naples, Italy, and at the Universities of Heidelberg, Cologne, and Leipzig, before being forcibly retired by the Nazis in 1933.

The Driesch-Morgan Collection consists of letters written by Thomas Hunt Morgan to Driesch between 1893 and 1915, with one letter from 1933, relating to their work on the embryology of sea urchins and theories of development. The microfilm is based on originals held at the Universitätsbibliothek, Leipzig.

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Duane, William J. (1780-1865)
Lawyer, Secretary of Treasury.
Papers, ca. 1760s-1860s. ca. 120 items.

These manuscripts were bound together in a volume with photographs and other items, interleaved in the printed version of William Duane's Biographical Memoir of William J. Duane (Philadelphia, 1868). These are mainly letters from prominent Americans which highlight Duane's life and career, as well as the writers who include, among others:

• John Quincy Adams
• Richard Bache
• Sarah Bache
• Nicholas Biddle
• Henry Clay
• Frederick Wm. Conway
• Thomas P. Cope
• George M. Dallas
• Barry Denny
• Deborah Franklin
• John C. Frémont
• Stephen Girard
• Joseph Hopkinson
• Andrew Jackson
• Thomas Jefferson
• Amos Kendall
• Michael Leib
• Thomas McKean
• James Madison
• David Rittenhouse
• John Sergeant
• Levi Woodbury

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Duane Family
Papers, 1770-1933. ca. 150 items.

Principally social letters among members of the family, including Mrs. Deborah Bache Duane, Charles William Duane, Russell Duane, William J. Duane, William Duane (1760-1835), and William Duane (1807-82); also letters and papers of Roland S. Morris, including letters to his sister Mrs. Russell Duane, 1896-1933. Other letters refer to Benjamin Franklin, education, Japan, the election of Woodrow Wilson as president of the United States, wills, estates, and legal matters.

Other correspondents include:

• Alexander Viets Griswold Allen
• Alexander D. Bache
• Phillips Brooks
• George W. Curtis
• John Dickinson
• John Fries Frazer
• George Angier Gordon
• Josiah G. Holland
• William R. Huntington
• Charles J. Ingersoll
• Brantz Mayer
• Daniel Merriman
• George W. Moore
• William Ford Nichols
• William H. Odenheimer
• James Parton
• William Stevens Perry
• Alonzo Potter
• Henry R. Schoolcraft
• Jared Sparks
• William Bacon Stevens
• Samuel J. Tilden
• John Vaughan
• Daniel Webster

Table of contents (3 pp.).

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Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis (1700-1782)
French agronomist and botanist.
Papers, 1716-89. 8 ln. ft. (20 boxes, 18 vols.). In French.

Principally on botany and agriculture, this collection includes many manuscripts on trees, shrubs, and plants of different species, copies of botanical essays by others, essays on fruit trees, etc., by Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-89), notes and drafts for the latter's revision of Duhamel's Traité des Arbres et Arbustres. Also miscellaneous essays, sketches, and memoranda on bones of birds and animals, electricity, poisons, steam engines, ventilation, temperature and air pressure, mathmatics, paleontology ("Observations sur les os d'éléphants fossiles"), chemistry, metallurgy, entomology, architecture, taxidermy ("Méthode pour empailler les oiseaux"); lists of plants; notes on England, Canada, Mexico, China; notes of reading in Pliny, John Evelyn, Alexander Russell, William Derham, and others. Also a translation of Jethro Tull's Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, with additions and revisions by Duhamel du Monceau. Also an alphabetical catalogue of Duhamel's gardens, prepared by Fougeroux de Bondaroy. Also correspondence (ca. 170 pieces) with, among others, Duc d'Aven, Duc de Noailles, Louis J. M. Daubenton, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Jean François Gauthier, Comte de La Galissonière, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Emerich Vattel. The collection has been described in part by Gilbert Chinard, "Recently Acquired Botanical Documents," APS Proc. 101 (1957): 508: and by Joseph Ewan, "Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-1789) and his Projected Revision of Duhamel du Monceau's Traité (1755) on Trees and Shrubs. I. An Analytical Guide to Persons, Gardens, and Works mentioned in the Manuscripts," APS Proc. 103 (1959): 807.

Table of contents (15 pp.).

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Dumas, Jean Baptiste André (1800-1884)
Chemist. APS, 1860.
La Vie de J.-B. Dumas, 1800-1884, par son petit-fils, le Général J.-B. Dumas, 1924 1 vol. (235 pp.). Mimeographed.

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Dunbar, William (1749-1810)
Planter and scientist. APS, 1800.
Journal of a voyage... to the mouth of the Red river (200p.) and
Journal of a geometric survey...[to] the hot springs (64p.), 1804-1805. 1 vol.

A merchant and cotton planter and one of the great scientific observers of the Old Southwest, William Dunbar led the 1804-1805 expedition to explore the southwestern boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase. With his second in command George Hunter, the Dunbar expedition provided some of the earliest records of the flora and fauna of the Ouachita Mountains as well as the first detailed chemical analyses of the Hot Springs of Arkansas.

Both manuscripts by William Dunbar document the expedition up the Red and Ouachita Rivers to the Hot Springs of Arkansas in 1804-1805. The "Journal... to the Mouth of the Red River" (200p.) is the fullest available record of the activities of the expedition from the time of their departure from St. Catharine's Landing on October 16, 1804, until their return to Natchez, Miss., on January 26, 1805. The "Journal of a geometrical survey" includes a record of course and distances as well as a thermometrical log and other brief notes. The two are bound together in a volume with Zebulon Montgomery Pike's journal of a voyage to the source of the Mississippi, 1805-1806.

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Dunglison, Robley (1798-1869)
Physician, teacher, writer. APS, 1832.
Autobiographical ana. Film. 3 reels.

From College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Edited by Samuel X. Radbill and published in APS Trans., n.s., 53, 8 (1963).

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Dunham, Theodore (1897-1984)
Astrophysicist
Papers, 1930-1884. 31 lin. feet.

The astrophysicist Theodore Dunham made important contributions in the application of spectroscopy to the anlysis of planetary atmospheres. After receiving an MD from Cornell in 1925 and a doctorate in physics at Princeton in 1927, Dunham was employed at the Mount Wilson Observatory until 1947, except for his war-time service with the Optical Instruments Section of the OSRD. He was subsequently involved in developing instrumentation for medical research (1947-1958) at Harvard and the University of Rochester, and with the Mount Stromlo Observatory at Australian National University. He was scientific director of the Fund for Astrophysical Research from its founding in 1936 until his death in 1984.

The Dunham Papers include materials regarding Funds for Astrophysical Research Inc. and the Mount Desert Island Astronomical Association, telescopes, correspondence, reprints and articles, and photographs.

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Dunn, Leslie Clarence (1893-1974)
Geneticist. APS, 1943.
Papers, ca. 1920-1974. (15 lin. ft.).

This collection includes correspondence, reports, notebooks, lectures, photographs, etc. It is a rich collection, documenting the development of American genetics as well as Dunn's varied interests. There is significant material relating to American-U.S.S.R. contacts, particularly in the files on the American-Soviet Friendship Council and the American-Soviet Science Society. There is much, as well, on the impact of the Lysenko controversy in the U. S. Dunn's interests in European scientists can also be seen in the sizable amount of material on the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars. Material relating to the Kilgore and Magnusson bills for the support of science (predecessors to the NSF) are in the collection. Of note are data on the following: National Research Council Committee on Experimental Animals and Plants; research on the population study of the Jewish community in Rome; files of material concerning Columbia University, where he spent most of his academic career. There is much in the correspondence concerning Drosophila, poultry genetics, and other such topics, with Dunn's major correspondence being Walter Landauer (ca. 3 boxes).

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

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Dunn, Nathan (?-1844)
Letterbook, 1829-30, 1838. Film. 75 frames.

From original in the Marine Historical Association, Mystic, Connecticut.

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Dunnigan, Timothy
Collector
Pima Bajo recordings, 1965. Recording. 12 reels.

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Dupaix, Guillermo (1748 or 1750-1817)
Viages sobre las antiqüedades mejicanas, 1805-1807. 2 vols. (365 pp.).

Born in Austro-Hungary in either 1748 or 1750, Guillermo Dupaix became one of the first Europeans to observe and describe the archaeological riches of Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Yucatan. Between 1805 and 1807, he lead three Royal expeditions to survey major Mexican archaeological sites, working in close concert with Jose Luciano Castañeda, an artist with the National Museum. Among the sites they visited were the Mayan ruins at Palenque, the Zapotec/Mixtec site at Mitla, and several Aztec sites.

The APS version of Viages Sobre las Antiquedades Mejicanas is one of several contemporary manuscript copies of Dupaix's seminal work on Mexican archaeology. The work consists of two volumes, the first containing the text, the second, copies of Castañeda's illustrations, which here lack the distortions introduced in King's edition.

Printed in Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough, Antiquities of Mexico vol. 5 (London, 1831).

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DuPonceau, Peter Stephen (1760-1844)
Lawyer, author, philologist. APS, 1791.
Papers, 1786-1842. 0.5 linear feet.

A pioneer in ethnographic and linguistic studies of the American Indian and one of the most active members of the American Philosophical Society, Peter Stephen DuPonceau helped to establish the American Philosophical Society's reputation as one of the world's foremost centers for the study of American Indians and their languages.

The Peter Stephen DuPonceau collection consists of correspondence on legal matters, Indian linguistics, silk culture, maritime law, the American Philosophical Society, and various publications of the early nineteenth century. The collection also includes several essays by DuPonceau, most of which deal with maritime law.

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DuPonceau, Peter Stephen (1760-1844)
Commonplace book, 1820. 1 vol. (150pp.).

There are notes on the colonial history of Pennsylvania, with emphasis on William Penn and his family, the Society of Friends, James Logan, and the charters granted by Penn, with some notes on the study of languages and definitions of words.

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DuPonceau, Peter Stephen (1760-1844)
Essai de solution du problème philologique proposé en l'année 1823 par la commission de l'Institut de France. 1 vol. (70 pp.).

The commission was charged with offering a prize on linguistics, under the will of Count Volney. Formerly, this essay was thought to have been by Baron Nicolas Massias (1764-1848), who won the Volney prize in 1828.

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DuPonceau, Peter Stephen (1760-1844)
Indian vocabularies, 1820-44. 1 vol. (253 pp.).

Copies of 82 vocabularies representing 73 languages with notes and additions made by Du Ponceau and Albert Gallatin. Vocabularies for South American languages are copied from rare printed sources, while North American vocabularies are from both printed and manuscript sources.
The first 23 pages of the volume are the Continuance Docket of the Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, 1783-86. Cases noted are those involving Stephen Dutilh, Samuel Garrigues, John Girard, John Holker, Charles J. de Longchamps, and Claude P. Raguet.

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DuPonceau, Peter Stephen (1760-1844)
Notebooks on Philology. 9 vols. (ca. 654 pp.).

Principally on American Indian languages, with some notes on the languages of the Tartars, Arabs, Greeks, Polynesians, and others.

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DuPonceau, Peter Stephen (1760-1844)
Sea terms in different languages, n.d. 1 vol. (56 pp.).

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DuPonceau, Peter Stephen (1760-1844)
Letters to Albert Gallatin, 1801-1843. Film. 1 reel.

From originals in the New York Historical Society.

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DuPonceau, Peter Stephen (1760-1844)
Letters to John Heckewelder, 1816-1822. Film. 1 reel.

From originals in the State Historical Society in Wisconsin. These are mostly concerning Indian linguistics.

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Du Pont de Nemours, Victor Marie (1767-1827)
Diplomat, manufacturer
Correspondence, 1795-1797. 29 items. Photocopy.

This correspondence is with Louis Étienne Duhail and Theodore C. Mazzard.

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Du Pont de Nemours Family
Papers relating to the American Philosophical Society, 1800-1894. ca. 50 items. Photostats.

Correspondents include:

• Augustin P. de Candolle
• José F. Corrêa da Serra
• Eleuthere I. du Pont
• Henry A. du Pont
• Pierre S. du Pont de Nemours
• Victor Marie du Pont
• Phillippe Nicolas Harmand
• Thomas C. James
• Thomas Jefferson
• J. P. Lesley
• Joseph Philippe Letombe
• François André Michaux
• James Monroe
• Henry Phillips
• William Strickland
• John Vaughan

From the originals in the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Historical Library.

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Dupré, Augustin (1748-1833)
French medalist
Drawings and matrices of medals relating to the American Revolution and the United states. 16 items.

The drawings are described and reproduced in Carl Zigrosser, "Medallic Sketches of Augustin Dupré in American Collections," APS Proc. 101 (1957): 535. Additional material on medals of Lafayette and Franklin was received in 1972.

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Dutilly, Arthème Antoine (1896- )
Collector
Collection of Canadian Indian linguistic materials, ca. 1860-1940. Film. 2 reels.

From negatives at Catholic University of America.

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Dutour, Étienne François (1711-1784)
French physicist, theologian.
Papers, 1744-1756. 26 items. In French.

This is a collection of drafts of letters written by Dutour to Abbé Jean Antoine Nollet. Dutour describes his various experiments on the influence of flame on electricity, as well as with luminous barometers. There is information relative to eighteenth-century scientific apparatus, as well as to contemporary scientists: Giovanni Battista Beccaria, François de Cisternai Dufay, Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan, Petrus von Musschenbroek, René Antoine Ferchault de Réamur. Table of contents. (1 p.).

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Dyk, Walter (1899-1972)
Linguist
Collection, 1931-1956. 0.5 linear feet.

The linguist Walter Dyk (1899-1972) began his career as a graduate student under Edward Sapir studying the Wishram language. Following his MA thesis "Verb types in Wishram" (Chicago, 1931) and dissertation "A Grammar of Wishram" (Yale, 1933), Dyk turned to the study of Navajo language and culture, publishing his best known works, "autobiographies" of two of his consultants, Left Handed (1938) and Old Mexican (1948).

The Dyk Collection consists of copies of Dyk's MA thesis and dissertation, some fields notes and related publications on Wishram, and commentary by Mary Haas, C. F. Voegelin, and Dell Hymes (who assembled the collection). Among the more interesting items are a particularly long and informative letter from Sapir commenting on Dyk's dissertation, and a series of letters between Pete McGuff and Sapir, written while the former was doing fieldwork on Wasco at Fort Simcoe, Washington, 1906-1908.

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