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East India. Language
Dictionary of an East Indian Language, ca. 19th c. 1 vol. (93 pp.).

Manuscript dictionary, apparently of the Mandingo language.

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East India Company
Instructions for observing the transit of Venus, 1761. Film. 1 reel.

Also the results of inquiries concerning Bencoolen, Batavia, and St. Helena as sites for taking observations of the transit, 6 June 1761, with notes on locations, personnel, etc. Also letters of Lord Macclesfield, Charles Mason, Jeremiah Dixon; and a bill from John Bird for astronomical equipment.

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Eastern State Penitentiary
Records, 1819-1892. 7 vols., 1 box (0.5 lin. feet).

SEE: State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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Eastwick Collection
Papers of the Wister family, ca. 1767-1850s. ca. 1500 items (2 ln. ft.).

Letters, diaries, notebooks, and early photographs, relating primarily to the Wister family of Germantown and Philadelphia. Much of the correspondence concerns domestic news and consists of letters from or to Sarah Wister. These include interesting observations on Germantown and Philadelphia society, from other families as well, such as the Bayntons and Bullocks. There are numerous letters from various Wisters: Casper, Charles Jones, Elizabeth (including a journal of a trip to Bristol, 1783), Hannah, John, Owen Jones, and others. There is also poetry by Sarah.

The diaries, or bound volumes, in this collection include those by Charles J. Wister, Sr. (a bee book, 1824-1828; diary and farm notes, 1806-1865, diary of trips to Pittsburg, 1812 and Niagara Falls, 1815); diaries by his son Charles J., Jr. (1841-1865, 6 vols.; the 1841 vol. includes notes on daguerreotypes; there is an interesting record of New Year's Eve celebrations, 1852-1903). Other bound volumes include a garden book by Daniel Wister, 1771-1776 (which includes a brief portion of Sarah Wister's 1778 diary); and various daybooks, diaries, etc., 1773-1778, concerning the surveying work of Jesse and John Lukens.
There is some outside correspondence in the collection, with persons like William Darlington and Benjamin Silliman.

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Edel, May Mandelbaum
American Indian linguistic materials, n.d. Film. 4 reels.

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Edsall, John Tileston (1902-2002)
Biochemist. APS 1955
A fifty year historical perspective of protein chemistry, 1972. Recording. Videocassette.

Filmed at a lecture Edsall gave in April 1972 in the Biochemistry Department at Harvard University.

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Edwards, Benjamin (fl.1820-1830)
Papers, 1819-1827. 6 items.

Benjamin Edwards was a minor figure on the Stephen H. Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. His six letters addressed to his father Oliver Edwards briefly mention the expedition. His letters also discuss his life in Louisiana after the expedition working on the Steamboat Hope and later as overseer of slaves in a sawmill.

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Electricity
Notebook, ca. 1785. 1 vol. (184 pp.). In Italian.

By an unknown author, this notebook is of experiments and the history of experiments of electricity, containing references to Franklin, Beccaria, Priestley, etc.

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Elkins, Wilson H.
British policy in its relations to the commerce and navigation of the United States of America from 1794 to 1807. Film. 1 reel.

Doctoral dissertation, Oxford University, n.d.

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Ellicott, Andrew (1754-1820)
Surveyor, mathematician. APS 1785.
Astronomical journal, ca. 1797 1801. Film. 1 reel.

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[Ellis, John] (1710?-1776)
Naturalist.
Letters, 1753-1771. 1 vol. (314 pp.). Photocopy.

Copies of letters, primarily from Ellis, that were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Most relate to botanical topics, and many are written to Peter Collinson. A few are written by Peter Woulfe. Included are contemporary engravings from the Transactions, as well as original wash drawings copied from the engravings.

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English Scientific Autographs
Collection. ca. 3000 items.

A miscellaneous group of letters purchased as an existing autograph collection, which centers on British scientists, including physicians, but with a few American signatures included. The letters are primarily from the nineteenth century but there are some earlier and later dates. In addition to the letters, which focus on medical and geological topics, there are some anatomical drawings of surgery taking place and sketches of bones, and one geological notebook.

Among the many autographs are those of:

• Joshua Adler
• William Allen
• Spencer F. Baird
• F. A. Bather
• Sir Francis Beaufort
• Alfred Bell
• David Brewster
• J. Kaye Chaversworth
• Elliot Coues
• Hugh Cuming
• John Dalton
• Robert Damon
• Sir William H. Flower
• Gertrude Jekyll
• William Jenner
• Thomas Andrew Knight
• Sir Edwin R. Lankester
• John Leslie
• Sir John Lubbock
• Gideon Mantell
• Alfred Newton
• Sir Richard Owen
• James Paget
• Edward Sabine
• Alfred Russel Wallace
• Arthur Wellesley, duke of Wellington
• William Whewell
• John George Wood

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Enos, Susie
Papago stories narrated by Jose Ventura, n.d. 31 pp. Photocopy.

Susie Enos was a native speaker of Tohono O'Odham and an early writer of her language. She contributed to the construction of a Papago dictionary in 1983.

The text collected by Susie Enos from a consultant, Jose Ventura, "Ho'ok Oks" (Witch, Green Hawk, Eagle) includes indications of the syntactic function elements in the sentences and other grammatical notes, with a separate, line-by-line English translation.

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Eugenics Record Office
Records, 1670-1964. 330.5 linear ft.

In 1910, the Eugenics Record Office was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, as a center for the study of human heredity and a repository for genetic data on human traits. It merged with the Station for Experimental Evolution in 1920 to become the Department of Genetics at the Carnegie Institution, and under the direction of Charles B. Davenport and later of Albert Blakeslee and Milislav Demerec, it became the most important center for eugenic research in the nation. However with intellectual currents shifting, the Carnegie Institution stopped funding the office in 1939. It remained active until 1944, when its records were transferred to the Charles Fremont Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota. When the Dight closed in 1991, the genealogical material was filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah and given to the Center for Human Genetics; the non-genealogical material was not filmed and was given to the American Philosophical Society Library.

Following the original order, the ERO Records are organized into thirteen series: I. Trait Files, 1670-1964 ; II. Trait Card Boxes, 1904-1939 ; III. Family Traits Card Boxes, 1920-1939 ; IV. RFT Submitters Card Catalog, 1910s-1930s ; V. Record of Family Traits, 1911-1940 ; VI. Fitter Family Studies, 1913-1936 ; VII. Field Worker Files, 1911-1926 ; VIII. Volunteer Collaborators, 1912-1939 ; IX. Pedigrees, 1828-1926 ; X. Harry H. Laughlin Files, 1915-1938 ; XI. Bibliographia Eugenica, 1734-1934 ; XII. Midget Schedules, 1919-1964 ; XIII. Index Card Boxes, 1910s-1930s.

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Evans, David (ca.1681-1751)
Aliquot rudimenta philosophiae sive pauca introductoria compendia, technologiae, logicae, rhetoricae & physicae, 1747. 1 vol. (230 pp.).

An early Welsh emigrant to Pennsylvania, David Evans was educated at Yale (1713) before answering the call to Presbyterian pulpits in the Welsh Tract of Delaware and Pennsylvania, and to the church at Pilesgrove, N.J.

Written entirely in Latin in 1747 when Evans was 66 years old, the Aliquot Rudimenta Physicae consists of four separate compendia bound together, the Compendium Technologiae, Logicae, Rhetoricae, and Physicae. The work is an interesting and thorough attempt to summarize a system of knowledge with impeccable American provenance.

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Evans, Harriet Verena (b.1788)
Diary, 1827-1844. 1 vol. (240 pp.).

Harriet Verena Evans was born in Lancaster, Pa., on April 28, 1782, the daughter of John and Sarah Musser. On May 21, 1807, Harriet married Cadwalader Evans (1762-1841), a former surveyor who went on to a distinguished career in politics, as one of the directors of the Bank of the United States, a promoter of the Schuylkill Canal, and president of the Schuylkill Navigation Company. The couple had nine children, including a set of twins.

The diary of Harriet Verena Evans is an unusual example of a woman's spiritual diary from early national Philadelphia. Beginning on her 46th birthday in 1827, the same day her seventeen year-old son John died, Evans made sporadic entries in her diary for seventeen years, marking birthdays, holidays, special events, and anniversaries of various kinds. Fixated upon praying (or fretting) over her spiritual state and future, Evans continued to mourn over John's loss for many years, remembering him regularly on the date of his birth, death, and burial. She was also particularly prone to composing (or copying) religious poetry, and in sections, the diary verges on a poetical commonplace book. Other entries reveal Evans' concern for her other children, three of whom were students at the University of Pennsylvania, and on July 25, 1832, she made a particularly long entry discussing the arrival of the cholera in Philadelphia.

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Ewing, James Hunter (1798-1827)
Physician
Lecture notes, Dec. 22, 1818-Jan. 19, 1819. 1 vol. (35 pp.).

Notes kept by Ewing for medical lectures attended, given by Drs. Nathaniel Chapman, John R. Coxe, and Philip S. Physick. The lectures concern fevers, materia media, surgery, and diagnosis. Ewing received his M.D. from the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1821.

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Eyton, Thomas Campbell (1809-1880)
English naturalist.
Papers, 1836-1874. ca. 325 items.

Letters on subjects in natural history, particularly ornithology and conchology, originally compiled for their autograph value. Among the correspondents are:

• Robert Ball
• Thomas Bell
• Edward Blyth
• Charles Robert Bree
• Francis Trevelyan Buckland
• August Leopold Crelle
• Hugh Cuming
• Charles Robert Darwin
• Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton
• Sir William Henry Flower
• Edward Forbes
• John Gould
• George Robert Gray
• John Edward Gray
• Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther
• John Stevens Henslow
• Sir William Jackson Hooker
• Thomas Henry Huxley
• Sir William Jardine
• William Allport Leighton
• Sir Richard Owen
• Robert Patterson (1802-1872)
• Philip Lutley Sclater
• Hugh Edwin Strickland
• Alfred Russel Wallace
• William Yarnell

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