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Independence National Historical Park
Historic structures reports, ca. 1955-1970. Film. 9 reels.

Table of contents (11 pp.).

Independence National Historical Park
Reports on Benjamin Franklin's houses, 1960-1961. (257 pp.). Typed.

A report on Franklin's house, prepared by M. O. Anderson, John D. R. Platt, and B. Bruce Powell, 1960, and another report on the same subject, prepared by Dennis C. Kurjack, Martin I. Yoelson, William M. Campbell, and Richard Tyler, 1961; report on Franklin's "tenant houses," prepared by James F. O'Gorman, 1960.

Independence National Historical Park
Horace Wells Sellers collection. Film. 3 reels.

Documents concerning the physical history of Independence Hall.

Ingenhousz, Jan (1730-1799)
Plant physiologist, scientist. APS, 1786.
Correspondence, 1766-1797. Film. 1 reel.

Includes letters to and from Ingenhousz from Europeans and Americans. From originals in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague.

Ingenhousz, Jan (1730-1799)
Letterbook, 1774-1793. Film.

From Stedelijk Archief, Breda, The Netherlands. Principal correspondents include Achille Guillaume le Begue de Presle, Francis Coffyn, Peter Elmsley, Abbé Felice Fontana, Benjamin Franklin, Nikolaas Joseph Jacquin, Sir John Pringle, Richard Huck-Saunders, Friedrich Theodor Schubert, Samuel Wharton, and Jonathan Williams.

Index of correspondents (8 pp.).

Innes, William Thornton (1874-1969)
Philadelphia publisher and editor
Papers, ca. 1898-1969. ca. 2500 items.

Letters, sketches of fish, and other documents that pertain to Innes's interest in exotic fishes for home aquariums and their care. There is information on the journal Aquarium, which he founded in 1932, and minute books of the Aquarium Society of Philadelphia, 1898-1912 (3 vols.). The most voluminous professional correspondence is with George S. Myers, and there is some family correspondence.

Table of contents (3 pp.).

Instituto Nacional de Anthropología e Historia, Mexico City
Royal Protomedicato files, ca. 1744-1831. Film. 5 reels.

Files selected for filming by John Tate Lanning in 1966, concerning the Protomedicato (Board of the King's Physician, or medical court) that regulated the medical profession in the Spanish colonies. There are additional files on this topic from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma. Included on the film, as well, are documents relating to the Hospital Real de Naturales. For a report on Lanning's project, see APS Year Book, 1967, pp. 563-564.

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Papers, 1955-1961. 2 ln. ft.

Collection kept by Norman Rudolph Stoll, Chair of the Editorial Committee of the Commission. This material pertains to the revision of zoological nomenclature, 1958-1961: including correspondence, memoranda, etc., of the Editorial Committee. There is a copy of the Règles (1901-1905) and the Bradley draft of 1955, as well as a Colloquium draft of July 1958, as well as subsequent working drafts, a galley of the draft, and a copy of the Code as published, 6 Nov. 1961.

Table of contents (1 p.).

International Union of Physiological Sciences
Records, 1889-1997. 27 ln. ft.

To promote the science of physiology and the exchange of ideas, the first congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) was held in Basle, Switzerland, in 1889, and congresses have been held every three years since. The Union was incorporated at Washington, D.C., in 1953.

The bulk of the Records of the IUPS relate to the International Congresses. Although representation is uneven, with a gap between 1907-1920, the records include programs, lists of members, abstracts of communications, and photographs, with more substantial documentation for meetings held in the United States. The collection also includes some general correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports of the Secretary, Executive Committee and Council correspondence, records relating to budgets, record books, and photographs.

Italy. Biography
Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian humanists and of the world of classical scholarship in Italy, 1300-1800. Film. 29 reels.

These handwritten and typewritten cards were prepared by Mario E. Cosenza. The copyright is held by the Renaissance Society of America, 1954.

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