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Jackson, Halliday (1771-1835)
Pennsylvania Quaker missionary to the Indians
Some account of my journey to the Seneca Nation of Indians, and residence amongst that people, 1798-1799. 1 vol. (181 pp.).

A variant copy of this journal was edited by Anthony F. C. Wallace and published in Pennsylvania History 19 (1952): 117, 325.

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Jackson, Halliday (1771-1835)
Journals, 1805-1806. Film. 1 reel.

From the original manuscript held at the Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College. Contains drafts of this Civilization of the Indian Natives (Philadelphia, 1830). Described by George S. Snyderman, "Halliday Jackson's Journal of a Visit Paid to the Indians of New York (1806)," APS Proc. 101 (1957): 565.

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Jackson, Halliday (1771-1835)
Journal, 1814. Film.

From the original manuscript held at the Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pa. Account of a visit to the Indians of New York State.

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Jackson, Isaac
Estate manager
Letterbooks, 1839-1843. 3 vols., ca.575p.

Isaac Jackson managed several estates in northern Jamaica during the years of transition from slavery to free labor. Based in Hanover Parish, County of Cornwall, Jackson oversaw the interests of as many as a dozen estates engaged in the production of sugar and other crops, rum, and cattle during the 1830s and 1840s.

Jackson's letterbooks contain approximately 825 letters pertaining to the daily management of Jamaican plantations. Beginning just a year after the end of apprenticeship, the mostly formulaic letters addressed to absentee British landowners, their attorneys, ship captains, and other estate managers touch on sugar and rum production and crop yields and cattle husbandry, but more importantly, they map out the course of the hard-edged negotiations between landowners and laborers as they struggled to shape the new labor regime.

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Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Me.)
Oral History Collection, 1986. 1.5 lin. feet.

In 1929, the geneticist C. C. Little founded the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, a major center for the study of mammalian genetics, cancer, and related areas in basic biomedical research. An independent institution, the Lab has maintained a consistent scientific reputation both as a supplier of inbred strains of mice for genetic and biomedical research and for the scientific achievements of its researchers.

Conducted by Susan Mehrtens in 1986, the Oral History Collection includes transcripts of extensive interviews with fifty scientists, administrators, and staff members of the Jackson Laboratory. At greater or lesser length depending on the subject, the interviews provide a detailed picture of the operations and administration at the laboratory, the culture of research, the sometimes contentious staff relations, and the research itself.

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Jacquemont, Victor (1801-1832)
Papers, 1822-1832. 0.5 ln. feet. In French.

Born in Paris on August 8, 1801, the youngest of four sons of Venceslas Jacquemont and Rose Laisné, Victor Jacquemont was one of the rising stars of French natural history in the 1820s and an archetype for the scientist in the Romantic era. Combining youth, genius, and a rhapsodic love of nature with a life filled with masculine affection, star-crossed romance, and exotic climes, Jacquemont epitomized the romantic intellectual right up to the time of his untimely death in the Himalayas. In a career in which ill fortune and good fortune walked hand in hand, the figure of Jacquemont has all but overshadowed his substantial scientific accomplishments.

The surviving correspondence of the ill-starred French botanist, Victor Jacquemont and his friend, Pierre Achille Marie Chaper (1795-1874) consists of 106 letters pertaining to the development of Jacquemont's scientific career and their personal and social commitments. The correspondence was published, though not translated, in James F. Marshall, Victor Jacquemont Letters to Achille Chaper: Intimate Sketches of Life Among Stendhal's Coterie (Philadelphia: APS, 1960), APS Memoir 50.

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Jacobs, Benjamin
Owner of Unicorn Forge, Philadelphia
Receipt book, 1761-1774. 1 vol. (46 pp.).

This book lists receipts for the purchase of land, bar iron, and supplies for the forge, etc. Among the Pennsylvanians represented are William Dunlap, James Franklin, Thomas Harrison, Samuel Fisher, James Morris, Jr.

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Jacobs, Michael (1801-1871)
Pennsylvania Lutheran clergyman and educator.
Meteorological observations made for the Franklin Institute, 1839-1865. 230 items.

Observations made at Gettysburg, Pa. The entries for January, 1860-September, 1865 are duplicates. One series was made under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution and is on the printed forms supplied by that institution.

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James, Edwin (1797-1861)
Explorer, naturalist, physician. APS 1833.
Conjugation of the verb to hear in its various forms in the Chippeway language, ca. 1833. 1 vol. (21 pp.).

Printed forms, with manuscript notes by Peter S. Du Ponceau.

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James, Edwin (1797-1861)
Some account of the Menomonies, with a specimen of an attempt to form a dictionary of their language, 1827. 1 vol. (52 pp.)

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Jameson, Robert (1774-1854)
Scottish mineralogist.
Notes of Jameson's Lectures, 1822-1823. 1 vol. (55 pp.).

Born in Leith, Scotland, in 1774, Robert Jameson was a pillar of the scientific establishment at the University of Edinburgh for over fifty years, and was one of Scotland's most important mineralogists and natural historians.

Kept by W. D. Wilson, a student at the University of Edinburgh, this volume includes notes of lectures on zoology and meteorology delivered by Robert Jameson in 1822-1823. Wilson wrote that he omitted the introductory lectures, and added: "I do not mean to fill this book with copious Notes; -- I shall put down merely a few of the general facts, -- and any thing of interest not to be found in the text books of the class."

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Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
President of APS and of the United States. APS 1780.
Papers, 1775-1825. ca. 250 items.

Several hundred miscellaneous letters and writings, much on science and linguistics. All items appear individually in the in-house catalog at APS. Correspondents include:

• Franklin Bache
• Peter S. Du Ponceau
• John W. Eppes
• William Fleming
• Robert Fulton
• Louis Hue Girardin
• Jan Ingenhousz
• Richard Henry Lee
• James Mease
• Samuel L. Mitchill
• Robert Patterson
• Charles Willson Peale
• Edmund Pendleton
• David Rittenhouse
• Benjamin Rush
• William Thornton
• John Vaughan
• Bushrod Washington
• George Washington
• Jonathan Williams
• Caspar Wistar

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Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Peter Du Ponceau, dated Monticello, December 30, 1817|also|A chronological series of facts relative to Louisiana; its limits and bounds|by Thomas Jefferson. 1804. 1 vol. (24 pp.).

Two bound documents, sent to the APS in a letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau, December 30, 1817; read in the Historical and Literary Committee, 1818. The first is entitled "A chronological series of facts relative to Louisiana." The second, "An examination into the boundaries of Louisiana." Printed in Thomas Jefferson, Documents Relating to the Purchase and Exploration of Louisiana (New York, 1904).

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Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages, 1802-1808. 1 vol. (72 pp.).

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Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
Papers. Film. 101 reels.

From Library of Congress. These include 5 reels of indexes. In addition, there is a film of Jefferson manuscripts in the Henry E. Huntington Library (1 reel), and also a film (51 reels) of the control files (alphabetical, chronological, bibliographical, and source) prepared by the editors of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University, for their use, and published on film, 1957.

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Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
Papers, 1732-1828. Film. 10 reels.

From originals in the University of Virginia Library. For the printed guide, see Douglas W. Tanner, ed., Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia 1732-1828 (Charlottesville, 1977).

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Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
Thomas Jefferson's Farm book... 1384 pp. Typescript.

This is the manuscript of Edwin Morris Betts's edited version of Jefferson's original manuscript, published as: Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, with Commentary and Relevant Extracts from Other Writings (APS, 1953). This manuscript includes items, marked by Betts, that were not published.

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Jennings, George Nelson (1833-1903)
Physician of Tonica, Ill, and Covina, Calif.
Autobiography, 1897. 1 vol. (ca. 230 pp.).

Includes quotations from journals, especially one of a trip to California, 1872; with a short sketch of his later years by his daughter Helen Jennings Barrett, 1937, and genealogical notes. Mentions his son Herbert S. Jennings.

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Jennings, Herbert Spencer (1868-1947)
Naturalist and geneticist. APS 1907.
Papers, ca. 1893-1947. ca. 7,000 items. (14.5 ln. ft.)

A diverse collection, including correspondence, drafts of lectures, notes and notebooks (on biometric methods; tables and formulae; science, nature and method; coefficient and correlation; vitalism; Japanese language); commonplace book (1924); autobiography; and over one hundred folders of unpublished writings. The correspondence and other material covers a variety of topics, including biology, eugenics, evolution and natural selection, human heredity, paramecium, protozoa genetics, U. S. immigration policy. There is much on the Seventh International Congress of Zoology (1907); letters to his father, and wives; from students and colleagues on his seventy- fifth birthday, 1943 (1 vol.); diplomas and certificates of membership; and photographs. Correspondents include:

• Jerome Alexander
• Frank Aydelotte
• Herbert Blumer
• Joseph Brenneman
• Luther Burbank
• Gary N. Calkins
• James McKeen Cattell
• T. T. Chen
• Edward G. Conklin
• Edmund V. Cowdry
• Charles B. Davenport
• Irving Fisher
• Samuel W. Geiser
• Frank J. Goodnow
• Ross G. Harrison
• Vernon Kellogg
• Alfred Korzybski
• Frank R. Lillie
• S. O. Mast
• Maynard M. Metcalf
• Carl W. Metz
• Hermann J. Muller
• Hjalmar L. Osterud
• Raymond Pearl
• Fred E. Pomeroy
• Daniel Raffel
• Jacob Reighard
• George H. Shull
• Tracy M. Sonneborn
• N. I. Vavilov
• John B. Watson
• Leon F. Whitney
• Edwin Bidwell Wilson
• Robert M. Yerkes

Table of contents (30 pp.).
Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

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Jennings, Herbert Spencer (1868-1947)
Diary, 1903-1942. 16 vols.

The diary is incomplete, but fairly constant from 1927-1942. It records his travels, personal and professional activities, such as: World War I service (food administration); summers working at Woods Hole, Marine Biological Laboratory; and as visiting professor at Keio University, Japan, 1931-1932.

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Jones, Robert Strettell (1745-1792)
Philadelphia merchant. APS 1768
Papers, 1761-1779. 20 items.

Includes college notes on metaphysics and rhetoric, 1761-1762; a catalog of his library (1 vol., 67 pp.); copy of the substance of depositions in the indictment of Jones for treason, 1779; copy of the will of his aunt Ann Strettell, 1771, etc.

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Jones, William (1871-1909)
Anthropologist
Ethnographic and linguistic field notes on the Ojibwa Indians, ca. 1903-1905. ca. 250 pp. & 42 photographs.

This includes material relating to government, mythology, festivals, customs, games, etc. There are also comments on the language; vocabulary, some items with English glosses; and lists of bands and locations. The photos are of people, activities, dwellings, canoes, etc. Jones's major work on the Ojibwa was published posthumously by Truman Michelson, ed. Ojibwa Texts, 2 vols. (American Ethnological Society, 1917, 1919).

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Joos, Martin (1907-1978)
Linguist
Papers, ca. 1930s-1970s. ca. 10,000 items (ca. 12 ln. ft.).

This is a diverse collection, presently unorganized, containing professional correspondence and also that relating to numerous conferences, lectures, speeches and articles, reprints, and numerous tape recordings. Joos, who taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Wisconsin (Prof. of German and Chairman of the Dept)., had a great impact on the study of linguistics through his forty or more articles and reviews, and five books: Middle High German Courtly Reader, English Verb, Five Clocks, Acoustic Phonetics, and Reading in Linguistics. This collection contains much relating to his publications, and there is also much concerning his participation in and contributions to numerous Linguistics Institutes, conferences, etc. There is significant material on the American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Language Program, and on the Center for Applied Linguistics. His interest in the history of linguistics generated his unpublished history of the Linguistics Society of America, and there are 33 recordings for an oral history survey of prominent linguists he undertook with his wife in the summer of 1966.

There is also a collection of taped lectures, ca. 1961-1965, for numerous linguists: Bernard Bloch, Noam Chomsky, Paul Garvin, John J. Gumperz, Mary Haas, M. A. K. Halliday, Einar Haugen, Sidney M. Lomb, Sol Saporta, Robert P. Stockwell, E. M. Uhlenbeck, Richard Venezky, William S-Y. Wang, and Werner Winter. There are, as well, several tapes of his own lectures. A few of the individuals represented in the collection are: Bernard Bloch, J. Milton Cowan, Eric Hamp, Archibald A. Hill, Charles L. Hockett, and W. Freeman Twaddell. This is an adjunct to the archive of the Linguistic Society of America.

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Judson, Horace Freeland (1931- )
Writer, historian
Collection, 1968-1978. 1 lin. foot; 52 cassette recordings.

Between 1968 and 1978, the historian of science Horace Freeland Judson conducted extensive oral history interviews with biochemists and molecular biologists relating to the development of their field. The correspondence, transcripts of interviews, and taped interviews that comprise the Judson collection formed the research material used by Judson in his book, The Eighth Day of Creation (New York, 1979). Permission to quote must be obtained from Dr. Judson and access to some files is restricted.

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Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de (1748-1836)
French botanist.
Catalogue des plantes démontrées en 1782 au Jardin du Roi. 1 vol. (ca. 474 pp.).

List of plants with brief descriptions, used by Jussieu in public lectures in the Jardin du Roi. The plants are arranged according to the classification which Jussieu published in 1789 under the title: Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita. The manuscript formerly belonged to Charles Claude Flahaut de la Billarderie, comte d'Angivillier, director-general of the Royal Gardens.

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