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Kammerer, Paul (1880-1926)
Geneticist
Papers, 1910-1972. 0.25 lin. feet. Photocopy.

The Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer was an outspoken proponent of the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics (Lamarckism) during the time in which Mendelian theory was becoming deeply entrenched in biology. His major research efforts, straddling the First World War, centered on experiments performed on salamanders and on the midwife toad, and seemed to provide empirical support for a Lamarckian mechanism in evolution. He also developed a monistic "law of seriality," in which he attempted to explain coincidence as the product of a higher order natural law. A Socialist, Kammerer was widely regarded as a brilliant scientist, but for scientific, personal, and political reasons, he engendered as much antagonism as support, preventing him from ever obtaining a regular university appointment. His career ended tragically in allegations of fraud, followed by his suicide.

The Kammerer Papers is comprised of photocopies of materials that document the brief, but controversial career of a non-Darwinian evolutionary biologist. The bulk of the collection consists of photocopies of articles by Kammerer, often from obscure newspapers or periodicals, along with a small number of letters to his friend Hugo Iltis, the geneticist and biographer of Mendel. Nearly all of these pertain to the Kammerer's experiments with amphibians to test Lamarckian inheritance or to his other biological theories. The collection also includes a small number of items dating from after Kammerer's death, but relating to his life and work, including two letters from his former supervisor Hans Przibram, a letter from Hugh Iltis (Hugo's son) to Arthur Koestler and the reply, and a brief biographical reminiscence of Kammerer written by Hugo Iltis.

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

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Kampmann, Christian Frederick (fl. 1780-1808)
Physician
Catalogus plantarum sponte crescentium circa Bethlehem... in Pennsylvania & Hope... in West New Jersey. 1 vol. (120 pp.).

The author was a Moravian physician who came to Pennsylvania in 1781; he practiced at Bethlehem, Pa., and Hope, Sussex County, N.J., finally returning to Bethlehem in 1808. He copied this document at the request of John Heckewelder for the information of the Philosophical Society, and Heckewelder transmitted it to the Society.

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Kane, Elisha Kent (1820-1857)
Physician, explorer. APS 1851.
Papers, 1810-1973 (bulk: 1843-1857) (6.75 ln. ft.).

The most stellar member of a stellar family, Elisha Kent Kane was among the most popular American explorers of the mid-nineteenth century, a hero in the tragic mode. Born in Philadelphia in 1820, the son of John Kintzing Kane and Jane Duval Leiper, Kane studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania before earning a commission as a naval surgeon. While in the Navy, Kane embarked on the succession of voyages to exotic locales that became the basis for his extraordinary fame. In 1843, he attended Caleb Cushing's first diplomatic mission to China as ship's physician, and subsequently traveled to the Philippines and Western Africa. Distinguishing himself in the Mexican War, Kane's greatest fame came from two expeditions to the arctic, aiming to locate the lost explorer, Sir John Franklin and to explore for evidence of the open polar sea. Kane died in 1857 while attempting to organize a third arctic voyage.

Part of the Kane Family Collection, the Papers of Elisha Kent Kane contain a mix of personal and family correspondence with correspondence relating to all of Kane's explorations. Intelligent, articulate and very much a romantic, Kane's letters are expressive and passionate. The collection provides fine documentation of youth, his relationship with the Spiritualist Margaret Fox, and of course his travels to China and off the coast of Africa in 1846. Kane's two expeditions to the arctic are particularly well documented, with correspondence, notes, logbooks, diaries, and sketches, as well as Kane's post-expedition notes, writings, and lectures recounting his experiences.

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Kane, Elisha Kent (1820-1857)
Journal, 1853-1855. Film. 1 reel.

Kane's journal kept aboard the Brig Advance during the 2nd Grinnell Expedition. From the original manuscript at Stanford University.

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Kane, Elisha Kent (1820-1857)
Letters, 1853-1957. Film. 1 reel (20 items).

Letters from E. K. and his father, John K. Kane, to John P. Kennedy, Secretary of the Navy. From originals in the Kennedy Papers, Peabody Institute Library, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Kane, Francis Fisher (1866-1955)
Lawyer.
Papers, ca. 1880s-1955. ca. 3000 items (4 ln. ft.).

Kane was a Philadelphia lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1913-1920). This collection of letters, reports, briefs, and documents, reflects his politically liberal interests: Indian rights, prison reform, public defenders and numerous other judicial reforms. There is much family and personal correspondence in the collection. Of particular note is the material concerning the case of U.S. vs Kurt Molzhan, a Philadelphia pastor accused of espionage as a German spy in 1942. This collection documents, as well, Kane's early education at St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H., and at Princeton University. There is significant or voluminous correspondence with the American Friends Service Committee, on Italian/American trade ca. 1915 (in the Edorado Girett correspondence), with the Indian Rights Association, the Pennsylvania Prison Society, and the Philadelphia Voluntary Defender Assoc. Individual correspondents include:

• Sophia Francis Cadwalader
• Eliza Middleton Cope
• Margaret Elder Dow
• Elisha Ken Kane
• Thomas Leiper Kane
• John Kintzing Kane
• John Wanamaker
• Rodman Wanamaker
• Woodrow Wilson

Table of contents (8 pp.).

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Kane, John Kintzing (1795-1854)
Lawyer, politician. APS 1825.
Papers, ca. 1800-1892. ca. 5000 items. (9 ln. ft.).

Letters, account books, commonplace books, legal papers, etc., concerning Kane's career as a Philadelphia lawyer and Pennsylvania politician. (He was Judge of the U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania, 1846-1854). There is much professional correspondence, as well as a lot of family material, especially concerning his son Elisha K. Kane. The letters with George Mifflin Dallas and Francis R. Shunk are especially rich for state politics. There is also much concerning support for Alexander D. Bache's service in the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Included in the sizable miscellaneous material is a typescript of a published arctic diary (May Sept., 1856) kept by J. K. Kane, Jr., who was on the relief expedition that went in search of his brother, Elisha. There are data concerning the proposed sale of the Philadelphia Museum Company building (1837-1841), and information about the estate of John and Moses Bartram. Included in the collection is an autobiographical sketch of William Strickland. Finally, the Indian Rights Association material concerns Francis Fisher Kane's trip with Frank M. Ritter in 1892, to the site of the proposed removal of the Ute Indians from their southern Colorado reservation to Utah. There is a 100-page typescript journal of the Indian Association sponsored trip. Among the many correspondents are:

• George Bancroft
• James Buchanan
• Thomas Cadwalader
• Thomas Caldwell
• Edward Everett
• John P. Green
• R. C. Grier
• Henry Grinnell
• William J. Leiper
• Richard McAllister
• Jesse Miller
• Robert M. Patterson
• Robert Patterson
• Henry M. Phillips
• James K. Polk
• John N. Purviance
• Henry Robinson
• R. M. Saunders
• James R. Snowden
• Benjamin Tilghman
• Martin Van Buren
• Daniel Webster
• Francis Wharton
• George W. Woodward

Table of contents (22 pp.).

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Kane, John Kintzing and Robert Patterson Kane
Legal Papers. 5 ln. ft.

Collection of father and son's legal briefs, correspondence, etc. relating to numerous and varied cases in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. For example, there is information on the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, the Delaware Breakwater, various ships, as well as the controversy with Margaret Fox. There is even material on Thomas Sully versus the St. George Society, concerning a portrait by Sully of Queen Victoria.

Table of contents (11 pp.).

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Kane, Robert Patterson (1827-1906)
Lawyer
Papers, ca. 1830-1900. (2.5 lin. ft.).

Letters, letterbooks (1853-1860, legal matters), notebooks on legal cases, etc. Much of this relates to Kane's legal practice in Philadelphia with his father, J. K. Kane, but there is also family correspondence, and much that relates to the Philadelphia Society for the Employment and Instruction of the Poor (1850-1851). One miscellaneous item is the Recollections of Joshua Francis Fisher (his life and family). Among the correspondents are:

• Edward Baynard
• Benjamin Harris Brewster
• John P. Green
• Rowland Green
• Cornelius Grinnell
• Constant Guillon
• George Harding
• Morton P. Henry
• Samuel Hood
• Horace Hubbell
• Jane Duval L. Kane
• John K. Kane
• Thomas L. Kane
• Silas Weir Mitchell
• Samuel F. B. Morse
• John Taylor
• G. M. Wharton

Table of contents (8 pp.).

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Kane, Thomas Leiper (1822-1883)
Lawyer, soldier. APS 1856.
Papers, ca. 1840-1878. ca. 450 items.

Letters and documents relating primarily to family matters, mostly for the 1850-1860 period, but also material pertaining to Kane's expedition to Utah to help avert war between the Mormons and the U.S. There is also a portion of the manuscript of his book, The Mormons. Among the correspondents are:

• Charles T. Heazlett
• J. R. Ingersoll
• Elizabeth D. Kane
• Jane Duval Leiper Kane
• John K. Kane
• Robert P. Kane
• Benjamin F. Peale
• Robert Taylor
• John Vaughan

Table of contents (2 pp.).

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Kane Collection
Logbooks, 1844-1857. 11 items.

1. Peter Kaspar. Log of the ship Edward O'Brien, 1853-1856. 1 vol.
2. W. B. Boon. Log of the schooner Leesburg, 1850-1853. 1 vol.
3. A. Caster. Log of the brig New World, 1852. 2 vols.
4. H. H. Lovell. Log of the ship Wings of the Morning, 1854-1855. 1 vol.
5. R. R. Ducan. Log of the ship Savanah, 1852-1853. 1 vol.
6. J. D. Rice. Log of the ship Sandusky, 1853-1854. 1 vol.
7. F. A. Parker. Log of the U.S. Frigate Brandywine, 1843-1845. 1 vol.
8. Samuel L. Breese. Journal of the U. S. Sloop of War Albany, 1846-1847. 1 vol.
9. Samuel L. Breese. Log of the U. S. Frigate Cumberland, 1844-1845. 1 vol. Other ships included.
10. Robert Smith. Log of the bark Roderic, 1853. 1 vol.
11. H. G. Roath. Log of the schooner Telegraph, 1856-1857. 1 vol.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Kane
Miscellaneous Collection. 15 items.

This is a miscellaneous assortment of volumes that were received with the Kane papers.

1. American Philosophical Society. Subscription lists for the erection of an astronomical observatory with the city of Philadelphia, 1835. 5 vols.
2. Pennsylvania Literary Association of Philadelphia. Minutes, Jan. 1, 1842-Dec. 5, 1845. 1 vol. (90 pp.).
3. Commonplace book, 1834-1835. Concerning the support for Dr. William Harris for assistant lecturer at the Univ. of Pa.
4. Philadelphia. Subscription book for a civic ball in honor of Lafayette, 1824. 1 vol. (14 pp.).
5. Mary B. Leiper. Receipt book, May 31, 1854-June 14, 1855. 1 vol.
6. Henry Aykroyd. Ledger. 1 vol. Record of a butcher's sales.
7. George W. Bolivar. Receipt book, 1845-1850. 1 vol.
8. Receipt book. 1 vol.
9. Society for the promotion of legal knowledge and forensic eloquence. Minutes, Jan. 17, 1820-March 13, 1822. 1 vol. (18 pp.).
10. Amos Davis. Estate account, 1849-1853. 1 vol.
11. List of ships which were insured, 1835. 1 vol.
12. John Donaldson. Insurance of vessels, 1793-1809. 1 vol.
13. Philadelphia. Managers of the Consolidation Ball, 1854. 3 vols.
14. Benjamin H. Bunker. Receipt book, 1854 57. 1 vol.
15. Philadelphia Museum Company. Receipt book, Oct 12, 1827-Sept 30, 1836. 1 vol.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Kany, Robert Hurd
David Hall: printing partner of Benjamin Franklin. 308 pp. Typed, carbon.

Doctoral dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1963.

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Kaplan, Norman (1923-1976)
Sociologist
Papers, ca. 1950s-1970s. ca. 40,000 items. (40 ln. ft.).

Collection of correspondence and documents concerning the sociology of science, i.e., the relationship of governments and scientific establishments, and especially the problems of organization, planning, policy-making and productivity. There is much on scientific research and technology, especially for the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Sweden, U.S.S.R., and Yugoslavia. There is a significant series of transcripts of interviews with scientists and government officials in various countries. Subject material appears on the following organizations: American Sociological Assoc., Artificial Heart Assessment Panel, Eastern Sociological Society, Max Planck Society, National Science Foundation, Sloan-Kettering Institute, and Sciences Resources Project (UNISRP).

Important correspondents include:

• Carl W. Backman
• Harold J. Bershady
• Lawrence Blinks
• Harvey Brooks
• Owen Chamberlain
• James Colbert
• Stevan Dedijer
• Steven Ebbin
• Gerald Gordon
• Wayne Gruner
• Warren O. Hagstrom
• Eugene Hess
• Walter Hirsch
• John D. Holmfeld
• Bernard Jaffe
• Ronald L. Kagarise
• Emmanuel G. Mesthene
• Norman Miller
• Ward Morehouse
• Harold Orlans
• Talcott Parsons
• John M. Roberts
• Albert A. Rubenstein
• Bertha Rubinstein
• Eli A. Rubinstein
• Herbert Shepard
• John Sherman
• Chalmers Sherwin
• Norman W. Storer
• Henry Taube
• Kenneth Thimann
• Eugene S. Uyeki
• Jean Verhoogen
• Otto Warburg
• Israel Warshaw
• Marjorie Wilson

Table of contents (26 pp.).

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Kaufmann, Berwind Petersen (1897-1975)
Biologist.
Papers, 1962-1967. 9 items.

Some letters, but mostly copies of manuscripts by Kaufmann and others, concerning genetics in medical schools, and chromosome changes produced by drugs. There is material written by, or to: N. D. Deepesh, Richard M. Klein, J. D. Krivshenko, Dezso Schuler, R. C. von Borstel, and Donald E. Wimber.

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

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Kayser, Heinrich Gustav Johannes (1853-1940)
German physicist and spectroscopist
Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben, 1936. 1 vol. (344 pp.). Typed, carbon.

Autobiography of the professor of physics at Bonn, 1894-1920, who mapped a large number of spectra of the elements, in association with Carl David Runge (1856-1927).

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Kealinohomoku, Joann Wheeler
Collector
Hopi-Tewa recordings, 1965. Recording. 3 reels.

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Keating, William Hypolitus (1799-1840)
Mineralogist, Chemist. APS 1822.
Notebooks, 1901-1839. 4 vols.

A mineralogist and chemist associated with the University of Pennsylvania (1822-1828), William H. Keating was a central figure in the scientific community in Philadelphia during the 1820s and 1830s. Active in the American Philosophical Society and Academy of Natural Sciences, and a founding member of the Franklin Institute, Keating was official geologist on Stephen Harriman Long's expedition to the Great Lakes in 1823 and spent three years in the late 1820s surveying the mineral resources of Mexico.

The William H. Keating notebooks include three cash books (daybooks of cash expenditures, 1830-1839) and a book containing surveys of Keating lands in Potter County, most undertaken by Silas McCarty for William's father John Keating (1801-1818). The surveys associated with John Keating are an interesting record of land investment and speculation in the northern tier of Pennsylvania. William Keating's meticulous cash books provide a detailed record of his domestic expenses, philanthropic involvements (donations to the Catholic Church, the Prison Society), his reading (newspapers and books are listed individually), socializing (theatre tickets, Assembly fees), and a variety of miscellaneous expenditures ranging from purchase of a lithograph of Dugald Stewart to a table lamp from C. Cornelius. His accounts also include lists of servant's wages and wages for washerwomen.

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Keen, William Williams (1837-1932)
Surgeon. President of APS 1908-1918; APS, 1884.
Reminiscences for his children, 1912, 1915. 1 vol. (352 pp.). Photocopy.

This was written for his children and includes genealogy, glimpses of his boyhood in Philadelphia, and reflections on his education and career. There are accounts of memorable events and surgical cases, including the operation on President Grover Cleveland's jaw. There are mentions of S. Weir Mitchell and other physicians, with historical recollections of such Philadelphia institutions as the College of Physicians.

Copied from the original in the possession of Franklin Freeman, Keen's great-grandson.

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Kelso, Henry B.
Indian-English dictionary, 1822. 1 vol. (18 pp.).

Ojibwa-English vocabulary, Winnebago numerals; family genealogical data, and miscellaneous notes kept at Green Bay, Wis.

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Kendall, Daythal Lee (1941- )
Linguist
A Syntactic Analysis of Takelma Texts. 147 pp. Photocopy.

Concerns morphology, decoding and generation of sentences (both simple and complex) and of texts.

Doctoral dissertation in linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 1972.

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Kendall, Martha B. (1943- )
Anthropologist
Yavapai linguistic material, 1973. Recording. 3 reels.

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Kennedy, Dorothy and Randy Bouchard.
Knowledge and Usage of Land Mammals, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, and Amphibians by the Squamish Indian people of British Columbia, 1976. 163 pp. Typescript, photocopy.

Restricted research use.

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Kennedy, Dorothy and Randy Bouchard.
Utilization of Fish, Beach Foods, and Marine Mammals by the Squamish Indian people of British Columbia, 1976. 159 pp. Typescript, photocopy.

This is an ethnographic, or ethnoscientific, study of the Squamish or Coast Salish peoples. Restricted research use.

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Kett, Joseph E.
Regulation of the medical profession in America, 1780-1860. Film. 1 reel.

Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, 1964.

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Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens
Correspondence of American botanists. Film. 9 reels.

From Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Letters and papers relating to North America, chiefly from the official correspondence of the Gardens and the correspondence of its two directors, Sir William Jackson Hooker and Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. There are 2 reels of letters from Asa Gray to the Hookers (but other Gray letters are elsewhere in the collection), and a few letters from Americans to William Forsyth, superintendent of the Royal Gardens of St. James's and Kensington, 1787. An index volume is included on the Film.

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Kidder, Alfred Vincent (1885-1963)
Archaeologist. APS 1934.
Correspondence with Neil Merton Judd, 1920-1962. 68 items.

Head of the Historical Division of the Carnegie Institution, the archaeologist Alfred V. Kidder specialized in the cliff dwelling cultures of the American Southwest, and is best remembered for work at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, and Pecos del Arroyo.

Primarily personal in nature, the exchange of letters between Kidder and his colleague and friend Neil M. Judd provides some details on their work on the archaeology of the Southwest. The 68 letters include sporadic references to excavations at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, and other archaeological sites, with a few references to other archaeologists and anthropologists.

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Kidder, Homer Huntington
Recorder. Mining engineer
Ojibwa myths and halfbreed tales, related by Charles and Charlotte Kobawgam and Jacques Lapique, 1893-1895. 1 vol. (323 pp.).

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Kierman, C. P.
Science and the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century France. Film. 1 reel.

Thesis, University of New South Wales, 1969.

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King, Clarence (1842-1901)
Geologist. APS 1872.
Letters, 1873-1881. 11 items.

An 1862 graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, Clarence King served as a volunteer member of the California Geological Survey from 1863-1867 before receiving an appointment to head the U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. With a rising reputation in the discipline, King helped organize the U.S. Geological Survey in 1879, becoming its first director, however he resigned in 1881 to enter into private work as a mining engineer and economic geologist.

The King Papers consists of a dozen letters written by King to his colleague and friend Samuel Franklin Emmons, 1873-1894, that are revealing of their personal friendship as well as of the politics of the early organization and management of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Kinkade, Marvin Dale
Collector
Wenatchee language recordings, 1965. 6 reels.

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Kinkade, Marvin Dale
Upper Chehalis (Salish) language material, ca. 1960. Recording. 5 reels.

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Kinloch, Francis (1755-1826)
Lawyer, planter, member of the Continental Congress
Letters to Johannes von Müller, 1776-1809. Film.

From Stadtbibliothek, Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

Table of contents (4 pp.).

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Kinloch, Francis (1755-1826)
Correspondence with Charles Bonnet, 1780-1818. Film.

From Bibliothèque Nationale, Geneva, Switzerland.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Kirkbride, Beatrice H.
Material on the Carpenters of Philadelphia. ca. 200 pp.

This includes note cards and photocopies of documents, giving biographical information and other data relating to eighteenth-century Philadelphia carpenters.

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Klass, Philip J. (1919- )
Engineer, UFO researcher.
Collection, 1948-2000. 36 linear feet

An electrical engineer and senior editor for Aviation Week and Space Technology, Philip Klass began investigating UFOs in 1966 after participating in a panel discussion on the subject for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). From that time forward Klass has investigated UFO sightings in an effort to find a credible prosaic explanation, and became one of the most widely recognized UFO "debunkers." A founding member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), serving on the Executive Council and the UFO subcommittee, Klass has authored seven books and numerous articles on UFOs, including the Skeptics UFO Newsletter in 1989. In the early 1970s, he became interested in space based weapons, and began collecting material related to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) for a possible book.

The Klass Collection relates to Philip Klass' forty-plus years of investigating UFO sightings, and includes correspondence with many of the leading UFOlogists, both pro and con. The collection contains case files, subject files, and correspondence. In addition, Klass' SDI material is included.

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Klein, Randolph Shipley (1942- )
Historian.
The American Philosophical Society and the American Revolution. 91 pp. Typescript.

M. S. thesis, Brown University, 1965.

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Kneeland, Samuel (1821-1888)
Physician, zoologist.
Correspondence, 1883-1888. 80 items.

Kneeland corresponds with Le Metayer de Guichainville, a French archaeologist who was living in New York City. The letters are professional and personal, concerning the archaeology of the Americas, the origins of the Indians and pre-history of North America, the evolution of man and the lost continent of Atlantis. There is also information of interest about the presentation of popular scientific lectures in late nineteenth-century America.

Table of contents (2 pp.).

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Köhler, Wolfgang (1887-1967)
Psychologist. APS 1939.
Papers, 1914-1967. ca. 6000 items. (9 ln. ft.).

Wolfgang Köhler was an internationally recognized leader in experimental psychology. Along with Max Wertheimer and Kurth Koffka, he was a founder of Gestalt psychology, which strongly affected the development of psychology for more then half a century.

The Wolfgang Köhler Papers consist of 8 linear feet and are arranged into eight series: correspondence, grant material, lectures, manuscripts, notes, reports of assistants, research notebooks, and photographs and slides. The material relates to Köhler's career as one of the founders of Gestalt Psychology, and work as a experimental researcher.

The correspondents include:

• Pauline A. Adams
• Solomon E. Asch
• Wilhelm Benary
• Edwin G. Boring
• J. F. Brown
• Mathilde Hertz
• Kurt Koffka
• Kurt Lewin
• Wolfgang Metzger
• Henry Allen Moe
• Robert Oppenheimer
• Max Planck
• Erwin Schrödinger
• Max Wertheimer

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Konig, John Gerhard
A treatise on white ants, Madras, April 1777. 16 pp.

A detailed description (physiology, habitat, social structure, etc.) of white ants.

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Kovalev, Sergei Adamovich (1932- )
Collection, 1974-1990. 1.0 lin. foot.

The electrophysiologist Sergei Adamovich Kovalev (1932- ) was a prominent Russian dissident and human rights activist. After earning an international reputation for his research on the electrophysiology of myocardial tissues, Kovalev became involved with Andrei Sakharov and others in founding the Initiative Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR, and he was a major figure in the distribution of The Chronicle of Current Events, a samizdat news letter that became the primary uncensored source for information about the dissident movement. He was arrested by the Soviet authorities in December 1974 and sentenced to seven years in prison and three more in exile. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Kovalev entered politics and won election to the Russian Duma.

The Kovalev Collection consists of files of correspondence, circular letters, and miscellaneous published materials pertaining to the Soviet dissident scientist, Andrei Kovalev. The collection is arranged in two Series of approximately equal size, representing the activities of two of Kovalev's supporters: Paul F. Cranefield of Rockefeller University, who helped mobilize support for Kovalev in the United States, and Silvio Weidmann a physiologist at the University of Bern, who operated in Europe. Both Cranefield and Wiedmann were in regular contact with one another and both worked with professional organizations, with human rights groups such as Amnesty International, and with fellow activists such as Rosa Last.

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Kroeber, Alfred Lewis (1876-1960)
Anthropologist. APS 1941.
Yana vocabulary and grammatical notes, 1911-1912. 36 items.

These were taken from Ishi, the last unacculturated Yana Indian in California. He lived and worked with Kroeber before his sudden death. For an account of Ishi see Theodora Kroeber, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (1961).

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Krumel, Donald W.
Philadelphia music engraving and publishing, 1800-1820: a study in bibliography and cultural history. 1 film.

Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan, 1957.

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Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch (1903- )

• Keresan recordings, [1957]. Recordings. 5 reels.

  Presented by collector, 1957
  (Rec. 24)

 


• Observations of Michigan Indians, 1953-1958. Recording. 9 reels.

  Presented by collector, 1968
  (Rec. 63)

 


• Senshare Ceremony, 1964. 9 pp. analysis; 13 pp. sheet music.

  The analysis and transcription comes from the material on tape recordings made by Antonio Garcia, Juanita Trujillo, and Peter Garcia, in 1964, of the Tewa ceremony at San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico (see: Songs for Senshare, APS Rec. 69).

  Presented by the author, 1969
  (970.6 K96s)

 


• Songs and dances of Great Lakes Indians, [1952-1956]. Recording. 1 disk. New York Folkways records, 1956.

  Duplicates in the Archives of the School of Music, University of Michigan.

  (Rec. 22)

 


• Songs and dances of the rural Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, [1954-1955?]. Recording. 6 reels.

  Presented by compiler, 1955
  (Rec. 20)

 


• Songs from Lac du Flambeau Reservation, Wisconsin, n.d. Recording. 2 reels.

  Presented by collector, 1970
  (Rec. 75)

 


• Tewa recordings, [1957]. Recording. 3 reels.

  Recording by Celestino Quintana, under Kurath's direction.

  Presented by Gertrude P. Kurath, 1957
  (Rec. 25)

 


• Religious customs of modern Michigan Algonquians, 1955. 1 volume (ca. 500 p.).

  The draft of an unpublished book, lacking chapter VI, Ottawa feasts. Attempts, by detailed analysis and description of present-day customs in historical perspective, to evaluate powwows, feasts, and camp meetings in Ottawa culture. 12 chapters give brief history, biographies, and locations; describe festivals and dances in detail; analyze native songs (scores); describe a Chippewa Methodist camp meeting and hymns, with analysis of hymn texts and tunes. Presents Ottawa "superstitions" (bear walking, medicines, herbs), 42 Ottawa myths (cf. No. 294), material on natural-history usage. Attempts to reconstruct function of ritual, with historical references. Includes pictures and musical score.

  Presented by Gertrude P. Kurath, 1959.
  (497.3 K965a and Film 1396)

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