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Quattrocchi, Anna Margaret
Thomas Hutchins, 1730-1789. Film. 1 reel.

Biography of the military engineer, map-maker, and "Geographer of the United States." Doctoral dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1944.

(Film 398)

Quebec. Université Laval, Séminaire de Québec
Selected materials on Indian linguistics, 1676-1930. Film. 6 reels.

From Université Laval. Grammars, glossaries, books of prayers and hymns, in Iroquois, Huron, and Algonkian languages, almost all in the hands of Jesuit missionaries before 1760; also a register of baptisms and marriages of Indians; a brief history of the Hurons; etc.

Table of contents (17 pp.).

(Film 453)

Quekett, John Thomas (1815-1861)
Histologist.
Papers, 1849-1885. 64 items.

This collection includes correspondence, drawings and publications of Quekett. He became a conservator at the College of Surgeons, and through his microscopial studies he had a wide influence on anatomical studies as conducted by the medical profession in Britain. This small collection concerns these studies and medical matters in general. The correspondents include: James Hilton, Julian S. Huxley, John Pethereck, Sir James South, and Thomas Wormald.

Table of contents (1 p.).

Accessioned, 1971.
(B Q2)

Questebrune, John, M. A.
A short introduction to natural philosophy, 1720. 1 vol. (122 pp.).

The author was chaplain to the 6th Earl of Galloway. The manuscript is embellished with colored drawings, illustrations, and decorations. It was owned by William Hamilton, 1785 (of The Woodlands, Philadelphia?).

Presented by J. Francis Fisher, 1834.
(500 Q3)

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Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796-1874)
Astronomer, meteorologist, statistician. APS 1839.
Selected correspondence. Film. 2 reels.

From Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels.

Correspondents include:

Charles Babbage
Alexander D. Bache
Samuel Brown
Thomas G. Clemson
Robley Dunglison
James P. Espy
Michael Faraday
William Farr
James D. Forbes
James A. Garfield
Charles Frederic Gauss
J. Melville Gilliss
Arnold Guyot
William R. Hamilton
Joseph Henry
Edward C. Herrick
Sir John F. W. Herschel
George W. Hough
Alexander von Humboldt
Joseph C. G. Kennedy
Auguste A. de la Rive
Urbain J. J. Le Verrier
Humphrey Lloyd
Hubert A. Newton
Sir Edward Sabine
E. A. Sanford
Lemuel Shattuck
Charles Wheatstone
William Whewell
Edward L. Youmans

Accessioned, 1965.
(H.S.Film 11)

Quimby, Ian M. G.
Apprenticeship in colonial Philadelphia, 1963. 1 vol. (207 pp.). Typed. Copy.

Dissertation submitted for the degree of master of arts at the University of Delaware, 1963.

Presented by the author, 1963.
(974.811 Q4)

Quimby, Ian M. G.
Edward Duffield, artisan gentleman, 1963. 1 vol. (57 pp.). Typed, carbon.

A biographical sketch of the eighteenth-century Philadelphia clockmaker, who was an executor of Benjamin Franklin's will.

Presented by the author, 1963.
(B D865)

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