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Sharswood, William (1836-1905)
Pennsylvania naturalist
Papers, 1865-1867. ca. 100 items.

Subjects include minerals and mining, publications, his play "The Betrothed" education, St. John's College in Maryland, Reconstruction in South Carolina. Correspondents include:

• George Allen
• Samuel A. Allibone
• Edward E. Barden
• George H. Boker
• John Ross Browne
• James D. B. DeBow
• William Everett
• Wolcott Gibbs
• Samuel S. Haldeman
• Jean Hosmer
• Charles T. Jackson
• John Le Conte
• John Lawrence Le Conte

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Sheehan, Bernard W.
Civilization and the American Indian in the thought of the Jeffersonian era, 1965. Film. 1 reel.

Doctoral dissertation, Univ. of Virginia.

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Sheppard, P. M.
Papers, 1911-1983. 16.75 linear ft.

A geneticist and educator, Philip Macdonald Sheppard was head of the Department of Genetics at the University of Liverpool from 1963-1976. His research centered on polymorphism, mimicry, blood groups, genetic disease, and speciation, using a variety of subjects, including the gastropod Cepaea nemoralis, butterflies, and humans. He may be best remembered for his classic study of industrial melanism in the pepper moth Biston betularia.

The Sheppard Papers (1911-1983; bulk dates, 1940-76) contain correspondence, subject files, notes, and manuscripts that document Sheppard's life as a geneticist. The earliest piece in the collection is a lepidopterist's notebook from 1911, possibly J. R. Hobhouse's, however the bulk dates from 1940 to 1976, Sheppard's most productive and influential years. Among other things, these materials document Sheppard's research on the Scarlet Tiger moth, swallowtail butterflies, and ABO blood groups in humans, as well as his position as head of the Department of Genetics at the University of Liverpool.

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Shetter, William Z.
Collector
Radio program, Holbrook Arizona, 1 August 1968. Recording. 1 reel.

Autobiographical remarks by Mrs. Elsie Benally, Navajo Reservation, Bellemont, Ariz.

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Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno), (1823-1899)
Photographer
American Indian Photograph Collection, 1852-1869. 95 images, 0.5 linear feet

A shadowy figure at best, the artist Antonio Zeno Shindler worked at the Smithsonian Institution from after the Civil War until the turn of the 20th century, specializing in ethnographic subjects. He was responsible for printing or taking a large number of photographs of American Indians exhibited there in 1869.

The 95 studio portraits in the Shindler Collection were part of a suite of 301 images that comprised the first photographic exhibition at the Smithsonian, and that are documented in the catalogue Photographic Portraits of North American Indians in the Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution (1867). The individuals depicted were members of delegations sent to Washington during the years 1852, 1857-1858, and 1867-1869 from the following nations: Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Choctaw, Dakota Sioux (Brule, Miniconjou, Sans Arc, Santee, Sisseton, Two-Kettle, Yankton), Osage, Pawnee, Ponca, Potawatomi, Sac and Fox, Seminole, and Ute. Shindler printed the earlier photographs (mostly taken by the McClees Gallery) and was photographer for the later delegations.

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Shippen, Edward of Lancaster (1703-1781)
Merchant. APS 1768
Papers, 1727-1789. ca. 190 items & 10 vols.

Consists principally of letters and papers of Edward Shippen, including letter books, 1752-1781 (10 vols.), and correspondence with Joseph Shippen, 1750-1778 (ca. 100 items). Topics are business in Philadelphia and Lancaster, provincial politics, army supply in the French and Indian War, land purchases and speculation, housebuilding, and family affairs; correspondents include:

• William Allen
• Harmanus Alricks
• John Armstrong
• Henry Bouquet
• Charles Brockden
• Edward Burd
• James Burd
• Benjamin Chew
• William Coleman
• George Croghan
• Benjamin Franklin
• Joseph Galloway
• Thomas Lawrence
• William Logan
• Robert Hunter Morris
• John Penn
• Richard Peters
• Edward Shippen, Jr.
• William Shippen, Sr.
• Charles Willing

There is also one box of miscellaneous correspondence, 1727-1781 (ca. 90 items), including many letters to members of the Shippen family and to William Allen, James Hamilton, John Harris, David Jameson, and other officers in the Provincial forces, principally on military affairs, 1755-1760; with a fragment of Joseph Shippen's orderly book, 1758; several letters from Joseph Shippen at Rome, 1760; records of payment of wagon hire on the Pennsylvania frontier; military returns.

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Shippen, Edward (1729-1806)
Chief Justice of Pennsylvania. APS 1768
Receipts, 1754-1789. 19 items.

Receipts from tradesmen, mechanics, and storekeepers for sewing, carriage work, the making and repair of shoes, madeira, fabrics, sugar, hair-dressing, clothing, etc.

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Shippen, Edward (1729-1806)
Docket of cases, 1764-1765. 1 vol. (ca. 150 pp.).

List of cases tried and judgments rendered; some entries relate to apprenticeships.

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Shippen, Joseph (1706-1793)
Merchant
Waste book, 1749-1750. 1 vol. (138 pp.).

Accounts with various persons in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey for dry-goods, notions, rum, cutlery, glassware, medicines, etc.

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Shippen, Joseph, Jr. (1732-1810)
Soldier, judge. APS 1768
Letterbook, 1763-1773. 1 vol. (114 pp.).

Principally on provincial business (Shippen was Secretary of the Province), the letters comment on such topics as: Indians of Pennsylvania, the French and Indian War, survey of the Maryland- Pennsylvania boundary, and the Stamp Act. Correspondents include: James Burd, Jeremiah Dixon, Joseph Galloway, Humphry Marshall, Charles Mason, Edward Shippen of Lancaster, Edward Shippen, Jr., and others.

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Shippen, William, Jr. (1736-1808)
Physician, anatomist, teacher. APS 1768
Journal, July 19, 1759-January 22, 1760. 1 vol. (34 pp.).

Kept while a student of medicine in London under Dr. Colin McKenzie and Dr. William Hunter; mentions Dennys DeBerdt, Mark Akenside, George Whitefield, John Fothergill, David Garrick, and Thomas Penn. Printed, with notes, in Betsy C. Corner, William Shippen, Jr., Pioneer in American Medical Education, APS Memoirs 28 (Philadelphia, 1951).

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Shippen, William, Jr. (1736-1808)
Prescription book, October 1, 1789-July 10, 1791. 1 vol. (132 pp.).

A daily record of professional visits and prescriptions. Patients include:

• Count Andreani
• John Beckley
• Baron De Bretagne
• Benjamin Chew, Jr.
• Ralph Izard
• Thomas Jefferson
• Henry Knox
• Tobias Lear
• Marquis de Barbé-Marbois
• Moreau de St.-Méry
• Charles Thomson
• George Washington
• Thomas Willing

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Shippen Family
Maps, ca. 1741-1831. 59 items.

These are maps of various pieces of property in the Southwark division of the city of Philadelphia which belonged to certain members of the Shippen family. They include maps taken, in part, from Philadelphia City records, as well as up-to-the- minute surveys done when the property was sold or subdivided. There are names of purchasers in some cases, showing which lots were acquired.

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Shippen Family
Papers, 1733-1878. ca. 160 items.

A small but rich collection of letters and documents concerning the Shippen family of Pennsylvania. The subjects of the letters are varied: domestic details, military affairs (Revolutionary period and Pennsylvania frontier), politics, trade, and business. In addition to letters from various Shippens, are the letters from:

• Joseph Billings
• Edward Burd
• William Cam
• William H. Furness
• Caspar Morris
• Robert Morris
• Mary Jane Peale
• Ann Penn
• John Penn
• Jacob Smith
• James Tilghman
• Jaspar Yeates

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Short, Charles Wilkins (1794-1863)
Physician, teacher, botanist. APS 1835.
Papers, 1813-1867. 80 items.

Principally letters to his brother John Cleaves Short, on personal, family, and general topics; some relate to botany and science and are from Sir William J. Hooker, Thomas Nuttall, John Torrey, John Vaughan, and Caspar Wistar.

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Short, William (1759-1849)
Diplomat. APS 1804
Papers, 1787-1838. 230 items.

Chiefly personal correspondence between Short and the Duchesse de La Rochefoucauld on his courtship and wish to marry her and bring her to America; her letters describe the life of a powerful, wealthy, and noble family under the ancien régime, events of the Revolution and the Reign of Terror, and life in France thereafter. The collection includes letters of Lafayette, Count Luigi Castiglioni, Pauline Castiglioni, the Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, and others.

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Shryock, Richard Harrison (1893-1972)
Historian. Librarian of APS. APS 1944.
Papers, ca. 1918-1972. (23 lin. ft.).

Primarily consisting of professional correspondence and papers, but also substantial material concerning Shryock family history. Most of the collection relates to Shryock's intellectual and social life at the University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, and Johns Hopkins University, institutions where he made contributions as a professor of history and especially as a medical historian. He had considerable impact on the development of this field of history. His professional contributions to the American Philosophical Society Library, American Council of Learned Societies, American Association of University Professors, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Medical Historical Association, etc., are all documented. The correspondence is vast; included are:

• Isaiah Bowman
• Sculley Bradley
• Carl Bridenbaugh
• Julian Boyd
• Lyman H. Butterfield
• Leonard Carmichael
• Alfred E. Cohn
• John F. Fulton
• Merle Curti
• George W. Corner
• I. Bernard Cohen
• Thomas C. Cochran
• Roy Franklin Nichols
• A. Hunter Dupree
• F. H. Garrison
• Ross G. Harrison
• Brooke Hindle
• Esmond R. Long
• Chauncey D. Leake
• Walter M. Kollmorgan
• Alfred A. Knopf
• Alexandre Koyré
• John Marshall
• Henry E. Sigerist
• John W. Olmsted
• G. W. Pierson
• Alexander Pogo
• Owsei Temkin
• Henry Viets

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Shryock, Richard Harrison (1893-1972)
National Tuberculosis Association, 1904-1954. c. 700 pp. Typescript.

This is the manuscript for Shryock's book by the same title (New York, Nat. Tuberculosis Assoc., 1957); it includes valuable notes and footnotes that were not included in the published version.

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Shryock, Richard Harrison (1893-1972)
Recollections, 1965. Recording. 1 reel.

This contains reminiscences of his training in history and the history of medicine and science, as well as some reflections on his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University. It was recorded as part of an oral history series by the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins.

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Shull, George Harrison (1874-1954)
Botanist, professor of botany and genetics, Princeton University. APS 1918.
Papers. 6 lin. ft.

This consists principally of reports to the Carnegie Institution of Washington on the work of Luther Burbank, whose plant-breeding farm at Sonoma, California, Shull visited eight times, 1906-1910. There is a report by Edwin C. MacDowell giving background information about the collection. There are also two notebooks by Shull, "Oenothera," 1938, 1941; and about forty letters (1931-1955) to Herbert P. Riley concerning genetic work on flowers.

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

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Silliman, Benjamin (1779-1864)
Chemist, naturalist. APS 1805.
Collection, 1808-1859. 26 items.

This is a miscellaneous collection of letters on a variety of topics: the American Geological Society, blowpipes, chemistry, the Lowell Institute, geology, natural history, etc. The correspondents are:

• Johan Jacob Berzelius
• Alexandre Brongniart
• Heinrich Georg Bronn
• Parker Cleaveland
• Ashbel Green
• Louis McLane
• William W. Mather
• Andrew Orr

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Simeon, George, collector
Mam, Xinca, and Pocoman Central linguistics, n.d. Recording. 1 cassette.

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Simoncsics, Peter
Collector
Yavapai language materials, n.d. Recording. 3 cassettes.

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Simpson, George Gaylord (1902-1984)
Vertebrate paleontologist. APS 1936.
Papers, 1922-1984. 74.5 lin. ft.

One of the seminal figures in the emergence of the Modern or Neo-Darwinian Synthesis during the mid-twentieth century, George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984) helped define the unique contribution made by vertebrate paleontology to the life sciences. A specialist in Mesozoic and early Cenozoic mammals, Simpson's contributions to the fusion of Darwinian natural selection and Mendelian genetics were both empirical and theoretical, culminating in his major works Tempo and Mode in Evolution and The Meaning of Evolution. From his posts at the American Museum of Natural History (1927-1959), Columbia University (1945-1959), Harvard (1959-1967), and the University of Arizona (1967-1984), Simpson became one of the most influential paleontologists of the century, helped in part by his ability to write successfully for both a technical, professional audience and a popular audience.

The Simpson Papers include a comprehensive assemblage of professional and personal correspondence, reflecting nealy all phases of Simpson's career. Written with charm, wit, and a sense of literary style, the correspondence touches on all aspects of modern paleontology, providing an important perspective on the emergence of contemporary evolutionary theory, biogeography, systematic theory and methodology, the relationship of science and religion, and creationism, as well as more general issues in scientific epistemology and social and political issues. The collection also includes autobiographical data and writings, lectures, class notes and papers, research data, material on his scientific expeditions (diaries in carbon form, photos, notes, etc.), publication material (he was author of some 800 publications), extensive photographic material, diplomas, and medals.

A second, smaller collection of Simpson letters (B Si5) is comprised of letters written by Simpson to his sister, Martha Lee Simpson Eastlake, 1918-1962. Predominantly personal, these recount his travels and experiences on scientific expeditions to New Mexico, Arizona, Argentina, and Chile.

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

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Simpson, George Gaylord (1902-1984)
The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man. 298 pp.

The manuscript of a book published by Yale University Press, 1949.

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Singer, Ernestine H. Wieder
Anthropologist
Anthropological reading notes, 1935-1936. ca. 150 pp.

These include course notes on primitive economics (Incan) with A. Irving Hallowell and from seminars with Linton Satterthwaite (Mayan architecture), E. B. Howard (Problems of the Clovis, New Mexico, Site), and others. There are also notes taken at the 1936 meeting of the American Anthropological Association, from the lectures of various anthropologists in attendance, e.g. Ruth Benedict and Elsie Clews Parsons.

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Slater, John Clarke (1900-1976)
Physicist. APS 1940.
Papers, 1908-1976. (81 lin. ft.).

After receiving his doctorate from Harvard in 1923, the physicist John Clarke Slater did postgraduate work at Cambridge University and on the continent working n quantum theory with both Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Slater was appointed to the head of the department of physics at MIT in 1930, which he and Karl Compton worked effectively to transform into one of international stature. His own work on the electromagnetic theory of microwaves was fundamental to the development of radar systems. During the Second World War, he was affiliated with the radiation laboratory and after he helped found the solid state and molecular theory group, the interdisciplinary Center for Materials Science and Engineering, the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and the Laboratory for Nuclear Science. After his retirement from MIT in 1966, Slater moved to the University of Florida, remaining active until his death in 1976.

The Slater Papers contains a wealth of information on the development of physics at MIT, as well as Slater's post-1966 work at the University of Florida. There are about 133 (7 linear ft.) research notebooks, 1944-1976, and a long series (30 linear ft.) of folders, containing lectures, scientific notes, drafts of manuscripts and papers, correspondence during his collaboration with the Los Alamos Labs, 1966-1970, and extensive correspondence relating to the National Academy of Science. Information about American-Swedish exchange in quantum science is located in the correspondence with Per-Olov Löwdin.

This collection was described in brief by Murphy D. Smith, "The John Slater Papers at the American Philosophical Society," Center for History of Physics Newsletter 13, 2 (1981): 3.

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Slater, John Clarke (1900-1976)
Excerpts from letters, 1924. 50 pp. Photocopy, typescripts.

These excerpts were brought together by Slater from his files, at the request of Dr. Leon Rosenfeld, to document Slater's visit to Copenhagen, and Bohr's Lab, in 1924.

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Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753)
Physician, naturalist, founder of the British Museum
Papers. Film. 16 reels.

From British Museum. A copy of Sloane Mss. 4036-69, comprising principally letters to Sloane from scholars, physicians, naturalists, collectors, and others in Great Britain, Europe, and America. Not all of Sloane's correspondence is to be found in the volumes filmed here. Edward J. L. Scott, An Index to the Sloane Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1904) is a useful guide to the entire collection, including the portion filmed here.

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Smiley Family
Papers of the conferences at Lake Mohonk, 1885-1930. Film. 1 reel.

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Smith, Erwin Frink (1854-1927)
Plant pathologist. APS 1916
Papers, 1865-1940. ca. 1600 items.

Principally personal and professional correspondences, with some genealogical data. The collection contains many data on Smith's studies on plant pathology, with photographs of diseased plants. There are also a journal of a European tour, 1906 (4 vols.), miscellaneous memoranda, arranged alphabetically by subject (1 vol.), recipes for making ink, 1877 (1 vol.), notebooks of articles and mailing addresses, 1895-1903 (4 vols.), diary, 1870 (1 vol.), an interleaved copy of Michigan Flora, 1881, with notations throughout, botanical notes and memoranda on animals observed, 1873 (1 vol.), notes and memoranda on methods of experimentation, descriptions of experiments, and observations, 1898 (1 vol.), etc. The collection is not yet arranged.

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Smith, Joseph Russell (1874-1966)
Geographer
Papers, ca. 1888-1966. (11 lin. ft.).

This is a collection of letters (family and professional), notebooks, diaries, lectures, articles, and photographs, of Smith, a noted American geographer who influenced the teaching of geography after 1920 through his many elementary texts. There is much material relating to these writings. His contributions to the rise of human geography and the related areas of conservation and ecology, are documented. His study in Europe under Friedrich Ratzel, at Leipzig in 1901-1912, is touched on in his journal for those years; included are many interesting observations on German university life. There is also much material on his nursery business in Virginia. Organizational files are numerous, e.g. Association of American Geographers, Columbia University, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Much of the correspondence is limited to only a few letters from each correspondent. Among the names included are: Willard G. Bixby, Isaiah Bowman, John W. Hershey, Emory R. Johnson, Walter C. Lowdermilk (of particular notes is his 1926 paper, written while at the University of Nanking, "Forest Conservation in Shansi, China"), and Lewis Mumford.

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Smith, Lloyd Dean
The Five Nations of Indians in their relation to the colony of New York from 1700 to 1781. Film. 1 reel.

Master's thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1900.

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Smith, Murphy DeWitt (1920- )
Associate Librarian, APS
Manuscript Collecting: The First 101 Years, 1980. 31 pp. Photocopy of typescript.

This is a history of manuscript collecting at the American Philosophical Society, from 1743 to 1844.

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Smith, Nathan (1762-1829)
Surgeon, physician
A life of Nathan Smith, 1762-1829, by Oliver S. Hayward. 402 pp. Carbon typescript.

This is an unpublished manuscript.

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Smith, Nicholas N.
Collector
Malecite words pertaining to natural history. [1959]. Recording. 1 reel.

Collected from Peter L. Paul of the Woodstock Reservation, New Brunswick.

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Smith, Thomas Peters (1777-1802)
Chemist and mineralogist. APS 1799
Journal in Europe, 1800-1802. 5 vols.

Record of a tour of Germany, Denmark, Sweden, France, and England, to inspect technological improvements in manufacturing and mining. There are accounts of visits to C. D. Ebeling, Friederich Klopstock, J. A. J. Reimarus, Anders Sparmann, Karl P. Thunberg, and others. The journal is copied, legibly but with many excisions, into the fifth volume.

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Smith, Thomas Peters (1777-1802)
List of minerals, 1801. 43 pp.

Kept on the author's travels in France and Switzerland; with notes by John Vaughan, from whose scrapbook these sheets were removed, 1959.

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Smith Family
Papers, ca.1700-1950. 350 lin. feet

The Smith Family Papers document the history of the Houston, Smith, Ogden, and allied families, beginning in the late 17th century, and continuing through the middle of the 20th. Among the many treasures in this vast collection are the papers of Pennsylvania Railroad executive Henry Howard Houston (1820-1895), his son, Samuel Frederick Houston (1866-1952), and of Pennsylvania attorney and treasury official, William Meredith (1752-1816).

Although the collection contains a great deal of interest with respect to land speculation, commerce, and trade emanating from Philadelphia, the bulk of the Smith Family Papers consists of personal and family correspondence. Among the largest and most interesting bodies of papers are those of L.M.C. Smith and Eleanor Houston Smith, daughter of Samuel F. Smith. These document the family's progressive attitudes regarding and resource conservation, historic preservation, and their social activism, which distinguishes them from many members of their social circle.

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Smithsonian Institution
Letters pertaining to the bequest of James Smithson, 1838. 1 vol. (39 pp.).

Copied from House of Representatives Executive Documents, 25th Congress, 3rd session, No. 11.

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Smyth, Frederick (1732-1815)
Chief Justice of New Jersey
Papers, 1756-1816. 56 items.

Relating principally to Smyth's career in New Jersey before the American Revolution, the collection includes addresses to grand juries and their reports, a copy of a petition to the Earl of Carlisle and its response, 1778; with some documents on Smyth's appointments, and material on the collection of customs in Rhode Island. Signatories include:

• Benjamin Chew
• Sir Henry Clinton
• George Clymer
• John Dickinson
• Joseph Hopkinson
• Richard, Earl Howe
• Jared Ingersoll
• William Livingston
• Hugh Mercer
• Robert Morris
• John Penn

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Smyth, Henry DeWolf (1898-1986)
Physicist. APS 1947
Papers, 1885-1987. (52.5 linear feet).

Best known as author of the "Smyth Report," the official government report on the development of the atomic bomb, Henry DeWolf Smyth had a long and varied career as a physicist, a diplomat, instructor, policy maker, and administrator. Taking leave from his position with the Physics Department at Princeton, Smyth began work on the Uranium committee of the National Defense Research Committee in 1940, serving as a consultant on the Manhattan Project from 1943-1945. Although he returned to Princeton after the war, Smyth left academia to become Commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) from 1949 to 1954, and he subsequently served as U.S. Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), from 1961 to 1970.

The Smyth Papers (1885-1987) contain correspondence, subject files, speeches, manuscripts of unpublished and published works, reprints and printed publications, scientific class notes and papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and memorabilia which document Smyth's career as a physicist and statesman. The bulk of the collection dates from approximately 1944 to 1970, the most active and influential years of his career, providing good documentation of his work on the Manhattan Project and the Smyth Report, and his involvement with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the International Atomic Energy Commission.

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Smyth, William Henry (1788-1865)
British admiral, scientific writer
Papers, 1827-1864. 86 items.

This is a miscellaneous collection of letters, almost all written to Smyth by prominent scientists. The topics discussed are many, including astronomy, microscopes, nautical almanacs, and submarine excursions. The seventeen letters to Herschel form the largest group. Also to be found are such interesting single letters as that from Thomas Graves, reporting what the Beagle (Charles Darwin's voyage) was encountering in South American waters. Among the correspondents are:

• Sir George B. Airy
• William Buckland
• William R. Dawes
• Edward Everett
• John S. Henslow
• Sir John F. W. Herschel
• Sir John Lubbock
• Sir Thomas Maclear
• Sir Roderick I. Murchison
• Auguste H. Petermann
• Mary Somerville
• Benjamin L. Vuillamy
• Baron Franz Xavier von Zach

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Snyder, John Kellerman
and Canada. Film. 1 reel.

Doctoral dissertation, McGill University, 1932.

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Snyderman, George S. (George Simon), 1908-
Ethnohistorian
Papers, 1758-1995 (bulk: 1945-1985). 3 linear feet.

Trained as an anthropologist under Frank Speck at the University of Pennsylvania, the ethnohistorian George Snyderman (1908- ) has spent his career studying Seneca Indian religion, history, and culture. Snyderman edited the previously unpublished diaries of Halliday Jackson and John Phillips, Quaker missionaries to the Senecas in the late 18th and early 19th century.

The Snyderman Papers includes a small volume of correspondence and manuscripts of works by Snyderman and colleagues, along with copies of primary source materials pertaining to Seneca history. Of particular interest is his correspondence with anthropologists William N. Fenton, Merle Deardorff, and Frank Speck and with his Seneca consultant Clara Redeye and her daughter, Helen Harris, and photographs of the Allegany Senecas taken by Fenton and Speck.

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Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge among the Germans Settled in Pennsylvania
Minutes, 1754-1756. Film. 1 reel.

From Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Kept in the hand of Provost William Smith, these minutes include letters and reports in full or abstract.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Records, 1982-1986. 0.5 lin. feet.

In 1983, the Society for Linguistic Anthropology was formed as a section of the AAA with the goal of advancing the "study of language in its social and cultural context and to encourage communication of the results of such study." It has published the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology semiannually since 1991, and since 2001 they have given out the Edward Sapir Prize for the book making the most significant contribution to the understanding of language in society.

The Society's records consist of 0.5 linear feet of administrative correspondence, newsletters, and minutes of the executive committee, 1983-1986, representing the formation and earliest years of the Society. The files are arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically.

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Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, London
Records, 1701-1786. Film. 1 reel.

This represents volumes 21-22 of their archive of documents relating to North America. It contains letters to and from Pennsylvanians, or the missionaries sent there, and a few from New York, and from Massachusetts. From originals in the possession of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, London.

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Society for the Study of Evolution
Records, 1944-present. 79 linear feet.

Founded in 1946, the Society for the Study of Evolution is one of the principle organizations for the study of the evolutionary sciences. Its bimonthly journal, Evolution, publishes work of general interest to researchers in the range of evolutionary disciplines.

The Records of the Society for the Study of Evolution are a growing collection that includes material on the organization and governance of the Society, its conferences, and its journal, Evolution. The largest series by far contains the editorial files for Evolution, documenting Ernst Mayr's early efforts to solicit material for the journal, but including the editors' complete files from the 1980s onward.

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Minute Book, 1780-1782. 1 vol. (216 pp.).

Bound with this is William Smellie, Account of the Institution and Progress of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1782).

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Society of Free Quakers, Philadelphia
Papers, 1781-1947. ca. 3 lin. ft.

Minutes of the Society, 1781-1975 and of the directors of the Corporation, 1929-1947; membership book, with signatures of early members, 1785, and names of later members; deeds to meeting house and burying ground; treasurers' accounts; reports of officers and committees; bills and receipts for constructing, maintaining, and repairing the meeting house; canceled checks; letters to the Society and its officers, especially Samuel Wetherill, 1883-1884; register of births and burials, 1786-1793; book of printed orders for opening graves; album of photographs of gravestones in the burying ground, 1899; copy of inscriptions on stones in the burying ground, with a plan of reinterments in the Wetherill graveyard, Audubon, Pa., 1905; lists of books purchased for the Apprentices' Library, tenant of the meeting house after 1841. Among the first members of the Society were: Moses Bartram, Clement Biddle, Elizabeth Claypoole (Betsy Ross), Lydia Darragh, Christopher Marshall, Timothy Matlack, Benjamin Say, and Samuel Wetherill, Jr.

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Society of Friends. Indian Committee
Records, 1791-1892. Film. 10 reels.

Minutes, letters, reports, speeches, accounts, and other archival material of the Committee for promoting the improvement and gradual civilization of the Indian natives. See George S. Snyderman, "A Preliminary Survey of American Indian Manuscripts in Repositories in the Philadelphia Area," APS Proc. 97 (1953): 596-610, esp. 598-601.

Table of contents (13 pp.).

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Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Book of discipline of the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1719. 1 vol. (25p.). Copy.

In October 1719, the Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends for Philadelphia and the Jersies reached consensus on a "book of discipline" governing the "establishment and order of meetings." The regulations covered both the conduct of the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings and the personal comportment of individual members, refining the bureaucratic structure of the meetings and laying out the powers of Overseers and other officials. It touches upon marriage (mandating endogamy), burial, and attendance at meetings, and cautions Friends to plainness of speech and dress, drinking, smoking, backbiting, and gaming.

This version of the Book of Discipline is a manuscript copy made for the American Philosophical Society in 1820 "from and antient Copy in the possession of Timothy Matlack, Esqr."

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Society of Jesus
Oregon Province Archives, Indian Language Collection: the Alaska Native languages, 1976. Film. 28 reels.

From originals produced in the late nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, on deposit at the Pacific Northwest Indian Center, Spokane, Washington. For contents of the film, see Robert C. Carriker, et al., Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Oregon Province Archives of the Society of Jesus, Indian Language Collection: The Alaska Native Languages (Spokane, Wash., 1976).

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Society of Jesus
The Oregon Province Archives, Indian Language Collection: The Pacific Northwest Tribal Languages, 1976. Film. 21 reels.

From originals produced in the late nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, on deposit at the Pacific Northwest Indian Center, Spokane, Washington. For contents of the film, see Eleanor Carriker, et al., Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Oregon Province Archives of the Society of Jesus, Indian Language Collection: The Pacific Northwest Tribes (Spokane, Wash., 1976).

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Sollas, William Johnson (1849-1936)
Geologist.
Letters, 1888-1928. 36 items.

These are letters written to Sollas (except for one from him) primarily concerning British geology and paleontology. There are mostly one or two letters per signer. The correspondents include:

• George Bidder
• Henry Carlin
• E. Cartailhac
• Henry Cunynghame
• Cara David
• Gerard Deyerr
• D. P. Dobson
• Eugene Dubois
• F. W. Evans
• L. Fletcher
• Le Neve Foster
• Michael Foster
• Thomas Fowler
• Henry Fox
• Archibald Geikie
• Alexander Henry Green
• Alfred Cort Haddon
• Emile Haug
• W. F. Hume
• Alfred John Jukes-Browne
• Edwin R. Lankester

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Somerville, Mary (1780-1872)
Scientist. APS 1869.
Papers. Film. 19 reels.

From originals in her papers at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Restricted Access. Compiled by Elizabeth C. Pattison, 1969.

Table of contents (59 pp.).

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Sorby, Henry Clifton (1826-1908)
English geologist, mineralogist
Diaries, 1859-1908. Film. 2 reels.

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South Carolina Gazette
Name index, 1732-1738. Film. 1 reel.

From South Carolina Historical Society. Compiled by Hennig Cohen.

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Souza Palher, Joao de
Descripção e uso do dynamomêtro, 1807. 1 vol. (59 pp.).

The instrument was for measuring and comparing the relative strength of men, horses, and other beasts of burden. Includes descriptions of other instruments. Illustrated by engraved plates.

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Sowerby Family Papers
Correspondence, 1840-1915. ca. 75 items.

Primarily letters written by British botanists to James and William Sowerby concerning British flowers and botany. Most of the correspondents are represented by only single letters. Included, among others, are: Charles C. Babington, William H. Baxter, Joseph D. Hooker, Daniel Oliver, and W. C. Thistleton-Dyer.

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Sparks, Jared (1789-1866)
Clergyman, editor, historian, president of Harvard College. APS 1837.
Papers relating to Benjamin Franklin, ca. 1826-1863. 7 binders. Photocopies.

Correspondence with Henry Stevens, Sr., Henry Stevens, Jr., Franklin Bache, J. Francis Fisher, James Mease, Henry D. Gilpin, Benjamin Vaughan, Petty Vaughan, and others on Franklin, Franklin's descendants, and Franklin's papers; extracts from Philadelphia newspapers on Franklin; papers used in his biography; miscellaneous entries in his diary, 1830-1854, relating to his search for Franklin manuscripts and his preparation of his edition of Franklin's writings. The originals, from which these copies were made, are in the Harvard University Library.

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Sparks, Jared (1789-1866)
Selected papers, 1819-1863. Film. 2 reels.

From Harvard University Library. Letters and papers relating to Sparks's research on Benjamin Franklin and the publication of an edition of the latter's writings. Principal correspondents include:

• Franklin Bache
• S. D. Bradford
• William Duane
• Peter S. Du Ponceau
• J. Francis Fisher
• George Gibbs
• Henry D. Gilpin
• Edward D. Ingraham
• James Mease
• William B. Reed
• Henry Stevens, Sr.
• Henry Stevens, Jr.
• Benjamin Vaughan
• Petty Vaughan
• William Vaughan

There are also extracts from Sparks's journal, 1831-1841, relating to his Franklin researches.

Table of contents (11 pp.).

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Speck, Frank G. (1881-1950)
Anthropologist
Papers, 1903-1950. 15.5 linear feet

Anthropologist and ethnographer Frank Gouldsmith Speck was unique among Franz Boas' early graduate students at Columbia University. Unlike other ethnographers of his time who focused their studies on the Western Indian tribes, Speck chose to study the cultures of the Eastern Woodland Indians. Becoming the self-appointed salvage ethnographer for those tribes, Speck was regularly with the Indians he studied, collecting all aspects of their culture.

The Frank G. Speck Papers consist of 15.5 linear feet of Speck's professional correspondence, field notes, lecture notes, and manuscripts of published and unpublished works. The material focuses on the Eastern Woodlands Indians, particularly the Catawba, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Houma, Iroquois, Labrador Eskimo, Mantagnais-Naskapi, Nanticoke, Penobscot, Powhatan, Algonkian, and Yuchi. The collection is divided into two subcollections: Subcollection 1 is comprised of Speck's research material and correspondence, and Subcollection 2 consists of his manuscripts and related correspondence. The two subcollections were acquired separately by the Society, and were originally cataloged as the Frank G. Speck Papers (572.97 Sp3) and the Frank G. Speck Manuscripts on Native Americans (970.3 Sp3p) respectively.

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Speck, Frank Gouldsmith (1881-1950)
Catawba Texts, [1934]. ca. 500 pp.

These texts concern myths, history, birds, reptiles, signs and omens, remedies, marriage, poverty, industry, food, charms, taboos, etc. The texts have both free and interlinear English translations. See: Speck, Catawba Texts (Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, vol. 24; New York, 1934).

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Speck, Frank Gouldsmith (1881-1950)
Cherokee Collection, 1880-1948. 0.5 linear feet

From the 1920s through the 1940s, the University of Pennsylvania anthropologist Frank Gouldsmith Speck worked on Cherokee language and culture with his primary consultant, Will West Long. Raised in Big Cove, N.C., Long was a respected elder and spent much of his adult life attempting to record and preserve traditional Cherokee culture.

The Speck Cherokee Collection consists of diaries, accounts, and medicinal texts in Cherokee collected by Will West Long and Morgan Calhoun, accompanied by notes by Speck and John Witthoft. Among these are several diaries kept by Long (mostly 1904-1917), records of the Gadugi (a Cherokee mutual aid group), accounts, records of births and deaths at Big Cove, and material collected on Cherokee botany collected by James Mooney in 1887. Several of the items contain information on Cherokee medicine, including formulae and curing charms.

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Speck, Frank Gouldsmith (1881-1950)
Speck-Choate Photograph Collection, 1879-1881. 27 photographs, 0.25 lin. feet

The United States Indian School at Carlisle, Pa., was founded by Gen. Richard Henry Pratt in 1879, and served as a model for government boarding schools for Indians until its closure in 1918. Over 10,000 students enrolled at the Carlisle Training School during its 39 years, where, separated from their native cultures, the students were prepared for work in industrial and manual labor and socialized into "civilized" life. Given new white names to replace their Indian ones, the students were prohibited from speaking their native languages, were instructed in Christianity, and were fed, clothed, and housed under strict military discipline.

The 27 photographs in the Speck-Choate Photograph Collection were taken by J. N. Choate, a local commercial photographer in Carlisle, Pa., and collected by the anthropologist Frank G. Speck. Choate advertised "Photographs of all the Indian Chiefs that have visited the Indian Training School at Carlisle Barracks, also of children in native and school costumes" and were intended to document the benefits of civilization that the school brought to Indians. Typical images include "before and after" shots of students in native dress and school uniforms, the school band, and shots of the students at work in the saddle shop and making shoes. Choate also took a number of images of visiting chiefs in traditional dress, including the Lakota chief Spotted Tail, and the Cheyennes Man on Cloud and Mad Wolf. One photograph depicts Richard Henry Pratt seated with Quaker supporters. Among the tribes represented are the Lakota, Laguna, Cheyenne, Creek, Lipan, and Pueblo.

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Speck, Frank Gouldsmith (1881-1950)
Delaware Indian material, 1928. Recording. 2 reels.

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Speck, Frank Gouldsmith (1881-1950)
Naskapi scenes, ca. 1930. 16mm movie film.

This film, shot by Speck, shows the method of twisting rabbit skins for blankets; sled dogs and sleds; snowshoes; wind breaks in the woods; ice fishing with nets; drums; and physical types.

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Speck, Frank Gouldsmith (1881-1950)
Recordings of Cherokee, Naskapi, Penobscot, Sioux (Santee), and Winnebago, 1964. Recording. 4 reels.

From originals in possession of the Museum of Primitive Art, New York.

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Spencer, Nathan
Pennsylvania farmer
An account of Thomas Godfrey, 1809. 1 vol. (38 pp.).

Prepared with a view of having it inserted in Rees Cyclopedia, this account is preceded by the account of Godfrey and his quadrant taken from the American Magazine, 1758, and includes a copy of James Logan's communication to the Royal Society. A letter from Spencer to Alexander Wilson, editor of the Cyclopedia, 1809, discussed Godfrey and the sources for this essay. Spencer is identified as "a farmer who owns the place that was once Godfrey's."

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Spencer, William George (1790-1866)
Mathematician.
Letters, 1839-1849. 42 items.

Spencer writes to Miss Caroline Watts, a young friend and teacher in Durham, England. He comments on current political and literary events in England, including John Bright's defeat, the Corn Laws, and theories about health and religion. There is frequent mention of his brother Thomas (1798-1853) and his son Herbert (1820-1903). The principal theme concerns the teaching of geometry and astronomy.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Spokane primer
Documents, 1976. 58 pp. Photocopy.

This was copied by Larry Parker and includes words, phrases, and sentences in Spokane (Salish Indian language) and English.

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Stalker, Harrison Dailey (1915-1982)
Geneticist, zoologist
Papers, 1936-1977. ca. 1500 items.

This collection of correspondence, reports, manuscripts, etc., concerns Stalker's research in genetics and evolutionary biology, particularly the evolutionary genetics of Drosophila. Most of the letters are scientific, although the usual academic politics in various departments is mentioned. There is material as well on the Society for the Study of Evolution (1970). Correspondents include, among others:

• Hampton L. Carson
• Theodosius Dobzhansky
• H. Bentley Glass
• Max Levitan
• Richard C. Lewontin
• Ernst Mayr
• Dwight D. Miller
• H. J. Muller
• J. T. Patterson
• Sheldon Reed
• Warren P. Spencer
• Curt Stern
• A. H. Sturtevant

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

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State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Records, 1819-1892. 7 vol., 1 box (0.5 lin. feet)

Intended as a model of Jacksonian penal reform, the Eastern State Penitentiary operated in the Cherry Hill section of Philadelphia between 1829 and 1970. Designed to promote the moral reform of prisoners by imposing a regimen of silent, solitary self-reflection, the penitentiary became the purest example of the "Pennsylvania plan" of "cellular isolation." This collection of records from Eastern State consists of seven bound volumes and five manuscript items relating to the construction and operation of the Penitentiary from its earliest days into the early 1890s. Of particular note are the minutes of the committee charged with investigating the operation of the prison in 1835, and five registers of prisoners admitted between 1830 and 1892. The latter include interesting comments on the moral state of the prisoner supplied by the institution's moral overseer, Thomas Larcombe.

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Stauffer, Jacob (1808-1880)
Pennsylvania naturalist
Correspondence, ca. 1850-1879. ca. 235 items.

Letters on various scientific subjects, e.g., fishes, insects, snakes, mice, fossils, mosses; on learned institutions, notably the Smithsonian Institution and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; and about some men of science, from various correspondents, including:

• Spencer F. Baird
• Edward D. Cope
• Ezra Townsend Cresson
• William Darlington
• Elie M. Durand
• William Gibson Farlow
• Samuel S. Haldeman
• Hugh C. Hanson
• Joseph Henry
• J. S. Houghton
• John Lawrence Le Conte
• Leo Lesquereux
• John Gottlieb Morris
• Thomas Conrad Porter
• S. S. Rathvon
• Charles Valentine Riley
• John Jay Smith

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Stauffer, Jacob (1808-1880)
Classification of orders, families and genera of fish, ca. 1866-1879. 1 vol. (199 pp.).

The classification is made on the plan presented in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and includes genera and species not included there, especially of North America; with many illustrations of specimens.

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Stearns, Wilfrid Alden (1852-1909)
Papers, 1871-1906 (.5 lin. feet)

Winfrid Alden Stearns (1852-1909) was an amateur naturalist, ornithologist, and ethnologist who corresponded with several prominent experts in the natural sciences. Among his works were a collaboration with surgeon and naturalist Elliot Coues, New England Bird Life (1881-1883) and the self-published A Manual of Ornithology (1895) that was heavily criticized by university-trained naturalists. The Stearns Papers are comprised primarily of correspondence between Stearns and several noted early experts in the natural sciences, zoology, and ornithology. Most of the letters describe his attempts to forward his ornithological findings, respond to queries regarding collecting bird eggs, discuss searches for employment, or concern publishing endeavors. Among the correspondents in addition to Coues are Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Bendire, William Brewster, James Hall, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, William Temple Hornaday, Robert Ridgway, George Dexter Robinson, and Henry Augustus Ward.

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Steinberg, Arthur Gerald (1912- )
Geneticist
Papers, 1945-1965. ca. 35 items.

Included is a bibliography and curriculum vitae. There is correspondence concerning his security clearance with the United States Government, and questions about his loyalty, post-1940.
Further described in Bentley Glass, Guide to Genetics Collections...

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Stern, Curt (1902-1981)
Geneticist. APS 1954.
Papers, ca. 1920s-1980. (21 lin. ft.).

The collection includes extensive correspondence, lectures (1920s-1970s, 1.5 boxes), autobiographical material, articles and papers, zoological course notes, photographs, etc. Stern's various areas of scientific interest are documented in the collection: chromosome theory of heredity, role of gene mutation and chromosome rearrangements in evolution, action and interaction of genes during individual development, and particularly his contribution to the development of human genetics as a discipline (centered on his popular and influential book, Principles of Human Genetics, 1949, 1960, 1973). Both his career in Germany (born in Hamburg) and in the United States is documented in his correspondence. His Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 1924-1926, allowed him to study with T. H. Morgan at Columbia University; he returned to Richard Goldschmidt's lab, 1926-1932, at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute, Dahlem (there is material of note concerning this period) where he helped to establish the cytological basis of crossing over. After a short stay at the California Institute of Technology in 1932, Stern's temporary residence in the U. S. became permanent, and his later career at the University of Rochester, 1933-1947 (Chairman, Department of Zoology) and at the University of California, Berkeley, 1947-1970 (there is significant material on the Department of Zoology, and the university in general) is covered in the collection. There is material of note on: American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science (Inter-Society Committee on Science Foundation Legislation, 1946-1947); American Society of Human Genetics (Pres., 1957); Atomic Energy Commission (Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine, 1950-1955); Genetics (journal); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Advisory Committee for Biology, 1955-1968); and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Stern's correspondence with friends and colleagues in Germany, England, and the U. S., during the 1920s-1930s, is of particular note as it documents not only the developments in genetics and the institutional and administrative networks supporting research, but it also offers general comments and observations on science, Germany, and politics. The photographs (2 boxes) include pictures of many prominent geneticists and scientists.

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

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Stevens, Harry
Papers, 1960s-1980s. ca. 40 lin. ft.

Photocopies of secondary and primary materials relating to Shawnee history and culture.

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Stevens, Henry (1819-1886)
Bookman.
Papers, 1878-1882. 50 items. Photostats & microfilm.

These letters and documents concern the papers of Benjamin Franklin, a portion of which came to be owned by Stevens, were eventually purchased by the U. S. Government and are now at the Library of Congress. This material was used by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. in his 1960 article, "Henry Stevens, his Uncle Samuel, and the Franklin Papers," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 72 (Oct. 1957-Dec. 1960): 143-211.

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Stevens, John Austin (1795-1874)
"Notes, from Prof. Day's Lectures, on Natural Philosophy," 1812. 1 vol. (77 pp.)

Notes kept by the Yale undergraduate John Austin Stevens on 20 lectures on natural philosophy delivered by Jeremiah Day during the fall, 1812. Includes lectures on gravitation, mechanics, and hydrostatics (hydrology), the last including theories of rivers, springs, and groundwater.

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Stewart, Walter (1756-1796)
Soldier.
Orderly book, Second Pennsylvania Regiment, 1778-1779. 1 vol (260 p.)

A brigade-level orderly book for the Pennsylvania Line of the Continental Army (including the 1st, 2nd, 7th and 10th Regiments), kept between October 1778-May 1779, while the brigade was encamped in Fredericksburg and Middlebrook, New Jersey. Includes detailed records of orders issued relating to the brigade, brigade discipline, courts-martial, and records of orders relating to sutlers and camp followers.

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Stiles, Ezra (1727-1795)
Clergyman, scholar, educator.
Papers, ca. 1703-1845. Film & guide. 22 reels.

For the guide to the collection, see Harold E. Selesky, ed., A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Ezra Stiles Papers at Yale University (New Haven, 1978).

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Stock Certificates
Collection, ca. 1840-1913. ca. 145 items.

This includes certificates issued primarily by railroad companies, banks, and industrial companies. There are some bonds issued by the City of Philadelphia. The scenic engravings of railroads are particularly interesting.

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Stockton, William T.
Proprietor, New York and Baltimore stages
Notebook, 1813-1817. 1 vol. (ca. 94 pp.).

Account with Farmers & Mechanics Bank; names of debtors and creditors; and "Feed Book," naming owners of animals and amount of oats consumed by the beasts.

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Stokes, Joseph, Jr. (1896-1972)
Physician. APS 1953.
Papers, ca. 1920-1972. (147 lin. ft.).

This huge collection centers primarily on Stokes's administration and research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. A Philadelphia pediatrician, Stokes had diverse interests in the areas of infectious diseases, public health, and environmental control, all reflected in this collection. From 1939 to 1963, he was in charge of pediatric services at Children's Hospital. There is a long series under that heading as well as individual correspondence from many staff members.

Stokes' participation in and contributions to various professional organizations and research on childhood diseases is documented. There is much material on the following: American Academy of Pediatrics; American Friends Service Committee; American Medical Association; American Pediatric Society; Army Epidemiological Board; arthritis and metabolic diseases; Assoc. of American Physicians; cerebral palsy; Child Guidance Clinic, Philadelphia; Committee of Physicians for the Improvement of Medical Care; Communicable Disease Center; cystic fibrosis; Haverford College; hepatitis; influenza; measles, mumps; Playtex Park Research Institute; poliomyelitis; University College of the West Indies; University of Pennsylvania; White House Conference on Children and Youth; Woods Schools, Langhorne, Pa.

Among the many correspondents are the following:

• Giulio J. Barbero
• Stanhope Bayne-Jones
• Saul Benison
• Yale B. Bernstein
• Alfred M. Bongiovanni
• Charles C. Chapple
• John C. Gittings
• Alan Gregg
• Paul György
• Susanna Harris
• Tzvee Harris
• John R. Paul
• Jonathan E. Rhoads
• John A. Rose
• Jonas E. Salk
• Richard E. Shope
• Anne R. Somers
• Irving J. Wolman

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Strahan, William (1715-1785)
London printer and publisher, Member of Parliament, friend of Benjamin Franklin.
Journals and account book, 1751-1777. 4 vols.

The first three volumes contain accounts of journeys to Scotland, with records of expenses on the way, as follows: 1: 1751; 2: 1759, 1760, 1766; 3: 1768, 1773, 1777. Strahan and Franklin were in Edinburgh at the same time in 1759. The fourth volume contains "The Particulars of the estate of Wm Strahan as it stood on the first of January 1755: 1759: 1761," with some miscellaneous accounts.

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Strong, William Walker (1883-1955)
Physicist
Phoenician and Punic inscriptions made and found in the Chesapeake watershed of America, 1945. Film. 2 reels.

Photographed from one of a limited number of copies in possession of Joseph C. Ayoob, Aliquippa, Pa., 1960.

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Sue, Hiroko
Compiler
Hare Indians: field notes, 1961. Film. 1 reel.

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Sue, Hiroko
Materials collected among the Hare Indians, Fort Good Hope, N. W. T., Canada, 1961-1963. Film. 1 reel. Recordings. 19 reels.

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Sullivan, Thomas (1755-?)
Irish soldier, 49th Regiment of Foot
Journal of the operations of the American war, 1778. 1 vol. (422 pp.).

An Irish-born non-commissioned officer in the 49th Regiment of Foot, Thomas Sullivan served with the British Army in North America from the siege of Boston in 1775 through the last days of the Philadelphia Campaign in 1778. He deserted in June, 1778, and became steward to Continental Army Quartermaster General Nathanael Greene.

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Survey of Sources for the History of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Archives, 1975-1979. 18 lin. ft.

This includes project correspondence with individuals and groups, autobiographical questionnaires of biochemists, information on sources in China, and files relating to the project's search for sources. In addition, there is information concerning the computer system created to produce the guide. See David Bearman and John T. Edsall, eds., Archival Sources for the History of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (APS Publication No. 42, 1980).

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Swadesh, Morris (1909-1967)
Anthropologist, linguist
Nootka and Makah stories. n.d. Recording. 2 reels.

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Swadesh, Morris (1909-1967)
Stories in Chitimacha, [1931]. Recording. 1 reel.

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Swan, Caleb
Indian agent
Journal extracts, 1790-1791. 1 vol. (43 pp.).

This is Swan's report to Henry Knox, dated 2 May 1791. He reports on his contact with and observations of the Creek Indians, while acting as deputy agent to the Creek Nation. This manuscript was published by Henry Schoolcraft in Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the U. S.... Phila., 1855, vol. 5:251 283.

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Swann, William Francis Gray (1884-1962)
Physicist. APS 1926.
Papers, 1903-1962. 41 linear feet.

The physicist W.F.G. Swann was a pioneer in high energy physics and the study of cosmic rays. Climbing the academic ranks from the University of Sheffield to the Universities of Minnesota, Chicago, and Yale, Swann was selected as the first director of the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute in 1927, and remained there until his retirement in 1959. An able administrator and excellent mentor, he was best known for his popular work on the new physics, The Architecture of the Universe (1934) and for his research on cosmic rays. Avocationally, he was an accomplished cellist and in addition to performing, he helped organize and support the Swarthmore Symphony Orchestra and other local groups. He died at his home in Swarthmore in 1962.

The Swann Papers consist of 41 linear feet of correspondence, class notes, lectures, and photographs documenting Swann's career at the Bartol Research Foundation from 1927 until the end of his life. The collection is wide ranging, touching on atmospheric electricity, particle acceleration, atomic bomb defense, atomic energy, electrets, electrodynamics, magnetism, music, quantum theory, radiation, relativity and Einstein, science and civilization, stratospheric flights (by balloon and airplane), thermodynamics, psychic science, and wave mechanics. It is particularly rich for study of the history of cosmic ray research and the Bartol Institute, and for study of the popularization of modern physical sciences.

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Swanson, Richard A.
Collector
Hopi ethnoanatomy, 1972. Recording. 5 reels.

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Szabo, Laszlo
Collector
Malecite stories, n.d. Recording. 9 reels.

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Szasz, Otto (1884-1952)
Mathematician
Notebook, 1907-1908. 5 pp.

This is a brief listing of his course of study at the University of Göttingen, listing the courses he took and the lectures.

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