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Talbot, Charles Nicoll
Merchant
Papers, 1821-1868. Film. 1 reel (ca. 372 items).

This collection of papers primarily concerns the China trade of Talbot, Olyphant, & Co., New York, and Olyphant & Co. and Gordon & Talbot, both of Canton, China. It covers their missionary endeavors in China and the vicinity. Talbot was a nephew of Charles Nicoll Bancker. Correspondents include:

• Elizah Coleman Bridgman
• James Nicoll Bancker
• O. H. Gordon
• Lawrence Kearney
• Charles William King
• William H. Moros
• David Washington Cincinnatus Olyphant
• George W. Talbot
• William R. Talbot

Table of contents (6 pp.).

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Tamil Language
Grammar and vocabulary of the Tamil Language. Nineteenth century. 1 vol. (ca. 48p.).

The Grammar and Vocabulary of the Tamil Language includes a list of words and phrases in Tamil, with English equivalents, a list of English words for which equivalents were not established, and grammatical notes on Tamil, with phonetic transcriptions.

In Tamil and English.

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Taylor, Allan R.
Collector
Stoney (Assiniboine) texts taken at Stoney Reserve, Morley, Alberta, 1968, 1971. Recording. 3 reels.

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Taylor, John
Pennsylvania clergyman
Hebrew Lexicon. 1 vol. (650 pp.).

Transcribed and abridged from the author's concordance. Taylor was rector of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh; later a minister in Philadelphia. A note by his widow says the transcription may be inaccurate, since it had not been compared with the original.

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Taylor, Robert Eveleigh
British physician
An inaugural disputation, concerning the varieties of the human race, July 1800. 1 vol. (34 pp.). Translated into English by John Brandreth, 1830.

This is Taylor's dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Edinburgh. It was published in Latin (Edinburgh, 1800), and Brandreth made this English translation for a friend later.

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Tedlock, Dennis
Collector
Finding the center, n.d. Recording. 4 reels.

These Zuni Indian stories were used by Tedlock in his book by the same name, Finding the Center: Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indians (Lincoln, Neb.: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1978).

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Teuber, Eugen (1889-1958)
Animal psychologist
Papers, 1910-1914. 0.5 lin. feet

As a young graduate student at the University of Berlin in 1912, Eugen Teuber (1889-1958) was hired to help establish the Anthropoiden Station auf Teneriffa (Tenerife Primate Station) for the Prussian Academy of Sciences, the first field station devoted to behavioral research on primates. As its first director, Teuber played a crucial role in setting up the facilities and acclimating the chimpanzees to their new environment, and he was a co-participant in the first trials of Wolfgang Köhler's famous experiments to evaluate the intelligence of apes.

The papers of Eugen Teuber document the founding and earliest years of the Anthropoiden Station auf Teneriffa. A small (0.5 linear feet), tightly focused collection, it contains a series of official documents relating to the establishment of the Station, approximately 20 letters between Teuber and officials in Berlin, including Wilhelm Waldeyer and Max Rothmann, some research notes, and over 100 photographs of the chimpanzees and facilities. The collection includes Teuber's notes on the first trial of Wolfgang Köhler's famous "fruit basket" experiment in December 1913.

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Thiselton-Dyer, Sir William Turner (1843-1928)
Botanist. APS 1905.
Correspondence, 1910-1911. 15 items.

These letters are primarily to Sir Charles James Lyall, concerning botanical terminology as it relates to specimens from India. There are also a few letters on miscellaneous subjects from Thiselton-Dyer.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Thistlewood Family
Papers, 1748-1792. Film. 16 reels.

There are diaries, weather records, commonplace books, of Thomas Thistlewood (1721-1786), for the years 1748-1786: his diaries (37 vols.) cover two years in England (London, Lincolnshire) and the remaining time in Jamaica (1751-1786) where he managed a cattle estate (Vineyard Pen) and then a sugar plantation (Egypt). This is a rich source for agricultural life, daily routines, slave life, folklore, natural history, medical diagnosis and remedies, the intellectual world of an Anglo-Jamaican, his sex life, climatic history of the island, etc. There are miscellaneous volumes, such as a list of Negroes, 1758-1766. Included in the collection is the journal of John Thistlewood, 1763-1765, describing his voyage to Jamaica and life on his uncle's plantation. From originals held at the Lincolnshire County Archives.

Table of contents (8 pp.).

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Thomas, Alex, and Frank Williams
Nootka Indian manuscript texts, ca. 1910-1916. Film. 2 reels.

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Thomas, Isaiah (1749-1831)
Printer. APS 1816.
Papers. Film. 1 reel.

Consists of volumes 1 3, from the originals in the American Antiquarian Society. Restricted Access.

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Thompson, Maria M.
Evolution of a country property: Laurel Hill, 1982. 84 p. Typescript, copy.

This is an account of the estate of Francis Rawle of Philadelphia, with illustrations.

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Thomson, Elihu (1853-1937)
Scientist, inventor, manufacturer. APS 1876.
Papers, 1865-1944. (ca. 65 lin. ft.).

An electrical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, Elihu Thomson was an innovator in electrification in both a technical and corporate sense. With interests that ranged from the technical (electrical meters, high-pressure steam engines, dynamos, generators) to scientific (fused quartz optics, X-rays), Thomson acquired over 70o patents in his career, and in 1882, founded one of the early electrical corporations in the United States, the Thomson-Houston Company, which merged with the Edison Electric Company in 1892 to form the General Electric Company.

The Thomson Papers are a massive and nearly comprehensive collection documenting the wide range of Thomson's scientific and technical interestsm from his electrical experiments, inventions, and patents, to his interests in astronomy, geology, and medicine, as well as his role in the development of two major corporations involved in electrification, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company and General Electric Company. Roughly three quarters of the collection is dated between 1890 and 1920 when Thomson was associated with General Electric, and was active in professional groups such as the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE), International Electrotechnical Commission. His research interests. The balance of the collection is comprised of eight boxes and five volumes relating to Thomson's patents; a series of notebooks kept at Central High School; 43 letterbooks, 1882-1936; diaries of trips to Europe; notebooks on genealogy; scrapbooks of cards, photographs, clippings, and other souvenirs; and 2 vols. of tributes on his eightieth birthday, etc.

The collection is described by John L. Haney, "The Elihu Thomson Collection," APS Year Book, 1944: 87-100; and by W. Bernard Carlson, "The Elihu Thomson Papers: A Planning Report," photo- reproduced under the aegis of the University of Pennsylvania, Department of History and Sociology and Science (Sept. 1980), iv & 83 pp. (available in the Library, at the APS).

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Thornton, William (1759-1828)
Physician, architect, official. APS 1787.
Papers. Film. 6 reels.

From Library of Congress. Diaries, 1777-1782; expense books, 1794-1804; notebooks; commonplace book, drafts of essays; excerpts from minutes of Friends' Monthly Meeting, Tortola, 1741-1761; newspaper clippings; sketches; correspondence from, among others:

• Robert Aitken
• Sir Joseph Banks
• J.P. Brissot de Warville
• Robert Fulton
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Coakley Lettsom
• Robert Patterson
• David Rittenhouse
• Granville Sharp
• John Trumbull
• Comte de Volney
• George Washington
• Caspar Wistar

There are also letters and papers of Mrs. Thornton.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Tilghman, William (1756-1827)
Jurist. APS 1805.
Papers, 1771-1845. 61 items.

Letters on business and legal affairs, sales of land, payment of taxes, court sittings, affair of Dr. S. Bouchell; also 1 vol. check stubs for expenditures from his estate, 1827-1838. Correspondents include: Henry Drinker, Robert Goldsborough, William Goldsborough, Richard Lloyd, George Meade, and Richard Tilghman.

Table of contents (3 pp.).

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Tooker, Elisabeth (1927- )
Anthropologist, Iroquoian scholar.
Papers, 1945-1994. 5.75 linear feet.

An anthropologist and student of Native American cultures, Elisabeth Tooker devoted a long career, much of it as a professor at Temple University, to study of the culture and ethnohistory of the Iroquois Indians of New York State. The Tooker Papers is arranged in six series, and contain her correspondence, subject files, research notes, and both published and unpublished papers.

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Torpedo marmorata
Sur la Torpille..., ca. 1770s. 5 items (37 pp.).

These manuscripts, in French, are in the hand of various unknown authors, but they all concern research and observations on the torpedo fish, of much interest to those studying electricity at that time. There are copies of letters from John Walsh to Benjamin Franklin, as well as a copy of a Walsh and Thomas Pennant letter, read before the Royal Society in June, 1774, about one torpedo found off the coast of England.

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Torrey, John (1796-1873)
Botanist. APS 1835.
Papers, 1819-1864. 21 items.

Miscellaneous letters and papers on natural history, metals and mineralogy, botany, insects, the geological survey of New York, and analyses of distilled liquors in the cause of temperance. Correspondents include: Samuel B. Buckley, Parker Cleaveland, Edward C. Delavan, Elie M. Durand, Amos Eaton, and Charles Wilkes.

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Townsend, John Kirk (1809-1851)
Naturalist.
Vocabularies of the Okonagan, Attnaha, and Walla Walla languages, 1834-1836. 2 vols. (229 pp.).

The vocabularies were obtained from Indians, half-breeds, and traders; most of the informants are identified. One volume appears to contain the notes from which the other was prepared.

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Traube, Isidor (1860-1943)
German chemist
Autobiography, 1930, 1942. ca. 150 pp. Photocopy.

There is a brief autobiographical sketch by Traube written in 1930 (11 pp.), a longer version of 1942 (101 pp.), and a bibliography (28 pp.). This manuscript also includes notes on Traube's life by John T. Edsall.

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Treat, John Breck
Meteorological observations made at Arkansas, 1805-1808. 1 vol. (68 pp.).

Writing from Arkansa in Louisiana to Thomas Jefferson, March 31, 1809, Treat sent these observations, adding, "If from their perusal you can derive, either information or amusement, respecting the Climate of this part of our Country, your acceptance will be highly gratifying."

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Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward (1807-1886)
Governor of Madras.
The natural process by which a conquered people in an inferior grade of civilization adopt the language and system of learning of their more civilized conquerors, 1832. Copy. (46 pp.).

This essay is accompanied by another, written two years earlier, entitled, Consideration of the means by which the present highly advanced state of learning and civilisation in Europe can be most effectually communicated to the rest of the world and to our Indian empire in particular.

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Trippe, T. Martin (b. ca.1848)
Journals, 1865-1871. 2 vols. (655 pp.)

T. Martin Trippe was an avid amateur ornithologist from Orange, New Jersey, who spent the majority of his free time as a teenager and young man exploring the woods and observing, shooting, and collecting birds. After graduating from New York University with a degree in engineering in 1869, Trippe worked in various positions for the Iowa Central, Northern Pacific, and Albia, Knoxville, and Des Moines Railroads, continuing to devote his spare time in the interests of ornithology.

The two surviving volumes of Trippe's journals document his ornithological and natural historical observations between 1865 and 1871, including meticulously detailed records of the avifauna (and to lesser degree other fauna) in central New Jersey, central Iowa, and southern Minnesota. They include detailed, and Trippe provided year-end taxonomic and meteorological indexes for 1869, 1870, and 1871.

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Trowbridge, Charles C.
Account of some of the traditions, manners and customs of the Lenee Lenauppa [sic] Indians: Traditions of the Lenee Lanaupee [sic] or Delawares: and, Language of the Delawares, ca. 1825. Film. 1 reel.

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Trudeau, Jean Baptiste (1713-1827)
Schoolmaster, trader, traveler
Description abrégée du haut Missouri, 1794-1796. Film. 1 reel.

From Université Laval, Séminaire de Québec. Account of a journey up the Missouri River, with descriptions of the life and manners of the Indian tribes, prepared for Don Zenon Trudeau, governor of the territory. Another copy of Trudeau's journal of 1795 was translated by Mrs. H. T. Beauregard and published as "Journal of Jean Baptiste Trudeau among the Arekara Indians in 1795," Missouri Historical Society, Collections 4 (1922-1923): 9-48.

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True, Rodney H. (Rodney Howard), 1866-1940
Botanist. APS 1923
Papers, 1846-1939. (6 lin. ft.).

The plant physiologist and historian Rodney H. True (1866-1940) divided his career relatively evenly between the Bureau of Plant Industry in United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of Botany and Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in the physiological function of mineral nutrients in plants, True was active in his later career in the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society, and the Agricultural History Society.

The True Papers consist of 6 linear feet of material relating primarily to the period of his career spent at the University of Pennsylvania. The collection contains roughly equal proportions of personal and professional correspondence, with a few diaries and research notebooks documenting his involvement with professional organizations and his interests in the history of his discipline.

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Tukey, John W. (John Wilder), 1915-2002
Statistician. APS 1962
Papers, 1930s-2002. (400 lin. ft.).

Arguably the most influential statistician of the twentieth century, John Wilder Tukey, born in 1915, played a key role in both the development and study of statistics. After receiving his early primary education at home from his educator-mother, Tukey entered Brown University, and earned a bachelor's and then master's degree in chemistry, in 1936 and 1937 respectively. Upon receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1939 from Princeton University, Tukey embarked on a life-long career as a Princeton professor. His career at Bell Laboratory began in 1945 as a member of the technical staff and concluded in 1985 as Associate Director-Research Information Sciences. Tukey was equally committed to both Princeton University and Bell, ultimately choosing to work at both concurrently. Tukey also had close working relationships with governmental agencies and statistical and mathematical associations such as the Fire Control Research Office, the President's Science Advisory Committee, the National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval research, the American Statistical Association, and the American Mathematical Association.

During his career and continuing after retirement, Tukey served as a consultant to companies such as Merck and Company and the Xerox Corporation. From 1960 to 1980 he led the statistical component of NBC's election night projections. Tukey made many important contributions to the field of statistics, such as work in time series analysis, exploratory data analysis, and multiple comparisons. Through his work, Tukey developed statistical application including the Box-and-Whisker Plot, the Stem-and-Leaf Diagram, Cooley-Tukey Fast Fourier Transforms, Tukey's Paired Comparisons and citation and permutated indices. A prolific writer, John W. Tukey penned more than 500 papers, books, and reports, in many fields and subjects besides statistics.

The Tukey Papers provides a comprehensive perspective into Tukey's professional activities from his days as a graduate student until his death in 2002. This collection consists largely of correspondence and unpublished and published works by Tukey, most notably Exploratory Data Analysis. There is abundant material from AT&T Bell Laboratories and Princeton University, including extensive lecture notes and syllabi. Also included are copious materials relating to his professional activities with such agencies as the National Research Council, the Army Records Office, Xerox PARC, Merck and Company, the President's Science Advisory Committee, and the National Academy of Sciences. Of particular interest is the collection of film that Tukey amassed while at Princeton during the late 1930s and early 1940s, which provides an unusual and wonderful glimpse into typical campus life for the young mathematician and his circle. Musicals, baseball practice, and lectures are but a few of the activities captured on film as well as illustrious individuals S. S. Wilks, Norbert Wiener, and Albert Einstein.

The Tukey Papers are currently being processed with a grant from the Estate of John W. Tukey.

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Turkish Manuscripts
Secretary's handbooks. 2 vols. In Turkish. (ca. 190 pp.).

During the first third of the 19th century, the APS acquired a large number of books and manuscripts in non-western languages, thanks to Peter Stephen Duponceau's philological and comparative linguistic interests. One of his correspondents, John P. Brown (APS 1856), donated a series of books in Turkish and Arabic.

These two manuscripts were among those donated by Brown in 1836 as examples of the Turkish language and writing system. Associated with the Ottoman Department of State, one volume is entitled "Inscha, or Turkish Letter Writer" and contains forms of business letters; the other is docketed as "Turjiman Nameh," or the "Turkish Interpreter's Assistant. Forms of letters."

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Turner, Dawson (1775-1858)
Botanist.
Correspondence, 1820-1848. 0.25 linear feet.

Dawson Turner, banker, botanist, and antiquary, was an avid collector of literary and scientific books and manuscripts as well as an author of many works on antiquities and botany more specifically cryptogamic plants.

This small collection of only 12 items contains letters written primarily to Jacob Henry Burn and relates to the purchase of items for Turner's vast personal library.

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Turner, Lucian McShan
Notes on the caribou, ca. 1885. Photocopy (85 pp.).

Notes on Cabot's caribou (Rangifer caboti) from a longer manuscript on the mammals of Labrador; with notes by Francis Harper on the range of the Eastern Woodland and Barren Ground caribous.

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Turner, Paul R.
Collector
Highland Chontal texts and ethnohistorical materials, 1965-1966, 1968. Recording. 30 reels.

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Tyndall, John (1820-1893)
Naturalist. APS 1868.
Catalogue of correspondence, journals and collected papers. Microfiche. 32 cards.

Compiled by J. R. Friday, et al., and published by Mansell, 1974.

Index, 56 pp.

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Tyson, George
Collector
Japanese flora, 1865. 1 vol. (300 watercolors)

From 1856 to 1868, George Tyson was a partner of Russell and Company, a firm that had engaged in the tea and opium trade, and the most powerful American commercial house in China. Originally from Boston, Tyson is credited with helping to introduce steamboats to the Yangtze River, and like John Murray Forbes, his better-known predecessor in Russell and Co., when he returned to the United States he joined the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, eventually rising to become Director and General Auditor.

Prior to October 1865, Tyson collected these 300 exquisitely detailed watercolors of Japanese plants painted by local artists in Nagasaki. Each watercolor is identified by name and month of blooming, some with brief additional descriptive notes. An index at the front of the volume provides transliterations of the Japanese names.

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