The APS is in the process of acquiring the James Valentine collection of the works of Charles Darwin. (Dr. Valentine is a distinguished professor of evolutionary biology emeritus at the University of California , Berkeley.) Although a definitive count has not yet been made, a preliminary inspection suggests that the collection will consist of approximately 4,500 volumes, including first editions of Origin of Species, The Voyage of the Beagle, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Dr. Valentine set out (over 50 years) to collect every edition and variant of every book by Charles Darwin, in all languages. In combination with existing Darwin printed works already owned by APS, the collection is certain to be the largest collection of Darwin publications in the world. Aside from its bibliographic significance, the collection will allow historians of science to trace the often significant changes in Darwin’s work from edition to edition, as he revised his thinking and responded to critics and colleagues. For example, the fifth British edition of Origin of Species was the first to employ the phrase “survival of the fittest.” Later editions often contain editorial remarks and prefatory observations that reflect the development of subsequent thinking about such subjects as evolution, natural selection, and speciation. The translations to other languages will allow scholars to track the distribution of Darwin ’s revolutionary ideas across cultures and through time.

Letters and other material of mineralogist Albert Charles Peale (1849-1913), a member of the Hayden expedition that first explored the Yellowstone area. Born in Philadelphia and educated there, Peale received an MD from the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1871, the same year he went on the Hayden expedition as a geologist. He later worked for the US Geologic Survey and as a paleobotanist at the US Natural History museum. He wrote about Yellowstone, mineral springs, and the geology of the West. The papers include letters to and from Albert Peale; letters of other scientists, such as paleontologists Frank Springer and Charles Wachsmuth; a few items from previous generations of Peale's, such as a lock of hair from the first Mrs. Charles Willson Peale (Rachel Brewer Peale, d. 1790) and two Titian Ramsay Peale items. The most important correspondence is letters to Emilie Wiswell, Peale's future wife, which contain descriptions of the western terrain and happenings on the Hayden Expedition.

The Holter Museum of American Art, Helena, Montana was the primary venue of an exhibition, coinciding with the Bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition, March 14-June 14, 2004 based on Nature Morte. The images casts a harsh light on the legacy of that journey. The 11 iris prints that comprise Nature Morte "juxtapose early documentary photographs and depictions of the West from printed ephemera with found and invented texts and journals in the original handwriting of the authors." Koch inspected the original journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition in the American Philosophical Society Library. At the Montana Historical Society, in Helena, he examined "hundreds and hundreds of images that speak so eloquently of the invasive pressure of European...on the wilderness. Armies, railroads, mines, dams, Indian captivity."

Koch, a superb and well respected Berkeley, California based fine art printer, and Montana native, of a prominent pioneering family, offers a unique perspective of Westward Expansion. His marked postmodern vision on issues of colonialism, environmental degradation, and racism reflect another side of Lewis & Clark that resonates with diverse populations. While Nature Morte traveled to several other Montana Art museums, having the portfolio among APS Library holdings will enrich our fine collection of Western exploration and travel literature.

Research notebooks, correspondence and other papers of historian of science and mathematics David Pingree (1933-2005, APS 1975). A professor at Brown University, Professor Pingree's work focused on the history of the exact sciences (mathematics, astronomy and other quantitative disciplines such as astrology and divination in the ancient world) from the ancient Near East up through Renaissance Europe, concentrating specifically on the study of scientific texts in the original languages and on the transmission of scientific ideas between cultures. He was a MacArthur Fellow and studied at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

First edition, pp.130; 3 lithograph plates which are not in most copies. This copy with a presentation on the flyleaf from Longstreth to his aunt, dated June 30, 1844. Notes on a journey taken in 1840 and 1841 by three Quakers investigating the emancipation of slaves in 1836 in the Virgin Islands, St. Kitts, Antigua, Barbados, and Jamaica.

David Dexter Perkins, geneticist, (1919-2007) obtained a doctoral degree in zoology from Columbia University in 1949. Perkins joined the biological sciences faculty at Stanford in 1948, achieving emeritus status in 1989; he continued to conduct research and advise scientists until his death. He married Dorothy Lorraine Newmeyer (1922-2007) in 1952, also a geneticist and her husband's professional collaborator. (Many of Newmeyer's papers are also in the collection.) Perkins was a neurospora (bread mold) researcher. His lab at Stanford and the work Perkins did in searching out and classifying neurospora strains has contributed greatly to facilitating their use as a subject for genetics research. Edward Tatum and George Beadle received a Nobel Prize in 1958 for research done in the Stanford Lab. Perkins served as editor of Genetics, president of the Genetics Society of America, was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Guggenheim Fellow. The Perkins papers include correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, laboratory records, and computer files. There is material relating to Perkins' concern for social justice and academic freedom and a collection of printed material on eugenics he gathered.

This tool is based on the premise that, because authors cite the works of other authors, the cited original works are related in subject. The Index is divided into three major sections: Citation Index, Source Index, and Subject Index. The Citation Index is an alphabetical listing by first author of all the cited or referenced works in a given year. Each entry is followed by a list of current authors who have cited the original paper and their works. All authors and works cited in footnotes and bibliographies are listed in the Citation Index, followed by the author and source of the article in which the footnote or bibliography citation appeared. About 85 percent of the citations are from periodicals. The remaining citations are from patents, government reports, books, dissertations, contracts, and personal communications. The Source Index is a bibliographic list of all works containing the footnotes or bibliographies cited in the Citation Index. It is arranged alphabetically by author and lists coauthor, full title, publication source, volumes, issue, pages, year, type of item, and the number of references in the bibliography. Corporate and anonymous source listings are also provided. The Subject Index is an alphabetical keyword index that refers to the works listed in the Source Index. One primary keyword from the document title is paired with a co-term and followed by the author; the author and respective work must be located in the Source Index.