| | Creator: | Taff, Alice | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Eastern Aleut grammar
| | | | Dates: | 1990-1991, 1993-1995 | | | | Abstract: | Interviews with Fr. Michael D. Lestenkof and Stepanida Lestenkof regarding the Pribilof subdialect of Unangan (Eastern Aleut). Includes texts, grammatical elicitations, and readings (with explanations) from Knut Bergsland's "Qawalangim Tunugan Kaduuĝingin" [Eastern Aleaut Grammar and Lexicon] (National Bilingual Materials Development Center: Anchorage, 1978) and Knut Bergsland & Moses Dirks' "Aleut Tales and Narratives" (Alaska Native Language Center: Fairbanks, 1990.) Recordings made in Seattle, Washington on cassette recorder, then dubbed to 7-inch sound tape reels. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Rec.199 | | | | Extent: | 9.0 Reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Aleut language | Aleuts--Folklore | Bergsland, Knut, 1914- | Dirks, Moses | Lestenkof, Michael D. | Lestenkof, Stepanida | Sound recordings | Taff, Alice | |
| | Creator: | Talbot, Charles Nicholl,1802-1874. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Nicholl Talbot papers, 1821-1868
| | | | Dates: | 1821-1868 | | | | Abstract: | This collection of correspondence, accounts, and certificates primarily concerns the China trade of Talbot, Olyphant & Co., New York, and Olyphant & Co. and Gordon & Talbot, both of Canton, China. The papers also concern their missionary endeavors in China and the vicinity. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1297 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Accounts. | Bancker, James Nicoll | Bridgman, E. C., (Elijah Coleman), 1801-1861 | Certificates. | China -- Foreign relations -- 1644-1912. | Commerce. | Gordon and Talbot (Canton, China). | Gordon, O. H. | Kearney, Lawrence, 1948- | King, C. W., (Charles William), 1809-1845 | Microfilm Collection | Missionaries -- China. | Moros, William H. | Olyphant and Company (Canton, China). | Olyphant, David Washington Cincinnatus. | Talbot, Charles Nicholl,1802-1874. | Talbot, George W. | Talbot, Olyphant and Company (New York, N.Y.). | Talbot, William R. | |
| | Creator: | Taylor, Allan R. (Allan Ross), 1931- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Stoney (Assiniboine) texts taken at Stoney Reserve, Morley, Alberta; January 1, 1968 - August 21-23, 1971
| | | | Dates: | 1968, 1971 | | | | Abstract: | This collection consists of one tape of a New Years' Service held at a Community Hall on 1 January 1968, and two tapes of autobiographical stories, folkloric stories, tribal histories, and descriptions of customs given in the Stoney language only by Carl Simeon (identified as a "speaker of the younger dialect") on 21 August 1971 and by Willie Good Stoney (identified as a "speaker of theh older dialect") on 23 August 1971. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Rec.87 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Assiniboine Indians | Assiniboine Indians--Education | Assiniboine Indians--First contact with Europeans | Assiniboine Indians--Folklore | Assiniboine Indians--Food | Assiniboine Indians--History | Assiniboine Indians--Kings and rulers | Assiniboine Indians--Religion | Assiniboine Indians--Social life and customs | Autobiography | Bears--Folklore | Canada. Treaties, etc. 1877 September 22 | Cree Indians | Cree language | Indian sign language | Indians of North America--Alberta--History | Morley (Alta.) | New Year sermons | Prayers | Rider, Dillon | SImeon, Carl | Sarsi language | Siksika Indians | Siksika language | Snow, John | Sound recordings | Stoney language | Stoney, William Good | Taylor, Allan R. (Allan Ross), 1931- | Wesley, Lazarus | |
| | Creator: | Teuber, Eugen,1889-1958. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Eugen Teuber Papers
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1912-1914 | | | | Abstract: | 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. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.57 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Animal psychology. | Anthropoiden Station auf Teneriffa | Chimpanzees. | Köhler, Wolfgang,1887-1967. | Lantern slides | Photographs | Primatology | Teuber, Eugen,1889-1958. | Waldeyer-Hartz, Wilhelm von, 1836-1921 | |
| | Creator: | Thistlewood family. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Thistlewood family papers, 1748-1792
| | | | Dates: | 1748-1792 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains diaries, weather records, and commonplace books of Thomas Thistlewood for the years 1748-1786. His diaries (37 volumes) cover two years in England (in London and in Lincolnshire) and the remaining time in Jamaica (1750-1786). This is a rich source for agricultural, daily routines, slave life, folklore, natural history, medical diagnosis and remedies, the intellectural world of an Anglo-Jamaican, his sex life, and the climatic history of Jamaica. There are also miscellaneous volumes, such as a list of slaves, 1758-1766. Included in the collection is the journal of his nephew, John Thistlewood, 1763-1765, describing his voyage to Jamaica and life on his uncle's plantation. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1461 | | | | Extent: | 16.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture -- Jamaica. | Cattle. | Culture, community, organizations | Diaries. | Folklore | Folklore--Jamaica | Jamaica -- Climate. | Jamaica -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. | Meteorology -- Jamaica -- Observations. | Microfilm Collection | Natural history -- Jamaica. | Plantations | Plantations -- Jamaica. | Slaveholders -- Jamaica. | Slavery -- Jamaica. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Sugar growing -- Jamaica. | Thistlewood family. | Thistlewood, John | Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786 | Traditional medicine -- Jamaica. | West Indies -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. | |
| | Creator: | Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Elihu Thomson Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1865-1944 | | | | Abstract: | 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 700 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. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.74 | | | | Extent: | 65.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Institute of Electrical Engineers | Astronomy | Ayrton, William Edward, 1847-1908 | Barker, George Frederick 1835-1910 | Barringer, Daniel Moreau, 1860- | Bragg, William Henry, Sir, 1862-1942 | Brashear, John A. (John Alfred), 1840-1920 | Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 | Central High School (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Coffin, Charles A., Jr. | Coolidge, William David, 1873- | Crompton, Robert E. | Cutter, George W. | De Forest, Lee, 1873-1961 | Dercum, Francis X. , (Francis Xavier), 1856-1931 | Dunn, Gano, 1870- | Edison , Thomas A., (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 | Electrical equipment | Electrical experiments | Electricity | Fleming, J. A., Sir, (John Ambrose), 1849-1945 | General Electric Company | Geology | Greene, William Houston, 1853-1918 | Hale , George Ellery, 1868-1938 | Hewitt, George Watson, 1841-1916 | International Electrotechnical Commission | Inventors | Jackson, Dugald C. (Dugald Caleb), 1865-1951 | Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 1877-1946 | Jeffcott, Henry Homan, d.1937 | Johnson, Alba Boardman, 1858- | Keen, William W., (William Williams), b. 1837 | Kennelly, Arthur E. (Arthur Edwin), 1861-1939 | Langmuir, Irving, 1881-1957 | Lovejoy, J. Robert | Machinery, Electrical | Mallinckrodt, Edward, 1845-1928 | Martin, Thomas Commerford, 1856-1924 | Meadowcroft, William Henry, 1853-1937 | Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin | Miller, Dayton Clarence, 1866-1941 | Morgan, Charles | Mottelay, Paul Fleury, 1841- | Pickering, William Henry, 1858-1912 | Pratt, Joseph Hyde, 1870-1942 | Pritchett, Henry S., (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 | Quartz optics | Rawle, Francis | Rice, Edwin Wilbur, 1831-1929 | Riche, George W. | Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972 | Snyder, Monroe Benjamin, 1848- | Spooner, Henry John, 1856-1940 | Steam engines | Steinmetz, Charles Proteur, 1865-1923 | Stockley, George | Stratton, Samuel Wesley, 1861-1931 | Stuart, George | Thompson, Maria M. | Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937 | Thomson, Silvanus P. | Thomson-Houston Electrical Co. | Todd, David | Whitney, Willis Rodney, 1868-1958 | X-rays | |
| | Creator: | Thornton, William, 1759-1828 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Thornton papers, [ca. 1741-1804]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1741-1804 | | | | Abstract: | These papers include diaries (1777-1782), expense books (1794-1804), notebooks, a commonplace book, drafts of essays, excerpts from minutes of Friends' Monthly Meeting, Tortola (1741-1761), newspaper clippings, sketches, and correspondence. Also included are letters and papers of Mrs. Thornton. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.724 | | | | Extent: | 6.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Aitken, Robert | Architecture | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793 | Clippings. | Commonplace books. | Diaries. | Essays. | Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815 | Medicine. | Microfilm Collection | Minutes. | Notebooks. | Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824 | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813 | Sketches. | Society of Friends -- Tortola. | Thornton, -- Mrs. | Thornton, William, 1759-1828 | Trumbull, John | Volney, C.-F., (Constantin François), 1757-1820 | Washington, George, 1732-1799 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | |
| | Creator: | Throckmorton, Tom Bentley. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Francis X. Dercum: Physician, teacher and philosopher, 1941
| | | | Dates: | 1941 | | | | Abstract: | This is a biographical sketch of Dercum, who was a specialist in neurology and president of the American Philosophical Society (1927-1981). Dercum practiced medicine in Philadelphia and made the first contribution to understanding adiposis dolorosa, or Dercum's disease. This essay was presented before the Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases of the American Medical Association, in Cleaveland, June 4, 1941. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D448t | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Dercum, Francis X. , (Francis Xavier), 1856-1931 | Medicine -- United States. | Neurology. | Physicians -- United States. | Throckmorton, Tom Bentley. | |
| | Creator: | Townsend, John Kirk,1809-1851. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vocabularies of the Okonagan, Attnaha, and Walla Walla languages, [and] Vocabularies of the languages of Indians inhabiting N.W. America, 1834-1836
| | | | Dates: | 1834-1836 | | | | Abstract: | These vocabularies were obtained from Indians, people of mixed ancestry, and traders, with most of the informants identified. One volume appears to contain the notes from which the other was prepared. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.T66 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Native American Materials | Salishan languages | Townsend, John Kirk,1809-1851. | Vocabularies. | Walla Walla Indians | |
| | Creator: | Traube, J.,b. 1860. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | J.B. Traube autobiography, 1930, 1942
| | | | Dates: | 1930-1942 | | | | Abstract: | These pages include a brief autobiographical sketch written by Traube in 1930 (11 p.), a longer version written in 1942 (101 p.), and a bibliography (28 p.). Also included are notes on Traube's life written in English (3 p.) by John T. Edsall. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.T69 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Autobiographies. | Chemists. | Edsall, John T., (John Tileston), 1902-2002 | Traube, J.,b. 1860. | |
| | Creator: | Treat, John Breck. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Meteorological observations, 1805-1808, made at Arkansas
| | | | Dates: | 1805-1808 | | | | Abstract: | Treat sent this volume to Thomas Jefferson in 1809 from "Arkansa in Louisiana," and wrote, "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." | | | | Call #: | Mss.551.5.T71 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Arkansas -- Climate. | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Meteorological Data | Meteorological records. | Meteorology -- Observations -- Arkansas. | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | Treat, John Breck. | |
| | Creator: | Trevelyan, Charles E.(Charles Edward),1807-1886. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | 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
| | | | Dates: | 1832 | | | | Abstract: | 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; Kotah, May 21,1830." | | | | Call #: | Mss.954.T725 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | England -- Colonies. | Essays. | Imperialism. | India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. | Manuscript Essays | Trevelyan, Charles E.(Charles Edward),1807-1886. | |
| | Creator: | Trippe, T. Martin, b. ca.1848 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | T. Martin Trippe Journals
| | | | Dates: | 1865-1871 | | | | Abstract: | 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. | | | | Call #: | Mss.598.2.T73 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Auroras. | Birds--Classification | Birds--Migration | Bogs--Minnesota | Brothers--Death | Chippewa Indians | Christmas | Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882. Variation of animals and plants under domestication | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Deluge | Evolution (Biology) | Fathers--Death | Fertilizer | Fires--New Jersey | Fish showers | Iowa--Description and travel | Lakes--Minnesota | Long Island (N.Y.)--Description and travel | Mammals--New Jersey | Mauch Chunk (Pa.)--Description and travel | Meteorology--Observations | Miller, Hugh, 1802-1856 | Minnesota--Description and travel | Natural history--Iowa | Natural history--New Jersey | Natural history--New York (State)--Long Island | New Jersey--Decription and travel | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Description and travel | Northern Pacific Railroad | Orange (N.J.)--Description and travel | Ornithology--Iowa | Ornithology--Minnesota | Ornithology--New Jersey | Plagiarism | Rabbits | Railroads | Railroads--Iowa | Saint Paul (Minn.)--Description and travel | Saint Paul Academy of Science (St. Paul, Minn.) | Thunderstorms | Trippe, T. Martin, b. ca.1848 | Unemployment | |
| | Creator: | Trudeau, Jean Baptiste,1748-1827. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Journal among the Arikara Indians, and other papers, 1794-1796
| | | | Dates: | 1794-1796 | | | | Abstract: | Includes "Description abrègée du Haut-Missouri adressé: a Monsieur don Zénon Trudeau," an account of a journey up the Missouri River, with descriptions of the life and manners of the Indian tribes, prepared for Don Zenon Trudeau, Lieutenant Governor of the Country East of the Illinois (n.d., [after 1795]). Extracts from journals, June 7, 1794-June 1796 (part printed from copy in Department of State Archives, Washington), 190 pages. Approximately 200 pages of letters. Materials contain descriptions of the culture of the Plains Indians (Cheyenne, Arikara, Mandan, Pawnee, Gros Ventres, Sioux, Poncas), dress, customs, marriage, birth; calumet dance, sun dance, buffalo dance; warfare. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1036 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America--Social life and customs | Journals (notebooks). | Microfilm Collection | Missouri River. | Trudeau, Jean Baptiste,1748-1827. | Trudeau, Zenon | United States -- Discovery and exploration. | |
| | Creator: | True, Rodney H.(Rodney Howard), 1866-1940 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Rodney H. True Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1861-1939 | | | | Abstract: | 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. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.T763 | | | | Extent: | 6.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture--History | Allegheny Forest Experiment Station | American Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee of One Hundred on Scientific Research | Arndt, C. H. | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Blueprints | Botanical gardens--Pennsylvania | Botany | Botany--History | California--Description and travel | Diaries. | Field notes. | Franklinia alatamaha | Frazer, John | Haiti--Description and travel | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Maps | Michaux, André, 1746-1802 | Notebooks | Okie, John M. | Pennsylvania Horticultural Society | Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. | Photographs | Plant physiology | True, Katherine McAssey, d.1926 | True, Rodney H.(Rodney Howard), 1866-1940 | University of Pennsylvania. Morris Arboretum | Universität Leipzig | |
| | Creator: | Tukey, John Wilder, 1915- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John W. Tukey Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1937-2000 | | | | Abstract: | One of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, John Wilder Tukey (1915-2000) played a key role in both the development and study of statistics. Upon receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1939 from Brown University, he joined the faculty at Princeton; in 1945, he also began work at Bell Laboratories. Equally committed to both Princeton and Bell Labs, Tukey chose to work concurrently at both institutions. He was also a consultant for many companies, such as Merck and Company, Xerox Corporation, and the Educational Testing Service, and was a frequent advisor to the government for such programs as the US Census. From 1960 to 1980 he led the statistical component of NBC’s election night projections. Among other projects Tukey analyzed Alfred Kinsey's research and examined data on ozone depletion. 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 applications 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. Tukey's influence extends beyond statistics to everyday language: he was the first to use the word "software" in print and coined words such as "bit" and "linear programming." A prolific writer, John W. Tukey penned more than 500 technical papers and reports and published, among numerous other works. His collected papers amount to eight volumes of work.
The Tukey Papers provides a comprehensive perspective into Tukey’s professional activities from his days as a graduate student until his death in 2002. Among the material is his correspondence and his published and unpublished works. There is abundant material from Tukey’s long careers at 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. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.117 | | | | Extent: | 169.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abelson, Robert P. | Academy of Sciences of the USSR | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Association of Scientific Workers | American Chemical Society | American College Testing Program | American Institute of Chemical Engineers | American Institute of Physics | American Mathematical Society | American Medical Association | American Petroleum Institute | American Philosophical Society | American Psychological Association | American Society for Information Science | American Society for Quality Control | American Statistical Association | American Telephone and Telegraph Company | Anderson, Edgar, 1897- | Archibald, Raymond Clare, 1875-1957 | Basford, Kaye E., 1952- | Batson, Herbert Clifford | Beale, E. M. L. (Evelyn Martin Landsdowne) | Beaton, Albert E. | Bechhofer, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1919- | Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. | Bell, Whitfield J. (Whitfield Jenks) | Belsley, David A. | Beniger, James R. (James Ralph), 1946- | Bennett, Carl A. (Carl Allen), 1921- | Blackman, R. B. (Ralph Beebe), 1904- | Bliss, Chester Ittner, 1899- | Bloomfield, Peter, 1946- | Boas, Ralph Philip | Bode, Hendrik W. (Hendrik Wade), 1905- | Bolt, Bruce A., 1930- | Bowker, Albert Hosmer, 1919- | Braun, Henry I., 1949- | Brown University | California Institute of Technology | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford, Calif.) | Chlorofluoromethanes-Environmental concerns | Cochran, William G., (William Gemmell), 1909-1980 | Cressie, Noel A. C. | Deming, W. Edwards (William Edwards), 1900- | Dempster, Arthur Pentland, 1929- | Disarmament. | Dixon, Wilfrid Joseph, 1915- | Dodge, Harold French, 1893- | Educational Testing Service | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, Sir, 1890-1962 | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, Sir, 1890-1962 | Flood, Merrill Meeks, 1908- | Fourier transformations | Gnanadesikan, Ramanathan, 1932- | Halocarbons | Hamming, R. W. (Richard Wesley), 1915- | History of computing | Hoaglin, David C. (David Caster), 1944- | Kinsey, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956 | Kruskal, William, 1919-2005 | Logarithms | Massachusettes Institute of Technology | Mathematics - Tables | Meyerhoff, Howard A., (Howard Augustus), 1899- | Mike, Valerie, 1934- | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | Moments method (Statistics) | Mosteller, Frederick, 1916- | Mosteller, Frederick, 1916-2006 | National Academy of Sciences. (U.S.) | National Assessment of Educational Progess (Project) | National Research Council (U.S.) | National Science Foundation, U.S. | Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 | Nuclear Weapons - Testing | Parzen, Emanuel, 1929- | Pearson, E. S., (Egon Sharpe), 1895-1980 | Press, Harry | Princeton University | Princeton University. | Rao, C. Radhakrishna (Calyampudi Radhakrishna), 1920- | Rousseeuw, Peter J. | Scheffé, Henry, 1907- | Security clearances - United States | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | Statistics--Study and teaching | Suppes, Patrick, 1922- | Time-series analysis | Tukey, John Wilder, 1915- | Tukey, Paul | U.S. Census Bureau | United States. Army Research Office | Velleman, Paul F.,1949- | Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 | Wilks, S. S. (Samuel Stanley), 1906-1964 | Wilks, S. S., (Samuel Stanley), 1906-1964 | Xerox Corporation | Xerox Corporation. Palo Alto Research Center | |
| | Creator: | Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Dawson Turner Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1820-1848 | | | | Abstract: | 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. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.T854 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Acquisitions (Libraries) | Beyond Early America | Book collecting | Burn, Jacob Henry, ca.1793-1869 | General Correspondence | Poetry | Private libraries | Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858 | |
| | Creator: | Turner, Paul R., 1929- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Highland Chontal ethnohistory materials
| | | | Dates: | 1968 | | | | Abstract: | Field recordings made in San Matias Petacaltepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) in the September of 1968, with consultants Damian Flores (age 25), Clemente Zarate (47), and Porfirio Nicolas Flores (90). Folkloric, ethnohistorical, and autobiographical stories and discussions, some in Spanish only, some in Highland Chontal only. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Rec.66 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Chontal Indians--Economic conditions | Chontal Indians--Folklore | Chontal Indians--Medicine | Chontal Indians--Religion | Flores, Damian | Flores, Porfirio Nicolas | Highland Chontal language | San Matias Petacaltepec (Oaxaca, Mexico)--History | Sound recordings | Turner, Paul R., 1929- | Zárate, Clemente | |
| | Creator: | Tyson, George | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Japanese Flora
| | | | Dates: | 1865 | | | | Abstract: | 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. | | | | Call #: | Mss.581.952.J27 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Botany--Japan | Botany--Pictorial works | Tyson, George | Watercolors | |
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