| 1 | Creator: | Lesquereux, Leo, 1806-1889 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Leo Lesquereux Autobiography
| | | | Dates: | 1864-1886 | | | | Abstract: | Leo Lesquereux emigrated from his native Switzerland to Ohio in 1848, and quickly established himself as one of America's foremost bryologists and paleobotanists. Working with the state geological surveys of Pennsylvania and several states in the Mississippi Valley, he contributed some of the earliest descriptions of the Carboniferous flora in North America and helped flesh out the basic geology of coal formation.
The autobiography of Leo Lesquereux provides an engaging account of the early life of one of Victorian America's best known bryologists and paleobotanists. Consisting of 14 letters addressed to his friend, J. Peter Lesley, the letters cover only the years between Lesquereux's childhood in Switzerland and his emigration to the United States in 1848. Written after his retirement at the age of 78, they shed light on his education, the illness that led to his loss of hearing, and his studies of peat deposits in Europe, and they provide short vignettes about watchmaking and about his peers Louis and August Agassiz and Arnold Guyot. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L567 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Autobiography | Bryology | Coal--Geology | Germany--Description and travel--19th century | Guyot, A., (Arnold), 1807-1884 | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Lesquereux, Leo, 1806-1889 | Paleobotanists | Peat bogs | Prussia--Description and travel--19th century | Swiss--United States | |
| 2 | Creator: | Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sir Roderick Impey Murchison correspondence, 1830-1867
| | | | Dates: | 1830-1867 | | | | Abstract: | These are letters written from America, to Murchison, discussing geology, natural history, and contemporary topics. | | | | Call #: | Mss.509.G29 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Beyond Early America | Dana, James D. (James Dwight), 1813-1895 | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 | Geology. | Hall, James | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871 | Natural history. | Rogers, Henry D., (Henry Darwin), 1806-1866 | Ross, P. Campbell | Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 1779-1864 | Vanuxem, Lardner. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Wellcome Historical Medical Society. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Wellcome Historical Medical Society selected letters, 1731-1871, relating to American medicine
| | | | Dates: | 1731-1871 | | | | Abstract: | These letters, from the Wellcome Historical Medical Society's collections, are on a variety of topics, primarily natural history and medicine. | | | | Call #: | Mss.509.W44 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1752-1840 | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Boscovich, Roger Joseph, 1711-1787 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 | Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864 | Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823 | Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782 | Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798 | Hosack, David, 1769-1835 | Medicine -- England -- London. | Michaux, Francois André, 1770-1855 | Microfilm Collection | Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826 | Natural history. | Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Autograph letters of naturalists, 1744-1894
| | | | Dates: | 1744-1894 | | | | Abstract: | Collection of 283 letters assembled and presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by John Torrey. Correspondents include: Louis Agassiz, Zaccheus Collins, Peter S. Du Ponceau, Elie M. Durand, Asa Gray, William Hembel, Alexander von Humboldt, William H. Keating, James Mease, Samuel G. Morton, George Ord, Charles Pickering, Constantine S. Rafinesque, Benjamin Silliman, Sr., John Torrey, Charles Waterton, Alexander Wilson. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.628 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Collins, Zaccheus, 1764-1831 -- Correspondence | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 -- Correspondence | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 -- Correspondence | Hembel, William -- Correspondence | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Correspondence | Keating, William Hypolitus, 1799-1840 -- Correspondence | Mease, James, 1771-1846 | Microfilm Collection | Minutes. | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Ord, George, 1781-1866 | Pickering, Edward C., (Edward Charles), 1846-1919 | Rafinesque, C. S., (Constantine Samuel ), 1783-1840 | Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 1779-1864 | Torrey, John, 1796-1873 | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 | Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813 | |
| 5 | Creator: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Louis Jean Rodolph Agassiz papers, 1833-1873
| | | | Dates: | 1833-1873 1833-1873 | | | | Abstract: | A miscellaneous collection of letters written by naturalist Louis Jean Rodolph Agassiz concerning a wide range of topics: natural history and naturalists, geology, mineralogy, fossils, publications, expeditions, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, which he founded. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Ag12.ms | | | | Extent: | 50.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877 | Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 | Emery, Charles Edward, 1838-1898 | Fossils -- Collection and preservation. | Geology -- Research -- United States. | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Hartt, Charles Frederick, 1840-1878 | Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. | Haven, Franklin, 1857-1908 | Hyatt, Alpheus, 1838-1902 | Kidder, Frederic, 1804-1885 | Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 | LeConte, John L., (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901 | Lesquereux, Leo, 1806-1889 | McLane, Allan | Milne-Edwards, H., (Henri), 1800-1885 | Mineralogy - Research - United States | Natural history museums -- Massachusetts. | Natural history. | Naturalists. | Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892 | Religion | Science and Technology | Scientific expeditions. | Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875 | Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 | Zoological museums -- Massachusetts. | Zoology. | |
| 6 | Creator: | Young, Aaron,b. 1819. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Aaron Young papers, [ca. 1839-1894]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1839-1894 | | | | Abstract: | This is primarily a collection of letters, with some additional documents, concerning Young's interest in botany, geology, mineralogy, and natural history. There is information about Bowdoin College, where he studied under Parker Cleaveland. There is also much on the natural history of Maine, where he was the State Botanist in 1847-1849, and also on the Bangor Natural History Society. There are materials on Brazil in relation to Young's service there as the U.S. consul to Rio Grande do Sul from 1863 to 1873. There are also letters from his brother, John C. Young, and his sister, Sarah Augusta Young. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Y81 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, George N. | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Albumen prints | Americans Abroad | Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 | Bangor Natural History Society. | Bartlett, John | Blake, Charles M. | Botany. | Bowditch, Henry I., (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892 | Bowdoin College -- Students. | Brazil -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | Chute, Ariel P. | Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858 | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Education | Educational Material | Emerson, John | Geology. | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Holmes, Ezekiel, 1801-1865 | International Travel | Mead, S. B. | Mineralogy. | Natural history -- Maine. | Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | Science and Technology | Thurber, George, 1821-1890 | Torrey, John, 1796-1873 | Warren, John | Young, Aaron,b. 1819. | Young, John C. | Young, Sarah Augusta | |
| 7 | Creator: | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A. D. Bache Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1833-1873 | | | | Abstract: | Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an important scientific reformer during the early nineteenth century. From his position as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and through leadership roles in the scientific institutions of the time, Bache helped bring American science into alignment with the professional nature of its European counterparts. In addition, Bache fostered the reform of public education in America.
The Alexander Dallas Bache Collection consists of 91 letters written primarily by Bache. In most cases, these are brief notes replying to letters that are not part of the collection. The majority of items relate to Bache's work as superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, including letters of recommendation and introduction, and there is minor correspondence regarding the National Academy of Sciences, scientific matters, his travels in Europe, or personal matters. Of particular interest is the letter from Louis Agassiz in 1856 expressing his view of what the natural history museum of the future should be. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B123 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Antebellum Politics | Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Barnes, H. B. (Henry Broughton) | Bond, W. C. (William Cranch), 1789-1859 | Brewster, David, Sir, 1781-1868 | Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871 | Cheney, T. Apoleon (Theseus Apoleon), 1830-1878 | Combe, George, 1788-1858 | Cooper Union | Cooper, Peter, 1791-1883 | Dickins, Asbury, 1780-1861 | Early National Politics | Education | Fessenden, W. P. (William Pitt), 1806-1869 | General Correspondence | Geological Survey of the State of New Jersey | Geology | Girard College | Hale, Charles, 1831-1882 | Hilgard, Julius Erasmus, 1825-1891 | King, Horatio, 1811-1897 | Lee, Samuel Phillips, 1812-1897 | Lighthouses | Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889 | National Academy of Sciences | Natural history | Official Government Documents and Records | Paine, [Robert Treat], 1803-1885. | Potter, Alonzo, 1800-1865 | Quetelet, Adolphe, 1796-1874 | Redfield, W. C. (William C.), 1789-1857 | Ruggles, Samuel B. , (Samuel Bulkley), 1800-1881 | Schofield, John McAllister, 1831-1906 | Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780-1850. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 | Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 | Spencer, Charles Achilles, 1813-1881 | Stevenson, Alan, 1807-1865 | Stevenson, David, 1815-1886 | Stevenson, Robert, 1772-1850 | Tilghman, Tench, 1810-1874 | Toucey, Isaac, 1792-1869 | United States Coast Survey | Upsher, Able Percey | Vroom, Peter Dumont, 1791-1873 | |
| 8 | Creator: | Royal Society (Great Britain). | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Royal Society (Great Britain) letters and communications from Americans, 1662-1900
| | | | Dates: | 1662-1900 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes letters to and from Americans (including South America and the West Indies) and letters about America selected from the Society's manuscripts (Classified Papers, Letter Books, Letters and Papers, Royal Society Letters, Miscellaneous Correspondence, and other official groups) and from collections of private papers (Sir Charles Blagden, William Buckland, John Canton, Sir John F. W. Herschel, Sir Edward Sabine, and others). The documents range in time and character from John Winthrop, Jr., "A Description of the Artifice & Making of Tarr & Pitch in New England" (1662), to letters from Sir Thomas Edward Thorne to his wife describing the American West, where he was on a surveying party in the 1880s. | | | | Call #: | Mss.H.S.Film.1 | | | | Extent: | 10.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Banister, Thomas | Bingham, William, 1752-1804 | Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820 | Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865 | Brattle, Thomas, 1658-1713 | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Burnet, William, 1688-1729 | Canton, John, 1718-1772 | Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749 | Churchman, John , 1753-1805 | Clayton, John, 1686-1773 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Dudley, Paul, 1675-1751 | Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 | Geology. | Greenwood, Isaac, 1702-1745 | Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Herschel, John F. W., Sir, (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 | Indians of North America | Jones, Hugh, -- ca. 1670-1760. | King, Rufus, 1755-1827 | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Lewis, Richard | Loomis, Elias, 1811-1889 | Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 | Merry, Andrew | Meteorology. | Microfilm Collection | Middleton, Christopher, d. 1770 | Moray, Alexander | Nicholson, Francis, 1655-1728 | Paleontology. | Pepperrell, William, Sir, 1696-1759 | Potash. | Robie, Thomas, 1689-1729 | Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883 | Smallwood, Charles, 1812-1872 | Tar. | Thompson, Benjamin, -- Count Rumford, -- 1753-1814. | Thorne, Thomas Edward | Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 | Walsh, Robert, 1784-1859 | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. | Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 | Winthrop, Wait | Witt, Christopher. | |
| 9 | Creator: | Various authors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, 1668-1983
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1750-1850 | | | | Abstract: | Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.200 | | | | Extent: | 25.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Arctic Indians | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Beyond Early America | Cayuga Indians | Colonial Politics | Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 | Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899 | Cuvier, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832 | Darlington, William, 1782-1863 | Early National Politics | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Edison , Thomas A., (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Fitch, John | Gelatin silver prints | General Correspondence | Genth, F. A. , (Frederick Augustus), 1820-1893 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Greeley , Horace, 1811-1872 | Harding, Warren G. | History of science and technology. | Inuit--Canada | Iroquois Indians | Isleta Indians | Miscellaneous | Mohawk Indians | Natural History | Negatives | Newcomb, Simon | Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 | Ojibwa Indians | Oneida Indians | Onondaga Indians | Penobscot Indians | Photomechanical prints | Physics -- History. | Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 | Scientific Correspondence | Seneca Indians | Seybert, Adam,1773-1825. | Slides. | Southwest Indians | Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 | Stevens, Henry | Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 | Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 | Tuscarora Indians | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Various authors | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 | Wayne, Anthony | |
| 10 | Creator: | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sir Charles Lyell papers, 1806-1874
| | | | Dates: | 1806-1874 | | | | Abstract: | There is correspondence concerning geology, botany, natural history, natural selection, evolution, British science and scientists, and other scientific topics. Most of the letters are written to Lyell, but there are numerous ones from him. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L981 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 | Ball, John, 1818-1889 | Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 | Beccari, Odoardo, 1843-1920 | Bentham, George, 1800-1884 | Beyond Early America | Botany. | Bunbury, Charles James Fox, Sir, 1809-1886 | Busk, George, 1807-1886 | Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 | Conybeare, William Daniel, 1787-1857 | Curtis, John, 1791-1862 | De La Beche, Henry T., (Henry Thomas), 1796-1855 | Don, George, 1798-1856 | Evolution. | Fitton, William Henry, 1780-1861 | Fleming, John, 1785-1857 | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Geology. | Grey-Egerton, Philip de Malpas, -- Sir, -- 1806-1881. | Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philip August | Henslow, J. S. (John Stevens), 1796-1861 | Herschel, John F. W., Sir, (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 | Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Sir, 1817-1911 | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 | Judd, John W., (John Wesley), 1840-1916 | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | Mackenzie, George Steuart, Sir, 1780-1848 | Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 | Milne-Home, David, 1817-1911 | Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871 | Natural history. | Natural selection. | Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 | Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Paleontology. | Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883 | Science -- Great Britain. | Scientists -- Great Britain. | Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 | Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 | Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 | Sowerby, James, 1757-1822 | Torchhammer, Georg | Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858 | Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 | Whewell, William, 1794-1866 | Wood, Searles Valentine, 1798-1880 | |
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