| 3 | Creator: | Athénée des arts de Paris. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Athénée des arts de Paris letters, 1792-1853
| | | | Dates: | 1792-1853 | | | | Abstract: | Letters of French scientists, collected for autographic value, on education, natural history, physics, chemistry, and other topics; practically all pertain to lectures at the Athénée; and many are addressed to André-Marie Ampère. | | | | Call #: | Mss.506.44.At4 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Ampère, André-Marie, 1775-1836 | Autographs. | Berthier, Pierre, 1782-1861 | Beyond Early America | Blainville, H.-M. Ducrotay de, (Henri-Marie Ducrotay), 1777-1850. | Chemistry -- France. | Dunoyer, Charles, 1786-1862 | Education -- France. | Natural history -- France. | Physics -- France. | Scientists - France | |
| 4 | Creator: | Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. | Requires cookie* | | | | Carpenters' Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.). | | | | | Friendship Carpenters' Company. | | | | Title: | Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia Records, 1683-1983
| | | | Dates: | 1683-1983 | | | | Abstract: | The papers include: minutes, 1794, 1802-1942; minutes of the Managing Committee and Committee of Seven, 1791-1950; rough minutes of the Managing Committee, 1819-1857; minutes of the Wardens, 1769-1919 (with some gaps); roll of members, 1841-1875; price books, 1786, ca. 1804, 1827, 1852; Price Book Committee minutes, 1786-1791, 1827-1897; price book of the Second Carpenters' Company, 1784; cash books, 1889-1952; treasurer's account, 1874-1907; ledgers, 1801-1896; record of certificates granted to measurers of carpenters' work, 1827-1889; account book, 1763-1834; minutes of the Building Committee, 1810 11; minutes of the Committee on fitting up the Old Hall, 1857; minutes of the Committees of Accounts and Rents, 1780-1784; minutes of the Library Committee, 1853-1889; receipts for books and library record of borrowers, 1846-1890; by-laws and rules and regulations and standing resolutions, ca. 1866-1869; minutes of the Friendship Carpenters' Company, 1770-1775; account of the Friendship Carpenters' Company, 1769-1799; rules and regulations of the Friendship Carpenters' Company and specifications for building, 1769; relief given to 12 widows, 1818; scrapbook, 1887-1892; Antiques, Curiosities, and Memorabilia, 1683-1855; autographs, pictures, etc., relating to the Centennial Anniversary, 1874; Trustees' minute book, 1895 1941; book of "Dementtions" of carpenter's work by Samuel Jones, 1784; real estate record, 1905-1918; receipt books, 1795-1918; and other materials. The whole collection has been filmed by APS. Recent deposits include: Miscellaneous bills, and bills and receipts relating to widows relief (1800-1854), Managing Committee minutes (1857, 1859, 1860), library bills (1795-1854). There are also more contemporary records on deposit (1952-1980s), relating to all aspects of the Company's activities (with restrictions on the use of some of this material). | | | | Call #: | Mss.974.811.C22.a | | | | Extent: | 18.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Account books. | Autographs. | Broadsides. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Bylaws. | Carpenters -- Labor unions -- United States. | Cashbooks. | Guilds -- United States. | Institutional Records | Jones, Samuel | Ledgers. | Minutes. | Miscellaneous | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History. | Philadelphia History | Photoprints. | Receipt books. | Receipts. | Regulations | Rolls. | Scrapbooks. | Specifications. | |
| 5 | Creator: | McAtee, W. L.(Waldo Lee),1883-1962. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | W. L. (Waldo Lee) McAtee papers, 1883-1942
| | | | Dates: | 1883-1942 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence relates chiefly to "The Auk" and to investigations into the stomachs of birds carried on by the United States Biological Survey. Correspondents include: Francis V. Greene, Henry Wetherbee Henshaw, Edgar A. Mearns, Clinton H. Merriam, and Frank R. Rathbun. Also includes the Biological Society of Washington and the American Ornithologists' Union. The autograph collection was assembled principally from signatures on mailing instructions for "The Auk" and on envelopes addressed to McAtee and others. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M11 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Ornithologists' Union. | Auks. | Autographs. | Biological Society of Washington. | Birds. | Greene, F. V., (Francis Vinton), 1850-1921 | Henshaw, Henry W., (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 | McAtee, W. L.(Waldo Lee),1883-1962. | Mearns, Edgar A. | Merriam, C. Hart, (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 | Ornithology -- United States. | Rathbun, Frank R. | United States. -- Bureau of Biological Survey. | |
| 6 | Creator: | Paget, James, Sir, 1814-1899 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932
| | | | Dates: | 1784-1932 | | | | Abstract: | These letters were assembled by Lady Paget as a collection of autographs. Most are addressed to Paget, and their subjects include medicine, science, and family. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P212 | | | | Extent: | 0.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Autographs. | Beyond Early America | Billings, John S., (John Shaw), 1838-1913 | Clark, Andrew, 1856-1922 | Cuvier, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832 | Davy, Humphry,Sir,1778-1829. | Dewar, James, d. 1788 | Lubbock, J. W., (John William), 1803-1865 | Medicine. | Paget, James, Sir, 1814-1899 | Prestwick, Joseph, Sir | Science. | Stephenson, Robert, 1803-1859 | Virchow, Rudolf Ludwig Karl, 1821-1902 | Wallace, Albert Russel | Watson, Thomas, -- Sir. | |
| 7 | Creator: | Coates, Samuel, 1748-1830 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Samuel Coates account and memoranda books, 1785-1830
| | | | Dates: | 1785-1830 | | | | Abstract: | Memorandum book, 1785-1825 (1 reel, film from the Pennsylvania Hospital); account book of the estate of Deborah Morris, 1793-1817 (1 vol., ca 68 p.), contains a copy of her will, inventory, records of income and disbursements by the executors; day book, 1796-1816 (1 vol., 32 p.), containing notes of payments and sales, of wills written, mortgages arranged, rentals agreed to, notes signed, etc.. There is also a receipt book, 1803-1830 (1 vol., ca. 308 p., see B C632), containing signed receipts for purchase of hickory wood, ham, stores, oil, varnish, liquors, gravestones, "cyder," and for payment of taxes, wages, painting the house, etc.; vendors include Zaccheus Collins, John Syng Dorsey, Peter S. Du Ponceau, Christian Febiger, Rebecca Jones, and Ann Moore. In this volume, as well, are signatures and engravings (some by Samuel Sartain) of John Barry, Tench Coxe, Charles Chauncey, Isaac T. Hopper, and Zachariah Poulson (presented by Arthur Bloch, 1953); and bank books, 1788-1798 (2 vols., ca. 110 pp.), being a record of checks, bills of exchange, notes, gold, silver, and currency sent to Bank (of North America). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C632.1d | | | | Extent: | 5.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Autographs. | Barry, John, 1745-1803 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Chauncey, Charles, 1777-1849 | Coates, Samuel, 1748-1830 | Collins, Zaccheus, 1764-1831 | Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824 | Daybooks. | Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818 | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Engravings. | Febiger, Christian, 1746-1796 | Hopper, Isaac T., (Isaac Tatem ), 1771-1852 | Jones, Rebecca | Law | Legal Records | Legal documents. | Moore, Ann | Morris, Deborah | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce. | Philadelphia History | Poulson, Zachariah, 1761-1844 | Receipt books. | Receipts. | Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906 | Wills. | |
| 8 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Autograph collection, 1816-1917
| | | | Dates: | 1816-1917 | | | | Abstract: | There are 153 letters in this collection, many addressed to Aubrey Lackington Moore, an English writer who tried to reconcile evolution and traditional Christianity. Some letters discuss scientific questions of the day, while others are formal social notes. Also includes 24 clipped signatures, inlcuding those of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland; Goerge Bentham; H. A. Bruce; S. H. Butcher; Matthewss Duncan; Percy Gardner; George Gritchett; G. Grote; Alfred Cort Haddon; Sir Prescott Gardner Hewitt; William Guyer Hunter; Thomas Henry Huxley; John Lingard; Thomas Babington Macauley; Miss K. Aubrey Moore; Louis Pasteur; Sir John Russell Reynolds, bart.; Thomas Smith; James Leigh Strachan-Davidson; Agnes Strickland; and Arthur Thomason. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M781 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Acland, Henry W., (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900 | Autographs. | Bentham, George, 1800-1884 | Beyond Early America | Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894 | Evolution. | Fletcher, C. R. L., (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934 | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Gladstone, W. E., (William Ewart), 1809-1898 | Grote, George, 1794-1871 | Lubbock, J. W., (John William), 1803-1865 | Miscellaneous | Moore, E. M.,collector. | Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895 | Science. | Thomson, William | Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir, 1838-1928 | Turner, William, Sir | |
| 9 | Creator: | Rawlins, Ray,1917-,collector. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Collection of autographs of scientists, 1772-1973
| | | | Dates: | 1772-1973 | | | | Abstract: | A miscellaneous collection of letters, mainly of English scientists, written to various people. There are mostly one or two letters, except for those of John Peter Gassiot, William Huggins, Edwin R. Lankester, James Mackintosh, David Prain, and William Whewell. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R199 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801-1892 | Autographs. | Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 | Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774-1857 | Beyond Early America | Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 | Cole, Henry, Sir, 1808-1882 | Dawkins, William Boyd, 1838-1929 | Druce, George Claridge, 1850-1932 | Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867 | Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925 | Foster, M., Sir, (Michael), 1836-1907 | Gassiot, John Peter, 1797-1877 | Holland, Henry, Sir | Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910 | Humphrey, George | Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907 | Lankester, E. Ray, Sir, (Edwin Ray), 1847-1929 | Lysons, Daniel, 1762-1834 | Mackintosh, James, Sir, 1765-1832 | Milne, John, 1850-1913 | Müller, F. Max -- (Friedrich Max), -- 1823-1900. -- Science of language. | Playfair, Lyon Playfair, Baron, 1818-1898 | Powell, Baden, 1796-1860 | Prain, D. , (David), b. 1857 | Rawlins, Ray,1917-,collector. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Scientists -- Great Britain. | Tyndall, John, 1820-1893 | Whewell, William, 1794-1866 | Winsor, F. A., (Frederick Albert), 1763-1830 | |
| 10 | Creator: | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Edward Gray papers, 1783-1884
| | | | Dates: | 1783-1884 | | | | Abstract: | These are primarily letters to Gray on various aspects of natural history, with many references to collections at the British Museum of Natural History. There are numerous letters from British scientists and from European colleagues. There are letters from Americans too, such as those from Agassiz which relate to his Florida expeditions and the creation of natural history collections. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.G784 | | | | Extent: | 5.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Acland, Henry W., (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900 | Allman, George James, 1812-1898 | Assyria -- Antiquities. | Autographs. | Balard, Antoine-Jérôme, 1802-1876 | Bate, C. Spence , (Charles Spence), 1818-1889 | Berkeley, M. J., (Miles Joseph), 1803-1889 | Beyond Early America | Blainville, H.-M. Ducrotay de, (Henri-Marie Ducrotay), 1777-1850. | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Bonomi, Joseph | Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850 | British Museum (Natural History) -- Natural history collections. | Brookes, Joshua, -- 1754-1821. | Dana, James D. (James Dwight), 1813-1895 | Du Chaillu, Paul B., (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 | Duméril, C., (Constant), 1774-1860 | Fitch, Asa, 1809-1879 | Florida -- Discovery and exploration. | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore, 1805-1861 | Geological Society of London | Geology. | Gray, John Edward | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Hoeven, Jan van der | Lefèvre, Jean-Jacques, 1779-1858 | Mollusks. | Müller, Joh., 1801-1858 | Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- England. | Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- United States. | Nineveh (Extinct city) -- Antiquities. | Pfeiffer, Ludwig Georg Karl, 1805-1877. | Schomburgk, Robert H., Sir, (Robert Hermann), 1804-1865 | Shells. | Société des sciences naturelle de France. | Valenciennes, M., 1794-1865 | |
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