| 4 | Creator: | Royal Botanic Garden (Calcutta, India) | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta Index
| | | | Dates: | ca. 1830 | | | | Abstract: | Founded in 1787, the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, was the leading center for botanical investigation in the English South Asian colonies. The Index lists plants held at the Botanic Gardens in about 1830, arranged alphabetically by indigenous name. Recorded in fourteen languages, with Latin binomial equivalents, the volume also makes note of those species described by the former superintendent of the Garden, William Roxburgh, and includes a few flattened specimens between the pages. | | | | Call #: | Mss.580.7.R81 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Botanical gardens--India | Roxburgh, William, 1751-1815 | |
| 5 | Creator: | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Darwin Papers Editorial Project Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1821-1882 | | | | Abstract: | The project to publish the complete correspondence of the British naturalist Charles Darwin began in 1974 under the editorial guidance of Frederick Burkhardt with the assistance of Sydney Smith. Drawing heavily on the 9,000 letters located at Cambridge University and 950 at the American Philosophical Society, the project has made efforts to locate, transcribe, and publish every known letter written by Darwin. Over 200 institutions in 20 countries have contributed to the project, yielding a total of 15,000 letters.
The Darwin material was assembled in photocopy by the Darwin Papers Editorial Project, and includes a copy of nearly every letter known to have been written by Darwin and many written to him. These are arranged alphabetically by correspondent, and are inventoried thoroughly in Burkhardt,
A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.28 | | | | Extent: | 48.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Evolution (Biology) | |
| 7 | Creator: | Maldonado, Francisco | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Arte, pronunciacion y ortographia de la lengua. . . Cakchiquel
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1650 | | | | Abstract: | A copy made in 1748 of Maldonado's "Ramillette" or anthology of 12 dialogues, together with a copy of an unknown "Doctrina Christiana" of 1556. Includes grammatical notes and vocabulary. For description, see: D.G. Brinton, "Notice of some manuscripts...",
American Journal of Science, 2nd series, 1869, v.47, 222-230. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.4.M29 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Cakchikel language | Maldonado, Francisco | Mayan languages | |
| 17 | Creator: | Gaubius, Hieronymus David,1705?-1780. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Manuscript notes, 1728-1739, of Boerhaave's lectures
| | | | Dates: | 1728-1739 | | | | Abstract: | These volumes include annotations in "Praxin et Aphorismos" Boerhaave (1738-1739), and lectures on Boerhaave's "Praxis medica" (1728). | | | | Call #: | Mss.610.B63m | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738 | Gaubius, Hieronymus David,1705?-1780. | Lecture notes. | Medicine, Medieval. | |
| 19 | Creator: | Lister, Joseph Jackson,1786-1869. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Jackson Lister account books, 1810-1849
| | | | Dates: | 1810-1849 | | | | Abstract: | These account books record receipts and expenditures, interest, profit and loss, repairs, stock shares, wages, income tax, etc. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L693 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Account books. | Beyond Early America | Lister, Joseph Jackson,1786-1869. | Scientists -- Great Britain. | |
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