| 2 | Creator: | British Museum. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American manuscripts, 1703-1806, from the British Museum
| | | | Dates: | 1703-1806 | | | | Abstract: | This is a miscellaneous collection of manuscripts (ca. 35 items) from the British Museum, selected for filming by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. Included are letters, botanical lists, illustrations, and other types of documents. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.503 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 | Ames, Nathaniel, 1708-1764 | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Botany. | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Dudley, Paul, 1675-1751 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Garden, Alexander, 1686-1756 | Illustrations. | Lists. | Mease, James, 1771-1846 | Microfilm Collection | Mitchell, John, 1711-1768 | Natural history. | Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788 | |
| 3 | Creator: | Royal Society (Great Britain). | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Royal Society (Great Britain) miscellaneous correspondence and documents, [ca. 1642-1818]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1642-1818 | | | | Abstract: | Letters collected by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., including correspondence and papers submitted to the Society. Pertains to APS members and associations. Includes letters by Franklin, Winthrop, Endecott, Eliot, etc. Scientific and historical references, primarily. Some of the subjects discussed are astronomy, botany, electricity, natural history, and Indian missions. Also included is Roger Curtis' "Journal of the Moravian Mission to Labrador." | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.460 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astronomy. | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Botany. | Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Curtis, Roger | Electricity. | Eliot, John, 1604-1690 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Marshall, Humphry, 1722-1801 | Microfilm Collection | Monroe, James, 1758-1831 | Morgan, Joseph, 1671-ca. 1749 | Natural history. | Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 | Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798 | Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819 | Winthrop, John, 1714-1779 | |
| 4 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Bartram correspondence, 1735-1775
| | | | Dates: | 1735-1775 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence compiled by Edward E. Wildman and Francis D. West, chiefly from original letters in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and other depositories, 1956. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B28.w | | | | Extent: | 719.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Botanists. | Botany. | Breintnall, Joseph, d. 1746 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Colony and State Specific History | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | General Correspondence | Horticulture. | Horticulturists. | Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778 | Natural History | Natural history. | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Plant collectors. | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Scientific Correspondence | Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753 | Wildman, Edward, (Edward Embree), 1874-1956 | Witt, Christopher, 1675-1765 | |
| 5 | Creator: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Requires cookie* | | | | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | | | | Title: | Collinson-Bartram Papers, 1732-1773
| | | | Dates: | 1732-1773 | | | | Abstract: | This collection is principally letters to Collinson about seeds, plants, and gardens from seed cultivators and owners of country estates, including Cadwallader Colden, John Hanbury, Lord and Lady Petre, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Richmond, Sir Hans Sloane, and Daniel Solander. There are also several letters of John Bartram to William Bartram and Philip Miller. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C692.1 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Gardening -- England. | Gardens -- England. | Hanbury, John , 1664?-1734 | Horticulture -- England. | Horticulture -- United States. | Lennox, Charles , Duke of Richmond, 1701-1750 | Miller, Philip, 1691-1771 | Natural History | Norfolk, Edward Howard, Duke of, 1686-1777 | Petre, Anne, Lady | Petre, Robert Edward, Baron, 1772-1810 | Plants, Cultivated. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Seed industry and trade -- England. | Seed industry and trade -- United States. | Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753 | Solander, Daniel Charles, 1733-1782 | |
| 6 | Creator: | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Carson letters, 1789-1858
| | | | Dates: | 1789-1858 | | | | Abstract: | These letters of American Philosophical Society members and prominent early American scientists were selected from Carson's extra-illustrated draft of "A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia, 1869). | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1116 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alison, Francis, 1705-1779 | American Philosophical Society. Membership. | Bard, John, 1716-1799 | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Bond, Thomas, 1712-1784 | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Clayton, John, 1686-1773 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 | Currie, William, 1754-1828 | Darlington, William, 1782-1863 | Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 | Hewson, William, 1739-1774 | McClurg, James, ca. 1746-1823 | Medical education -- United States. | Medicine | Microfilm Collection | Middleton, Peter, 1752-1781 | Mitchill, Samuel L., (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831 | Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 | Physicians | Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 | Ramsay, David, 1749-1815 | Scientists. | Smith, William, 1727-1803 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | |
| 7 | Creator: | Linnean Society of London. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Linnean Society of London correspondence of American scientists, 1738-1865
| | | | Dates: | 1738-1865 | | | | Abstract: | Letters and papers to or from American scientists or about America, selected from the Linnean Society's collections. Includes letters to William Swainson from John Abbott, John J. Audubon, Constantine S. Rafinesque, Isaac Lea, and John E. LeConte; letters to Sir James Edward Smith from Jacob Bigelow, DeWitt Clinton, J.F. Correia da Serra, David Hosack, Theodore Lyman, William Dandridge Peck, Rafinesque, and Gotthilf H.E. Muhlenberg; letters to William Darlington; letters to Asa Gray; letters of John Bartram; letters of Peter Collinson to J.F. Gronovius; letters and papers of John Ellis, including letters from Alexander Garden, Samuel Martin, and Bernard Romans; letters to Carl Linnaeus from John Bartram, John Clayton, Cadwallader Colden, Correia da Serra, Peter Kalm, Adam Kuhn, James Logan, John Mitchell, and Charles Wrangel. | | | | Call #: | Mss.H.S.Film.6 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Film reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abbott, John | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 | Clayton, John | Clinton, DeWitt, 1769-1828 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823 | Darlington, William, 1782-1863 | Ellis, John | Garden, Alexander, 1757-1829 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus, 1686-1762 | Hosack, David, 1769-1835 | Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779 | Kuhn, Adam, 1741-1817 | LeConte, John Eatton, 1784-1860 | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778 | Logan, Jim, (James) | Lyman, Theodore, 1792-1849 | Martin, Samuel | Microfilm Collection | Mitchell, John | Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815 | Natural history. | Peck, William Dandridge, 1763-1822 | Rafinesque, C. S., (Constantine Samuel ), 1783-1840 | Romans, Bernard | Scientists -- United States. | Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 | Swainson, William, 1789-1855 | Wrangel, Charles | Zoology -- North America. | |
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