| 1 | Creator: | Martin, P. D.(Pierre Dominique),1771-1855. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ma biographie, 1839
| | | | Dates: | 1839 | | | | Abstract: | This biography recounts P. D. Martin's life as a member of the French expedition to Egypt (1798-1799), whose history he later wrote as
Histoire de l'expédition francaise en Égypt... (Paris, J.-M. Eberhart, 1815). He dedicates his biography to his son, Armand. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M36 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Autobiographies. | Beyond Early America | Discoveries in geography -- French. | Egypt -- Description and travel. | Martin, Armand | Martin, P. D.(Pierre Dominique),1771-1855. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, 1772-1844 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Étienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1811-1844 | | | | Abstract: | An evolutionist before Darwin, an embryologist, paleontologist, and comparative anatomist, Étienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire was a Professor of Vertebrate Zoology at the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris for the half century following the Reign of Terror. Following in the footsteps of Lamarck, Geoffroy held tenaciously to a belief in the underlying unity of organismal design, to the great change of being, and the possibility of the transmutation of species in time, amassing evidence for his claims through research in comparative anatomy, paleontology, and embryology.
The Geoffroy Collection is comprised of 0.75 linear feet of lecture notes and correspondence relating to Geoffroy's diverse interests in natural history, Egypt, comparative anatomy, analogies, paleontology, and embryology, and it is particularly rich for his studies of teratology. All items are in French. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.G287p | | | | Extent: | 0.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anatomy--France | Beyond Early America | Conjoined twins | Cuvier, Georges, 1769-1832 | Dinosaurs | Egypt--Antiquities. | Egypt--Description and travel | Embryology--France | Engravings. | Evolution (Biology) | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, 1772-1844 | Homology (Biology) | Lecture notes | Light--Philosophy | Monsters | Natural history--France--19th century | Natural history--Study and teaching--France | Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 | Paleontology--France | Sketches. | Teratology | Zoology--Study and teaching--France | |
| 3 | Creator: | Andrews, Emma B., 1837-1922 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Journal on the Bedawin
| | | | Dates: | 1889-1913 | | | | Abstract: | A wealthy retired businessman and art collector from New York and Newport, R.I., Theodore M. Davis financed a series of archeological excavations in Egypt between 1889 and 1912. Avid, but not necessarily disciplined in his approach, he supported a remarkably productive series of excavations at Thebes and, in the work for which he is best remembered, in the Valley of the Kings. On many of these expeditions, Davis was accompanied by his relative, Emma B. Andrews.
The diary that Andrews kept during these expeditions is valuable on two scores. First, at its best, it provides a literate and often detailed record of an adventurous American woman traveling in fin de siecle Egypt and (to a lesser degree) Italy and her encounters with life in the colonial British settlements along the Nile. Second, it provides some important details on the appearance of tombs in the Valley of the Kings as they were first unearthed, with interesting comments upon Davis and a number of his fellow Egyptologists. | | | | Call #: | Mss.916.2.An2 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Andrews, Emma B., 1837-1922 | Archaeology--Egypt | Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 | Bissing, Friedrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von,, 1873-1956 | Carter, Howard, 1874-1939 | Davis, Theodore M., 1837-1915 | Diaries. | Egypt--Antiquities. | Egypt--Description and travel | Egyptology. | Italy--Description and travel | Luxor (Egypt)--Antiquities | Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 | Newberry, Percy E. (Percy Edward), 1869-1949 | Nile River--Description and travel | Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 | Weigall, Arthur Edward Pearse Brome, 1880-1934 | Winlock, Herbert E. | |
| 4 | Creator: | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Elisha Kent Kane Papers
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1843-1857 | | | | Abstract: | The most stellar member of a stellar family, Elisha Kent Kane was among the most popular American explorers of the mid-nineteenth century, a hero in the tragic mode. Born in Philadelphia in 1820, the son of John Kintzing Kane and Jane Duval Leiper, Kane studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania before earning a commission as a naval surgeon. While in the Navy, Kane embarked on the succession of voyages to exotic locales that became the basis for his extraordinary fame. In 1843, he attended Caleb Cushing's first diplomatic mission to China as ship's physician, and subsequently traveled to the Philippines and Western Africa. Distinguishing himself in the Mexican War, Kane's greatest fame came from two expeditions to the arctic, aiming to locate the lost explorer, Sir John Franklin and to explore for evidence of the open polar sea. Kane died in 1857 while attempting to organize a third arctic voyage.
Part of the Kane Family Collection, the Papers of Elisha Kent Kane contain a mix of personal and family correspondence with correspondence relating to all of Kane's explorations. Intelligent, articulate and very much a romantic, Kane's letters are expressive and passionate. The collection provides fine documentation of youth, his relationship with the Spiritualist Margaret Fox, and of course his travels to China and off the coast of Africa in 1846. Kane's two expeditions to the arctic are particularly well documented, with correspondence, notes, logbooks, diaries, and sketches, as well as Kane's post-expedition notes, writings, and lectures recounting his experiences. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.K132 | | | | Extent: | 6.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Africa | Africa--Description and travel | Americans Abroad | Arctic Indians | Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration | Arctic regions-Pictorial works | Asia Minor--Description and travel | Bills. | Blockley Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) | China--Foreign relations--United States | Colonization, repatriation | Cracroft, Sophia, 1816-1892 | Egypt--Description and travel | Engravings. | Exploration | Exploration. | Explorers--United States | Family Correspondence | Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893 | Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847 | General Correspondence | Geometry--Study and teaching | Grinnell Expedition, 1st, 1850-1851 | Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 | Grinnell, Henry, 1799-1874 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Hospitals--Pennsylvania | Indians of North America--Nunavut | International Travel | Inuit--Canada | Inuit--Greenland | Inuit--Nunavut--Baffin Island | Journals (notebooks) | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Jane Duval Leiper | Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870 | Lectures | Letterbooks | Liberia--Description and travel | Logbooks | Maps. | Marriage and Family Life | Medicine--Practice--Pennsylvania | Medicine--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania | Meteorology--Arctic Regions | Mexico--Description and travel | Mineralogy--Study and teaching | North Carolina--Description and travel | Northwest Passage | Notebooks | Obstetrics | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Hospitals | Philadelphia. General Hospital | Plantations | Receipts | Silhouettes | Sketches. | Slave trade--Africa | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States--Foreign relations--China | United States. Navy | Watercolors | |
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