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1	Creator:	Palisot de Beauvois, Ambrose-Marie-François-Joseph, 1752-1820	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Ambrose-Marie-Francois-Joseph Palisot de Beauvois manuscripts, [n.d.]
	Dates:	n.d.
	Abstract:	Essays on topics in natural history and zoology, including advantages of studying natural history, with corrections by the author.
	Call #:	Mss.Film.1352
	Extent:	1.0 Microfilm reel(s)
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Essays. \| Natural history. \| Palisot de Beauvois, Ambrose-Marie-François-Joseph, 1752-1820 \| Zoology -- America.

2	Creator:	Michaux, Francois André, 1770-1855	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Francois André Michaux essays, 1820, 1849
	Dates:	1820-1849
	Abstract:	There are two essays, one on the trees of North America, the other on a project of a nursery of foreign trees and plants in the vicinity of Bayonne; with accompanying letters.
	Call #:	Mss.Film.298
	Extent:	1.0 Microfilm reel(s)
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Essays. \| Michaux, Francois André, 1770-1855 \| Microfilm Collection \| Nurseries (Horticulture) -- France. \| Trees -- France -- Bayonne. \| Trees -- North America.

3	Creator:	Wavran, C. L. B.,Abbé.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Essai de phisique, [n.d.].
	Dates:	[n.d.].
	Abstract:	This volume was presented to Benjamin Franklin, and contains chapters on electricity, fire, air, water, earth, and earthquakes.
	Call #:	Mss.530.W36e
	Extent:	1.0 Volume(s)
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Earth sciences. \| Earthquakes. \| Electricity. \| Essays. \| Fire. \| Physics. \| Water. \| Wavran, C. L. B.,Abbé.

4	Creator:	Vigny, Alfred de,1797-1863.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Alfred de Vigny manuscripts, 1822
	Dates:	1822
	Abstract:	These manuscripts include versions of "Cinq-Mars," "Stello," and "Poemes." The manuscripts on these microfilm reels were compiled by Irving Massey from originals in the Musee Condé, and in a private collection in France.
	Call #:	Mss.Film.1224
	Extent:	3.0 Microfilm reel(s)
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Essays. \| French poetry -- 19th century. \| Massey, Irving \| Microfilm Collection \| Novelists, French. \| Vigny, Alfred de,1797-1863.

5	Creator:	Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Joseph Priestly correspondence and printed works, 1765-1802
	Dates:	1765-1802
	Abstract:	The correspondence is written chiefly from Priestley in America (1790-1802). The printed works include Priestley's "Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Study of History" (1765), John Aikin's "Heads of Chemistry" (1781), and a catalog of books belonging to the Warrington Academy (1775).
	Call #:	Mss.Film.1300
	Extent:	1.0 Microfilm reel(s)
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Aikin, John, 1747-1822 \| Catalogs. \| Chemistry \| Essays. \| History -- Outlines, syllabi, etc. \| Microfilm Collection \| Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 \| Syllabi.

6	Creator:	Philological Society (Philadelphia, Pa.)	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Philological Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) papers, 1809-1811
	Dates:	1809-1811
	Abstract:	These papers consist chiefly of essays presented by the members, with such titles as "Ambition," "On Avarice," "State of Literature in the United States," and "Consequences of the French Revolution." Also included are several letters, including one from Benjamin Say, Jr.
	Call #:	Mss.405.P5o
	Extent:	0.25 Linear feet
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Essays. \| Institutional Records \| Learned institutions and societies -- Pennsylvania. \| Literature, Arts, and Culture \| Manuscript Essays \| Miscellaneous \| Philadelphia History \| Philology. \| Say, Benjamin, 1755-1813 \| Social Life and Custom

7	Creator:	Walker, John,1731-1803.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Natural History, May 3, 1790 - December 2, 1790
	Dates:	1790
	Abstract:	This volume, written between May 3 and December 2, includes essays on mineralogy, the vegetable kingdom (such as botany and fruitification), and the animal kingdom (such as zoology, ornithology, and generation of animals).
	Call #:	Mss.504.W15
	Extent:	1.0 Volume(s)
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Beyond Early America \| Botany. \| Education \| Educational Material \| Essays. \| Mineralogy. \| Natural History \| Natural history. \| Ornithology. \| University of Edinburgh. \| Walker, John,1731-1803. \| Zoology.

8	Creator:	Roberts, Joseph,1793-1835.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Joseph Roberts philosophical and mathematical papers, 1812-1814
	Dates:	1812-1814
	Abstract:	The first volume contains mathematical problems, which appear to be college exercises (1814); the second volume is an essay on the projection of the sphere and spherical trigonometry, including an appendix on astronomy (1812); and the third volume is a lecture on natural philosophy, apparently prepared for delivery [n.d.].
	Call #:	Mss.510.R54
	Extent:	3.0 Volume(s)
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Astronomy. \| Education \| Educational Material \| Essays. \| Lectures. \| Manuscript Essays \| Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc. \| Notebooks \| Physics. \| Roberts, Joseph,1793-1835. \| Science and Technology \| Scientific Data \| Spherical trigonometry.

9	Creator:	unknown	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Torpedo marmorata Sur la Torpille..., ca. 1770s. (Manuscripts, [ca. 1770-1779], concerning the torpedo fish)
	Dates:	Circa 1770-1779
	Abstract:	These manuscripts are in the hand of various unknown authors, and concern research and observations on the torpedo fish, which was of much interest to those studying electricity at the time. Included are copies of letters from John Walsh to Benjamin Franklin, and a copy of a Walsh and Thomas Pennant letter, read before the Royal Society (1774), concerning a torpedo fish found off the coast of England.
	Call #:	Mss.597.5.Su7
	Extent:	0.25 Linear feet
	Sections:	Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Electrophysiology. \| Essays. \| Fishes -- Research. \| Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 \| Natural History \| Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798 \| Royal Society (Great Britain). \| Science and Technology \| Scientific Correspondence \| Walsh, John

10	Creator:	Trevelyan, Charles E.(Charles Edward),1807-1886.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	The natural process by which a conquered people in an inferior grade of civilization adopt the language and system of learning of their more civilized conquerors, 1832
	Dates:	1832
	Abstract:	This essay is accompanied by another, written two years earlier, entitled, "Consideration of the means by which the present highly advanced state of learning and civilisation in Europe can be most effectually communicated to the rest of the world and to our Indian empire in particular; Kotah, May 21,1830."
	Call #:	Mss.954.T725
	Extent:	1.0 Volume(s)
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Beyond Early America \| England -- Colonies. \| Essays. \| Imperialism. \| India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. \| Manuscript Essays \| Trevelyan, Charles E.(Charles Edward),1807-1886.

11	Creator:	Spencer, Nathan.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Nathan Spencer's account of Godfrey, 1809
	Dates:	1809
	Abstract:	This account of Thomas Godfrey was prepared "with a view of having it inserted in Rees Cyclopedia," and is preceded by an essay concerning Godfrey and his quadrant taken from the "American Magazine" (1758). Also included in this volume is a copy of James Logan's communication to the Royal Society, and a letter from Spencer to Alexander Wilson, editor of the "Cyclopedia" (1809), which discusses Godfrey and the sources for this account.
	Call #:	Mss.B.G54s
	Extent:	1.0 Volume(s)
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Astronomy. \| Essays. \| Godfrey, Thomas, 1736-1763 \| Hydrographic surveying. \| Logan, James, 1674-1751 \| Manuscript Essays \| Navigation. \| Quadrant. \| Royal Society (Great Britain). \| Science and Technology \| Spencer, Nathan. \| Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813

12	Creator:	Rush, Samuel,1795-1859.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Samuel Rush notebook, 1859
	Dates:	1859
	Abstract:	This notebook contains short essays on various topics, such as public singers ("the Mountebanks of the Voice"), the embarrassments of public men (Daniel E. Sickles and Philip Barton Key), songs, wit, wealth, suicide, Benjamin Rush, "that little sneak Kossuth," and modern authors ("the present wretches of the pen").
	Call #:	Mss.B.R895
	Extent:	1.0 Volume(s)
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Essays. \| Key, Philip Barton \| Kossuth, Lajos, 1802-1894 \| Literature, Arts, and Culture \| Manuscript Essays \| Notebooks. \| Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 \| Rush, Samuel,1795-1859. \| Sickles, Daniel E.

13	Creator:	Marum, M. van(Martinus van),1750-1837.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	M. van (Martinus van) Marum papers, [ca. 1777-1837].
	Dates:	Circa 1777-1837
	Abstract:	These papers include correspondence from over 180 individuals, lecture notes and essays on mathematics, astronomy, and electricity, and his diaries from journeys through Germany (1798) and Switzerland (1802).
	Call #:	Mss.Fiche.8
	Extent:	492.0 Microfiche card(s)
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Astronomy. \| Diaries. \| Electricity. \| Essays. \| Germany -- Description and travel. \| Lecture notes. \| Marum, M. van(Martinus van),1750-1837. \| Mathematics. \| Microfilm Collection \| Switzerland -- Description and travel.

14	Creator:	Price, Eli K., (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Eli K. (Eli Kirk) Price papers, 1820-1853
	Dates:	1820-1853
	Abstract:	These papers concern business and legal affairs, and include Price's writings on the law of real and personal property, and private wrongs. Also includes a letter to Daniel Webster.
	Call #:	Mss.B.P926
	Extent:	0.25 Linear feet
	Sections:	Background \| Scope and Contents Note \| Administrative Information \| Inventory
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	Subjects:	African American \| Business Records and Accounts \| Commercial law -- United States. \| Early National Politics \| Education \| Essays. \| General Correspondence \| International Trade. \| Law \| Legal Records \| Manuscript Essays \| Personal property. \| Price, Eli K., (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 \| Real property. \| Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

15	Creator:	Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de,1721-1794.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Essays on botanical and horticultural topics, [ca. 1716-1849], 1716-1861
	Dates:	[ca. 1716-1849], 1716-1861
	Abstract:	This small group of manuscript collections also includes correspondence and lists of plants.
	Call #:	Mss.H.S.Film.10,1
	Extent:	1.0 Microfilm reel(s)
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	Botanical gardens -- United States. \| Botany -- North America. \| Botany. \| Essays. \| Fishes. \| Horticulture. \| Illustrations. \| Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846 \| Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de,1721-1794. \| Microfilm Collection \| Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France). \| Natural history.

16	Creator:	Williams, Jonathan.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Jonathan Williams selected papers, 1771-1813
	Dates:	1771-1813
	Abstract:	These papers related to Benjamin Franklin and the American Philosophical Society, and include correspondence among Benjamin Franklin, William Franklin, Jonathan Williams, Sr., and Jonathan Williams, Jr. Also included is Williams' journal of a trip through England with Benjamin Franklin, Jan Ingenhousz, and John Canton (1771), memoranda and essays by Williams on trade, meteorology, and sugar refining, and notes and drawings.
	Call #:	Mss.Film.455
	Extent:	1.0 Microfilm reel(s)
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	Subjects:	American Philosophical Society. \| Canton, John \| Commerce. \| England -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. \| Essays. \| Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 \| Franklin, William, 1731-1813 \| Ingenhousz, Jan, 1730-1799 \| Journals (notebooks). \| Memoranda. \| Meteorology. \| Microfilm Collection \| Sugar -- Manufacture and refining. \| Williams, Jonathan. \| Williams, Jonathan.

17	Creator:	Thornton, William, 1759-1828	Requires cookie*
	Title:	William Thornton papers, [ca. 1741-1804]
	Dates:	Circa 1741-1804
	Abstract:	These papers include diaries (1777-1782), expense books (1794-1804), notebooks, a commonplace book, drafts of essays, excerpts from minutes of Friends' Monthly Meeting, Tortola (1741-1761), newspaper clippings, sketches, and correspondence. Also included are letters and papers of Mrs. Thornton.
	Call #:	Mss.Film.724
	Extent:	6.0 Microfilm reel(s)
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	Subjects:	Aitken, Robert \| Architecture \| Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 \| Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793 \| Clippings. \| Commonplace books. \| Diaries. \| Essays. \| Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 \| Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 \| Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815 \| Medicine. \| Microfilm Collection \| Minutes. \| Notebooks. \| Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824 \| Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 \| Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813 \| Sketches. \| Society of Friends -- Tortola. \| Thornton, -- Mrs. \| Thornton, William, 1759-1828 \| Trumbull, John \| Volney, C.-F., (Constantin François), 1757-1820 \| Washington, George, 1732-1799 \| Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818

18	Creator:	Donaldson, Henry Herbert,1857-1938.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Henry Herbert Donaldson diaries and papers, 1869-1938
	Dates:	1869-1938
	Abstract:	The collection consists of diaries, 1890-1938, containing brief records of professional work and family events (49 vols.); also autobiography entitled "Memories for my boys," 1930 (B D713m), referring to his childhood and to his professional career and mentioning Franz Boas, William Comstock, Livingston Farrand, William W. Keen, S. Weir Mitchell, Elihu Root, and W. T. Sedgewick and also APS, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, and Wistar Institute (1 vol.); also a few miscellaneous papers, 1869-1932, chiefly letters to and from members of his family, and also Poultney Bigelow, Simon Henry Gage, and W. B. Van Ingen; two essays ("The Days of Man" and "A Venetian Night"): genealogical data; verses dedicated to his wife; extracts of letters to supplement his diaries.
	Call #:	Mss.B.D713, D713m, D713p
	Extent:	50.0 Volume(s)
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information
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	Subjects:	American Philosophical Society. \| Autobiographies. \| Bigelow, Poultney, b. 1855 \| Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 \| Comstock, William \| Diaries. \| Donaldson, Henry Herbert,1857-1938. \| Essays. \| Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939 \| Gage, Simon Henry, 1851-1944 \| Genealogies. \| Johns Hopkins University. \| Keen, William W., (William Williams), b. 1837 \| Medicine -- United States. \| Mitchell, S. Weir, (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 \| Neurologists -- United States. \| Neurology. \| Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 \| Sedgwick, W. T., (William Thompson), 1855-1921 \| University of Chicago. \| Van Ingen, W. B. \| Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. \| Yale University.

19	Creator:	unknown	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Reports on papers read to the Académie royale des sciences, Paris, 1746
	Dates:	1746
	Abstract:	This volume contains reports made for the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres on such topics as astronomy, geometry, and natural history.
	Call #:	Mss.506.44.In73p
	Extent:	1.0 volume, 208 p.
	Sections:	Background \| Administrative Information \| Inventory
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	Subjects:	Académie royale des sciences (France) \| Astronomy. \| Bertin, Exupère Joseph \| Beyond Early America \| Bouger, Pierre \| Cassini de Thury, César Francois. \| Cassini, Jacques. \| Clairaut, M., 1713-1765 \| Courtivron, Gaspard Le Compasseur de Créqui-Montfort, -- marquis de, -- 1715-1785. \| Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782 \| Electricity. \| Essays. \| Geoffroy, -- M. -- (Etienne-Louis), -- 1725?-1810. \| Geometry. \| Jussieu, Antoine. \| La Caille, Nicolas Louis de, 1713-1762 \| La Condamine, Charles-Marie de, 1701-1774 \| Le Monnier, M. , (Pierre-Charles), 1715-1799 \| Malouin, M., (Paul Jacques), 1701-1777 \| Maraldi, J. D., (Jean Dominique), 1709-1788 \| Montigny, Etienne Mignot de,1714-1782. \| Natural history. \| Nollet, -- abbé -- (Jean Antoine), -- 1700-1770. \| Pitot, Henri \| Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de, -- 1683-1757.

20	Creator:	Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau papers, 1716-1789
	Dates:	1716-1789
	Abstract:	Principally covering botany and agriculture, this collection includes many manuscripts on trees, shrubs, and plants of different species, copies of botanical essays by others, essays on fruit trees, etc., by Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-89), notes and drafts for the latter's revision of Duhamel's Traité des Arbres et Arbustres. Also miscellaneous essays, sketches, and memoranda on bones of birds and animals, electricity, poisons, steam engines, ventilation, temperature and air pressure, mathmatics, paleontology ("Observations sur les os d'éléphants fossiles"), chemistry, metallurgy, entomology, architecture, taxidermy ("Méthode pour empailler les oiseaux"); lists of plants; notes on England, Canada, Mexico, China; notes of reading in Pliny, John Evelyn, Alexander Russell, William Derham, and others. Also a translation of Jethro Tull's Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, with additions and revisions by Duhamel du Monceau. Also an alphabetical catalogue of Duhamel's gardens, prepared by Fougeroux de Bondaroy. Also correspondence (ca. 170 pieces) with, among others, Duc d'Aven, Duc de Noailles, Louis J. M. Daubenton, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Jean François Gauthier, Comte de La Galissonière, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Emerich Vattel. The collection has been described in part by Gilbert Chinard, "Recently Acquired Botanical Documents," APS Proc. 101 (1957): 508: and by Joseph Ewan, "Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-1789) and his Projected Revision of Duhamel du Monceau's Traité (1755) on Trees and Shrubs. I. An Analytical Guide to Persons, Gardens, and Works mentioned in the Manuscripts," APS Proc. 103 (1959): 807.
	Call #:	Mss.B.D87,580.D881
	Extent:	8.0 Linear feet
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	Subjects:	Agriculture \| Architecture \| Bones. \| Botany. \| Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques, 1723-1806 \| Chemistry \| Daubenton, M., (Louis-Jean-Marie), 1716-1799 \| Derham, W., (William), 1657-1735 \| Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782 \| Electricity -- Early works to 1850. \| Entomology. \| Essays. \| Evelyn, John, 1620-1706 \| Fruit trees. \| Gardens -- France. \| Gauthier, Jean Francois \| La Gallissonnière, Augustin-Félix-Elisabeth Barrin, -- comte de, -- 1742-1828. \| Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de,1721-1794. \| Mathematics. \| Metallurgy. \| Microfilm Collection \| Noailles, Louis, duc de, 1713-1793 \| Paleontology. \| Plant collectors -- France. \| Plants -- Collection and preservation. \| Pliny, -- the Younger. \| Poisons. \| Russell, Alexander, 1715?-1768 \| Sketches. \| Steam-engines -- Early works to 1850. \| Taxidermy. \| Temperature. \| Vattel, Emer de, 1714-1767 \| Ventilation.

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