| 1 | Creator: | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Thomas Campbell Eyton correspondence, 1836-1874
| | | | Dates: | 1836-1874 | | | | Abstract: | These letters cover subjects in natural history, especially birds and mollusks. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Ey83 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Ball, Robert, -- 1802-1857. | Birds. | Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 | Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 | Buckland, Francis T., (Francis Trevelyan), 1826-1880 | Crelle, A. L., (August Leopold), 1780-1855 | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Mollusks. | Natural history. | Patterson, Robert, 1802-1872 | Strickland, H. E., (Hugh Edwin), 1811-1853 | Yarnell, William, 1784-1856 | |
| 2 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sir William Jackson Hooker letters, 1819-1863
| | | | Dates: | 1819-1863 | | | | Abstract: | These letters refer to the exchange of various plants, to botany in general, and to the operation of Kew. There is mention as well of the plants of Halifax, Nova Scotia. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H7652 | | | | Extent: | 39.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Botanical gardens -- England. | Botany -- England. | Botany -- Nova Scotia. | Bowring, John, Sir, 1792-1872 | Braun, Alexander | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Henslow, J. S. (John Stevens), 1796-1861 | Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. | Royle, J. Forbes, (John Forbes), 1799?-1858 | Washington, John, 1800-1863 | |
| 3 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Richard Owen papers, 1827-1889
| | | | Dates: | 1827-1889 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains correspondence on natural history, expecially mollusks, fishes, and birds, and on medicine and social affairs, with references to the British Museum of Natural History. Also included are a paper by Owen on dinosaurs and a synopsis of a course of lectures, 1857. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Ow2 | | | | Extent: | 1.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Birds. | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 -- Correspondence | British Museum (Natural History). | Buxton, Charles, 1768-1833 | Carpenter, Philip Pearsall, 1819-1877 | Carpenter, Philip Pearsall, 1819-1877 -- Correspondence | Cooke, William Fothergill, 1806-1879 | Cooper, Mary, Lady | Cooper, William White -- Correspondence | Dinosaurs. | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Fishes. | Grey-Egerton, Philip de Malpas, Sir, 10th bart., 1806-1881 -- Correspondence | Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 -- Correspondence | Horne, R. H., (Richard H.), 1802-1884 -- Correspondence | Horne, R. H., (Richard H.), 1802-1884 | Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910 | Lankester, E. Ray, Sir, (Edwin Ray), 1847-1929 | Lubbock, J. W., (John William), 1803-1865 | Manby, George William, 1765-1854 -- Correspondence | Medicine. | Milne-Edwards, H., (Henri), 1800-1885 -- Correspondence | Milne-Edwards, H., (Henri), 1800-1885 | Mollusks. | Natural history. | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 -- Correspondence | Ransome, George -- Correspondence | Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
| | | | Dates: | 1799-1882 | | | | Abstract: | One of the most important natural historians in nineteenth century Britain, Charles Darwin provided the first compelling mechanism to account for organismal evolutionary change. Although lacking a coherent model of heredity, Darwin's natural selection has exerted an enormous influence over the biological sciences and since the introduction of Mendelian genetics, had remained the key unifying principle in the discipline.
The APS Darwin Papers are a large a valuable assemblage of Darwin's correspondence with scientific colleagues, including Charles Lyell and George J. Romanes. They are included in the print version of the
Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge Univ. Press). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D25 | | | | Extent: | 2.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adaptation (Biology) | Beyond Early America | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Coral reefs and islands | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Darwin, Jane -- Trials, litigation, etc. | Evolution (Biology) | Evolution--Religious aspects | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Forbes, David, 1828-1876 | Foster, M., Sir, (Michael), 1836-1907 | Genetics | Geology--Great Britain--19th century | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Gulick, John Thomas, 1832-1923 | Günther, Albert C. L. G. , (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf), 1830-1914 | Hancock, Albany, 1806-1873 | Herbert, John Maurice, 1808-1882 | Heredity | Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 | Lankester, E. Ray, Sir, (Edwin Ray), 1847-1929 | Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 | Lubbock, J. W., (John William), 1803-1865 | Milne-Edwards, H., (Henri), 1800-1885 | Natural history--Great Britain--19th century | Natural selection | Naturalists--England | Ogle, William, 1827-1912 | Phillips, John, 1800-1874 | Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de, 1810-1892 | Race, race relations, racism | Ramsay, A. C., (Andrew Crombie), 1814-1891 | Religion and science--1860-1899 | Romanes, George John, 1848-1894 | Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick, 1811-1882 | Transmutation of animals | Variation (Biology) | Walsh, Benjamin Dann, 1808-1869 | Wyman, Jeffries, 1864- | |
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