| 1 | Creator: | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte letters, 1825-1857
| | | | Dates: | 1825-1857 | | | | Abstract: | The primary correspondence (ca. 65 letters) is with William Cooper (1798-1864) on Bonaparte's publications, especially "American Ornithology" and "Observations on the Nomenclature of Wilson's Ornithology," but also included are many references to American and European men of science and learned societies. There are also letters to Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, George Robert Gray, Titian Ramsay Peale, and Wilhelm P. S. Rüppell. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B642.1.7 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Cooper, William, 1798?-1864 | General Correspondence | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore, 1805-1861 | Gray, George Robert, 1808-1872 | Learned institutions and societies. | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Natural History | Ornithology. | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Rüppell, Wilhelm Peter Eduard, 1794-1884 | Science -- Societies, etc. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Scientists. | Temminck, C. J., (Coenraad Jacob), 1778-1858 | |
| 2 | Creator: | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Alexander von Humboldt papers, 1801-1859
| | | | Dates: | 1793-1859 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains miscellaneous letters and papers relating to explorations of South America, Cuba, and Mexico; scientific investigations; Latin American antiquities and linguistics; and publications. There are also copies of 26 letters from Humboldt to Pierre Hyacinth Azais and Jules Berger de Xivrey, from originals at the Duke University Medical Center Library. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H88 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Azaïs, Pierre Hyacinthe, 1766-1845 | Berger de Xivrey, Jules, 1801-1863 | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Coquerel, Athanase, 1795-1868 | Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823 | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Frederick William -- IV, -- King of Prussia, -- 1795-1861. | Gaggiotti-Richards, Emma, 1825-1912 | Galunsky, Louis Charles | General Correspondence | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore, 1805-1861 | Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Jomard, M., (Edme-François), 1777-1862 | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | Michaux, André, 1746-1802 | Natural history. | Pickersgill, Henry William, 1782-1875 | Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883 | Schlagintweit-Sakünlunski, Hermann Rudolph Alfred von, -- 1826-1882. | Science and Technology | Science publishing. | Scientific expeditions. | South America -- Discovery and exploration -- 19th century. | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, 1794-1868 | Warden, David Bailie, 1772-1845 | Willdenow, Karl Ludwig, 1765-1812 | |
| 3 | Creator: | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Edward Gray papers, 1783-1884
| | | | Dates: | 1783-1884 | | | | Abstract: | These are primarily letters to Gray on various aspects of natural history, with many references to collections at the British Museum of Natural History. There are numerous letters from British scientists and from European colleagues. There are letters from Americans too, such as those from Agassiz which relate to his Florida expeditions and the creation of natural history collections. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.G784 | | | | Extent: | 5.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Acland, Henry W., (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900 | Allman, George James, 1812-1898 | Assyria -- Antiquities. | Autographs. | Balard, Antoine-Jérôme, 1802-1876 | Bate, C. Spence , (Charles Spence), 1818-1889 | Berkeley, M. J., (Miles Joseph), 1803-1889 | Beyond Early America | Blainville, H.-M. Ducrotay de, (Henri-Marie Ducrotay), 1777-1850. | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Bonomi, Joseph | Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850 | British Museum (Natural History) -- Natural history collections. | Brookes, Joshua, -- 1754-1821. | Dana, James D. (James Dwight), 1813-1895 | Du Chaillu, Paul B., (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 | Duméril, C., (Constant), 1774-1860 | Fitch, Asa, 1809-1879 | Florida -- Discovery and exploration. | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore, 1805-1861 | Geological Society of London | Geology. | Gray, John Edward | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Hoeven, Jan van der | Lefèvre, Jean-Jacques, 1779-1858 | Mollusks. | Müller, Joh., 1801-1858 | Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- England. | Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- United States. | Nineveh (Extinct city) -- Antiquities. | Pfeiffer, Ludwig Georg Karl, 1805-1877. | Schomburgk, Robert H., Sir, (Robert Hermann), 1804-1865 | Shells. | Société des sciences naturelle de France. | Valenciennes, M., 1794-1865 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Peale-Sellers families. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963
| | | | Dates: | 1686-1963 | | | | Abstract: | The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P31 | | | | Extent: | 19.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art -- United States. | Business and Skilled Trades | Cassatt, Alexander J., (Alexander Johnston), 1839-1906 | Civil engineering -- United States. | Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945 | Crèvecoeur de Perthes, Jacques Boucher de. | Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857 | De Peyster, John, 1765-ca. 1849 | Drawing. | Early National Politics | Edison , Thomas A., (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 | Engineering. | Family Correspondence | Fraley, F., (Frederick), 1804-1901 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 | Genealogies. | General Correspondence | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore, 1805-1861 | Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935 | Langley, S. P., (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906 | Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820 | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Locomotives. | Madison, James, 1751-1836 | Maps and Surveys | Marriage and Family Life | Medicine, Military. | Mitchell, S. Weir, (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 | Natural history. | Ord, George, 1781-1866 | Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Peale family. | Peale, Franklin,1795-1870. | Peale, Raphaelle, 1774-1825 | Peale-Sellers families. | Philadelphia History | Political Correspondence | Portraits, American. | Sketches. | Social Life and Custom | Stetson, Charles Augustus, 1810-1888 | Technology. | United States -- Armed Forces -- Medical personnel. | United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865. | United States -- Civilization -- To 1783. | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Washington, George, 1732-1799 | |
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