| 1 | Creator: | Peale, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1849-1914 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Albert C. Peale Papers
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1869-1910 | | | | Abstract: | Albert Charles Peale (1849-1913), the great-grandson of Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), was a geologist for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and its predecessor agency, a member of the Ferdinand Hayden expeditions that explored and mapped the western United States, an author in geology, mineralogy, and paleobotany, and an aide at the United States National Museum (today the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History). Edwin Roger Kirk (1884-1955) corresponded with Frank Springer about crinoids; assisted Edward Ulrich in studying sediments of the Appalachians; surveyed the Rocky Mountains, the Great Basin, and southeastern Alaska as a USGS paleontologist; and collected the papers of Peale and other geologists. Peale’s correspondence (1868-1912, bulk 1870s-80s) relate to various federal geological expeditions. Letters between Peale and William Rush Taggart, the largest single portion of the series, focus on matters of congressional funding. Kirk’s series (1900-09) contains the correspondence of Kirk and other geologists; most frequent are letters from Frank Springer to Kirk relating to rock formations. The collection also contains several diaries and sketchbooks from Peale (bulk 1872-77), including those kept during the Hayden expeditions, correspondence relating to the Geological Survey of Kentucky (1888-1893), and miscellaneous letters and memorabilia (c. 1820s-1940s), often relating to the Peale family. | | | | Call #: | Mss.SMs.Coll.5 | | | | Extent: | 2.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Geological surveys -- United States. | Geological surveys --Yellowstone National Park | Geologists. | Geology--Kentucky | Hayden, F. V., (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887 | Kirk, Edwin, 1884-1955 | Mineralogy - Research - United States | Peale family | Peale, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1849-1914 | Springer, Frank | Taggart, William Rush, 1849-1922 | Ulrich , E.O. (Edward Oscar), 1857-1944 | |
| 2 | Creator: | Hunter, George, 1755-1824 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | George Hunter Journals
| | | | Dates: | 1796-1809 | | | | Abstract: | Though less well known than their peers Lewis and Clark, William Dunbar and George Hunter played an important role in the early scientific exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. While the original goal of organizing a southern counterpart to the Corps of Discovery proved overly ambitious, Dunbar and Hunter provided important geographic information for future explorations and gave the first scientific description of the Hot Springs of Arkansas and Ouachita Mountains.
The four surviving journals of George Hunter provide engaging accounts of travel in the Ohio and Mississippi Valley in 1796, 1802, and 1809, and include the most interesting record of the expedition to the Hot Springs of Arkansas in 1804-1805, complete with his detailed notes on natural history and meteorology. The volumes also contain various references to relations with the Delaware, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Osage Indians. The APS owns a contemporary copy of Hunter's journal (
"Journal up the Red and Washita Rivers with William Dunbar"; Mss.917.6.Ex7), from which extracts were printed in Thomas Jefferson,
Message... Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri (New York, 1806), and which is described by Isaac J. Cox, "An Early Explorer of the Louisiana Purchase," APS
Library Bulletin 1946: 73. The journals were edited by John F. McDermott and published in APS
Transactions 53 (1963). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H912 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Arkansas--Description and travel | Cherokee Indians | Chickasaw Indians | Choctaw Indians | Delaware Indians | Dunbar, William, 1749-1810 | Exploration | Exploration. | Geology--Kentucky | Hot springs--Arkansas | Hunter, George H. | Hunter, George, 1755-1824 | Illinois--Description and travel--18th century | Journals (notebooks) | Kentucky--Description and travel--18th century | Louisiana Purchase--Discovery and exploration | Louisiana--Description and travel | Meteorology--Louisiana | Native America | Natural history--Louisiana | Osage Indians | Ouachita Mountains Region (Ark. And Okla.)--Discovery and exploration | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
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