| 2 | Creator: | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Isaac Lea journals, 1832, 1852-1853
| | | | Dates: | 1832-1853 | | | | Abstract: | The first fifteen volumes of these "Notes of Travel" are Lea's account of his trips to Europe during 1832 and 1852-1853. He met with naturalists, scientists, and did much sightseeing in England, France, Germany, Italy, and Austria. He records in detail visits and discussions with scientists, and makes sketches of many of the places he saw, particularly the Rhine River. The sixteenth volume is a memorandum book, 1853, containing accounts and expenses while in Europe. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L462 | | | | Extent: | 16.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Art | Austria -- Description and travel. | England -- Description and travel. | Europe -- Description and travel. | France -- Description and travel. | Germany -- Description and travel. | Italy -- Description and travel. | Journals (notebooks). | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | Military History | Naturalists. | Printing and Publishing | Rhine River. | Science and Technology | Scientists. | Sketchbooks | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
| 3 | Creator: | Hamilton , William John, 1805-1867 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William John Hamilton Papers, 1825-1828
| | | | Dates: | 1825-1828 | | | | Abstract: | William John Hamilton (1805-1867) English geologist and eldest son of the famed antiquarian and purchaser of the Rosetta Stone, William Richard Hamilton (1777-1859), studied at the University of Goettingen from 1825-1827.
The Hamilton Papers consists principally of correspondence written by William John Hamilton to his parents, reflecting the young geologist's intellectual development, his course of study, student life, and holiday travels. Arranged chronologically, the letters mirror the political and cultural events of the period. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.32 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Archaeology--Study and teaching--Germany | Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 1803-1849 | Beyond Early America | Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1752-1840 | Geology--Germany | Germany--Description and travel | Great Britain--Politics anjd government--19th century | Hamilton , William John, 1805-1867 | Hamilton, Juliana Udny | Hamilton, William Richard, 1777-1858 | Hausmann, Johann Friedrich Ludwig, 1782-1859 | Krause, Karl Christian Friedrich, 1781-1832 | Mineralogy--Study and teaching--Germany | Müller, Karl Otfried, 1797-1840 | Universities and colleges--Germany-Curricula | Universität Göttingen. | |
| 4 | Creator: | Smith, Thomas P., (Thomas Peters), 1777 or 8-1802 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Thomas P. Smith journal in Europe, 1800-1802
| | | | Dates: | 1800-1802 | | | | Abstract: | This set of journals, copied legibly but with many excisions into the last volume, 914 Sm61, is from a tour of Germany, Denmark, Sweden, France, and England, to inspect technological improvements in manufacturing and mining. There are accounts of visits with C.D. Ebeling, Friedrich Klopstock, J.A.J. Reimarus, Anders Sparmann, and Karl P. Thunberg. Smith bequeathed this journal to the American Philosophical Society with the request that it be published if found to contain information "useful to the manufactories of my country." | | | | Call #: | Mss.914.Sm6 | | | | Extent: | 5.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Americans Abroad | Denmark -- Description and travel. | Ebeling, Christophe Daniel, 1741-1817 | England -- Description and travel. | France -- Description and travel. | Germany -- Description and travel. | International Travel | Journals (notebooks). | Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb, 1724-1803 | Manufacturing processes -- Europe. | Mines and mineral resources -- Europe. | Reimarus, Johann Albert Heinrich, 1729-1814 | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | Smith, Thomas P., (Thomas Peters), 1777 or 8-1802 | Sparmann, Anders | Sweden -- Description and travel. | Thunberg, Carl Peter, 1743-1828 | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
| 5 | Creator: | Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Smith Lyman papers,1850-1918
| | | | Dates: | 1850-1918 | | | | Abstract: | There are notes, sketches, memoranda, etc., made while Lyman directed the geological survey of Japan, 1873-1879, with reports on petroleum resources, copper, coal, iron, and gold mines, mineral springs, and other mineral resources of the Japanese archipelago. There are data on the Japanese, Chinese, Ainu, and French languages, and on Japanese manners and customs, wit and humor, gardening, painting, measurements, swords, etc. Notes and data on the life, travels, and publications of Bernard Varenius. Notes collected for Lyman's Vegetarian Diet and Dishes. Materials on the geology of New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico, and West Virginia; and on coal and iron fields in those states and elsewhere. Manuscripts of articles on instruments for boring wells, theodolites for mining and civil engineers, other surveying instruments, etc. Of particular note is Lyman's period of study in Europe, where he attended the Imperial School of Mines in Paris, France (1859-1861), and the Royal Academy of Mines, Freiberg, Germany (1861-1862). There are about eleven notebooks for this period, written in English, French, and German, that contain: lecture notes, travel observations, comments on geology, mines and mining, railroads, with sketches of machinery, etc. There are a large number of letters (ca. 7,000 items), 1850-1917, from and to Lyman, on personal and business affairs. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L982 | | | | Extent: | 49.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Ainu language | Chinese language | Coal mines and mining. | Ecole impériale des mines (France) | France -- Description and travel. | French language | Gardening -- Japan. | Geological Survey (U.S.). | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. | Geological surveys. | Geology -- Colorado. | Geology -- France. | Geology -- Germany. | Geology -- Iowa. | Geology -- Japan -- Surveys. | Geology -- New Jersey. | Geology -- New Mexico. | Geology -- Ohio. | Geology -- Pennsylvania. | Geology -- Virginia. | Geology -- West Virginia. | Germany -- Description and travel. | Iron mines and mining. | Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1868-1912. | Japanese language | Lecture notes. | Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 | Mines and mineral resources -- Japan. | Mining engineering. | Mining machinery. | Notes. | Painting, Japanese. | Railroads -- Europe. | Sketches. | Surveying -- Instruments. | Theodolites. | Varenius, Bernhardus, 1622-1650 | |
| 6 | Creator: | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | J.P. Lesley Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1826-1898 | | | | Abstract: | After a brief career in the Congregational church, J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903) left the ministry in 1852 to work full-time as a geologist. Having gained experience in structural geology and stratigraphy with the First Pennsylvania Geological Survey (1836-1842), Lesley became an expert in the geology of coal, working for the Pennsylvania Railroad and other corporations and conducting some of the first systematic studies of the state's hydrocarbon resources. A long-time professor at the University of Pennsylvania, he was elected to the APS in 1856, serving variously as its librarian, secretary, and vice president, and he was selected as Director of the Second Pennsylvania Geological Survey (1875-1889).
The Lesley Papers include letters to and from Peter Lesley and his wife, Susan on geology, coal and iron mining, abolition, educational reform, organized charity, and Unitarianism. The collection offers important insight into academic and applied geology in late 19th century Pennsylvania, the development of the coal and iron industries, as well as into the Lesleys' progressive social and intellectual milieu. It is divided into three series: Lesley's general correspondence, his correspondence with his brother Joseph, and microfilms of Lesley's research notes. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L56 | | | | Extent: | 7.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Americans Abroad | Avesta | Biographies. | Cartography. | Charities -- United States. | Clippings. | Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 | Cope, E. D. , (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 | Desor, E. (Edouard), 1811-1882 | Diaries. | Education--United States | Egypt--Antiquities. | Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Family Correspondence | Flint, Austin | France--Description and travel | Funeral rites and ceremonies--Egypt | Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 | General Correspondence | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania | Geology--Maps | Geology--Nova Scotia--Surveys | Geology--Pennsylvania | Germany--Description and travel | Gibbs, Wolcott, 1822-1908 | Hale, Lucretia P., (Lucretia Peabody), 1820-1900 | Hawaiian language | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | International Travel | Javanese language | Journals (notebooks) | Lesley, Allen | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Lesley, Joseph, 1831-1889 | Lesley, Susan I., (Susan Inches), 1823-1904 | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 | M'Kim, J. Miller, (James Miller), 1810-1874 | Marriage and Family Life | Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 | McKinley, Alexander | Nova Scotia--Surveys | Obelisks | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Paleontology--Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania--Surveys | Philology | Photographs | Poems | Scientific Data | Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate , 1841-1906 | Sketches. | Slavery -- United States. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 | Switzerland--Description and travel | Thomson, J. Edgar, (James Edgar), 1808-1874 | Transcendentalism | Travel Narratives and Journals | Unitarianism | United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 | Whitney, J. D. (Josiah Dwight), 1819-1896 | Wright, Chauncey,1830-1875. | |
| 7 | Creator: | Blakeslee, Albert Francis,1874-1954. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Albert Francis Blakeslee papers, 1904-1954
| | | | Dates: | 1904-1954 | | | | Abstract: | Mostly concerned with Blakeslee's studies on beans, blood groups, colchicine, Datura, embryo cultures, and horticulture. Many letters relate to the support and direction of the Smith College Genetics Experiment Station, which he headed. Other letters are about the Carnegie Institution of Washington, "Biological Abstracts," American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Philosophical Society, Institut de France, University of Connecticut. Also contains travel letters from Germany and miscellaneous lectures. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B585 | | | | Extent: | 12.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Association for the Advancement of Science. | American Philosophical Society. | Amherst College | Beans - Research | Belling, John | Bibliographical matters | Biochemistry and organic chemistry | Biographical and personal data | Biographical and personal data -- Vries, Hugo de | Biographical and personal matters | Blakeslee, Albert Francis,1874-1954. | Blood groups. | Botany and plant genetics | Brooklyn Botanical Garden | Buchholz, J. T., (John Theodore), 1888-1951 | Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 | Business -- Meetings | Business -- Minutes | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Carnegie Institution of Washington -- Reports | Carnegie Institution of Washington. | Cleland, Ralph E., (Ralph Erskine), 1892-1971 | Colchicine - Research | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Committee activities | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Thaxter, Roland. 70th birthday | Connecticut Argicultural College | Cytogenetics | Datura. | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Davis, Bradley M., (Bradley Moore), b. 1871 | Displaced German scholars | Drosophila genetics | Editorial matters | Editorial matters -- Genetics | Educational matters | Embryology, developmental genetics | Embryology. | Eugenics | Evolution | Fellowships, assistantships | Flynn, John E., (John Edward), 1897-1965 | Geneticists -- United States. | Genetics | Genetics -- Research. | Genetics of plants | Genetics of plants -- Agglutinin from beans | Genetics of plants -- Colchicine | Genetics of plants -- Datura | Genetics of plants -- Mucor | Genetics of plants -- Sex in fungi | Germany -- Description and travel. | Goucher College | Graduate study | Harvard University | Honors | Horticulture. | Human genetics | Human genetics -- Odor | Human genetics -- Taste | Human genetics -- Twins | Hyde, James Hazen, 1876-1959 | Immunogenetics | Institut de France. | International Botanical Congresses | International Congress of Genetics -- Sixth Congress | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures. | Molecular genetics | Mount Holyoke College | National Research Foundation | National Science Foundation | Political issues | Political issues -- Germany | Publication | Publication -- Biological Abstracts | Radiation genetics | Recommendations | Research support | Robbins, William Jacob, 1890-1978 | Russian politics and science -- Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Shull, George Harrison, 1874-1954 | Sinnott, Edmund W. (Edmund Ware), 1888-1958 | Smith College | Smith College. Genetics Experiment Station. | Teaching | Teaching -- Harvard University | Teaching -- University of Halle--Blakeslee, Albert Francis | Thaxter, Roland | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- South America | University of Connecticut. | University of Maine | University of Massachusetts | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. -- Abstracts | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. -- Research | Waksman, Selman A., (Selman Abraham), 1888-1973 | Wellesley College | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | World War I -- Impact on science | World War II -- Impact on science | Zea (maize) genetics | |
| 8 | Creator: | Barlow, R. H., (Robert Hayward), 1918-1951 | Requires cookie* | | | | Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952 | | | | | Croft, Kenneth | | | | | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | | | | | Forbes, Jacques C. B. | | | | Title: | Recordings on tape from originals given to the Library of Congress by the American Philosophical Society Library
| | | | Dates: | 1936, 1948-1952, 1962 | | | | Abstract: | The material in the collection is an assembly of unrelated recording collections made by multiple collectors. This collection consists of recordings on wire or phonograph discs sent by the APS Library to the Library of Congress in December 1970 in exchange for duplication of the material on to archival reel-to-reel tapes. The original formats are housed at the Library of Congress. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Rec.82 | | | | Extent: | 13.0 Reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | All Souls' Day | American Philosophical Society | Angoon (Alaska) | Angoon (Alaska)--History | Atomic bomb--History | Barlow, R. H., (Robert Hayward), 1918-1951 | Biology--United States | Cayuga Indians--Music | Cheyenne Indians | Cheyenne Indians--Alcohol use | Cheyenne Indians--Economic conditions | Cheyenne Indians--Education | Cheyenne Indians--Folklore | Cheyenne Indians--Government relations | Cheyenne Indians--History | Cheyenne Indians--Music | Cheyenne Indians--Social life and customs | Cheyenne Indians--Societies, etc. | Cheyenne language | Christmas music | Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952 | Coyote--Folklore | Croft, Kenneth | Curaçao | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Eagle dance | El Reno (Okla.) | Embryology -- United States. | Embryology--History | Fiction | Folk music--Russia (Federation) | Folk music--Russia (Federation) | Forbes, Jacques C. B. | Funeral music | Germany--Description and travel | Grassland fires | Guitar--Performance | Gunpowder | Handsome Lake, 1735-1815 | Hermosillo (Mexico) | Intermarriage | Iroquois Indians--Music | Iroquois Indians--Rites and ceremonies | Lame Deer (Mont.) | Language attrition | Makah Indians--Folklore | Makah Indians--History | Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) | Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole | Marriage customs and rites--Russia | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | McClellan, Catharine | Milpa Alta (Mexico) | Morphology. | Nahuas--Folklore | Nahuatl Indians--Folklore | Names, Cheyenne | Neah Bay (Wash.) | Nootka Indians--Folklore | Nootka Indians--History | Nootka Indians--Music | Onondaga Indians--Music | Oral histories | Organ music | Papiamento | Parpart, Arthur Kemble, 1903-1965 | Peyote songs | Philadelphia (Pa.) | Popocatépetl (Mexico) | Port Alberni (B.C.) | Pskov (Russia) | Randle, Martha Champion | Round dancing | Seneca Indians--Folklore | Seneca Indians--Music | Seneca Indians--Rites and ceremonies | Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 (Ont.) | Songs, Papiamento | Sound recordings | Star-spangled banner (Song) | Sun-dance | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Tepehuan Indians--Folklore | Tepehuan Indians--Music | Tepehuan language | Tipis | Tlingit Indians--History | Tlingit Indians--Music | Tlingit language | Tobacco | Tonawanda Indian Reservation (N.Y.) | Totonac Indians--Folklore | Tsimshian Indians--Folklore | Tsimshian Indians--Music | Wedding music--Russia (Federation) | World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Indian | Yaqui Indians--Folklore | Yaqui Indians--History | Yaqui Indians--Music | |
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