| 1 | Creator: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Correspondence of American botanists, [19th century]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 19th century | | | | Abstract: | These are letters and papers relating to North America chiefly from the official correspondence of the Gardens and the correspondence of its two directors, Sir William Jackson Hooker and Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. There are 2 reels of letters from Asa Gray to the Hookers, in addition to other Gray letters elsewhere in the collection. A few letters (1787) from Americans to William Forsyth, superintendent of the Royal Gardens of St. James' and Kensington. | | | | Call #: | Mss.H.S.Film.7 | | | | Extent: | 9.0 Film reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Botanists -- England. | Botanists -- United States. | Botany. | Forsyth, William, 1737-1804 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Sir, 1817-1911 | Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 | |
| 2 | Creator: | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Asa Gray papers, 1838-1887
| | | | Dates: | 1838-1887 | | | | Abstract: | The largest portion of correspondence is with Charles Edwin Bessy on botanical matters, including botanical publications in the United States and Europe, and plants and shell specimens. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.G78 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bessey, Charles E., (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915 | Botanical gardens. | Botany. | Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858 | Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 | Education -- United States. | Educational Material | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | James, Thomas Potts, 1803-1882 | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Ridgely, Charles Goodwin, 1784-1848 | Rothrock, Joseph T., 1839-1922 | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Shells. | Torrey, John, 1796-1873 | Vrolik, W., (Willem), 1801-1863 | Ward, Henry Augustus, 1834-1906 | |
| 3 | Creator: | Bowers, Stephen, 1832-1907 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Stephen Bowers correspondence, 1860-1915
| | | | Dates: | 1860-1915 | | | | Abstract: | These letters discuss the fossils of southern California, as well as Indian artifacts, skulls, languages, ethnography, religion, etc. Most correspondents are represented by only one letter. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B672 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 | Bowers, Stephen, 1832-1907 | Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899 | California--Antiquities | California--Discovery and exploration | Fossils--Collection and preservation--California | Goode, G. Brown, (George Brown), 1851-1896 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Hayden, F. V., (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887 | Henshaw, Henry W., (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 | Hilgard, Eugene W., (Eugene Woldemar), 1833-1916 | Hrdlicka, Ales, 1869-1943 | Indians of North America--California--Antiquities | Merrill, George P., (George Perkins), 1854-1929 | Silliman, Benjamin, Jr., 1816-1885 | Smithsonian Institution. | Vail, Isaac N., (Isaac Newton), 1840-1912 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Winlock, Joseph,1826-1875. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Winlock letterbook, 1857-1875
| | | | Dates: | 1857-1875 | | | | Abstract: | This item contains much information about his various posts and about conflicts, personalities, and the politics of science. There are also many references and comments about scientific technology of the day, and of such people as Matthew F. Maury. There are numerous letters to A. D. Bache, James Henry Coffin, Charles Henry Davis, and William H. Willcox. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W721 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astronomy. | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Ballard, John T. | Bowditch, Henry I., (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892 | Chauvenet, William, 1820-1870 | Cochran, Thomas Childs, 1902- | Coffin, James Henry, 1806-1873 | Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877 | Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Harvard College Observatory. | Harvard University--Faculty | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Hill, Thomas, 1818-1891 | Hubbard, Joseph Stillman, 1823-1863 | Jenkins, Thornton A., (Thornton Alexander), 1811-1893 | Langley, S. P., (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906 | Letterbooks. | Makepeace, William. | Mathematics. | Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873 | Silsbee, Nathaniel | Technology. | United States Naval Academy. -- Dept. of Mathematics -- Faculty. | Waller, William J. | Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 | Willcox, William Henry, 1821-1904 | Winlock, Joseph,1826-1875. | |
| 5 | Creator: | Young, Aaron,b. 1819. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Aaron Young papers, [ca. 1839-1894]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1839-1894 | | | | Abstract: | This is primarily a collection of letters, with some additional documents, concerning Young's interest in botany, geology, mineralogy, and natural history. There is information about Bowdoin College, where he studied under Parker Cleaveland. There is also much on the natural history of Maine, where he was the State Botanist in 1847-1849, and also on the Bangor Natural History Society. There are materials on Brazil in relation to Young's service there as the U.S. consul to Rio Grande do Sul from 1863 to 1873. There are also letters from his brother, John C. Young, and his sister, Sarah Augusta Young. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Y81 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, George N. | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Albumen prints | Americans Abroad | Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 | Bangor Natural History Society. | Bartlett, John | Blake, Charles M. | Botany. | Bowditch, Henry I., (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892 | Bowdoin College -- Students. | Brazil -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | Chute, Ariel P. | Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858 | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Education | Educational Material | Emerson, John | Geology. | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Holmes, Ezekiel, 1801-1865 | International Travel | Mead, S. B. | Mineralogy. | Natural history -- Maine. | Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | Science and Technology | Thurber, George, 1821-1890 | Torrey, John, 1796-1873 | Warren, John | Young, Aaron,b. 1819. | Young, John C. | Young, Sarah Augusta | |
| 6 | Creator: | Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Babbage selected correspondence, 1827-1871
| | | | Dates: | 1827-1871 | | | | Abstract: | Mentioned in these letters are personal affairs, experiments, Babbage's calculating machine, and his "Bridgewater Treatise," second edition. | | | | Call #: | Mss.H.S.Film.15 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alexander, J. H. (John Henry), 1812-1867. | Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Biddle, Clement C., (Clement Cornell), 1784-1855 | Bowditch, Henry I., (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892 | Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 | Calculators. | Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 | Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Howgate, Henry W. | Hughes, George W., (George Wurtz), 1806-1870 | Loomis, Elias, 1811-1889 | Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873 | Microfilm Collection | Pickering, John, 1777-1846 | Science -- Experiments. | Scientists -- Great Britain. | Sedgwick, Theodore, 1811-1859 | Silliman, Benjamin, Jr., 1816-1885 | Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 1779-1864 | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 | Vaughan, Daniel, ca. 1821-1879 | Vaughan, William, 1752-1850 | |
| 7 | Creator: | Linnean Society of London. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Linnean Society of London correspondence of American scientists, 1738-1865
| | | | Dates: | 1738-1865 | | | | Abstract: | Letters and papers to or from American scientists or about America, selected from the Linnean Society's collections. Includes letters to William Swainson from John Abbott, John J. Audubon, Constantine S. Rafinesque, Isaac Lea, and John E. LeConte; letters to Sir James Edward Smith from Jacob Bigelow, DeWitt Clinton, J.F. Correia da Serra, David Hosack, Theodore Lyman, William Dandridge Peck, Rafinesque, and Gotthilf H.E. Muhlenberg; letters to William Darlington; letters to Asa Gray; letters of John Bartram; letters of Peter Collinson to J.F. Gronovius; letters and papers of John Ellis, including letters from Alexander Garden, Samuel Martin, and Bernard Romans; letters to Carl Linnaeus from John Bartram, John Clayton, Cadwallader Colden, Correia da Serra, Peter Kalm, Adam Kuhn, James Logan, John Mitchell, and Charles Wrangel. | | | | Call #: | Mss.H.S.Film.6 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Film reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abbott, John | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 | Clayton, John | Clinton, DeWitt, 1769-1828 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823 | Darlington, William, 1782-1863 | Ellis, John | Garden, Alexander, 1757-1829 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus, 1686-1762 | Hosack, David, 1769-1835 | Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779 | Kuhn, Adam, 1741-1817 | LeConte, John Eatton, 1784-1860 | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778 | Logan, Jim, (James) | Lyman, Theodore, 1792-1849 | Martin, Samuel | Microfilm Collection | Mitchell, John | Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815 | Natural history. | Peck, William Dandridge, 1763-1822 | Rafinesque, C. S., (Constantine Samuel ), 1783-1840 | Romans, Bernard | Scientists -- United States. | Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 | Swainson, William, 1789-1855 | Wrangel, Charles | Zoology -- North America. | |
| 8 | Creator: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Louis Jean Rodolph Agassiz papers, 1833-1873
| | | | Dates: | 1833-1873 1833-1873 | | | | Abstract: | A miscellaneous collection of letters written by naturalist Louis Jean Rodolph Agassiz concerning a wide range of topics: natural history and naturalists, geology, mineralogy, fossils, publications, expeditions, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, which he founded. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Ag12.ms | | | | Extent: | 50.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877 | Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 | Emery, Charles Edward, 1838-1898 | Fossils -- Collection and preservation. | Geology -- Research -- United States. | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Hartt, Charles Frederick, 1840-1878 | Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. | Haven, Franklin, 1857-1908 | Hyatt, Alpheus, 1838-1902 | Kidder, Frederic, 1804-1885 | Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 | LeConte, John L., (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901 | Lesquereux, Leo, 1806-1889 | McLane, Allan | Milne-Edwards, H., (Henri), 1800-1885 | Mineralogy - Research - United States | Natural history museums -- Massachusetts. | Natural history. | Naturalists. | Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892 | Religion | Science and Technology | Scientific expeditions. | Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875 | Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 | Zoological museums -- Massachusetts. | Zoology. | |
| 9 | 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- | |
| 10 | Creator: | Various authors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, 1668-1983
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1750-1850 | | | | Abstract: | Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.200 | | | | Extent: | 25.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Arctic Indians | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Beyond Early America | Cayuga Indians | Colonial Politics | Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 | Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899 | Cuvier, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832 | Darlington, William, 1782-1863 | Early National Politics | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Edison , Thomas A., (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Fitch, John | Gelatin silver prints | General Correspondence | Genth, F. A. , (Frederick Augustus), 1820-1893 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Greeley , Horace, 1811-1872 | Harding, Warren G. | History of science and technology. | Inuit--Canada | Iroquois Indians | Isleta Indians | Miscellaneous | Mohawk Indians | Natural History | Negatives | Newcomb, Simon | Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 | Ojibwa Indians | Oneida Indians | Onondaga Indians | Penobscot Indians | Photomechanical prints | Physics -- History. | Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 | Scientific Correspondence | Seneca Indians | Seybert, Adam,1773-1825. | Slides. | Southwest Indians | Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 | Stevens, Henry | Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 | Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 | Tuscarora Indians | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Various authors | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 | Wayne, Anthony | |
| 11 | Creator: | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Samuel George Morton Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1819-1850 | | | | Abstract: | Through his craniometic studies of human races, the Philadelphia physician Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) exerted a profound influence on the development of physical anthropology in antebellum America, and made substantial contributions to mineralogy, paleontology, and natural history. Relating primarily to Morton's scientific interests, the Morton Papers include insights into Morton's perspectives on education, medical practice, geology and mineralogy, craniology, paleontology, the Wilkes Exploring Expedition (also known as the United States Exploring Expedition 1838-1842), and his two major monographs, the
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Crania Aegyptiaca. Several of the letters were written by Morton in his capacity as corresponding secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Also included in this collection are Morton's "Some Remarks on the Infrequency of Mixed Offspring Between the European and Australian Races" (1850), Joseph Barclay Pentland's notes on the aborigines of Peru (ca. 1840?), and newspaper clippings on Morton's death; a diary of Morton's trip to the West Indies, 1834, a set of craniological sketches for use in Crania Americana, and a microfilm of letters in private hands, written to Morton, 1838-1844 | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M843 | | | | Extent: | 2.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. | African American | Archaeology | Aymara Indians | Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 | Barbados--Description and travel--19th century | Botany | Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853 | Conrad, T. A., (Timothy Abbott), 1803-1877 | Cooper, William, 1776-1848 | Craniology. | Craniometry | Dana, James D. (James Dwight), 1813-1895 | Diaries. | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Education | Egyptology. | Exploration. | Fermine Gomez Farias | French, B. F., (Benjamin Franklin), 1799-1877 | General Correspondence | Geology | Gliddon, George R.(George Robins),1809-1857. | Gomez, Jose Justo Gomez de la Cortina, conde de la, 1799-1860 | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880 | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Indians of North America--Kentucky | Indians of North America--Massachusetts | Indians of North America--Mississippi | Indians of North America--Ohio | Indians of North America--Physical characteristics | Indians of North America--Rhode Island | Indians of North America--Tennessee | Indians of South America--Peru | Indians of South America--Physical characteristics | International Travel | Kane , John K., (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | Medicine | Mineralogy | Miscegenation | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Natural history | Naumkeag Indians | Ornithology | Paleontology | Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 | Pentland, Joseph Barclay | Phrenology | Race | Race, race relations, racism | Rush, William, 1756-1833 | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Sketches. | Skull. | Slavery--Barbados | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Southeast Indians | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) | Watercolors | Wied-Neuwied, Maximilien Alexandre Philippe, prinz von, 1782-1864 | |
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