| 1 | Creator: | Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sir Roderick Impey Murchison correspondence, 1830-1867
| | | | Dates: | 1830-1867 | | | | Abstract: | These are letters written from America, to Murchison, discussing geology, natural history, and contemporary topics. | | | | Call #: | Mss.509.G29 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Beyond Early America | Dana, James D. (James Dwight), 1813-1895 | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 | Geology. | Hall, James | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871 | Natural history. | Rogers, Henry D., (Henry Darwin), 1806-1866 | Ross, P. Campbell | Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 1779-1864 | Vanuxem, Lardner. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Pennock, C. W.(Caspar Wistar),1799-1867. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | C. W. (Caspar Wistar) Pennock papers, 1829-1891
| | | | Dates: | 1829-1891 | | | | Abstract: | These are primarily letters, with some receipts for medical services rendered included. They relate to the general social and intellectural life of Philadelphia and to publications on medical topics. Many of the letters are introductions to Europeans when Pennock first visited there. Letters dated post-1867 are to relatives and colleagues (?). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P3825 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Americans Abroad | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Comstock, Andrew | Griscom, John, 1774-1852 | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Hays, Isaac,1796-1879. | International Travel | Manuscript Essays | Medicine | Medicine. | Michaux, Francois André, 1770-1855 | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Pennock, C. W.(Caspar Wistar),1799-1867. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Receipts. | Travel Narratives and Journals | Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858 | Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Various | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Scientists Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1563-1973 | | | | Abstract: | The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology.
Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer. | | | | Call #: | Mss.509.L56 | | | | Extent: | 5.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abeille, Louis Paul, 1719-1807 | Akademiia Nauk S.S.S.R. | Animal magnetism. | Astronomy | Astronomy--Early works to 1800 | Azores--Description and travel | Barton, Henry Askew, 1898-1983 | Beadle, Elias R. | Bertrand, J. (Joseph), 1822-1900 | Beyond Early America | Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 | Clarke, Frieda | Compton, K. T., (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 | Conchology | Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864 | Dickerson, Mahlon, 1770-1853 | Evolution (Biology) | Geology | Gray, Joseph Alexander, 1884-1966 | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Lynge, Herman Henrik Julius, 1822-1897 | Natural history | Paleontology | Perisco, Enrico | Photographs | Physicists. | Physics | Physics--Early works to 1800 | Science | Segrè, Emilio Gino, 1905-1989 | Shells. | Silkworms | Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854 | Various | Vulliamy, Benjamin Lewis, 1780-1854 | Wien, W. , (Wilhelm), 1864-1928 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John James Audubon Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1821-1845 | | | | Abstract: | John James Audubon (1785-1851), the American Woodsman, is a legendary naturalist and bird artist. His technique of painting North American birds dramatically as they appeared in their natural habitat was a major contribution to the emerging discipline of ornithology in the nineteenth century. His masterpiece,
The Birds of America (1827-1838), elephant folio, was followed by a companion text edition,
Ornithological Biography (1831-1849), a smaller octavo edition of
Birds (1840-1844) and
The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, published posthumously.
This collection of original letters of publication information, ornithology, and some personal notes was sent primarily to Lucy Bakewell Audubon, his wife, from 1826-1834, and to Victor Gifford Audubon, his son, from 1833-1834, 1840-1844, with some sporadic contact with both between 1836-1839. Items in the collection relate to Audubon's Florida, Great Egg Harbor, and Great Pine Forest expeditions but not to his final expedition up the Missouri River. Of particular note, letters of 1833 and 1834 contain references to his response to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia president George Ord's attacks on his credibility. A partial journal entry from New Orleans in 1821 and a few letters to other correspondents, including John Bachman, round out the material. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Au25 | | | | Extent: | 0.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abert, John James, 1788-1863 | Art | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Audubon, John Woodhouse, 1812-1862 | Audubon, Lucy Green Bakewell, 1788-1874 | Audubon, Victor Gifford, 1809-1860 | Bachman, John, 1790-1874 | Bakewell, William | Berthoud, Nicholas | Birds--North America | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian Jule | Brewster, Thomas | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Chetwynd, Henry John, Earl of Shrewsbury | Children, John George, 1777-1852 | Cooper, William, 1798?-1864 | Family Correspondence | Gaston, William | General Correspondence | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Harris, Edward | Havell, Robert, Jr. 1793-1878 | Lehman, George | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859 | Martin, Maria, 1794-1863 | McCulloch, Thomas, Jr. | McMurtry, Henry | Natural History | Natural History--North America | Naturalist | Ord, George, 1781-1866 | Ornithologist | Ornithology--North America | Printing and Publishing | Rathbone, William | Rothschild, Baron Nathan Mayer de | Science and Technology | Waller, J. Walthen | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 | Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813 | |
| 5 | Creator: | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Richard Harlan Journals
| | | | Dates: | 1816-1817, 1833 | | | | Abstract: | The natural historian Richard Harlan was a pioneer in the study of comparative anatomy and vertebrate paleontology in the United States during the years following the War of 1812. Having received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1818, Harlan was employed as an instructor of anatomy at Joseph Parrish's school and at the Philadelphia Museum. A practicing physician and member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the American Philosophical Society, Harlan made important contributions in comparative neuroanatomy, paleontology, herpetology, and systematic zoology. He died shortly after moving to New Orleans in 1839.
Harlan's journals document two of the three overseas voyages he undertook during his lifetime. The first took place in 1816-1817 when Harlan was still a medical student, accompanying an East Indiaman to Calcutta as ship's surgeon. The second took place when Harlan was at the peak of his career in 1833, venturing to England, France, and Italy to strengthen contacts with European colleagues. Interesting travel narratives in themselves, the journals mingle enthusiasm for the new and exotic with a touch of Harlan's truculance. The European journal includes a valuable account of the 3nd meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Cambridge at which Harlan delivered a paper on fossil reptiles. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H228 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alps--Description and travel | Americans Abroad | British Association for the Advancement of Science (3d : Cambridge, England) | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Dalton, John, 1766-1844 | Edinburgh (Scotland)--Description and travel | France--Description and travel | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | India--Description and travel | International Travel | Ireland--Description and travel | Italy--Description and travel | Journals | London (England)--Description and travel | Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 | Medicine | Medicine--Practice--France | Paleontology | Paris (France)--Description and travel | Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta | Science and Technology | Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 | Switzerland--Description and travel | Syme, James, 1799-1870 | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Valenciennes, M., 1794-1865 | |
| 6 | Creator: | American Philosophical Society. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Philosophical Society Archives
| | | | Dates: | 1743-1984 | | | | Abstract: | Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society was the first learned society in the United States. For over 250 years, the Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Society fulfilled the role of a national academy of science, national library and museum, and even patent office. Early members of the Society included Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Peter Du Ponceau, George Washington, and many other figures prominent in American history.
The Archives of the American Philosophical Society consists of 192.25 linear feet of material, organized into thirteen record groups dating back to 1743. The Society's archives extensively documents not only the organization's historical development but also its role in American history and the history of science and technology. | | | | Call #: | APS.Archives | | | | Extent: | 192.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Adena culture--West Virginia | African American | American Philosophical Society | Astronomy--18th century | Aztecs. | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Bartram, Moses, d. 1791 | Bell, Whitfield J. (Whitfield Jenks) | Brown, Samuel, 1768-1805 | Cherokee Indians | Choctaw Indians | Colonial Politics | Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952 | Dercum, Francis X. , (Francis Xavier), 1856-1931 | Early National Politics | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Education | Grave Creek Mound (Marshall County, West Virginia) | Hanson, Laura E. | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843 | Hays , I. Minis, (Isaac Minis), 1847-1925 | History of science and technology. | Indians of Mexico | Indians of North America--Kentucky | Indians of North America--Mississippi | Indians of North America--Northwest Coast | Indians of North America--West Virginia | Institutional Records | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Keen, William W., (William Williams), b. 1837 | Legaux, Peter,1748-1827. | Lingelbach , William E., (William Ezra), 1871-1962 | Miscellaneous | Morris, Roland Sletor, 1874-1945 | Mound builders | Native America | Native American Materials | Natural History | Natural History--18th century | Natural History--19th century | Nicola, Lewis, 1717-1807 | Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824 | Pencil works | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Plains Indians | Priestly, Joseph R. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Shryock, Richard Harrison, 1893-1972 | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Southeast Indians | Thornton, William, 1759-1828 | United States History. | Valltravers, Johann Rodolph | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Warden, David Baillie, 1772-1845 | Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | Wood, George Bacon, 1797-1879 | |
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