| 2 | Creator: | Accademia delle scienze di Torino. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Accademia delle scienze di Torino correspondence with Philadelphia institutions, 1824-1912
| | | | Dates: | 1824-1912 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence with Philadelphia institutions, from Accademia delle Scienze. Letters, principally of a formal character, from the APS, Academy of Natural Sciences, Wistar Institute, Wagner Free Institute of Science, and other learned societies and institutions; also a letter from John Vaughan to Prospero Balbo, 1832; with drafts of some replies. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.574 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Balbo, Prospero, conte, 1762-1837 | Learned institutions and societies. | Microfilm Collection | Science -- Societies, etc. | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | |
| 3 | Creator: | Académie des sciences (France). | Requires cookie* | | | | Grandjean de Fouchy, Jean Paul, 1707-1788 | | | | | Mairan, Dortous de, 1678-1771 | | | | Title: | Selections from the Procès-verbaux, 1758-1789
| | | | Dates: | 1758-1789 | | | | Abstract: | Minutes of meetings, mainly dealing with astronomy; added papers by Jean Paul Grandjean de Fochy and Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1367 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astronomy -- 18th century | Grandjean de Fouchy, Jean Paul, 1707-1788 | Learned institutions and societies. | Mairan, Dortous de, 1678-1771 | McClellan, James E., (James Edward), 1946- | Microfilm Collection | Minutes. | Science -- Societies, etc. | |
| 4 | Creator: | Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de, marquis de, 1743-1794 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sur l'utilité des académies, 1785
| | | | Dates: | 1785 | | | | Abstract: | It is suggested that this manuscript draft "was written for the court of Charles III of Spain and for the plan of a Madrid academy of sciences. In his text, Condorcet tries to sell the idea of a scientific academy and all its advantages, and he treats questions of academic structure and organization at length. Also, what is most important, Condorcet makes the argument for the academy as an independent center of a professional scientific career" (McClellan 1977:241). Contains also an extract from the [minutes?] of the academie des sciences, May 12, 1785, consisting of a report of committee on this article. | | | | Call #: | Mss.506.C75 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de, marquis de, 1743-1794 | Drafts (preliminary versions). | Learned institutions and societies -- Spain. | Learned institutions and societies. | Science -- Spain -- Societies, etc. | |
| 5 | Creator: | Alexander, William, 1726-1783 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Variation of the compass, 1773
| | | | Dates: | 1773 | | | | Abstract: | Written by William Alexander at Basking Ridge, New Jersey, March 27, 1773, this essay appeals to the American Philosophical Society to collect and publish astronomical observations. It was sent to the American Philosophical Society, where it was duly read in May 1773. | | | | Call #: | Mss.522.76.Al2 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alexander, William, 1726-1783 | American Philosophical Society. | Astronomy -- 18th century | Compass. | Learned institutions and societies. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Scientific Data | Surveying and Maps | Trade | |
| 6 | Creator: | Stauffer, Jacob,b. 1808. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jacob Stauffer Papers, 1844-1879
| | | | Dates: | 1844-1879 | | | | Abstract: | These letters concern various scientific subjects, such as fishes, insects, snakes, mice, fossils, and mosses. Other subjects include learned institutions, notably the Smithsonian Institution and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and men of science. Correspondents include S. S. Haldeman, Walter J. Hoffman, Spencer F. Baird, Edward D. Cope, and Leo Lesquereux. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.St15 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. | Botany. | Cope, E. D. , (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 | Cresson, Ezra Townsend | Durand, Elie M. | Farlow, W. G., (William Gilson), 1844-1919 | Le Conte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Learned institutions and societies. | Natural history. | Paleontology. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Scientists. | Smithsonian Institution. | Stauffer, Jacob,b. 1808. | Zoology. | |
| 7 | 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 | |
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