| 1 | Creator: | Paget, James, Sir, 1814-1899 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932
| | | | Dates: | 1784-1932 | | | | Abstract: | These letters were assembled by Lady Paget as a collection of autographs. Most are addressed to Paget, and their subjects include medicine, science, and family. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P212 | | | | Extent: | 0.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Autographs. | Beyond Early America | Billings, John S., (John Shaw), 1838-1913 | Clark, Andrew, 1856-1922 | Cuvier, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832 | Davy, Humphry,Sir,1778-1829. | Dewar, James, d. 1788 | Lubbock, J. W., (John William), 1803-1865 | Medicine. | Paget, James, Sir, 1814-1899 | Prestwick, Joseph, Sir | Science. | Stephenson, Robert, 1803-1859 | Virchow, Rudolf Ludwig Karl, 1821-1902 | Wallace, Albert Russel | Watson, Thomas, -- Sir. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Requires cookie* | | | | König, Charles Dietrich Eberhard, 1774-1851 | | | | Title: | William Buckland papers, 1817-1848
| | | | Dates: | 1817-1848 | | | | Abstract: | These are primarily scientific letters from Buckland. The subjects mentioned include Milne-Home's seismological investigations, Wheatstone's self-registering instruments, geology (glacial phenomena in Scotland, mineralogy, etc.), numerous references to fossils, and mentions of Mastodon bones and sloths. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B854.p | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Burton, Edward, 1794-1836 | Cooper, William White | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Fossils -- Collection and preservation. | Gibson, John, 1778-1840 | Glaciers -- Scotland. | Hutton, William, 1797-1860 | König, Charles Dietrich Eberhard, 1774-1851 | Lubbock, J. W., (John William), 1803-1865 | Milne-Home, David, 1805-1890 | Mineralogy | Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871 | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Seismology -- Instruments. | Seismology -- Research. | Smyth, W. H., (William Henry), 1788-1865 | Sopwith, Thomas, 1803-1879 | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 | Wheatstone, Charles, Sir, 1802-1875 | |
| 3 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Autograph collection, 1816-1917
| | | | Dates: | 1816-1917 | | | | Abstract: | There are 153 letters in this collection, many addressed to Aubrey Lackington Moore, an English writer who tried to reconcile evolution and traditional Christianity. Some letters discuss scientific questions of the day, while others are formal social notes. Also includes 24 clipped signatures, inlcuding those of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland; Goerge Bentham; H. A. Bruce; S. H. Butcher; Matthewss Duncan; Percy Gardner; George Gritchett; G. Grote; Alfred Cort Haddon; Sir Prescott Gardner Hewitt; William Guyer Hunter; Thomas Henry Huxley; John Lingard; Thomas Babington Macauley; Miss K. Aubrey Moore; Louis Pasteur; Sir John Russell Reynolds, bart.; Thomas Smith; James Leigh Strachan-Davidson; Agnes Strickland; and Arthur Thomason. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M781 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Acland, Henry W., (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900 | Autographs. | Bentham, George, 1800-1884 | Beyond Early America | Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894 | Evolution. | Fletcher, C. R. L., (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934 | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Gladstone, W. E., (William Ewart), 1809-1898 | Grote, George, 1794-1871 | Lubbock, J. W., (John William), 1803-1865 | Miscellaneous | Moore, E. M.,collector. | Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895 | Science. | Thomson, William | Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir, 1838-1928 | Turner, William, Sir | |
| 4 | Creator: | Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mary Somerville papers, [ca. 1781-ca. 1877]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1781-1877 | | | | Abstract: | This microfilm of Somerville's papers was compiled by Elizabeth C. Patterson for her book, "Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840" (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1983). It includes Somerville's scientific writings, personal writings, "letters from celebrities," family papers, genealogy, and photographs. Subjects of some of her writings include astronomy, Halley's comet, effects of light, and physical geography. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1281 | | | | Extent: | 19.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astronomy. | Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 | Greig, Woronzow | Halley's comet. | Herschel, John F. W., Sir, (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves, marquis de, 1757-1834 | Light -- Physiological effect. | Lubbock, J. W., (John William), 1803-1865 | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers, -- comp. | Physical geography. | Science -- Great Britain. | Smyth, W. H., (William Henry), 1788-1865 | Somerville, Martha C. | Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872 | Somerville, William, 1771-1860 | Women scientists -- Germany. | |
| 5 | Creator: | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Darwin papers, 1831-1882
| | | | Dates: | 1831-1882 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence of Charles Darwin with his family, Sir William J. Hooker, Sir John W. Lubbock, William Ogle, Daniel Oliver, John Tyndall, and Sir William Ramsay, 1836-1882. (1 reel). Letters to J. Brodie-Innes, W. H. Bates, Lady Dorothy Nevill, and others (1846-1882); also letters to his wife and son and letters and papers about him (1 reel). Letters from Darwin to G. H. K. Thwaites, William B. Tegetmeier, Albany Hancock, Richard Owen, Bernhard Studer, Auguste H. Forel, J. Moulinie, A. Bohrn, Karl Christoph Vogt, François Joseph Pictet de la Rive, and others. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.496 | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bates, William Horatio, 1860-1931 | Beagle (Ship) | Bohrn, A. | Brodie-Innes, J.W., (John William), 1848-1923 | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Evolution. | Forel, Auguste, 1848-1931 | Hancock, Albany, 1806-1873 | Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 | Lubbock, J. W., (John William), 1803-1865 | Microfilm Collection | Moulinié, Jean Jacques, 1830-1872 | Natural history. | Natural selection. | Naturalists -- England. | Nevill, Dorothy, Lady, 1826-1913 | Ogle, William, 1827-1912 | Oliver, Daniel, 1830-1916 | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Pictet de la Rive, Francois Joseph,--1809-1872 | Ramsay, William, 1852-1916 | Religion and science -- History -- 19th century. | Studer, B., (Bernhard), 1794-1887 | Tegetmeier, W. B., (William Bernhard), 1816-1912 | Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick, 1811-1882 | Tyndall, John, 1820-1893 | Variation (Biology) | Vogt, Karl Christoph, 1817-1895 | |
| 6 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Richard Owen papers, 1827-1889
| | | | Dates: | 1827-1889 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains correspondence on natural history, expecially mollusks, fishes, and birds, and on medicine and social affairs, with references to the British Museum of Natural History. Also included are a paper by Owen on dinosaurs and a synopsis of a course of lectures, 1857. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Ow2 | | | | Extent: | 1.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Birds. | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 -- Correspondence | British Museum (Natural History). | Buxton, Charles, 1768-1833 | Carpenter, Philip Pearsall, 1819-1877 | Carpenter, Philip Pearsall, 1819-1877 -- Correspondence | Cooke, William Fothergill, 1806-1879 | Cooper, Mary, Lady | Cooper, William White -- Correspondence | Dinosaurs. | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Fishes. | Grey-Egerton, Philip de Malpas, Sir, 10th bart., 1806-1881 -- Correspondence | Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 -- Correspondence | Horne, R. H., (Richard H.), 1802-1884 -- Correspondence | Horne, R. H., (Richard H.), 1802-1884 | Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910 | Lankester, E. Ray, Sir, (Edwin Ray), 1847-1929 | Lubbock, J. W., (John William), 1803-1865 | Manby, George William, 1765-1854 -- Correspondence | Medicine. | Milne-Edwards, H., (Henri), 1800-1885 -- Correspondence | Milne-Edwards, H., (Henri), 1800-1885 | Mollusks. | Natural history. | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 -- Correspondence | Ransome, George -- Correspondence | Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865 | |
| 7 | 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- | |
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