| 2 | Creator: | Walker, John,1731-1803. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Natural History, May 3, 1790 - December 2, 1790
| | | | Dates: | 1790 | | | | Abstract: | This volume, written between May 3 and December 2, includes essays on mineralogy, the vegetable kingdom (such as botany and fruitification), and the animal kingdom (such as zoology, ornithology, and generation of animals). | | | | Call #: | Mss.504.W15 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Botany. | Education | Educational Material | Essays. | Mineralogy. | Natural History | Natural history. | Ornithology. | University of Edinburgh. | Walker, John,1731-1803. | Zoology. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Sharswood, William, 1836-1905 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Sharswood papers, 1865-1867
| | | | Dates: | 1865-1867 | | | | Abstract: | These papers pertain to minerals and mining, publications, his play "The Betrothed," St. John's College in Maryland, and Reconstruction in South Carolina. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sh35 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Boker, George H., (George Henry), 1823-1890 | Browne, J. Ross, (John Ross), 1821-1875 | DeBow, James D. B. | Education. | Le Conte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Le Conte, John. | Mineralogy. | Reconstruction. | Sharswood, William, 1836-1905 | South Carolina -- History -- 1865- | St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.) | |
| 4 | Creator: | Davy, Humphry,Sir,1778-1829. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sir Humphry Davy correspondence, 1803-1822
| | | | Dates: | 1803-1822 | | | | Abstract: | Chiefly correspondence with Alexander John Gaspard Marcet on chemistry, with references to Sir Joseph Banks, Jean Francois Berger, Johan Jakob Berzelius, Jean-Baptiste Biot, and others; a few letters to and from John Bostock, Thomas Cooper, John Wilson Croker, Giovanni Fabbroni, and Henry Penneck. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D315.1 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anatomy | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Berger, Jean Francois, 1779-1833 | Berzelius, Jons Jakob, Friherre, 1779-1848 | Beyond Early America | Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 1774-1862 | Bostock, John, 1773-1846 | Chemistry | Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 | Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857 | Davy, Humphry,Sir,1778-1829. | Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822 | Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822 | Medicine. | Mineralogy. | Natural history. | Penneck, Henry | |
| 5 | Creator: | Penrose, R. A. F.(Richard Alexander Fullerton),1863-1931. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | R. A. F. (Richard Alexander Fullerton) Penrose correspondence and papers, 1885-1931
| | | | Dates: | 1885-1931 | | | | Abstract: | This correspondence is with Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Edgar Fahs Smith, and Thomas Sovereign Gates, about undergraduate days at Harvard College, his interest in Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wistar Institute. The papers include a list of publications, biographical data, papers on Robert G. LeConte and Daniel Moreau Barringer, a certificate of membership in the Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association, and 25 drawings of crystals and 35 original sketches made to accompany his Harvard thesis, "The Nature and Origin of Deposits of Phosphate of Lime." | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P384 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, Charles F. , (Charles Francis), 1854-1914 | Barringer, Daniel Moreau, 1860- | Certificates. | Drawings. | Gates, Thomas Sovereign | Geology. | Harvard University. | LeConte, Robert G. | Mineralogy. | Penrose, R. A. F.(Richard Alexander Fullerton),1863-1931. | Sketches. | Smith, Edgar Fahs, 1854-1928 | University of Pennsylvania. | Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. | |
| 6 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Torrey papers, 1819-1864
| | | | Dates: | 1819-1864 | | | | Abstract: | These papers include letters on natural history, metals and mineralogy, botany, insects, the geological survey of New York, and analyses of distilled liquors in the cause of temperance. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.T63.1 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Botany. | Buckley, S. B., (Samuel Botsford), 1809-1884 | Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858 | Delavan, Edward C., (Edward Cornelius), 1793-1871 | Durand, Elie M. | Eaton, Amos, 1776-1842 | Geology -- New York (State) -- Surveys. | Insects. | Mineralogy. | Natural History | Natural history. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Temperance. | Torrey, John, 1796-1873 | Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 | |
| 7 | Creator: | Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Robert Maskell Patterson notebooks, 1810-1811
| | | | Dates: | 1810-1811 | | | | Abstract: | These are notes of lectures and experiments made at Paris as a student at the Jardin des Plantes. The volumes are entitled: Botany & Agriculture (with a large portion actually on electrical machinery); Trees and Shrubs; Chemistry, Physics, Mineralogy; and Zoology. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P275.n | | | | Extent: | 4.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture | Botany | Chemistry | Education | Educational Material | Meteorological Data | Mineralogy | Natural History | Notebooks | Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Physics | Science and Technology | Zoology | |
| 8 | Creator: | Bunbury, Charles James Fox, Sir, 1809-1886 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury papers, 1845-1852
| | | | Dates: | 1845-1852 | | | | Abstract: | There are botanical notebooks which concern Bunbury's study of fossil plants in general, with special studies on the fossil plants in the Geological Society in Richmond, Virginia, and at Aix-la-Chapelle, Cape Breton Island, and Pennsylvania. There is also a historical sketch of eminent English naturalists. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B88 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bunbury, Charles James Fox, Sir, 1809-1886 | Fossil fuels -- Pennsylvania. | Geological Society (Richmond, Va.). Museum. | Manuscript Essays | Mineralogy | Natural History | Naturalists - England | Notebooks | Notebooks. | Paleobotany -- Germany -- Aachen. | Paleobotany -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island. | Paleobotany -- Pennsylvania. | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | Sketchbooks | |
| 9 | Creator: | Wheatley, Charles M.(Charles Moore),1822-1882. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles M.(Charles Moore) Wheatley papers, 1840-1882
| | | | Dates: | 1840-1882 | | | | Abstract: | This is a small but diverse collection documenting Wheatley's interests in mines and mining technology, paleontology, mineralogy, and shells. There are sketches of Wheatley's mine near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania; estimates of costs of machinery, and a list of furnace products sent to the Centennial Exposition. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W558 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 | Cope, E. D. , (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 | Dana, James D. (James Dwight), 1813-1895 | Education | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | Lettsom, W. G. | Markoe, Francis, -- Jr. | Mineralogy. | Mines and mineral resources -- Pennsylvania -- Phoenixville. | Mining engineers. | Natural history. | Paleontology. | Philadelphia History | Pickering, John, 1777-1846 | Redfield, John H. | Rogers, Henry D., (Henry Darwin), 1806-1866 | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Shells. | United States -- Centennial celebrations, etc. | Wheatley, Charles M.(Charles Moore),1822-1882. | |
| 10 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Samuel George Morton papers, 1838-1844
| | | | Dates: | 1838-1844 | | | | Abstract: | This collection of Morton letters forms part of a bound volume of incoming correspondence. It is a companion volume to the original letters in the Morton collection at the American Philosophical Society, which were also originally bound. Most of the subjects of the two collections overlap, but additional subjects in the microfilmed collection include American Indians, archaeology, Egyptology, and phrenology. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1413 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Archaeology | Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 | Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853 | Cortina, T. Gomez de la. | Craniology. | Dana, James D. (James Dwight), 1813-1895 | Education. | Egyptology. | Farias, Hermin G. | French, B. F., (Benjamin Franklin), 1799-1877 | Geology. | Gliddon, George R.(George Robins),1809-1857. | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Indians of North America | Kane , John K., (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Locke, John, 1792-1856 | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | Maclure, Alexander | Medicine. | Microfilm Collection | Mineralogy. | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Paleontology. | Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 | Phrenology. | Ravenel, Edmund, 1797-1871 | Rush, William, 1756-1833 | |
| 11 | Creator: | Vaux, George | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | George Vaux papers, 1738-1985
| | | | Dates: | 1738-1985 | | | | Abstract: | The 18th century material includes the trans-Atlantic correspondence of James, Richard, and George V, along with domestic correspondence relating to family and business affairs. Several letters discuss Philadelphia during the British occupation, and seven discuss yellow fever in 1797-1798, with a particularly fine letter by Ann Warder discussing the epidemic of 1798. The participation of George Vaux VII in a Quaker mission to the Seneca Indians in 1803 is well documented. Later correspondence, almost all personal and familial in nature, documents the interest of George Vaux VIII in mineralogy, his travels abroad, and Vaux genealogy. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.73 | | | | Extent: | 3.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Revolution | Antebellum Politics | Business Records and Accounts | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | Genealogy. | General Correspondence | Institutional Records | Land speculation | Legal Records | Maps and Surveys | Marriage and Family Life | Mineralogy. | Native America | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Quakers -- Missions. | Seneca Indians | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Surveying and Maps | Travel | Vaux, George | Vaux, George, VI | Vaux, George, VII | Warder , Ann Head, 1758-1829 | Yellow fever. | |
| 12 | 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 | |
| 13 | 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 | |
| 14 | Creator: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1783-1817 | | | | Abstract: | A physician, natural historian, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) was one of the central figures in Philadelphia's early national scientific establishment. Having received his medical training in European universities, Barton was appointed Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789, lecturing on botany, materia medica, natural history. A prolific author, he established his reputation as one of the nation's preeminent botanists through his botanical text book
The Elements of Botany (1803), but his contribtions to zoology, ethnology, and medicine were equally noteworthy. Barton's monograph on the "fascinating faculty" of the rattlesnake and his efforts in historical linguistics (
New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1798) were widely read, and his
Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal (1804-1809) was one of the nation's first medical journals and an important outlet for natural historical research.
The Barton Papers offer a comprehensive view of the professional work of Benjamin Smith Barton from the time of his return to the United States in 1789 until his death. The collection is divided into five series: Correspondence, Subject Files, Bound Volumes, Graphic Materials, and Printing Plates. The collection includes a particularly valuable series of botanical, medical, and natural historical drawings collected by Barton for research, reference, and publication. Among the many artists represented are William Bartram, Frederick Pursh, Pierre Turpin, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B284d | | | | Extent: | 10.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809 | Botanists | Botany--Study and teaching--19th century | Botany--Virginia | Buffalo (N.Y.)--Description and travel | Business and Skilled Trades | Chemistry--18th century | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee language | Choctaw Indians | Diaries. | Drawings. | Dysentery. | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Education | Electricity--18th century | Engravings. | Ethnobotany | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Geology--18th century | Gout | Harden, Jane LeConte | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868 -- Pictorial works | Hudson River (N.Y.)--Description and travel--18th century | Indians of North America | Indians of North America--Agriculture | Indians of North America--Languages | Kaigana Indians | Kaskaskia Indians | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Mammals--Classification | Mandan Indians | Mastodons | Materia medica | Medicine | Medicine--Practice--18th century | Medicine--Study and teaching--18th century | Meteorology--United States--18th century | Meteors | Mineralogy | Native America | Natural History | Natural history--18th century | Natural history--19th century | New Jersey--Description and travel--18th century | New York (State)--Description and travel--18th century | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Description and travel | Notebooks | Osage language | Pennsylvania--Description and travel--18th century | Physicians--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Physics | Political Correspondence | Printing and Publishing | Printing plates | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Science and Technology | Seminole Indians | Seneca Indians | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Tlaxcala (Mexico) | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Turpin, P. J. F., (Pierre Jean François), 1775-1840 | Tuscarora Indians | University of Pennsylvania--Faculty | Venereal disease | Virginia--Description and travel--18th century | Watercolors | Yellow fever | Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1793 | Zoology--18th century | |
| 15 | 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
Crania Americana and
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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