| 1 | Creator: | Nicklin, Philip Houlbrooke,1786-1842. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Lamarck's genera of shells, [ca. 1831]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1831 | | | | Abstract: | This volume was copied by Philip Holbrook Nicklin, a Philadelphia author and bookseller, from portions of the "London Quarterly Journal of Science Literature and the Arts" and partly from a translation of the original, to which is prefixed a short conchological introduction, containing descriptions of the Linnean genera, & of those species, from which Lamarck has formed most of his genera. | | | | Call #: | Mss.594.L16 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829 | Manuscript Essays | Mollusks. | Natural History | Natural history. | Nicklin, Philip Houlbrooke,1786-1842. | Science and Technology | Zoology. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Thomas Campbell Eyton correspondence, 1836-1874
| | | | Dates: | 1836-1874 | | | | Abstract: | These letters cover subjects in natural history, especially birds and mollusks. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Ey83 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Ball, Robert, -- 1802-1857. | Birds. | Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 | Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 | Buckland, Francis T., (Francis Trevelyan), 1826-1880 | Crelle, A. L., (August Leopold), 1780-1855 | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Mollusks. | Natural history. | Patterson, Robert, 1802-1872 | Strickland, H. E., (Hugh Edwin), 1811-1853 | Yarnell, William, 1784-1856 | |
| 3 | Creator: | Say, Thomas, 1787-1834 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Thomas Say papers, 1819-1883, 1955
| | | | Dates: | 1819-1883 | | | | Abstract: | Consists of material chiefly on natural history, shells, and insects, including miscellaneous notes on conchology by Say; photostats of 6 letters from Say to Jacob Gilliams, 1819-1829, from Morristown, New Jersey; and a biographical note on Say. The drawings and impressions of shells are by Mrs. Lucy Way Sistaire Say, prepared for W. G. Binney's edition of Say's complete works on conchology, 1858; also Mrs. Say's refutation of what she considered an unfair attack in George Ord's memoir of Say. Correspondents include André Etienne Férussac, Arthur F. Gray, John Lawrence LeConte, and Charles W. Short. An additional item is a memorial volume (ca. 150 pp.), including a family genealogy and land surveys in watercolor (B Sa95f). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sa95.g | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Drawings. | Entomology. | Férussac, André-Etienne-Just-Pascal-Joseph-Francois d'Audebard, -- baron de, -- 1786-1836. | General Correspondence | Gilliams, Jacob | Land and Speculation | Maps and Surveys | Mollusks. | Natural History | Natural history. | Ord, George, 1781-1866 | Say, Thomas, 1787-1834 | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | Short, Charles Wilkins, 1794-1863 | Sketchbooks | Surveying and Maps | |
| 4 | 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 | |
| 5 | Creator: | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Edward Gray papers, 1783-1884
| | | | Dates: | 1783-1884 | | | | Abstract: | These are primarily letters to Gray on various aspects of natural history, with many references to collections at the British Museum of Natural History. There are numerous letters from British scientists and from European colleagues. There are letters from Americans too, such as those from Agassiz which relate to his Florida expeditions and the creation of natural history collections. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.G784 | | | | Extent: | 5.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Acland, Henry W., (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900 | Allman, George James, 1812-1898 | Assyria -- Antiquities. | Autographs. | Balard, Antoine-Jérôme, 1802-1876 | Bate, C. Spence , (Charles Spence), 1818-1889 | Berkeley, M. J., (Miles Joseph), 1803-1889 | Beyond Early America | Blainville, H.-M. Ducrotay de, (Henri-Marie Ducrotay), 1777-1850. | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Bonomi, Joseph | Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850 | British Museum (Natural History) -- Natural history collections. | Brookes, Joshua, -- 1754-1821. | Dana, James D. (James Dwight), 1813-1895 | Du Chaillu, Paul B., (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 | Duméril, C., (Constant), 1774-1860 | Fitch, Asa, 1809-1879 | Florida -- Discovery and exploration. | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore, 1805-1861 | Geological Society of London | Geology. | Gray, John Edward | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Hoeven, Jan van der | Lefèvre, Jean-Jacques, 1779-1858 | Mollusks. | Müller, Joh., 1801-1858 | Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- England. | Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- United States. | Nineveh (Extinct city) -- Antiquities. | Pfeiffer, Ludwig Georg Karl, 1805-1877. | Schomburgk, Robert H., Sir, (Robert Hermann), 1804-1865 | Shells. | Société des sciences naturelle de France. | Valenciennes, M., 1794-1865 | |
| 6 | Creator: | Cain, Arthur J. (Arthur James), 1921-1999 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Arthur J. Cain Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1945-1988 | | | | Abstract: | Arthur J. Cain is an evolutionary biologist whose research interests have included genetics, natural selection, biogeography, and systematics. Based at Oxford University and, later, the University of Liverpool, much of Cain's research was field-based, focusing on terrestrial gatsropods. This collection contains correspondence, grant applications, reports, programs for scientific meetings, unpublished papers and lectures, research notes, charts, graphs, maps, and manuscript reviews of journal articles and books. The Cain Papers is divided into three series: I. Correspondence ; II. Subject Files ; and, III. Papers by Colleagues. Arrangement is alphabetical by folder title, and chronological within each folder. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.63 | | | | Extent: | 15.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Museum of Natural History | American Philosophical Society | Anthropology | Bibliographical matters | Biographical and personal data | Biology | Biology--Classification | Birds. | Business | Cain, Arthur J. (Arthur James), 1921-1999 | Cancer, chemotherapy | Clarke, B. C. (Bryan C.) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Committee activities | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks -- Simpson, George Gaylord. 80th birthday | Cranach, Mario von, b. 1931 | Darwin, Charles | Davis, George Morgan | Dobzhansky, Theodosius | Drosophila genetics | Ecology | Editorial matters | Evolution | Evolution (Biology) | Fellowships, assistantships | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer | Ford, Edmund Brisco | Gastropoda | Genetics | Genetics -- Birds | Genetics -- Cats | Genetics -- Invertebrates | Genetics -- Snails | Genetics Society (Great Britain) -- London | Genetics of plants | Glass, Bentley | Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson | History of biology, especially genetics | Human genetics | Huxley, Julian | Invitations | Kirkaldy, J. S. | Laboratory techniques, equipment | Lectures, public speaking | Maps | Mayr, Ernst | Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 | Medawar, Peter Brian | Mendel, Gregor | Mollusks | Natural selection | Ornithology | Oxford University | Paleontology | Population genetics | Population genetics -- Snails | Population, demography | Preservation of historical materials | Publication | Publication -- Animal Species and their Evolution | Pulmonata | Requests for reprints | Research support | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific refugees | Sheppard, P. M. (Philip Macdonald), 1921-1976 | Sheppard, Philip M. | Teaching | Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre | Travel -- Africa | Travel -- Europe | Travel -- Greece | Travel -- Invitations, arrangements | Travel -- Solomon Islands | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Woodruff, David S. | Wright, Sewall | Zoology | Zoology -- Africa | Zoology -- Classification | Zoology -- Gastropods | Zoology -- Invertebrates | Zoology -- Nomenclature | |
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