| 4 | 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 | |
| 5 | Creator: | West Long, Will | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Cherokee medicinal and magical texts, 1928-1936
| | | | Dates: | 1928-1936 | | | | Abstract: | Recorded in the Sequoyan syllabary. Part of the papers of Will West Long of Big Cove, Qualla Reservation, North Carolina. In the hand of Long, Morgan Calhoun, Lawyer Calhoun, etc.; several pages in English, relating to Indian masks and Indians and Snake Battle. List of dancers, 1936. Native American Images Note Part of the papers of Will West Long of Big Cove Reservation, North Carolina. Two notebooks written in Sequoyan syllabary. As a consultant to Frank Speck, Mr. Long (1870-1947) played a key role in collecting and transmitting information about traditional Cherokee culture. A unique example of Sequoyan Cherokee script known as "talking leaves." Of note, a green pencil figure sketch, 2 x 3", on page 55 of the smaller notebook. Presented by John Witthoft in 1953. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.C425 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Cherokee Indians | Indians of North America--Medicine--North Carolina | Medicine. | Notebooks. | Sketches. | Southeast Indians | West Long, Will | |
| 7 | Creator: | Rush, Samuel,1795-1859. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Samuel Rush notebook, 1859
| | | | Dates: | 1859 | | | | Abstract: | This notebook contains short essays on various topics, such as public singers ("the Mountebanks of the Voice"), the embarrassments of public men (Daniel E. Sickles and Philip Barton Key), songs, wit, wealth, suicide, Benjamin Rush, "that little sneak Kossuth," and modern authors ("the present wretches of the pen"). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R895 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Essays. | Key, Philip Barton | Kossuth, Lajos, 1802-1894 | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Notebooks. | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Rush, Samuel,1795-1859. | Sickles, Daniel E. | |
| 8 | Creator: | Sanderson, Ivan Terence,1911-1973. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ivan Terence Sanderson papers, [ca. 1920-1973]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1920-1973 | | | | Abstract: | This collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, diaries, notebooks, and photographs. Sanderson began his travels in the jungles of Asia and Africa before starting his formal schooling at Eton and Cambridge in the late 1920s and early 1930s. His papers reflect his interest in animals, jungles, and natural history. Late in his life Sanderson's interest turned to UFO's and he was the director of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sa3 | | | | Extent: | 27.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Africa--Description and travel | Asia -- Description and travel. | Diaries. | Drawings. | Eton College. | Natural history. | Notebooks. | Sanderson, Ivan Terence,1911-1973. | Unidentified flying objects. | University of Cambridge. | Zoology. | |
| 11 | Creator: | Peale family. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Peale family papers, [n.d.]
| | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Abstract: | These papers include two pages by Rubens Peale concerning landscapes, a notebook by Rembrandt Peale relating to the portrait of Washington, and a commonplace and recipe book, with sketches of gas lights. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1081.1 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Commonplace books. | Gas-lighting. | Landscape drawing, American. | Microfilm Collection | Notebooks. | Painting. | Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 | Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865 | Recipes. | Sketches. | Washington, George, 1732-1799 | |
| 16 | Creator: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Electrologia, ca. 1785
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1785 | | | | Abstract: | By an unknown author, this notebook is of experiments and the history of experiments with electricity, containing references to Franklin, Beccaria, and Priestley, etc. | | | | Call #: | Mss.537.EL23 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anonymous | Beccaria, Giambatista, 1716-1781 | Beyond Early America | Educational Material | Electricity -- Early works to 1850. | Electricity -- Experiments -- History. | Foreign Language | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Natural History | Notebooks. | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Science and technology | Scientific Data | |
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