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1Creator:  Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768Requires cookie*
 Title:  Peter Collinson transcripts, 1721-1768     
 Dates:  1721-1768 
 Abstract:  Circa 160 transcripts prepared for publication in Alan Armstrong, ed. Selected correspondence. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.C692a 
 Extent:  0.5 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Colonial Politics | General Correspondence | Natural History | Scientific Correspondence | Transcripts. 
2Creator:  Alexander, William, 1726-1783Requires 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:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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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 
3Creator:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  Torpedo marmorata Sur la Torpille..., ca. 1770s. (Manuscripts, [ca. 1770-1779], concerning the torpedo fish)     
 Dates:  Circa 1770-1779 
 Abstract:  These manuscripts are in the hand of various unknown authors, and concern research and observations on the torpedo fish, which was of much interest to those studying electricity at the time. Included are copies of letters from John Walsh to Benjamin Franklin, and a copy of a Walsh and Thomas Pennant letter, read before the Royal Society (1774), concerning a torpedo fish found off the coast of England. 
 Call #:  Mss.597.5.Su7 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Electrophysiology. | Essays. | Fishes -- Research. | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Natural History | Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798 | Royal Society (Great Britain). | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Walsh, John 
4Creator:  Ord, George, 1781-1866Requires cookie*
 Title:  Extracts from letters on John James Audubon, [n.d.]     
 Dates:  n.d. 
 Abstract:  This volume contains extracts, chiefly in an unknown hand (probably Charles Waterton), from Ord's letters, 1831-1835, criticizing Audubon as a man and as a naturalist. Ord wrote the last part of the volume (signed and dated June 29, 1838), and there are manuscript comments by Charles Waterton. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.Au25o 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Manuscript Essays | Natural History | Naturalists. | Ord, George, 1781-1866 | Ornithologists. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 
5Creator:  Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768Requires cookie*
 Title:  Peter Collinson letters, [ca. 1740]-1770     
 Dates:  1740-1770 
 Abstract:  This is a small group of letters written to Johann Ambrosius Beurer, J. von Sprehelson, and Christoph Jacob Trew. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.C692 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Berkeley, Edmund, 1937- | Beurer, Johann Ambrosius | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | General Correspondence | Natural History | Natural history. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Sprehelson, J. von | Trew, Christoph Jacob, 1695-1769 
6Creator:  Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866Requires cookie*
 Title:  George William Featherstonhaugh papers, 1809-1840     
 Dates:  1809-1840 
 Abstract:  These are copies of letters, chiefly relating to the American Philosophical Society, from Peter S. Du Ponceau, John Vaughan, and James Mease. There are a few original letters, one to Benjamin Franklin Peale. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.F31 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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 Subjects:  American Philosophical Society. | Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 | General Correspondence | Peale, Franklin,1795-1870. | Science -- Societies, etc. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence 
7Creator:  Fothergill, John, 1712-1780Requires cookie*
 Title:  John Fothergill letters, 1737-1778     
 Dates:  1737-1750 
 Abstract:  All but one of these letters are to Charles Alston, the professor of botany at Edinburgh University, and concern medicine, botany, and science in general. They are dated between 1737 and 1750. One letter is to George Whately, dated 1778. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.F82 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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 Subjects:  Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 | Botany. | Education | Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 | General Correspondence | Medicine | Medicine. | Science. | Scientific Correspondence | University of Edinburgh. 
8Creator:  De Morgan, Augustus,1806-1871.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Augustus De Morgan letters, 1841-1866     
 Dates:  1841-1866 
 Abstract:  These letters are to William Hepworth Dixon, who was editor of the "Athenaeum," a journal of literature, science, the fine arts, music, and drama, from 1871 to 1900. They concern current publications and publishing expenses, Michael Faraday, astronomy, perspective, M. F. Maury, P. B. Du Chaillu, all in relation to the "Athenaeum" or letters to the editor thereof. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.D396 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Astronomy. | Beyond Early America | De Morgan, Augustus,1806-1871. | Dixon, William Hepworth, 1821-1879 | Du Chaillu, Paul B., (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 | Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867 | Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873 | Printing and Publishing | Publishers and publishing. | Science publishing. | Scientific Correspondence 
9Creator:  Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813Requires cookie*
 Title:  Alexander Wilson papers, 1806-1813     
 Dates:  1806-1813 
 Abstract:  This material relates to Alexander B. Grosart's biography of Wilson. There are notes and copies of letters and documents, including a copy of Wilson's will. There is one poem by Wilson, "The Last Wish," and an 1806 letter to William Bartram. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.W692 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Birds. | General Correspondence | Grosart, Alexander Balloch, 1827-1899 | Legal Records | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Natural History | Ornithologists. | Ornithology. | Poems. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Travel | Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813 
10Creator:  Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857Requires 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:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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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 
11Creator:  Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823Requires cookie*
 Title:  Manasseh Cutler papers, 1787-1806     
 Dates:  1787-1806 
 Abstract:  Miscellaneous letters from and to Benjamin Smith Barton, Nicholas Collin, Henry Muhlenberg, Jeremy Belknap, Monsieur Le Roi, and a broadside by Robert Aitken. These letters concern botany and zoology in the U.S., England, and on the Continent, and mention contemporary figures as well as the American Philosophical Society. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.C974m 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  American Philosophical Society. | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798 | Botany -- England. | Botany -- Europe. | Botany -- United States. | Collin, Nicholas, 1746-1831 | Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823 | Muhlenberg, Gotthilf Henrich Ernst, 1753-1815 | Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815 | Natural History | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Zoology -- England. | Zoology -- Europe. | Zoology -- United States. 
12Creator:  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 
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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. 
13Creator:  unknownRequires 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 
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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 
14Creator:  Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818Requires cookie*
 Title:  Caspar Wistar Papers     
 Dates:  1794-1817 
 Abstract:  This is primarily a collection of letters and manuscripts sent to Wistar by prominent men who were among his many correspondents. These documents reflect his broad interests, including botany, paleontology, medicine, the American Philosophical Society, and André Michaux's plans for exploring the Missouri. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.W76 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
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 Subjects:  Ambroise M. F. J., Baron de Palisot de Beauvois | American Philosophical Society | Botany | Camper, Adrien Gilles, 1759-1820 | Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823 | General Correspondence | International Travel | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Medicine | Medicine--19th century | Natural History | Paleontology--19th century | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb | Travel | Warden, David Bailie, 1772-1845 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | Yellow fever 
15Creator:  Gray, Asa, 1810-1888Requires cookie*
 Title:  Asa Gray papers, 1838-1887     
 Dates:  1838-1887 
 Abstract:  The largest portion of correspondence is with Charles Edwin Bessy on botanical matters, including botanical publications in the United States and Europe, and plants and shell specimens. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.G78 
 Extent:  0.5 Linear feet 
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 Subjects:  Bessey, Charles E., (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915 | Botanical gardens. | Botany. | Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858 | Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 | Education -- United States. | Educational Material | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | James, Thomas Potts, 1803-1882 | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Ridgely, Charles Goodwin, 1784-1848 | Rothrock, Joseph T., 1839-1922 | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Shells. | Torrey, John, 1796-1873 | Vrolik, W., (Willem), 1801-1863 | Ward, Henry Augustus, 1834-1906 
16Creator:  Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801-1892Requires cookie*
 Title:  Sir George Biddell Airy Papers     
 Dates:  1840-1890 
 Abstract:  The collection is divided into two series. The first contains disparate letters from Airy relating to his publications and his position as Astronomer Royal of England, with mentions of topics such as: electrical experiments, magnets, Observatoire de Paris, stars, and telescopes. Correspondents in this series include: Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Challis, Alexander S. Herschel, Balfour Stewart, Septimus Tebay, John Washington. The second series features a group of documents put together by George May of the Harton Colliery at South Shields (1889) relating to Airy's pendulum experiments at Harton Pit in 1854 to measure the density of the earth. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.Ai7p 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
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 Subjects:  Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801-1892 | Anderson, C.W. | Anderson, William | Artifacts | Astronomy - Research - England | Beyond Early America | Brayley, E. W., (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854 | Challis, James, 1803-1882 | Clippings. | Electricity - Experiments | Geology - Research - England | Geology, Structural | Herschel, Alexander Stewart, 1836-1907 | Magnetism - Experiments | Magnets | May, George, collector | Observatoire de Paris | Pendulum | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Stars -- Magnitudes. | Stewart, Balfour, 1828-1887 | Tebay, Septimus | Telescopes 
17Creator:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  John Bartram correspondence, 1735-1775     
 Dates:  1735-1775 
 Abstract:  Correspondence compiled by Edward E. Wildman and Francis D. West, chiefly from original letters in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and other depositories, 1956. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.B28.w 
 Extent:  719.0 Item(s) 
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 Subjects:  Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Botanists. | Botany. | Breintnall, Joseph, d. 1746 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Colony and State Specific History | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | General Correspondence | Horticulture. | Horticulturists. | Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778 | Natural History | Natural history. | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Plant collectors. | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Scientific Correspondence | Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753 | Wildman, Edward, (Edward Embree), 1874-1956 | Witt, Christopher, 1675-1765 
18Creator:  Beccaria, Giambatista, 1716-1781Requires cookie*
 Title:  Giambatista Beccaria Papers     
 Dates:  1766-1780 
 Abstract:  The papers of the Italian natural philosopher and electrician, Giambatista Beccaria (1716-1781) contain letters to Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, Laura Bassi, Gian Francesco Cigna, and others on a variety of scientific topics, including atmospheric and terrestrial electricity, the aurora borealis, earthquakes, meteorology, and phosphorescence. In addition to Beccaria's epistolary essays, the collection includes several journals of meteorological observations and notes for Giovanni Eandi's biography of Beccaria. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.B385 
 Extent:  0.75 Linear feet 
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 Subjects:  Auroras. | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Bassi, Laura, 1711-1778 | Beccaria, Giambatista, 1716-1781 | Beyond Early America | Cigna, Gian Francesco, 1734-1790 | Eandi, Giuseppe Antonio Francesco Girolamo, 1735-1799 | Earthquakes--Early works to 1800 | Electricity--Early works to 1800 | Electricity--Experiments | Foreign Language | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Journals (notebooks) | Lightning | Lightning rods | Manuscript Essays | Meteorology--Italy--Observations | Phosphorescence | Physics--Early works to 1800 | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Scientific apparatus and instruments--18th century | Sketches. | Sunspots 
19Creator:  Cannon, Walter B., (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945Requires cookie*
 Title:  Walter B. Cannon Papers     
 Dates:  1905-1928 
 Abstract:  A key spokesman for the medical establishment against the antivivisection movement, Walter B. Cannon was head of the Council for the Defence of Medical Research of the American Medical Association from 1908 to 1936. He and his colleague William W. Keen monitored antivivisectionist activity, mobilized the medical profession, lobbied politicians, testified in public hearings, and wrote tirelessly in defense of animal experimentation. Cannon was George Higginson Professor of Physiology at Harvard Medical School and head of its physiology department. Keen was a prominent surgeon and neurologist from Philadelphia. The Cannon Papers consist of over 1.5 linear feet of correspondence, 1905-1928, primarily between Cannon (1871-1945) and Keen (1837-1932) regarding their mutual opposition to the antivivisection movement. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.C163.1 
 Extent:  1.5 Linear feet 
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 Subjects:  American Medical Association. | Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 | Cannon, Walter B., (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945 | Evolution | League of Nations. | Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912 | Medicine-United States | Mitchell, S. Weir, (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 | Neurology-United States | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Shock. | Surgery-United States | Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 | Tuberculosis | Typhoid vaccine | University of Minnesota. | University of Pennsylvania. | Vivisection | Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 
20Creator:  Bartram, John, 1699-1777Requires cookie*
 Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768
 Title:  Collinson-Bartram Papers, 1732-1773     
 Dates:  1732-1773 
 Abstract:  This collection is principally letters to Collinson about seeds, plants, and gardens from seed cultivators and owners of country estates, including Cadwallader Colden, John Hanbury, Lord and Lady Petre, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Richmond, Sir Hans Sloane, and Daniel Solander. There are also several letters of John Bartram to William Bartram and Philip Miller. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.C692.1 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
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 Subjects:  Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Gardening -- England. | Gardens -- England. | Hanbury, John , 1664?-1734 | Horticulture -- England. | Horticulture -- United States. | Lennox, Charles , Duke of Richmond, 1701-1750 | Miller, Philip, 1691-1771 | Natural History | Norfolk, Edward Howard, Duke of, 1686-1777 | Petre, Anne, Lady | Petre, Robert Edward, Baron, 1772-1810 | Plants, Cultivated. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Seed industry and trade -- England. | Seed industry and trade -- United States. | Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753 | Solander, Daniel Charles, 1733-1782 
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