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1Creator:  Maclure, William, 1763-1840Requires cookie*
 Title:  William Maclure letters, 1817-1838, to Benjamin Silliman     
 Dates:  1817-1838 
 Abstract:   none  
 Call #:  Mss.Film.283 
 Extent:  1.0 Microfilm reel(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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 Subjects:  Geology. | Maclure, William, 1763-1840 | Microfilm Collection | Natural history. | Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 1779-1864 
2Creator:  Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871Requires cookie*
 Title:  Sir Roderick Impey Murchison correspondence, 1830-1867     
 Dates:  1830-1867 
 Abstract:  These are letters written from America, to Murchison, discussing geology, natural history, and contemporary topics. 
 Call #:  Mss.509.G29 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
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 Subjects:  Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Beyond Early America | Dana, James D. (James Dwight), 1813-1895 | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 | Geology. | Hall, James | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871 | Natural history. | Rogers, Henry D., (Henry Darwin), 1806-1866 | Ross, P. Campbell | Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 1779-1864 | Vanuxem, Lardner. 
4Creator:  Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 1779-1864Requires cookie*
 Title:  Benjamin Silliman correspondence, 1808-1859     
 Dates:  1808-1859 
 Abstract:  Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864, APS 1805) was a scientist and educator. As a professor of chemistry at Yale University from 1802 to 1853, and pioneering teacher of chemistry, mineralogy and geology, Silliman was largely responsible for the conversion of Yale College to Yale University, with strong medical and scientific departments. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.Si4 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
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 Subjects:  Berzelius, Jons Jakob, Friherre, 1779-1848 | Blowpipe. | Brongniart, Alexandre-Theodore, 1739-1813 | Bronn, H. G., (Heinrich Georg), 1800-1862 | Chemistry | Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858 | Education | Educational Material | Geological Society of America. | Geology. | Green, Ashbel, 1762-1848 | Lowell Institute. | Mather, W. W., (William Williams), 1804-1859 | Natural history. | Orr, Andrew | Richards, John S. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 1779-1864 | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 
5Creator:  Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Autograph letters of naturalists, 1744-1894     
 Dates:  1744-1894 
 Abstract:  Collection of 283 letters assembled and presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by John Torrey. Correspondents include: Louis Agassiz, Zaccheus Collins, Peter S. Du Ponceau, Elie M. Durand, Asa Gray, William Hembel, Alexander von Humboldt, William H. Keating, James Mease, Samuel G. Morton, George Ord, Charles Pickering, Constantine S. Rafinesque, Benjamin Silliman, Sr., John Torrey, Charles Waterton, Alexander Wilson. 
 Call #:  Mss.Film.628 
 Extent:  1.0 Microfilm reel(s) 
 Sections:   Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Collins, Zaccheus, 1764-1831 -- Correspondence | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 -- Correspondence | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 -- Correspondence | Hembel, William -- Correspondence | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Correspondence | Keating, William Hypolitus, 1799-1840 -- Correspondence | Mease, James, 1771-1846 | Microfilm Collection | Minutes. | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Ord, George, 1781-1866 | Pickering, Edward C., (Edward Charles), 1846-1919 | Rafinesque, C. S., (Constantine Samuel ), 1783-1840 | Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 1779-1864 | Torrey, John, 1796-1873 | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 | Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813 
7Creator:  Hare, Robert, 1781-1858Requires cookie*
 Title:  Robert Hare papers, 1764-1858     
 Dates:  1764-1858 
 Abstract:  Personal and professional correspondence of the chemist Robert Hare, including drafts of letters to editors of journals on such varied topics as fish guano, slaughterhouses, paper money, and the meaning of the term "Yankee annexations." The collection originally contained over 300 scrolls, since disbound, which contained drafts of letters, essays, and lectures, composed by Hare on ordinary sheets of paper, then pasted end to end, and rolled up. The essay and lecture topics include: chemistry, storms, slavery, currency, fire-fighting, capital punishment, railroads, the Smithsonian Institution, Michael Faraday, religion and Spiritualism, riots in Philadelphia, epidemics, underwater blasting, and Ralph W. Emerson; there is some verse. The collection also contains an account book of Hare and his wife, 1806-1829 (180 pp.; B/H22#3); a volume by Hare on Cyclones (tornadoes), n.d. (ca. 60 pp.; B/H22#4); and Samuel Powel, Jr.'s "Short notes on a course of antiquities at Rome... under M. Byre Antiquarian," 1764. (60 pp.). 
 Call #:  Mss.B.H22 
 Extent:  3.0 Linear feet 
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 Subjects:  Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Philosophical Society | Antebellum Politics | Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Banks and banking -- United States. | Blasting, Submarine | Blowpipe. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Capital punishment. | Chemical apparatus | Chemistry | Chemists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Cyclones. | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Electricity--19th century | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Epidemics--United States | Essays. | Federalist Party--Pennsylvania | Fire extinction | Fisher, John, 1806-1882 | Fisher, Richard | General Correspondence | Guano | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Kane , John K., (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Lectures | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Money | Paper money--United States--19th century | Partridge, Charles | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--19th century | Poems | Powel, Samuel, Jr. | Race, race relations, racism | Railroads | Religion | Rome (Italy)--Antiquities | Science and technology | Scientific Data | Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 1779-1864 | Sketchbooks | Slaughtering and slaughter-houses--United States--19th century | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Smithsonian Institution | Spiritualism--Pennsylvania | Storms | Tornadoes | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States--Politics and government--19th Century 
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