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Abstract

Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society was the first learned society in the United States. For over 250 years, the Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Society fulfilled the role of a national academy of science, national library and museum, and even patent office. Early members of the Society included Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Peter Du Ponceau, George Washington, and many other figures prominent in American history.

The Archives of the American Philosophical Society consists of 192.25 linear feet of material, organized into thirteen record groups dating back to 1743. The Society's archives extensively documents not only the organization's historical development but also its role in American history and the history of science and technology.

Background note

Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society was the first learned society in the United States. For over 250 years, the Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Society fulfiled the role of a national academy of science, national library and museum, and even patent office. Early members in the Society included Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Peter Du Ponceau, George Washington, and many other figures prominent in American history.

The American Philosophical Society originated in the mid-eighteenth century, when it was felt a suitable piece of civilization had been carved into the wilderness to allow the pursuit of matters regarding natural philosophy. "Natural philosophy" at that time referred scientific and technological investigations in the broadest sense. The concept of the Society was based on scholarly societies in Europe, such as the Royal Society of London. The membership was comprised of doctors, lawyers, clergymen, artisans, tradesmen, and merchants with an interest in science. By improving methods of agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation the Society hoped to encourage America's economic independence. The Society's place among other international scholarly societies was secured in the 1760s when David Rittenhouse plotted the transit of Venus on a platform behind Independence Hall using one of his telescopes and publishing his findings in the first volume of the Society's Transactions. After a brief lapse during the American Revolution, the Society continued to elect members and became an active participant in the development of the young nation.

During the nineteenth century the Society began to collect important documents of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods under the direction of the Literary and Manuscript Committee. As the Society's membership grew and diversified, so did the Society's interests. Many members in the early 1800s (such as Jefferson, DuPonceau and Benjamin Smith Barton) were interested in the origins and ethnography of Native Americans. The Society's growing Library therefore became a repository for documents on Native American linguistics and ethnography. Based on their vast scientific knowledge, members of the Society were asked to serve as scientific advisors to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the U.S. Exploring Expedition (or Wilkes Expedition), and the Stephen Long Expedition. The Society also encouraged advances in science and technology through its awarding of the Magellanic Premium. In 1838 the Society increased its publications to include the Proceedings. During the latter half of the century, the Society's primary interests were in the fields of American paleontology, geology, astronomical and meteorological observations, and Indian ethnology.

The twentieth century's advances in transportation and communication brought a new vigor to the Society as members from outside the Philadelphia region played an increasingly active role in the Society's administration. The Society continued to support advancements in "useful knowledge," which grew to include the humanities and social sciences, through its publications and new grant program. During World War II the Society broadcast weekly radio programs on science to Europe. The Society also grew physically. During the second half of the twentieth century Library Hall was constricted to house the growing collection of manuscripts and printed material, and the purchase and renovations of Franklin Hall and Richardson Hall provided a state-of-the-art meeting facility and additional space for staff and collections. Through its annual meetings, grant programs, publications, and Library the Society continues to encourage the discussion and advancement of "useful knowledge."

Scope and content

The Archives of the American Philosophical Society consists of 192.25 linear feet of material, organized into thirteen record groups dating back to 1743. The Society's archives extensively documents not only the organization's historical development, but also its role in American history and the history of science and technology. This amassed documentation can be accredited to many of the Society's diligent secretaries who saved the Society's records and the Society's residence in the same building since 1789.

The record groups are organized around specific categories, such as minutes and bylaws (I), Officers (V), and Financial Records (IX). Within each record group, sub-groups have been created around specific types of documentation. Sub-groups can vary in size from 1 volume to 5 linear feet, with the arrangement alternating between chronological and alphabetical. Early records tend to be better cataloged than later records. To date, the archives documents the activities of the Society through the mid-1980s. Records for the late twentieth century to present still reside with the office of origination.

For the most part, the Archives documents the history of the Society and its many activities. The primary areas of interest are the Society's members and their regular meetings. Minutes and By-Laws (I), for example, is comprised of the records of early meetings and rules of the Society through the nineteenth century. Additional information on the membership can be found in Record Group IV - Members. The bulk of this record group contains records about members from the nineteenth century but does flow into the twentieth century. It includes letters of nomination, letters of acceptance, as well as biographical sketches and lists of attendance at meetings. Record Group X - Meetings - relates primarily to planning and programs for twentieth century meetings. The activities of the Society as an organization can be found in the record groups for Officers (V), Committees (VIII), and Financial Records (IX); the Society's activities as a collecting institution are documented in the materials for Curators (VI), and Library (VII).

The Archives of the Society also provides a useful source for historians of science and technology. During the early years of the Society, papers on innovations in agriculture, technology, and science were presented at the meetings. Communications (III.1) consists of letters and papers on a variety of topics sent to the APS between the 1770s and 1830s. Many of the papers were read at meetings of the Society, some were published in Transactions, and others were submitted for consideration for the premiums offered by the APS. The letters and papers are on topics such as natural history, mechanics, machinery, and engineering, to name a few. Additionally, Record Group II - "Archives" - provides insight into the Society's activities in promoting scientific expeditions and contact with sister institutions. For example, in the correspondence for the 1836 period can be found reports from certain members of the Society to the Secretary of the Navy in preparation for the United States Exploring Expedition for 1838-1842. Material from Committees (VIII.4, 5, 23, 26, 27 & 34) and Miscellaneous (XI 3 & 4) also relate to the history of science and technology.

Record Group I. Minutes and By-Laws 1758-1971 7 ln. ft.
Record Group II. "Archives" 1743-1984 28 ln. ft.
Record Group III. Communications 1748-1837 4 ln. ft.
Record Group IV. Members 1743-1973 15.25 ln. ft.
Record Group V. Officers 1769-1978 43 ln. ft.
Record Group VI. Curators 1769-1978 2.75 ln. ft.
Record Group VII. Library 1798-1977 48.75 ln. ft.
Record Group VIII. Committees 1793-1977 27.25 ln. ft.
Record Group IX. Financial Records 1866-1957 4.75 ln. ft.
Record Group X. Meetings 1901-1980 .75 ln. ft.
Record Group XI. Miscellaneous 1794-1963 6 ln. ft.
Record Group XII. History 1840-1945 .25 ln. ft.
Record Group XIII. Wistar Association 1818-1968 4.5 ln. ft.

Collection information

Provenance

All records originated from the American Philosophical Society.

Preferred citation

Cite as: Archives, American Philosophical Society.

Processing information

Initially organized and described by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., and Murphy D. Smith, with additional entries made by J. Stephen Catlett, and Robert S. Cox. EAD mark up by J.J. Ahern.

Other finding aids

The material in the American Philosophical Society Archive is referenced in the majority of subject guides which the Library has produced over the years. These subject guides can be accessed online at Published Guides to APS Collections.The initial guides to the Archive were published in:

Bell, Whitfield J., Jr. and Murphy D. Smith. Guide to the Archives and Manuscript Collections of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1966. Call No. 016.091 Am3g

Bell, Whitfield J., Jr. Catalog of Manuscripts in the American Philosophical Society Library, including the Archival Shelflist. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pub. Corp., 1970. Call No. 017Am4cm Vol. 1-10

Catlett, J. Stephen, ed. A New Guide to the Collections of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1987. Call No. 506.73 Am4me vol. 66s

Related material

In addition to the Archives, there are a number of manuscript collections that document the activities and history of the Society. The Library houses the papers of a number of members who were active in the Society, these include the Benjamin Smith Barton Papers (B B284), Albert Francis Blakeslee Papers (B B585), Henry Grier Bryant Papers (Ms. Coll. 38), Walter Bradford Cannon Papers (B C163.1), Hans Thacher Clarke Papers (B C55), Henry Herbert Donaldson Diaries and Papers (B D713; D713m; D713p), George William Featherstonhaugh Papers (B F31), John Fries Frazer Papers (B F865), Ebenezer Hazard Papers (B H338), John Frederick Lewis Papers (B L585), Francois Andre Michaux Papers (B M58.1), Robert Cushman Murphy Papers (B M957), George Ord Letters (B Or2), Joseph Priestley Papers (B P931), William Jacob Robbins (B R538), George Gaylord Simpson Papers (Ms. Coll. 31), and Elihu Thomson Papers (Ms. Coll. 74). Additionally, a few of the Society's officers have deposited their papers in the Library: George Washington Corner, III Papers (Ms. Coll. 11), William Ezra Lingelbach Papers(B L635), and Richard Harrison Shryock Papers (B Sh86). Material relating to the Society's Historical and Literary Committee can be found in the Peter Stephen Du Ponceau Papers (B D92p), as Du Ponceau was a driving force behind the committee's development of Native American linguistic material. The activities of the Society are also documented in the Jane Aitken Papers (B Ai9) - which were origninally part of the Archives (see II "Archives"), the John Fishbourne Mifflin Receipt Book (B M585), Samuel Rush's "Occasional Glimpses at the World, 1824" (B R895.o) - in which he comments on the Society and the Wistar Association, and in the Kane Miscellaneous Collection (B K13).

Three other items that might be of interest include Alexander Graham Bell's address on "Aerial Locomotion" which was delivered before the Society on May 7, 1909 (533.6 B41a); James Bryce's personal reminiscences of Charles Darwin and of the reception of the Origin of Species given before the APS on April 23, 1909 (B D25b); and Randolph Shipley Klein's 1965 master's thesis from Brown University, "The American Philosophical Society and the American Revolution" (506.73 Am4xk).

Bibliography

Bell, Whitfield J. Patriot-Improvers: Members of the American Philosophical Society, Volume One: 1743-1768. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997. Call. No. 506.73 Am4me v.226

Bell, Whitfield J. Patriot-Improvers: Members of the American Philosophical Society, Volume Two: 1768. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999. Call. No. 506.73 Am4me v.227

Carter, Edward Carlos II. "One Grand Pursuit" : A Brief History of the American Philosophical Society's First 250 Years, 1743-1993 Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1993. Call. No. 506.73 Am4xc

Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen. An Historical Account of the Origin and Formation of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1914. Call. No. 506.73 Am43

Smith, Murphy D. Oak from an Acorn: A History of the American Philosophical Society Library, 1770-1803. Wilmington, DE.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1976. Call. No. 506.73 Am4xsm

Vaughan, John. "An Account of the American Philosophical Society (1841)." Philadelphia: Friends of the Library, American Philosophical Society, 1972. Call. No. 506.73 Am4x no. 41

Additional information on the history and activities of the Society can be found in its publications: Proceedings, Transactions, and Year Book.

Naval History Note

Naval historians may find the following items of interest:

Barron, James, 1769-1851.
  1. Barron, James. Concerning the ventilation of ships to prevent the rotting of timbers. 1825 January 7. Manuscript. 5 pages.
  2. Barron, James. Letter to James Mease. 1825 April 11. Sends to the American Philosophical Society a model of Charles D. Brodie's plan for repairing ships under the surface of the water. 1 page.
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957.
  1. Byrd, Richard Evelyn. Letter to Francis H. Dercum, President of the American Philosophical Society. 1930 July 15. Letter acknowledging election to the American Philosophical Society. 1 page.
  2. Byrd, Richard Evelyn. Letter to American Philosophical Society. 1936 May 10. Expresses appreciation for aid rendered for the second Antarctic Expedition. 1 page.
Du Pont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865.
  1. Du Pont, Samuel Francis. Letter to Benjamin Gerhard. 1861 November 13. Presents an Atlas of the state of South Carolina by Robert Mills to the American Philosophical Society. 5 pages.
  2. Du Pont, Samuel Francis. Letter to J. P. Lesley. 1862 May 8. Letter acknowledging election to the American Philosophical Society. 2 pages.
Galvin, John.
  1. Galvin, John. An improved capstan for ships of war. 1811 February 15. Manuscript. 1 page.
Humphreys, Joshua, 1751-1838.
  1. Humphreys, Joshua. Letter to David Rittenhouse. 1789 January 3. Concerning the regulation of a pendulum. 2 pages.
  2. Humphreys, Joshua. Letter to Benjamin Franklin. 1789 February 16. Concerning scale beams. 2 pages.
  3. American Philosophical Society. Report of Committee upon the plan of an improvement for a windless, presented by Americanus, Navy Yard. 1796 May 12. Report. 1 page.
  4. American Philsophical Society. Report of the committee to whom was referred a model of a temporary rudder...by Captain William Mugford, of Salem. 1805 February 13. Report. 5 pages.
  5. Fothergill, Anthony. Remarks on Mugford's rudder and the proposed notice of it by the American Philosophical Society. 1805 February 15. Manuscript. 3 pages.
  6. Humphreys, Joshua. Letter to John Vaughan. 1814 March 25. Concerning a circular cylinder pump. 3 pages.
  7. American Philosophical Society. Report of committee on Joshua Humphrey's paper on a pump. 1814 April 15. Report. 1 page.
  8. American Philosophical Society. Report of the committee charged with the consideration of the letter of Robert McWilliam on the dry rot. 1820 May 5. Report. 6 pages.
  9. Humphreys, Joshua. Attitude of George Washington toward the construction of a United States Navy. 1837 December 23. Manuscript. 8 pages.
Humphreys, Samuel, 1778-1846.
  1. Humphreys, Samuel. Letter to W. P. C. Barton. 1822 January 17. Short note accompanying description to the "peacing of ships masts." 1 page.
  2. Humphreys, Samuel. Concerning placing masts in ships. 1822 January 18. Manuscript. 2 pages.
  3. American Philosophical Society. Report of the committee to whom was referred the paper submitted by Mr. Samuel Humphreys on a new principle of placing masts in ships. 1822 March 1. Report. 5 pages.
  4. Humphreys, Samuel. Letter to James Mease. 1825 May 4. Cost of repairing a ship. 1 page.
  5. Barton, William P. C. Letter to the American Philosophical Society. 1825 October 14. Letter on nomination for membership of Samuel Humphreys, "Naval Constructor, in the service of the U. S. Navy Department at the Philadelphia Navy Yard." Filed under "Humphreys, Samuel." 1 page.
  6. Humphreys, Samuel. Letter to George Ord. 1826 January 31. Acknowledges his election to membership in the American Philosophical Society. 1 page.
  7. Humphreys, Samuel. Letter to George Ord. 1842 November 28. Testimonial in favor of Mr. Lenthall. 1 page.
  8. Lenthall, John. Letter to Charles B. Trego, Secretary of the American Philosophical Society. 1853 August 4. Concerning the preparation of an obituary notice for the late Samuel Humphreys. 1 page.
Lenthall, John, 1807-1882.
  1. Lenthall, John. Letter to R. Dunglison. 1843 January 23. Letter acknowledging election to the American Philosophical Society. 1 page.
  2. Lenthall, John. On the launch of the three deck ship Pennsylvania in 1837. 1843 May 27. Manuscript. 8 pages.
  3. Lenthall, John. Letter to Charles B. Trego. 1853 August 4. Concerning obituary for Samuel Humphreys. 1 page.
Longitude.
  1. Byrnes, Daniel. A method proposed which it is apprehended will be an improvement in finding the longitude at sea. 1788 June 19. A method of calculating longitude by lunar observations. 1 item.
  2. Churchman, John. Regarding support for testing theory of magnetism as method of determining longitude. 1789 March 21. Manuscript. 1 item.
  3. Brisbane, James. Letter to Benjamin Franklin. 1789 July 4. How to ascertain the true Longitude of Places East and West of any fixt Meridian. 1 item.
  4. Jourdan, W. Crowley. Concerning ascertaining longitude at sea. 1791 October 6. Concerning ascertaining longitude at sea. 1 item.
  5. Hoskins, Francis. Navigation made easy, or a Mariners complete guide. 1800 May 2. Hoskins presents an idea for a new hourglass-type timepiece and a formula for calculating the longitude without the need for an expensive timepiece. He tested it on a voyage from Philadelphia to Cork, Ireland. The log of this journey is reproduced, and a chart is given as well. Dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, this treatise was submitted to the American Philosophical Society for a Magellanic Premium award in 1800 [see "Minutes," page 299]. It was submitted anonymously, under the name of "Hiram," but a second, almost identical version (dated 1803) was received at the American Philosophical Society with Hoskin's name on it in 1839 [Misc. Ms. Coll.]. 1 volume (15 pages).
  6. Groves, Matthew C. Proposed method of ascertaining longitude. 1802. Manuscript. 1 item.
  7. Anonymous. How to ascertain the longitude. n.d. 1 item.
  8. Laurie, Robert. Some observations concerning longitude. n.d. Some observations concerning longitude. 1 item.
Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914.
  1. Mahan, A. T. Letter to I. M. Hays. 1897 October 19. Letter acknowledging election to the American Philosophical Society. 2 pages.
Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873.
  1. Maury, Matthew Fontaine. Letter to Charles B. Trego. 1849 December 18. Acknowledging receipt of package. 1 page.
  2. Maury, Matthew Fontaine. Letter to Charles B. Trego. 1852 November 12. Letter acknowledging election to the American Philosophical Society. 1 page.
  3. Maury, Matthew Fontaine. Letter to Secretary of the American Philosophical Society. 1854 October 21. Announcing new asteroid by James Ferguson. 2 pages.
  4. Maury, Matthew Fontaine. Letter to Robley Dunglison. 1860 March 19. Requesting delay of publication of Commodore Wullerstorf's paper. 1 page.
Melville, George W. (George Wallace), 1841-1912.
  1. Melville, George W. Letter to Isaac Minis Hays. 1897 August 30. Cannot attend Nansen meeting, refers to his ship Jeannette. 1 page.
  2. Melville, George W. Letter to Isaac Minis Hays. 1897 October 23. Hoping to attend Nansen meeting. 1 page.
  3. Melville, George W. Letter to Isaac Minis Hays. 1897 October 30. Explaining departure from Nansen meeting, refers to Angelo Heilprin. 1 page.
  4. Melville, George W. Letter to Isaac Minis Hays. 1897 November 4. Sending revised copy of his remarks at Nansen meeting. 1 page.
  5. Heilprin, Angelo. Letter to Isaac Minis Hays. 1898 January 8. Requesting permission for Geographical Society of Philadelphia to reprint George Wallace Melville's talk. 2 pages.
  6. American Philosophical Society. Letter to Angelo Heilprin. 1898 January. Response to Heilprin's letter of January 8, granting permission to reprint George Wallace Melville's talk. 2 pages.
  7. Heilprin, Angelo. Letter to Isaac Minis Hays. 1898 January 19. Thanks for George Wallace Melville's manuscript. 1 page.
Miscellaneous.
  1. A.L.O.T.A. (pseudonym). Letter to David Rittenhouse. 1795 June 19. Includes pen and ink sketches of ships pumps. 1 page.
  2. A.L.O.T.A. (pseudonym). Concerning improvements in ship pumps. 1795 June 19. Manuscript. 5 pages.
  3. Improvement (pseudonym). Description of a ship pump. 1795 June 19. Manuscript. 1 page.
  4. Humphries, James. Description of a model for steering a ship. 1809 March 2. Manuscript. 2 pages.
  5. Voigt, Henry. Concerning steam paddles for boats and mills. 1809 July 21. Includes diagram of paddles. 2 pages.
  6. Patterson, Robert M. Concerning Chapman's steam boat. 1810 July 27. Concerning Chapman's steam boat. 1 page.
  7. Chapman, Isaac A. Letter to the American Philosophical Society. 1820 March 10. Description of a new invented Steam-Boat. With sketch. 2 pages.
Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860.
  1. Paulding, James Kirke. Letter to A[lexander] D[allas] Bache. 1839 April 24. Acknowledges election to membership in the American Philosophical Society. 1 page.
  2. Paulding, James Kirke. Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau. 1839 October 28. Acknowledges receipt of his diploma of membership in the American Philosophical Society. 1 page.
  3. National Institute for the Promotion of Science. Letter to Robley Dunglison, John K. Kane, Franklin Bache and Dallas Bache. 1840 November 6. Forwards constitution of institution to the American Philosophical Society, asks for aid in its establishment and development. 1 page.
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920.
  1. Peary, Robert E. Letter to Secretary of the American Philosophical Society [Henry Phillips]. 1886 January 18. Asking for article on Greenland. 1 page.
  2. Peary, Robert E. Letter to Secretary of the American Philosophical Society [Henry Phillips]. 1886 February 28. Asking for articles on Arctic subjects which may have appeared in the Society's publications. 1 page.
  3. Heilprin, Angelo. Letter to Isaac Minis Hays. 1897 October. Concerning arrangements for Nansen meeting, refers to Robert Edwin Peary. 4 pages.
  4. Bunce, F. M. Telegram to the American Philosophical Society. 1897 October 20. Gives Robert Edwin Peary's address. 1 page.
  5. Peary, Robert E. Telegram to J. Minis Hayes [sic]. 1897 October 22. Cannot attend the Nansen Meeting. 1 page.
Rodgers, John, 1773-1838.
  1. Rodgers, John. Letter to William Jones, Philadelphia Navy Commander's Office. 1820 January 27. Concerning canvas for sails. 1 page.
United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842).
  1. Dickerson, Mahlon. Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau. 1836 August 31. Asks advice as to personnel of scientific corps, and scientific objectives of the United States Exploring Expedition. 1 page.
  2. Chapman, Nathaniel. Letter to the Committee of the American Philosophical Society. 1836 October 17. Report on medicine relating to the United States Exploring Expedition. Enclosed in Committee of the American Philosophical Society to [Mahlon Dickerson]. 1 page.
  3. Committee of the American Philosophical Society. Letter to [Mahlon Dickerson]. 1836 October 17. With regard to the scientific methods and objectives of the United States Exploring Expedition, also known as the Wilkes Expedition. 9 pages.
  4. Committee of the American Philosophical Society. Letter to Mahlon Dickerson. 1836 October 17. Enclosed anonymous list of books recommended for the officers and scientific corps, United States Exploring Expedition. 1 page.
  5. Committee of the American Philosophical Society. Letter to Mahlon Dickerson. 1836 October. Regarding the scientific methods and objectives of the United States Exploring Expedition, also known as the Wilkes Expedition. 32 pages.
  6. Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen. Letter to Committee of the American Philosophical Society. 1836 October 17. Report on ethnography, relating to the United States Exploring Expedition. Enclosed in Committee of A.P.S. to [Mahlon Dickerson]. 1 page.
  7. Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen. Letter to Committee of the American Philosophical Society. 1836 October 17. Report on philology, relating to the United States Exploring Expedition. Enclosed in Committee of A.P.S. to [Mahlon Dickerson]. 6 pages.
  8. Espy, James P. Letter to Committee of the American Philosophical Society. n.d. [submitted 1836 October 17]. Report on meteorology, related to the United States Exploring Expedition. Enclosed in Committee of the American Philosophical Society to [Mahlon Dickerson]. 12 pages.
  9. Patterson, Robert M. Letter to Committee of the American Philosophical Society. n.d. [submitted 1836 October 17]. Report upon astronomical and physical observations, related to the United States Exploring Expedition. 7 pages.
  10. Peale, Titian Ramsay. Letter to Committee of the American Philosophical Society. n.d. [submitted 1836 October 17]. Report on zoology, related to the United States Exploring Expedition. 2 pages.
  11. Pickering, Charles. Letter to Committee of the American Philosophical Society. n.d. [submitted 1836 October 17]. Report upon botany, related to the United States Exploring Expedition. 1 page.
  12. Rogers, Henry D. Letter to Committee of the American Philosophical Society. n.d. [submitted 1836 October 17]. List of works which the geologists will find it useful to take with them. Related to the United States Exploring Expedition. 1 page.
  13. Rogers, Henry D. Letter to Committee of the American Philosophical Society. n.d. [submitted 1836 October 17]. Report upon geology and mineralogy, related to the United States Exploring Expedition. 5 pages.
  14. Dickerson, Mahlon. Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau. 1836 November 19. Acknowledges receipt of communication upon the South Sea Exploring Expedition (the United States Exploring Expedition). "It will form the basis of the Instructions to the scientific corps..." 1 page.
  15. Coates, Reynell. Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau. 1837 August 28. Transmits the thanks of the scientific corps of the United States Exploring Expedition for "the completion of the name of books required for the...Expedition." 1 page.
  16. Dickerson, Mahlon. Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau. 1837 September 11. Returns thanks for report of the 2nd, in regards to the South Sea Exploring Expedition (the United States Exploring Expedition). 1 page.
  17. Warrington, L. Letter to Colonel J. J. Abert. 1841 October 9. Returns thanks for information furnished by John Vaughan concerning charts of the Pacific Ocean in his possession. Related to the United States Exploring Expedition. 1 page.
  18. Peale, Titian Ramsay. Letter to Alexander Dallas Bache and John Ludlow. 1843 May 8. Important part played by the American Philosophical Society regarding the organization of scientific corps of the United States Exploring Expedition. 3 pages.
  19. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Letter to the Joint Library Committee of Congress. 1846 February 4. Requesting larger edition of scientific reports of the United States Exploring Expedition. 3 pages.
  20. Gray, Asa. Letter to the Secretary of the American Philosophical Society. 1846 February 8. Encloses copy of letter from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to the joint library committee of Congress asking for the publication of a larger edition of the scientific reports of the United States Exploring Expedition. 2 pages.
  21. New York Historical Society. Letter to the Corresponding Secretary of the American Philosophical Society. 1847 February 26. Letter transmitting resolutions asking Congress to authorize a larger edition of the scientific volumes of the United States Exploring Expedition. 3 pages.
United States. Navy.
  1. Kennedy, John Pendleton. Letter to Robley Dunglison. 1853 January 2. Thanking American Philosophical Society resolutions approving the U.S. Navy Department's scientific exploration, and Dr. Kane's joining of the Arctic expedition. 3 pages.
  2. United States, Department of the Navy. Letter to Boies Penrose. 1899 January 25. Concerning copy of Battles and Capitulation of Santiago de Cuba for the American Philosophical Society Library. 1 page.
  3. United States, Department of the Navy. Letter to Boies Penrose. 1899 September 14. Concerning astronomical documents for the American Philosophical Society. 1 page.
  4. United States, Department of the Navy. Letter to Boies Penrose. 1899 September 20. Sends copy of Stockton's Preparation for War requested for the American Philosophical Society Library. 1 page.
United States Naval Academy.
  1. Chauvenet, William. Letter to Charles B. Trego. 1856 May 28. U.S. Naval Academy librarian inquiring as to the availability of a complete set of the American Philosophical Society Transactions. 1 page.
  2. Chauvenet, William. Letter to Charles B. Trego. 1856 July 10. Ordering a complete set of the American Philosophical Society Transactions for the U.S. Naval Academy Library. 1 page.
  3. Chauvenet, William. Letter to Charles B. Trego. 1856 September 29. Requesting the American Philosophical Society Transactions be sent to the U.S. Naval Academy Library. 1 page.
  4. Doran, Edward. Letter to Charles B. Trego. 1856 October 28. Regarding the U.S. Naval Academy's outstanding account with the American Philosophical Society. 1 page.
United States Naval Observatory.
  1. Gilliss, J. M. Letter to Charles B. Trego. 1861 December 24. Requesting Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 2 pages.
  2. United States Naval Observatory. Letter to J. P. Lesley. 1862 January 21. Concerning package of books, and American Philosophical Society publications. 1 page.
  3. United States Naval Observatory. Letter to J. P. Lesley. 1862 January 21. Thanking for American Philosophical Society Proceedings and Transactions. 1 page.
  4. Sands, B. F. Letter to President of the American Philosophical Society. 1872 January 30. Concerning material to be presented to Congress to facilitate observation of the transit of Venus. 4 pages.
  5. Graham, James D. Letter to J. P. Lesley. 1872 February 29. Acknowledging receipt of memorial on the American Philosophical Society to Congress on the transit of Venus. 2 pages.
  6. United States Naval Observatory. Letter to J. P. Lesley. 1874 May 30. Forwarding the American Philosophical Society's Proceedings to Admiral Charles Wilkes. Offers pamphlet (lacking). 1 page.
  7. United States Naval Observatory. Letter to the Secretary of the American Philosophical Society. 1876 February 15. Letter to J. P. Lesley concerning the American Philosophical Society's promotion of the Polaris expedition. 2 pages.
  8. United States Naval Observatory. Letter to the Librarian of the American Philosophical Society. 1877 January 31. Forwards publications. 1 page.
  9. United States Naval Observatory. Letter to the American Philosophical Society. 1898 February 7. Cannot supply a publication to the American Philosophical Society Library, refers to hydrographic office, Boies Penrose. 1 page.
  10. United States Naval Observatory. Letter to Isaac Minis Hays. 1899 April 11. Concerning the publications of the U.S. Naval Observatory needed by the American Philsophical Society Library. 1 page.
United States. Naval War Records Office.
  1. United States, Naval War Records Office. Letter to Boies Penrose. 1898 November 9. Concerning copy of "Office Memoranda No. 8. Officers of the Confederate States Navy" requested for the American Philosophical Society Library. 1 page.
Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877.
  1. Anonymous. List of instruments procured by Lieutenant Wilkes for the Exploring Expedition. 1837. Manuscript. 2 pages.
  2. Wilkes, Charles. Letter to Alexander Dallas Bache and John Ludlow. 1843 May 6. Hopes to attend the American Philosophical Society centennial celebration, but will not have time to prepare a paper on the United States Exploring Expedition. 3 pages.
  3. Peale, Titian Ramsay. Letter to George Ord. 1845 February 11. Inquires as to location of certain rare botanical works. "Captain Wilkes is now in Philadelphia..." 2 pages.
  4. Wilkes, Charles. Letter to George Ord. 1845 May 23. Presents a copy of his Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the American Philosophical Society. 1 page.
  5. Wilkes, Charles. Letter to the President of the American Philosophical Society. 1857 August 22. Forwarding a publication. 1 page.

African American History Note

The APS archives does not contain a tremendous amount of African American history materials. Nevertheless, the following letter is significant:

Dearborn, Benjamin. Letter to the American Philosophical Society. 1803 February 4. Suggestions on the abolition of slavery.

Early American History Note

The APS Archives contain a wide range of material on early American history. MOLE contains a detailed breakdown of its content.

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Collection overview
I  Minutes and By-Laws
1758-1971 7.0 ln. ft. Request Record Group

The Archives contains minutes of both the American Society and the American Philosophical Society, which united in 1769 to form the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. The records of the first-named give its title variously as American Society for Promoting and Propagating Useful Knowledge, held at Philadelphia; and American Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge. For convenience, it is referred to here as the American Society. In addition, the Archives has minutes of a predecessor of the American Society, which was sometimes called the "Young Junto," but is here identified by the binder's title as the "Junto."

II.1  "Archives"
1743-1984 28.0 ln. ft. Request Series

The collection contains every sort of material relating to the business of the Society, such as drafts of minutes, committee reports, letters of officers and others, memoranda, scientific papers and proposals, orders, receipts, and other material. The papers from 1797-1844 may be of particular interest to scholars of American Indian ethnology, history, and linguistics.

Native American Images note : Four folders containing up to 275 pencil and ink sketches, from 1816-1840, of Cherokee, Choctaw, Adena, and Aztec native culture. Primarily of burial mounds located in Lexington, Kentucky; Grave Creek, West Virginia; and Washington, Mississippi. Of particular note, a printed pictograph of Boturini Codex depicting the Aztec journey from Aztlan to the Valley of Mexico. Also known as Tira de la Peregrinacion, it contains 22 pages in black ink on one sheet folded accordion style. Each folder is noted in APS Freeman Guide to manuscripts relating to the American Indian.

III  Communications
1748-1837 4.0 ln. ft. Request Record Group
III.1  Manuscript communications
1748-1837 3.5 ln. ft. Request Series

A portion of the APS Archives, the Manuscript Communications (III.1) consists of letters and papers on a variety of topics sent to the APS between the 1770s and 1830s. Many of the papers were read at meetings of the Society, some were published in the APS Transactions, and others were submitted for consideration for the premiums offered by the APS for best paper on the topic of education.

Once part of the general APS Archives, the Manuscript Communications were separated at an early date, arranged in chronological order, and bound into volumes under seven topical series:

  1. Mechanics, Machinery, and Engineering
  2. Trade, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Economics
  3. Medicine, Anatomy, Physiology
  4. Natural History
  5. Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics
  6. Natural Philosophy
  7. Mathematics and Astronomy

III.2  Verbal communications
1801-1807 1.0 Vol. (34 pp.) Request Series

Notes of observations, discoveries, publications, and other facts communicated to the Society by members. Among them are reports by Robert Patterson, Benjamin H. Latrobe (on bilious and noxious gas in wells), Caspar Wistar, John Wister (on tree growth), Thomas Gilpin (on placing rafters), Johnathan Williams, and Benjamin S. Barton; also extracts from letters to Barton from Sir Joseph Banks, Peter Curtis, and Richard P. Barton; and extracts from letters from James Winthrop to Francis Nichols, from Thomas Cooper to John Vaughan, and from John Clifford to Caspar Wistar; and also James Wright's description of the Mastodon, copied from Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal1, (1804): p. 154.

IV  Members
1743-1973 15.25 ln. ft. Request Record Group

This record group consists of 13 sub-groups which documents the membership of the Society. It contains such items as letters of nomination (IV.2), letters acknowledging election (IV.3), membership rolls (IV.6), membership certificates (IV.11), and a photograph album (IV.12).

V  Officers
1769-1978 43.0 ln. ft. Request Record Group

Contains records for various officers of the Society (president, secretary, executive officer, treasurer, and officers and council). This record group does not contain the records for all the Society's presidents and officers. However, it does provide an account of the operation of the Society to the early twentieth century.

V.1  President
1853-1938 3.0 ln. ft., 3 vols. Request Series
V.2  Secretary
1789-1939 34.0 ln. ft., 3 vols. Request Series
V.3  Executive Office
1940-1941 3.5 ln. ft. Request Series
V.4  Treasurer
1772-1936 9.5 ln. ft., 41 vols. Request Subseries
V.5  Officers and Council
1804-1926 2.0 vols. Request Series
VI  Curators
1769-1978 2.75 ln. ft. Request Record Group

Documents donations to the Society's cabinet of curiosity, as well as other artifacts.

VII  Library
1798-1977 48.75 ln. ft. Request Record Group

Consists of 14 sub-groups which document through correspondence, minutes, reports, record books and catalogues the development and routine business of the Society's Library and its collections. Additionally, there are records which relate to the building of Library Hall in the late 1950s.

VII.1  Librarian
1862-1977 81.5 ln. ft., 1 box Request Series
VII.2  Collections
1798-1954 59.0 vols., 24.5 ln. ft. Request Series
VII.3  Library. General correspondence and records
1942- ca. 44 ln. ft.Request Series

Files of selected professionals in the Library (e.g. Gertrude D. Hess, Carolyn Milligan) who were involved in administrative duties relating to the operation of the Library, and who had contacts outside of the Library.

VII.4  Library Committee
1897-1967 2.0 vols. & 2 ln. ft. Request Series
VII.5  Library Administration
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VII.6  Conservation Department
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VII.7  Manuscript Department
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VII.8  Printed Materials Department
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VII.9  Building and facilities
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VII.10  Exhibits
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VII.11  Conferences
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VII.12  Publications
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VII.13  Friends of the Library
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VII.14  Financial Records
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VII.15  Miscellaneous Records
  6.0 ln. ft. Request Series
VIII  Committees
1793-1977 27.25 ln. ft. Request Record Group

Consists of 36 sub-groups which document the activities of various committees formed over the Society's history to handle specific topics ranging from finance and grants to the Franklin Bicentenary and the construction of Library Hall.

IX  Financial Records
1866-1957 4.75 ln. ft. Request Record Group

Documents the Society's efforts from the mid-nineteenth through early twentieth centuries to raise funds in order to construct a new building in Philadelphia.

X  Meetings
1901-1980 0.75 ln. ft. Request Record Group

Contains records relating to the Society's annual meetings during the twentieth century.

X.1  Records
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X.2  Meetings Videos
2003-2012 Request Series
XI  Miscellaneous
1794-1963 6.0 ln. ft. Request Record Group

This record group consists of items which document the activities of the Society, but do not readily fall into one of the other record groups, and includes such items as the Society's weekly broadcasts during World War II, a register of visitors, and architectural plans of the Society's halls.

XII  History
1840-1945 0.25 ln. ft. Request Record Group

Consists of four accounts on the early history of the Society.

XIII  Wistar Association
1818-1968 4.5 ln. ft. Request Record Group

Composed originally of eight members of the APS, the Wistar Association was organized in 1818 to continue the agreeable social entertainments which the Society's late President Caspar Wistar had held regularly for many years for members and distinguished visitors to the city. The Association suspended meetings during the Civil War, and did not meet after 1866. In 1884 the Fortnightly Club was formed for purposes similar to those of the old Wistar Association, although not all of its members were also members of the APS. When the Fortnightly sought to change its name to the Wistar Club, two ancient survivors of the older group revived the association, elected new members, and absorbed the upstart. In 1898, membership in APS was restored as a prerequisite for election. The Association has met regularly since 1886. Its membership is now over twenty, and modern transportation has made it feasible to include persons not residents of Philadelphia.



Detailed Inventory
I Minutes and By-Laws
1758-1971 7.0 ln. ft. Request Record Group

The Archives contains minutes of both the American Society and the American Philosophical Society, which united in 1769 to form the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. The records of the first-named give its title variously as American Society for Promoting and Propagating Useful Knowledge, held at Philadelphia; and American Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge. For convenience, it is referred to here as the American Society. In addition, the Archives has minutes of a predecessor of the American Society, which was sometimes called the "Young Junto," but is here identified by the binder's title as the "Junto."

I.1. Junto. Minutes
1758-1762 1.0 vol. (101 pp.) Request File
I.2. American Society. Minutes
1758-1768 1.0 vol. (163 pp.) Request File
I.3. American Society. Rules and statutes
ca. 1768 1.0 vol. (11 pp.) Request File
I.4. American Philosophical Society. Minutes
1768 1.0 vol. (38 pp.) Request File

Contains the signatures of members under each of the six standing committees.

I.5. American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Minutes
1769- 19.0 vol. Request File

Volumes to 1932 are in the Library. The minutes of 1768-1837 have been abstracted by Henry Phillips, Jr., in "Early proceedings of the American Philosophical Society ... 1744 to 1838," in APS Proceedings 22, 3 (1885). Beginning in 1838 abstracts were printed in the current APS Proceedings until 1937, since which date they have appeared in the Year Book.

I.6. American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Rough minutes
1771-1804, 1819-1927 40.0 vol. Request File

In particular instances the rough minutes are fuller than the minutes as finally transcribed. After about 1900 the principal articles in the minutes were prepared in advance of meetings. The first volume contains a few original reports of committees appointed to examine certain scientific undertakings proposed by individuals to the Society.

I.7. American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Laws and regulations
1804 1.0 vol. (42 pp.) Request File

A formal record, required by the by-laws of 1804, of the Fundamental Laws of 1769; the Act of Incorporation of 1780; the Act of Assembly of 1785, with supplements, granting the Society a piece of State-House Square; the conditions of the award of the Magellanic Premium; and the by-laws adopted May 4, 1804. Also included is a list of members of various committees.

I.8. American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Amendments to Laws
1928-1971 11.0 items Request File
I.9. American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Standing orders
1885-1925 1.0 vol. (57 pp.) Request File

A compilation from the minutes of orders, or procedures covering the operations of the Society.

I.10. American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Minutes
1838-1871 Index. ca. 3500 cardsRequest File

Card file index prepared by Associate Librarian Murphy D. Smith during the 1960s.

General physical description: Index. ca. 3500 cards

I.11. American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Charter of the American Philosophical Society, ...
1780 2.0 items Request File

A copy of the act for incorporation the Society. There is also a printed version included

II.1 "Archives"
1743-1984 28.0 ln. ft. Request Series

The collection contains every sort of material relating to the business of the Society, such as drafts of minutes, committee reports, letters of officers and others, memoranda, scientific papers and proposals, orders, receipts, and other material. The papers from 1797-1844 may be of particular interest to scholars of American Indian ethnology, history, and linguistics.

Native American Images note : Four folders containing up to 275 pencil and ink sketches, from 1816-1840, of Cherokee, Choctaw, Adena, and Aztec native culture. Primarily of burial mounds located in Lexington, Kentucky; Grave Creek, West Virginia; and Washington, Mississippi. Of particular note, a printed pictograph of Boturini Codex depicting the Aztec journey from Aztlan to the Valley of Mexico. Also known as Tira de la Peregrinacion, it contains 22 pages in black ink on one sheet folded accordion style. Each folder is noted in APS Freeman Guide to manuscripts relating to the American Indian.


Geographic Name(s): Grave Creek Mound (Marshall County, West Virginia)

Subject(s): Adena culture--West Virginia; Aztecs.; Cherokee Indians ; Choctaw Indians; Eastern Woodlands Indians; Indians of Mexico; Indians of North America--Kentucky; Indians of North America--Mississippi; Indians of North America--West Virginia; Mound builders; Plains Indians; Southeast Indians

Joint petition to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania for two lots on State House Square.
1784 Request Item

Abstract: American Philosophical Society and Library Company of Philadelphia, joint petition to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania for two lots on State House Square.

Subscription list for the building of Philosophical Hall
1785 July 11 Request Item
Manuscript subscription list put forward by Jefferson to support a proposed scientific expedition under Andre Michaux, 1793.
1793 1.0 Item(s) Request Item

Abstract: Subscription list with the autographs of the first four Presidents of the United States.

Hoskins, Francis.
Navigation made easy, or a Mariners complete guide, May 2, 1800
1800 1.0 volume, 15 p. Request File

Hoskins presents an idea for a new hourglass-type timepiece and a formula for calculating the longitude without the need for an expensive timepiece. He tested it on a voyage from Philadelphia to Cork, Ireland. The log of this journey is reproduced, and a chart is given as well. Dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, this treatise was submitted to the American Philosophical Society for a Magellanic Premium award in 1800 [see "Minutes," p. 299]. It was submitted anonymously, under the name of "Hiram," but a second, almost identical version (dated 1803) was received at the A.P.S. with Hoskin's name on it in 1839 [Misc. Ms. Coll.].

Provenance: Received and accessioned, 1800.

Alternate formats available: This item is also available on microfilm (Film 199, Frame 755).

Hoskins, Francis.
Chart of a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean from Philadelphia to Cork, Ireland
1800 Map, 49.5 x 19.7 cmRequest Item
Short, Charles Wilkins, 1794-1863.
Sketch of the plan of an ancient work, three miles to the southeast of Lexington
1816 August 31 Pencil sketch, 8 x 9 1/2"Request Item

Short's description was read on 4 October 1816 to the Society's members. It was published, with a small engraving of the drawing, in the American Philosophical Society Transactions, n.s., vol. 1: pp. 310-312, plate IX, fig. 3.

General physical description: Pencil sketch, 8 x 9 1/2"

Symbolic account of the migration of the Aztec
1827 Ink sketches, 18' 7" x 8"Request Item
Codice Boturini
1827 Request Item
Codice Boturini
1827 Request Item
Hullihen, S. P..
S. P. Hullihen to Richard Harlan
1830 September 27 Ink sketch, 1 1/2 x 2"Request Item

General physical description: Ink sketch, 1 1/2 x 2"


Personal Name(s): Harlan, Richard

Forshey, Caleb Goldsmith, 1812-1881.
Great Indian mound near Washington, Adams County, Mississippi
1840 September? Ink sketch, 8 x 9 1/2"Request Item
III Communications
1748-1837 4.0 ln. ft. Request Record Group
III.1 Manuscript communications
1748-1837 3.5 ln. ft. Request Series

A portion of the APS Archives, the Manuscript Communications (III.1) consists of letters and papers on a variety of topics sent to the APS between the 1770s and 1830s. Many of the papers were read at meetings of the Society, some were published in the APS Transactions, and others were submitted for consideration for the premiums offered by the APS for best paper on the topic of education.

Once part of the general APS Archives, the Manuscript Communications were separated at an early date, arranged in chronological order, and bound into volumes under seven topical series:

  1. Mechanics, Machinery, and Engineering
  2. Trade, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Economics
  3. Medicine, Anatomy, Physiology
  4. Natural History
  5. Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics
  6. Natural Philosophy
  7. Mathematics and Astronomy

A.L.O.T.A. (pseud).
ALS to David Rittenhouse
1795 June 19 1.0 item Box 1
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Originally enclosed in ALOTA to David Rittenhouse, 1795 June 19 Includes pen and ink sketches of ships pumps.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

A.L.O.T.A. (pseud).
Concerning improvements in ship pumps
1795 June 19 5.0 items Box 1
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Academicus.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1797 Jan. 13 1.0 item Box 1
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A.L.S. 1p. and add., end. Enc. Concerning education. For enclosure, see Academicus: Plan for the education of youth [circa Jan. 1797]. FILM199, FRAME 374  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Academicus.
Plan for the education of youth
ca.1797 Jan. 1.0 item Box 1
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D. 29p. and end. Enclosed originally in letter from Academicus to [T. Jefferson]; January 13, 1797. FILM199, FRAME 374  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Account of two parhelia (rainbows)
1756 Dec. 21 1.0 item Box OS
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For account of this, see H. Williamson, 'Concerning parhelia rainbows,' 1816 May 20  Mathematics and Astronomy

Acosta, Joaquim.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society. Secretary
1832 May 24 1.0 item Box 1
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For enclosure, see Jean Boussingault, Researches on the cause of goiter, 1830 Oct.  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Adrain, Robert.
ALS to John Vaughan
1810 June 12 1.0 item Box 1
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Alden, Timothy.
Concerning a plan for exciting ambition in schools
1813 Jan. 1 1.0 item Box 1
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Alison, Francis.
Hints for the American Philosophical Society
1773 April 2 1.0 item Box 1
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Regarding fences and a 'diligent attention to husbandry' and agriculture Printed: Phila. Soc. For Promoting Agriculture Memoirs 6, 127ff.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Allison, Burgiss.
Concerning a pneumatometre rain gage and an improved anemoscope
1801 Jan. 16 3.0 items Box 1
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note; contains sketches of Anemoscope, Pneumatometre and Rain Gage  Natural Philosophy

American Academy of Arts and Sciences..
ALS to James Ewing
1780 Nov. 20 1.0 item Box 1
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Enclosing J. Williard, Observations of the solar eclipse, 1780 Nv. 20, and AAAS, Catalogue of officers, 1780 Nov. 20  Mathematics and Astronomy

American Academy of Arts and Sciences..
Catalogue of officers elected Aug. 30, 1780
1780 Nov. 20 1.0 item Box 1
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Originally enclosed in AAAS to James Ewing, 1780 Nov. 20  Mathematics and Astronomy

American Philosophical Society..
ALS to I. Caffrey
1797 June 1.0 item Box 1
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Invitation to collect fossils for APS, including mention of mastodon and Megalonyx.  Natural History

American Philosophical Society..
Concerning inquiries to be made by Major Long of the Indians
ca.1819 Mar. 30 2.0 items Box 1
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Originally enclosed in Robert Walsh to John Caldwell Calhoun, 1819 March 30 4 sets of queries by Peter S. DuPonceau, Dr. Samuel Brown, Dr. R. M. Patterson, and Robert Walsh, concerning: government, family, social organization, disease, origins, mental traits, virtues and vices, traditions, warfare, language, environment, horses, general character; origins and connections, manners and customs, language; specific diseases, incidence and treatment; childbirth and attendant medical phenomena. Freeman and Smith 1408  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

American Philosophical Society..
NS to Jared Mansfield
1816 ca. Sept. 1.0 item Box 1
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Mathematics and Astronomy

American Philosophical Society..
Report of Committee on Hosack's paper on the communication of contagious diseases
1812 Dec. 3 1.0 item Box 1
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For paper see Hosack, David to Colin Chisholm, 1812 July 10  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

American Philosophical Society..
Report of Committee on J.J. Hawkins' Plan of a City
1800 ca. Nov. 1.0 item Box 1
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For paper reported on, See Hawkins, John J., Plan for Building a City, 1800, Sept. 19.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

American Philosophical Society..
Report of Committee on Lime's Paper on Peach Trees
1800 Oct. 2 1.0 item Box 1
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For paper reported on see: Lime (pseud.), Concerning the Prevention of Decay in Peachtrees, 1797 Dec. 15  Natural History

American Philosophical Society..
Report of Committee on the Preservation of Peach Trees
1798 April 4 1.0 item Box 1
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For papers reported on see: Lime (pseud.), Concerning the Prevention of Decay in Peach Trees, 1797 Dec. 15; and X (pseud.), Concerning the Prevention of Decay in Peach Trees, 1797 Dec. 26.  Natural History

American Philosophical Society..
Report of Committee on Turner's paper on the prairie squirrel
1798 June 22 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural History

American Philosophical Society..
Report of Committee on Varle's canal locks
1807 Mar. 20 1.0 item Box 1
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See Varle to Caspar Wistar, 1806 Nov. 20 and B. H. Latrobe to C. W. Peale, 1807 Mar. 4  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

American Philosophical Society..
Report of Committee on Vauquelin's Papers
1810 Mar. 16 1.0 item Box 1
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See Vauquelin, A.: "Analysis of the Nicotina Latifolia" 1809 Jan 12, and "Analysis of Snuff" 1809 Sept. 15  Natural History

American Philosophical Society..
Report of Committee on This Paper
1816 Nov. 15 Box 1
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See "Concerning the Calculation of Surd Decimal Fractions", 1816 Oct. 18  Mathematics and Astronomy

American Philosophical Society..
Report of Committee on X's Communication on Peachtrees
1800 Oct. 2 Box 1
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See X (pseud.) Concerning the Prevention of Decay in Peachtrees, 1797, Dec. 26

American Philosophical Society..
Report of Publications Committee on S.C. Walker's Paper
1834 Aug. 6 Box 1
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See Walker, Sears Cook: "Concerning the Longitude...", 1833 Oct. 18

Americanus.
ALS to David Rittenhouse
1795 Aug. 1.0 item Box 1
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Enclosing Americanus, "A pall lever to be applied to the ends of ships"  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Americanus (pseud.).
Concerning an Improved Windlass
1795 Sept. 18 1.0 item Box 1
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Originally enclosed with Americanus to Rittenhouse, 1795 Aug.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Analysis of the saline solution examined at the request of John Vaughan
n.d. 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural Philosophy

Anderson, Henry James.
ALS to John Vaughan
1827 Nov. 7 1.0 items Box OS
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Archer, John.
ALS to Robert Harris
1773 Dec. 2 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural History

Archimedes, S. [i.e. Rednap Howell].
ALS to Isaac Bartram
1771 Nov. 15 2.0 items Box OS
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See APS Archives 1772 Nov. 23  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Arnat, Thomas.
Concerning the prevention of water leaking into houses
1805 Feb. 11 1.0 item Box OS
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Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Article on Warming Rooms
1791 Mar. 7 1.0 item Box 1
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Originally enclosed with Letter to David Rittenhouse, 1791, May 20.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Austin, James.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society. President
1816 May 9 1.0 item Box 1
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Austin, James.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1815 June 15 1.0 item Box 1
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Aveilhi.
ALS to John Vaughan
1796 Sept. 20 1.0 item Box 1
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Relative to a cotton machine left with APS  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Bache, William.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1806 Oct. 17 1.0 item Box 1
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Bachman, John, 1790-1874.
An account of some experiments made on the habits of the vultures inhabiting Carolina, the turkey buzzard and the carrion crow
1834 Jan. 20 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural History

Barnes, Joseph.
ALS to John Vaughan
1792 Sept. 21 4.0 items Box 1
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On construction of mills Ills. note: Mill construction designs included.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Barnwell, William.
Observations on the climate of New Orleans
1817 May 22 1.0 item Box 1
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Barron, James.
Concerning the ventilation of ships to prevent the rotting of timbers
1825 Jan. 7 1.0 item Box 1
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815.
Additional information on Phalaena tinea
1812 Dec. 16 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural History

Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815.
Cervus (article from Archaeologicae Americanae)
1806 1.0 item Box 1
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Article on animals of America. Refers to his name for elk, Cervus wapiti, derived from the Shawanese. Freeman and Smith 3669  Natural History

Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815.
Concerning Dunbar's paper on swallows
1803 Jan. 21 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural History

Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815.
Miscellaneous facts concerning. . . the genus Bartonia
1815 Dec. 15 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural History

Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815.
ALS to John Vaughan
1801 April 1 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural History

Barton, William.
ALS to John Vaughan
1812 May 30 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural Philosophy

Barton, William.
ALS to John Vaughan
1813 Feb. 9 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural Philosophy

Barton, William.
ALS to John Vaughan
1813 Jan. 20 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural Philosophy

Bartram, Moses.
Some Account of the Naked or Siberian Barley [printed broadside]
1771 July 19 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural History

Baudry des Lozières, Louis Narcisse.
Memoire sur le cotton-animal ou sur l'insecte porte-mouches
1797 Jan. 3 1.0 item Box 1
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In French, with English translation  Natural History

Bennett.
Concerning a theorem for ascertaining a standard measure
1808 1.0 item Box 1
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Bergsten, Nicholas.
Concerning an operation on a boy; and, A singular case of chirurgo-medical operation in the Nosocomy of the University of Upsal in Sweden
1800 Mar. 7-8 2.0 items Box 1
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D. 11p. and 1 drawing and end. For report of committee, see: Report of committee...; May 2, 1800  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Berthoud, James & Co..
Directions for putting up beef for exportation
1805 1.0 item Box 1
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Berthoud, James & Co..
Directions for putting up beef for exportation
1805 1.0 item Box 0.1
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Copy in John Vaughan's hand  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Bill of mortality of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
1803 1.0 item Box 1
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Originally enclosed in Lyman Spalding to John R. Coxe, 1803 Feb. 21  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Boussingault, Jean Baptiste Joseph Diedonne.
Researches on the cause of goiter in the mountains of New Granada
1830 Oct. 1.0 item Box 1
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Originally enclosed in Joaquim Acosta to APS Secretary, 1832 May 24.  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.
The Comet: elements of the orbit of the comet now visible [printed circular]
1811 Dec. 6 1.0 item Box 1
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Bradford, William, 1719-1791.
LS Cy to American Philosophical Society
1790 Sept. 30 1.0 item Box 1
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Transmitting an "extraordinary radish."  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Bridgman, E. C., (Elijah Coleman), 1801-1861.
ALS to the Journal of Commerce. Editors
1831 Feb. 10 1.0 item Box 1
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Moral condition of Spanish possessions in Indian archipelago  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Brisbane, James.
ALS to Benjamin Franklin
1789 July 4 1.0 item Box 1
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Re: "discovery of longitude."  Mathematics and Astronomy

Brooks, Ebenezer.
ALS to unidentified recipient
1784 Nov. 6 1.0 item Box 1
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Discovery of perpetual motion by Dr. McKinley of Kentucky.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Brown, Charles.
ALS to John Vaughan
1814 July 30 3.0 items Box 1
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Astronomical observations. Ill. note: 2 astronomical drawings.  Natural Philosophy

Brown, Samuel.
Map of the nitre caves of Kentucky
1805 Feb. 7 1.0 map, 37.6 x 22.9 cm Box OS
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Natural History. This map was accompanied by an article by Brown published as "A description of a cave on Crooked creek, with remarks and observations on nitre and gun-powder." American Philosophical Society Transactions, vol. 6 (1809): pp. 235-247.

Browne, Peter Arrell.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1830 Nov. 29 1.0 item Box 1
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Re: deficiencies in Maclure's geological map.  Natural History

Browne, Peter Arrell.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1830 April 16 1.0 item Box 1
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Sending curiosity: a piece of engraved marble recovered from quarry in Montgomery Co.  Natural History

Bruce, James.
Concerning the simoom
n.d. 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural Philosophy

Buchanan, George.
Concerning a vaccination
1808 Feb. 19 1.0 item Box 1
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Busby, C. Augustin.
Concerning the propelling of vessels by siphon
1819 Aug. 16 1.0 item Box 1
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llus.  Natural Philosophy

Busby, C. Augustin.
Concerning the propelling of vessels by siphon (2)
1819 Aug. 16 1.0 item Box 1
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Note: Includes diagram of reservoir.

Byrnes, Daniel.
A method proposed which it is apprehended will be an improvement in finding the longitude at sea
1788 June 19 1.0 item Box 1
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Byrnes, Daniel.
ALS to Benjamin Franklin
1788 Aug. 15 1.0 item Box 1
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Caire-Morand, Antoine.
Recherches sur l'asterie des anciens, et remarque d'un caractere singulier que la taille a devoile sur un Grenat
1807 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural History

Caire-Morand, Antoine.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1807 Mar. 20 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural History

Calhoun, John C..
ALS to Stephen Harriman Long
1819 Mar. 8 1.0 item Box 1
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Orders to assume command of Long Expedition. Originally enclosed in Calhoun to Robert Walsh, 1819 Mar. 11  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Calhoun, John C..
ALS to Robert Walsh
1819 Mar. 11 1.0 item Box 1
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Originally enclosing Calhoun to Stephen Harriman Long, 1819 Mar. 8  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Chapman, Isaac A..
ALS to the American Philosophical Society. Description of a new invented Steam-Boat
1810 Mar. 20 2.0 items Box 1
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With sketch Chapman sent this communication to member James Mease to be presented to the Society for the possible award of a premium. Originally enclosed in Chapman to Mease, 1810 May 1. See also Robert Patterson Re: Chapman's steam boat, 1810 July 27  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Chapman, Isaac A..
Imaginary river to illustrate the movement of Chapman's "new-invented Steam Boat"
1810 Mar. 20 1.0 map, 19 x 30.5 cm Request Item
Chapman, Isaac A..
ALS to James Mease
1810 May 1 1.0 item Box 1
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Originally enclosing Chapman to APS, 1810 Mar. 20.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Chapman, Josiah.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1819 Dec. 15 1.0 item Box 1
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See also Chapman to Robert Patterson, 1819 Aug. 31 (APS Archives).  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Chesapeake & Delaware Canal.
Receipt to B.H. Latrobe
1802 Jan. 4 Box 1
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See Tousard, Louis: "An Inquiry...", 1802 Jan. 4

Chipchase, John.
ALS to Leonard Snowden
1804 Oct. 8 1.0 item Box 1
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Extracts on meteors.  Natural Philosophy

Churchman, John , 1753-1805.
Theory of magnetism
1787 Feb. 7 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural Philosophy

Churchman, John , 1753-1805.
Theory of magnetism (2)
1787 Feb. 7 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural Philosophy

Churchman, John , 1753-1805.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1787 May 4 1.0 item Box 1
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Requesting a report on his memorial.  Mathematics and Astronomy

Churchman, John , 1753-1805.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1787 Aug. 16 1.0 item Box 1
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Requesting a report on his memorial.  Mathematics and Astronomy

Churchman, John , 1753-1805.
ALS to Benjamin Franklin
1789 Mar. 21 1.0 item Box 1
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Regarding support for testing theory of magnetism as method of determining longitude.  Mathematics and Astronomy

Clibborn, Edward.
ALS to John Vaughan
1829 Nov. 23 1.0 item Box 1
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Re: electricity.  Natural Philosophy

Clifford, John D..
ALS Cy extract to Benjamin Smith Barton
1811 Sept. 4 1.0 item Box 1
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Nitre caves in Kentucky.  Natural History

Cloud, Joseph.
An attempt to ascertain the fusing temperature of metals
1814 May 20 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural Philosophy

Clymer, George.
Concerning the healthiness of Philadelphia
1802 1.0 item Box 1
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Coates, Dr..
Description of a new hydrostatic balance
1822 July 1 2.0 items Box 1
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Illus.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776.
Remarks on some obvious phenomena of light
1771 June 21 1.0 item Box 1
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Natural Philosophy

Collin, Nicholas.
ALS to the President of the American Philosophical Society
1793 Jan. 18 1.0 item Box 1
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Re: climate of Pennsylvania.  Natural Philosophy

Collins, Zaccheus, 1764-1831.
ALS to John Vaughan
1826 Mar. 16 1.0 item Box 1
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Re: Mexican insect. Originally enclosing Taylor, Sicard and Co. to the APS, 1826 Jan. 20.  Natural History

Concerning a new instrument for describing ellipses
1819 Dec. 3 1.0 item Box OS
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Concerning a Relief for Sore Eyes
1809 Oct. 1.0 item Box 2
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From London, describes a cure of inflamed eyes.  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Concerning Articles which may be Usefullly Introduced Among Rude Nations in Africa
n.d. 1.0 item Box 2
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Re: introduction into Africa certain items from Europe.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Concerning Captain Swift's Observations on the Natives of the North West Coast of America
1805 June 9 1.0 item Box 2
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Notes of four voyages of Boston sea captain: description of houses and their ornamentation; mentions slitting of lower lip for decoration. Freeman and Smith 2434  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Concerning Certain Grasses ... for Cattle
1805 Sept. 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Concerning Cultivable Lands
1819 Aug. 20 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Concerning Education in Pennsylvania
Ca. 1797 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Concerning Education in Public Schools
ca. 1797 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Concerning the Benefits of Stripping the Bark from Certain Diseased Orchard Trees
1802 June 7 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Concerning the calculations of surd decimal fractions; [read].
1816 Oct. 18 1.0 item Box 2
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On last page is APS Report of Committee on this Papers, 1816 Nov. 15, signed by Robert M. Patterson.  Mathematics and Astronomy

Concerning the contents of vol. 1, American Philosophical Society Transactions
ca.1771 1.0 item Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Concerning the Currents through the Straits of Gibralter
n.d. 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Concerning the reduction of expenses of public officers
1785 Spring 1.0 item Box 2
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Natural Philosophy

Concerning Wire Fences
1817 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Act of incorporation
1799 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
List of officers
1799 Oct. 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
ALS to Adam Seybert
1799 Dec. 25 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Conover, Samuel Forman.
An essay on the vermilion colour of Blood, and on the different colours of the metallic oxides, with an application of these principles to the arts
1806 June 10 1.0 item Box 2
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Conrad, Solomon W..
ALS to Robert Hare
1830 June 15 1.0 item Box 2
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Originally enclosing S. H. Saunders, Concerning light, 1830 May 21.  Natural Philosophy

Conyngham, Redmond, 1781-1846.
Singular phenomenon [concerning phosphorescence]
1837 Aug. 9 1.0 item Box 2
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Natural Philosophy

Cooper, Edward Joshua.
Using the expression of 'transverse' [Pr. Circular letter]
1835 Nov. 2.0 items Box 2
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With engr. of Halley's comet.  Mathematics and Astronomy

Cooper, Thomas.
ALS to Humphry Davy
1818 Sept. 9 1.0 item Box 2
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On tests of poisons.  Natural Philosophy

Cooper, Thomas.
ALS to unidentified recipient [on tests of poisons]
1818 Sept. 18 1.0 item Box 2
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With partial copy.  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Cooper, Thomas.
ALS to unidentified recipient [on tests of poisons]
1818 Sept. 18 1.0 item Box 2
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Partial copy.  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Cooper, Thomas.
On boiling sugar
1801 1.0 item Box OS
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Cooper, Thomas.
On the tests of arsenic
1818 Sept. 18 1.0 item Box 2
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Natural Philosophy

Cooper, Thomas.
Syllabus of the Lectures of ...on Geological and Mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania [Pr. Broadside]
n.d. 1.0 item Box 2
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Natural Philosophy

Couldery, William.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society [concerning a new street lamp]
1797 Jan. 7 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Coulter, Thomas.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1797 Dec. 4 1.0 item Box 2
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Re: preventing premature death in peach trees.  Natural History

Coulter, Thomas.
Article on premature death of peach trees
n.d. Box 2
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Notes: c.f. A.P.S. : Report of Committee on the Preservation of Peach Trees 1798, April 4. C.f. Minutes: pp. 24, 269, 303. Enclosed originally with letter from Coulter to T. Jefferson; 1797 Dec. 4.

Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864.
ALS to John Vaughan
1832 Sept. 20 1.0 item Box 2
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Re Colchicum.  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Cram, John.
Plan for a fan chair
1786 Aug. 18 5.0 items Box 2
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Illustr. and explanation by Charles Willson Peale. See Peale to Benjamin Smith Barton, 1786 July 31 (Barton Papers).  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Crane, Gabriel.
ALS to the Secretary of the American Philosophical Society
1817 May 27 1.0 item Box 2
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Re: grub found in a state of vegetation.  Natural History

Creswell, Charles.
Observations to serve for the mineralogical map of the state of Maryland
1809 Jan. 20 1.0 item Box 2
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Re. Godon's map.  Natural History

Creswell, Charles.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1809 Jan. 20 1.0 item Box 2
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Natural History

Crivelli, M..
ALS to Society of Friends
1829 June 10 1.0 item Box 2
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The potato as counter to poverty.  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Croker, A..
ALS to James Cutbush
1814 July 1 1.0 item Box 2
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On the conversion of a vertical into a rotary motion.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Croker, Temple Henry.
ALS to Benjamin Franklin
1787 June 11 1.0 item Box 2
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On the magnetic needle.  Natural Philosophy

Currie, William.
Concerning the Causes of Animal Heat
1816 Jan. 19 1.0 item Box 2
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Currie, William.
Remarks on such of the experiments of Mr. Daniel Ellis of Edinburgh have a tendency to disprove the generally received doctrine of the causes of animal heat
1797 April 7 1.0 item Box 2
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Currie, William.
Remarks on the effects of Perkins' metallic rods in the cure of diseases
1797 April 7 1.0 item Box 2
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Currie, William.
ALS to John Vaughan
1818 June 2 2.0 items Box 2
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"A sketch of some of the errors, which have been discovered in some of the philosophical opinions of the illustrious Sir Isaac Newton."  Natural Philosophy

Currie, William.
ALS to John Vaughan (2)
1818 June 2 1.0 item Box 2
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Natural Philosophy

Curson, S..
Concerning Arequipa, Peru, and surrounding area
1819 May 21 1.0 item Box 2
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Author describes a climb of Mount Yachi, near Arequipa. Discusses Quechua concept of oxygen deficiency, to them a faintness due to "antimonal loads"; mentions attitude of Indians joining climb toward revelation of mine locations. Freeman and Smith 3104.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Curson, S..
Concerning Arequipa, Peru, and surrounding area (2)
1819 May 21 1.0 item Box 2
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Author describes a climb of Mount Yachi, ner Arequipa. Discusses Queachua concept of oxygen dificiency, to them a faintness due to "antimonal loads": mentions attitude of Indians joining climb toward revelation of mine locations. Freeman and Smith 3104.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Cutbush, Edward.
Thermometrical journal
1800 Dec. 16-1801 May 12 1.0 item Box OS
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Originally enclosed in Cutbush to John Vaughan, 1801 July 10.  Natural Philosophy

Cutbush, Edward.
ALS to John Vaughan
1801 July 10 1.0 item Box 2
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Originally enclosing Cutbush, Thermometrical journal.  Natural Philosophy

Cuthbert, John.
ALS to John Vaughan
1832 June 1 1.0 item Box 2
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Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823.
ALS to Benjamin Smith Barton
1792 Aug. 31 1.0 item Box 2
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Report on age of Ohio mounds using tree-ring dating. Freeman and Smith 1207.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

D.B.T.P.S. (pseud).
Economy and comfort introduced to the fire-side, or, a hint for saving fuel and procuring a remedy for smoky chimneys
1796 Dec. 16 1.0 item Box 2
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Illus.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Dabney, John B..
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1808 June 20 1.0 item Box 2
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Re: volcano at Fayal, Madeira.  Natural History

Da Costa, Francis.
Concerning Mill Grove lead mine in Pennsylvania
1805 June 15 2.0 items Box 2
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Illus.  Natural History

Da Costa, Francis.
Statement of the discovery of Mill Grove lead mine on Perkiomen Creek near Philadelphia
1809 Nov. 18 1.0 item Box 2
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Natural History

Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard.
ALS to John Vaughan
1832 May 9 1.0 item Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Dandiran.
Succinct account of the respective charges and profits, in manufacturing hemp after his improved method
1792 Dec. 9 1.0 item Box 2
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Originally enclosed in Valltravers to APS President, 1792 Dec. 13.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Dannery, S..
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
n.d. 1.0 item Box 2
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In French.  Natural History

Davidson, Robert.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1788 April 7 2.0 items Box 2
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On a teratological calf. Illus.  Natural History

Davis, John, 1755-1783.
ALS to John Vaughan
1819 May 12 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Deabbate, Gaspard.
The Barbary powers and Sardinia and the situation of Italy generally
1820 June 17 1.0 item Box 2
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In French.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Deabbate, Gaspard.
Concerning the religious cult of the Vaudois [Waldensians]
1823 May 29 1.0 item Box OS
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Originally enclosed in Deabbate to Robert Walsh, 1823 May 29.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Deabbate, Gaspard.
ALS to Robert Walsh
1823 May 29 1.0 item Box 2
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Originally enclosing Deabbate, Concerning the religious of the Vaudois.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Dean, Mrs (?).
Cure for the croup
1808 Mar. 13 1.0 item Box 2
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Dearborn, Benjamin.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1803 Feb. 4 1.0 item Box 2
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Background note: Dearborn was an educator and an inventor.

Philadelphia, A.L.S. 1p. Enc. of 7p. Concerning the abolition of slavery. Cf. Minutes, p. 338.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Dearborn, Henry, 1751-1829.
Method of splitting stones by wedges
1801 1.0 item Box 2
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Illus.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Demaree, Samuel R..
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1804 Dec. 28 1.0 item Box 2
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Proposal to form society to "alter and improve the orthography of the language of the United States."  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Denmark.
Progres de l'enseignement mutuel en Dannemarck
1827 Jan. 28 1.0 item Box OS
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Description of a Stove
1797 Nov. 3 1.0 item Box OS
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Note: c.f. minutes, page 262.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

DeWitt, Simeon.
ALS to Benjamin Rush
1807 April 25 1.0 item Box 2
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Observations on the eclipse of 1806 June 16.  Natural Philosophy

DeWitt, Simeon.
2 Pr. Circulars to John Vaughan
1825 Nov. 24 3.0 items Box 2
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Request for mineralogical information for University of the State of New York.  Natural Philosophy

Dietz, R..
Extracts of notes... concerning a testaceous mass from Anastasia Island, Florida
1823 July 10 1.0 item Box 2
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Natural History

Drake, Daniel.
ALS to Joseph Correa de Serra
1817 Oct. 1 1.0 item Box 2
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On the geology of the Ohio Valley.  Natural History

Drayton, John.
ALS to Benjamin Smith Barton
1803 Sept. 9 2.0 items Box 2
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On insect infestation and destruction of pine trees. Includes newspaper clipping.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Duffield, Samuel.
Meteorological observations
1803 May 1-31 1.0 item Box OS
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Natural Philosophy

Dufour, John James.
Plan of the nitre cave described by Dr. Samuel Brown
1805 1.0 map, 41.3 x 51.4 cm Box OS
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The cartouche reads: "A Survey of the Great Salt Petre Cave on Crooked Creek Madison County, Ky. by John James Dufour. 1805." See Samuel Brown, Map of the nitre cave of Kentucky, 1805 Feb. 7.  Natural History

Du Jareau, G..
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1810 May 9 1.0 item Box 2
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In French.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Du Jareau, J..
Address to the citizens of New Orleans and to the members of the city council [newspaper clipping]
1808 Sept. 12-20 2.0 items Box 2
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On levee and course of river in New Orleans.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Dunbar, John R. W..
ALS to Peter Stephen Duponceau [Pr. Circular letter "Interesting galvanic experiments"]
1833 July 19 1.0 item Box 2
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On effects of galvanism on dead body of "Negro Ben." From the Winchester Virginian, 1833 June 27.  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Dunbar, Robert.
ALS to Benjamin Smith Barton
1803 Jan. 7 1.0 item Box 2
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See also Barton, Conerning Dunbar's paper on swallows, 1803 Jan. 21; APS, Report... 1803 Feb. 4 (APS Archives).  Natural History

Dunbar, William, 1749-1810.
Astronomical observations made at the Forest near Natchez [re: solar eclipse of June 16, 1806]
1806 Aug. 15 1.0 item Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Dunbar, William, 1749-1810.
Monthly and annual results of meteorological observations made at the Forest 4 miles east of the river Mississippi
1804 April 6 1.0 item Box 2
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Natural Philosophy

Dunbar, William, 1749-1810.
ALS extract to John Vaughan
1810 1.0 item Box 2
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Re: spinning machine. See Winpenny and Long, Concerning a spinning machine, ca.1810.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

ALS to John Vaughan
1828 Dec. 17 1.0 item Box 2
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On verso is John Vaughan, Memorandum concerning Rafn's communication about Norse relics in North America, 1828 December  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

ALS to John Vaughan
1829 June 1 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

ALS to John Vaughan
1831 April 18 1.0 item Box 2
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Re: American silk.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthere Irenee.
ALS to John Vaughan
1803 Jan. 18 1.0 item Box 2
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On asphyxia and causes of sudden death.  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthere Irenee.
ALS to John Vaughan
1805 Sept. 19 1.0 item Box 2
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Comments on yellow fever. In French.  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthere Irenee.
ALS to John Vaughan (translation)
1805 Sept. 19 1.0 item Box 2
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Comments on yellow fever. English translation.  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817.
Sur le Formation de l'eau dans les corps animal
1800 June 20 1.0 item Box 2
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n French.  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817.
Sur le Formation de l'eau dans les corps animal (Concerning the Water in the Body of an Animal)
1800 June 20 1.0 item Box 2
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English translation.  Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817.
Aux Americans des Etats-Unis [re: the meaning of the words "country" and "Commonwealth"]
1815 Oct. 6 1.0 item Box 2
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In hand of Alexandre Cardon de Sandrands. Originally enclosed in Du Pont de Nemours to John Vaughan, 1815 Aug. 19.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1800 May 15 1.0 item Box 2
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Natural History

Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1800 May 22 1.0 item Box 2
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Natural History

Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817.
ALS to John Vaughan, inclosing AMs Sur la theorie des vents
1801 Dec. 23 2.0 items Box 2
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In French.  Natural Philosophy

Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817.
ALS to John Vaughan, inclosing AMs Sur la theorie des vents (On the Theory of the Winds)
1801 Dec. 23 1.0 item Box 2
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English translation.  Natural Philosophy

Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817.
ALS to John Vaughan
1815 Aug. 19 1.0 item Box 2
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817.
ALS to John Vaughan
1815 Nov. 23 1.0 item Box 2
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Ecroyd, Richard.
Meteorological observations
1803 June 12-12.30 1.0 item Box 2
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Natural Philosophy

Elkendorp, B..
Memoir on the non-strangulating hernia and the mode of curing it
1822 Dec. 6 1.0 item Box 2
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1800 Mar. 23 1.0 item Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
Observations on a lunar eclipse made at Philadelphia by Robert Patterson and Ellicott
1801 Dec. 18 1.0 item Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1801 Dec. 29 1.0 item Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1801 Dec. 29 1.0 item Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
Astronomical observations made in Lancaster, Pa. (Letterpress copy) #1
1802 Jan. 15 1.0 item Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
Astronomical observations made in Lancaster, Pa. (Letterpress copy) #2
1802 Jan. 15 1.0 item Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
Astronomical observations made in Lancaster, Pa. (Letterpress copy) #3
1802 Jan. 15 1.0 item Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
Astronomical observations made at Lancaster
1802 Feb. 13 1.0 item Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1802 May 3 1.0 item Box 2
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Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
Concerning the use of water for an artificial or portable horizon
1803 1.0 item Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
ALS to Robert Patterson (includes John Vaughan to Ellicott, ca.1803)
1803 Oct. 1 1.0 item Box 2
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Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1804 Jan. 24 1.0 item Box 2
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Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1804 Mar. 1 1.0 item Box 2
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Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1805 Nov. 12 1.0 item Box 2
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Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1806 Aug. 1 2.0 items Box 2
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Note: Diagram of Eclipse observed at Lancaster, PA.  Mathematics and Astronomy Lancaster, A.L.S. 7p. and end. and 1p. of drawing and end. Concerning the eclipse of the sun. Cf. Minutes, p.388. Enclosed originally in letter from Ellicott to R. Patterson, Aug. 2, 1806, A. Ellicott to Robert Patterson; Aug. 2, 1806. Printed: Trans., o.s.,vol. VI, 255 ff. For report of committee, see: APS. Report...Oct. 3, 1806.

Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1806 Aug. 2 1.0 item ; 8 x 6-1/2Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy. Lancaster, A.L.S. 1p. and add., end. Add. mutilated. Enc. Concerning the solar eclipse and remarks on Ferrer's observation of it. For enclosure, see letter from Ellicott to R. Patterson; Aug. 1, 1806.

General physical description: 8 x 6-1/2

Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1806 Aug. 16 1.0 item Box 2
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Elmslie, John.
Concerning hot springs at the Cape of Good Hope
1800 May 3 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Elmslie, John.
ALS to Dr. Griffith
1808 May 3 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Emerson, Gouveneur.
Concerning meteors (1)
1833 Nov. 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Emerson, Gouveneur.
Concerning meteors (2)
1833 Nov. 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Espy, James P., (James Pollard), 1785-1860.
Concerning the causes of fluctuation of the barometer
1825 July 12 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Evans , Oliver, 1755-1819.
Directions for making his patented screw-mill
1806 2.0 items Box 3
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Note: includes screw-mill illustration.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Evans , Oliver, 1755-1819.
Concerning specifications of his discovery on steam engines
n.d. 1.0 item Box 3
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Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Ewing, James.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1823 Feb. 20 2.0 items Box 3
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Note: includes diagrams of hydrants.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Exter, Richard.
ALS to Joel Roberts Poinsett
1827 Sept. 5 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural History

Ferrer, Jose Joaquin de.
Geographical position of various places in the western hemisphere (with partial copy)
1801 Feb. 5 2.0 items ; 16x21, 14x9Box OS
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics. Philadelphia, A.D.S. 2p.,end. In Spanish. Copy in part. Cf. Minutes, p.309.

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Ferrer, Jose Joaquin de.
ALS to John Vaughan (with translation)
1807 April 25 2.0 items Box 3
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Ferrer, Jose Joaquin de.
ALS to Juan Vaughan
1803 Mar. 23 2.0 items Box 3
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Ferrer, Jose Joaquin de.
Astronomical observations in New York
1808 Dec. 2 1.0 item ; 13-1/2x9Box OS
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Mathematics and Astronomy. Dated: April 13-April 23 1805-1806. [Read ?], Dec. 2, 1808. A.D. 1p. Cf. Minutes, p. 411 (?).

General physical description: 13-1/2x9

Finlay, William M..
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1804 Aug. 18 2.0 items Box OS
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Mathematics and Astronomy. L.S. 8p. and add., end. Concerning astronomy. Enclosed originally in letter from Finlay to Jefferson, Aug.18, 1804.

Finlay, William M..
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1804 Aug. 18 1.0 item Box 3
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Fisher, Miers.
ALS to Robert Barclay
1790 April 5 1.0 item Box OS
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Fleckenstein, Carl Gottfried.
Selenotopographical fragments
1790 July 1.0 item Box 3
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Fleming, George.
ALS to John Vaughan
1923 Sept. 6 4.0 items Box 3
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Includes 2 diagrams of "double forcing pumps".  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Flint, James.
Concerning looming and atmospheric refraction
1818 Sept. 6 2.0 items Box OS
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Natural Philosophy

Foronda, Valentin de.
The introduction of vaccination in Spain
1802 1.0 item Box 3
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology. D. 1p. and end. In Spanish.

Foronda, Valentin de.
ALS to John Vaughan
1806 Sept. 16 1.0 item Box 3
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Foronda, Valentin de.
Concerning the cure of yellow fever
1806 Sept. 19 1.0 item Box 3
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Foronda, Valentin de.
ALS to John Vaughan
1807 Mar. 20 1.0 item Box 3
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Foronda, Valentin de.
Concerning the English and Spanish languages (1)
1807 April 4 1.0 item Box 3
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Foronda, Valentin de.
Concerning the English and Spanish languages (2)
1807 April 4 1.0 item Box 3
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Foronda, Valentin de.
Concerning the English and Spanish languages (3)
1807 April 4 1.0 item Box 3
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Foronda, Valentin de.
ALS to John Vaughan
1807 March 6 1.0 item Box 3
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Foster, Williams, Jr..
Description of a machine to remove sand bars
1820 Jan. 7 1.0 item Box 3
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Foster, Williams, Jr..
ALS to John Vaughan
1820 Jan. 7 2.0 items Box 3
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Note: includes diagram of "Mud or River Machine"  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Fothergill, Anthony.
Queries for the Austrian traveler destined to visit Arabia, Persia, etc.
n.d. 1.0 item Box 3
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Fothergill, Anthony.
Observations on the cold at Northampton of Jan. 1776
1804 Nov. 16 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Fothergill, Anthony.
Remarks on Mugford's rudder and the proposed notice of it by the American Philosophical Society
1805 Feb. 15 3.0 items Box 3
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Fournier, Simon-Pierre, la jeune.
Nouveau caractere d'ecriture Dans le Gout Anglais
1781 1.0 item Box 3
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Meteorological imaginations and conjectures (1)
n.d. 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Meteorological imaginations and conjectures (2)
n.d. 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Garnett, J..
ALS to Robert Patterson
1809 Mar. 9 1.0 item Box 3
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Garnett, John.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1806 July 17 1.0 item Box 3
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Garnett, John.
ALS to Thomas C. James
1807 Oct. 31 1.0 item Box 3
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Gibson, John Bannester.
ALS to G.W. Featherstonehaugh
1823 Mar. 23 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural History

Gilbert, Davies.
ALS to William Vaughan
1825 May 9 1.0 item Box 3
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Gillespie, John D..
ALS to John Vaughan
1807 Nov. 23 1.0 item Box 3
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Godon, Silvain.
Observations ALS to serve for the mineralogical map of Maryland
1807 Nov. 6 1.0 item Box 3
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Gordon, E..
Concerning the strength of timber on a bridge
1808 May 1 1.0 item Box 3
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Graberg of Hemsö.
To Thomas C. James
1817 Nov. 10 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural History

Grassi, Giovanni Antonio.
ALS to Josef Francisco de Clados
1812 Mar. 12 1.0 item Box 3
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Great Falls Manufacturing Company.
To Elisa J. Abel
1828 Oct. 31 Box 3
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See Mease, James to Sanseer Machine Co.; 1831 Nov. 11

Grier, Arthur.
ALS to Benjamin Franklin (with memorandum by Franklin)
1789 April 24 1.0 item Box 3
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Grier, Arthur.
ALS to Benjamin Franklin
1789 May 29 1.0 item Box 3
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Griffith, D..
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1801 Oct. 8 1.0 item Box 3
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Griffiths, Elijah.
ALS to John Vaughan
1820 April 21 1.0 item Box 3
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Groves, Matthew C..
Proposed method of ascertaining longitude
1802 1.0 item Box 3
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Guest, Henry.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1795 Nov. 30 2.0 items Box 3
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Guest, Henry.
Concerning the preservation of peach trees
1795 June 2 1.0 item Box 3
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Guest, Henry.
Concerning lighthouses
1796 1.0 item Box 3
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Guest, Henry.
Concerning the preservation of meat
1796 1.0 item Box 3
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Hall, James.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1800 Sept. 22 1.0 item Box 3
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Hall, John.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society. President
1791 Aug. 20 1.0 item Box 3
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Hall, John Elihu.
ALS to American Philosophical Society
1806 Nov. 1 2.0 items Box 3
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Hamilton, John.
Thermometrical observations made during a voyage from Philadelphia ALS to Liverpool and back ALS to Philadelphia (1)
1818 April 3 1.0 item Box 3
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Hamilton, John.
Thermometrical observations made during a voyage from Philadelphia ALS to Liverpool and back ALS to Philadelphia (2)
1818 April 3 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Hare, Robert.
Concerning the cause of tornados by electrical discharge
1835 Nov. 20 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Harlan, Richard.
Concerning Macuire-Princep's experiment on poisonous plants.
1830 Sept. 17 1.0 item Box 3
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Harlan, Richard.
Concerning a new fossil genus of mastodon and a fossil
1830 April 16 1.0 item Box 3
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Harlan, Richard.
Concerning a new species of fresh water tortoise
1831 Dec. 1 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural History

Harlan, Richard.
Concerning fossils and a new genus glires
1825 April 1 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural History

Harrington, William.
ALS to John Kearsley Mitchell
1833 Aug. 13 7.0 items Box 3
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Note: includes 6 illustrations of "fossil remains of vegetables"  Natural History

Harris, Thaddeus Mason.
ALS to John Vaughan
1833 Aug. 8 1.0 item Box 3
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Harrison, Samuel.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1808 May 28 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural History

Harry, William Cobb.
ALS to Marmaduke Burrough
1834 April 6 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural History

Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
ALS to unidentified correspondent
1806 Sept. 30 1.0 item Box OS
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Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
On the French weights and measures (English translation) #1
1806 Nov. 1.0 item Box 3
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Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
On the French weights and measures (English translation) #2
1806 Nov. 1.0 item Box 3
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
List of books concerning weights and measures
1807 April 1.0 item Box 3
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
Concerning books on weights and measures
1807 April 1.0 item Box 3
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1807 Aug. 10 1.0 item Box 3
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Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1807 Sept. 29 1.0 item Box 3
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Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
ALS to John Vaughan
1831 Feb. 1 1.0 item Box 3
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
ALS to John Vaughan
1808 June 10 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
Concerning meteoric stones (1)
1808 June 10 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
Concerning meteoric stones (2)
1808 June 10 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
ALS to John Vaughan
1817 June 12 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
ALS to Robert Maskell Patterson
1828 April 19 1.0 item Box OS
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Natural Philosophy

Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843.
Concerning the improvement of navigation rivers
1820 Mar. 23 3.0 items Box 3
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Note: includes diagram and typed translation.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Hawkins, John J..
ALS to John Vaughan
1800 June 20 3.0 items Box OS
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Hawkins, John J..
Plan for building a city
1800 Sept. 19 1.0 map, 57 x 45.5 cm Box 3
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[read] A.D.S. 4p. Cf. Minutes, pages 302, 305. For report of committee, see: APS Report of committee...; [ca. Nov. 1800].  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus.
ALS to John Vaughan
1820 April 17 4.0 items Box 3
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Note: includes 2 diagrams of the polyglottus of a mockingbird.  Natural History

Hill, Henry, 1732-1798.
Concerning the telegraph
1796 July 15 2.0 items Box 3
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Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Hiran.
On education in public schools (addressed to Thomas Jefferson)
1796 Dec. 30 2.0 items Box 3
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Hobrow, William.
ALS to William Barton
1796 Oct. 1 1.0 item Box 3
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Hodge, Hugh L. (Hugh Lenox), 1796-1873.
Thermometrical observations for Feb. 1829
1829 Mar. 21 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Hodge, Hugh L. (Hugh Lenox), 1796-1873.
Thermometrical observations
1829 Jan.-March 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

Holland, Samuel.
Astronomical observations
1772 Feb. 7 1.0 item Box OS
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Holmes, Ezekiel.
ALS to Benjamin Vaughan
1825 Oct. 7 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural History

Hooke, Robert.
Concerning telegraphy [received from William Dunbar, 1801 January 16]
1684 May 21 1.0 item Box 3
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Horner, William Edmonds.
Concerning a portion of the muscular structure of the eye-lids
1822 Mar. 1 1.0 item Box 3
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Horsfield, Timothy.
ALS to John Vaughan
1803 Sept. 3 1.0 item Box 3
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology. Batavia, A.L.S. 8p., end. Concerning vaccinations. Natural history and description of Batavia.

Horsfield, Timothy.
ALS to John Vaughan
1803 Nov. 26 1.0 item Box 3
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Hosack, David.
ALS to James Gregory
1799 Mar. 12 1.0 item Box 3
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Hosack, David.
ALS to Colin Chisholm
1812 July 10 1.0 item Box 3
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Houston, William Churchill.
ALS to David Rittenhouse
1773 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural Philosophy

How to ascertain the longitude
n.d. 1.0 item Box 3
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Howell, James.
Concerning iron ore and forges in Pennsylvania
1807 1.0 item Box 3
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Natural History

Hulings, William E..
Map of the lower Mississippi up to the Natchez
1807 1.0 map, 44.5 x 34.3 cm Box OS
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The meridian of New Orleans is given. On the reverse is a note to John Vaughan from Hulings: "I have marked the situation of Mr. [William] D [unbar] 's place on the second Creek, but am unable to do it with Geometrical precision."  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Humphreys, Joshua.
ALS to David Rittenhouse
1789 Jan. 3 1.0 item Box 4
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Humphreys, Joshua.
ALS to Benjamin Franklin
1789 Feb. 16 1.0 item Box 4
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Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Humphreys, Joshua.
ALS to John Vaughan
1814 Mar. 25 2.0 items Box 4
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Note: includes a diagram of "a circular cylinder pump"  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Humphreys, Samuel.
Concerning placing masts in ships
1822 Jan. 18 1.0 item Box 4
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Humphries, James Jr..
Description of a model for steering a ship
1809 Mar. 2 2.0 items Box OS
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Hutchins, Thomas.
ALS to John Ewing
1771 Dec. 26 1.0 item Box 4
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Hutchinson, S. F..
ALS to Charles Willson Peale
1797 May 25 1.0 item Box OS
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Improvement (pseud).
Description of a ship pump
1797 Dec. 15 1.0 item Box OS
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Institut de France..
Moulin sans meule
1827 Dec. 1.0 item Box 4
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Institut de France. Academie des inscriptions et belle-lettres.
Extract of process verbaux
180_ Dec. 3 1.0 item Box 4
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Jacobs, Benjamin..
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1769 Jan. 10 1.0 item Box 4
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Jaeckel, Joseph.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society (with translation)
1829 Dec. 3 1.0 item Box OS
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Jameson, David.
Meteorological observations made by David Jameson and John Page
1772 1.0 item Box 4
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Natural Philosophy

Jefferson, Thomas..
Petition to United States. House and Senate
1800 Jan. 17 1.0 item Box 4
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Jefferson, Thomas..
ALS to Robert Patterson
1802 Oct. 16 1.0 item Box 4
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Jefferson, Thomas..
ALS to Dr. Caspar Wistar
1806 Nov. 2 3.0 items Box 4
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Jefferson, Thomas..
ALS to Robert Patterson
1809 Oct. 1 1.0 item Box 4
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Jefferson, Thomas..
ALS to Robert Patterson
1809 Dec. 19 1.0 item Box 4
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Jefferson, Thomas..
ALS to David Rittenhouse
1796 July 3 1.0 item Box 4
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Natural History

Jefferson, Thomas..
ALS to John Vaughan
1805 Aug. 15 1.0 item Box 4
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Natural History

Jolly Tar (pseud).
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1802 Feb. 18 1.0 item Box 4
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Jones, William.
Extracts from log-book relative to sunspots, March 3-10, 1806
1806 May 20 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Joslyn, Benjamin F..
Description of an improved air-pump (1)
1836 April 1 1.0 item Box 4
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Natural Philosophy

Joslyn, Benjamin F..
Description of an improved air-pump (2)
1836 April 1 2.0 items Box 4
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Note: contains diagram of (?) barometer/ air pump  Natural Philosophy

Jourdan, W. Crowley.
Concerning ascertaining longitude at sea
1791 Oct. 6 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Kirk, Timothy.
ALS to unidentified recipient
1808 Mar. 28 1.0 item Box 4
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Kuhn, Ludwig Conrad.
Concerning a ramming block
1790 Oct. 13 1.0 item Box 4
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L., A. F..
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1816 Sept. 15 1.0 item Box 4
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In German.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

L., A. F..
Concerning the Biblical verse "God said, let there be light"
ca.1816 1.0 item Box 4
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L., A. F..
ALS to the American Philosophical Society. President
1816 Oct. 6 1.0 item Box 4
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L., A. F..
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
n.d. 1.0 item Box 4
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L., A. F..
ALS [to the American Philosophical Society?]
n.d. 1.0 item Box 4
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In German.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Fran, 1732-1807.
ALS to Ferdinand R. Hassler
1794 Oct. 12 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1809 Sept. 19 1.0 item Box OS
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Lambert, William.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1810 Mar. 21 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1810 Mar. 25 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to John Vaughan
1811 Feb. 20 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to John Vaughan
1811 May 3 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1812 April 20 1.0 item Box 4
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Abstract: Letter from Lambert to Jefferson, explaining new calculations for the diameter of the earth, and how locations calculated by previous measurements can be adjusted.

Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1812 April 23 1.0 item Box 4
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Abstract: Abstract of paper for the American Philosophical Society by William Lambert concerning the location of various cities based on astronomical calculations.

Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1812 July 16 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
Concerning the correct longitude of Washington
1813 Mar. 22 1.0 item Box 4
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Lambert, William.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1814 June 24 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
Concerning the correct longitude of Washington
1815 May 17 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1815 May 18 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1818 July 08 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1818 Nov. 14 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1819 Aug. 10 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1819 Aug. 19 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1819 Aug. 24 1.0 item Box 4
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Lambert, William.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1821 July 31 2.0 items Box OS
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Lambert, William.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1821 Sept. 17 1.0 item Box OS
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Lambert, William.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1821 Sept. 27 1.0 item Box 4
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Lambert, William.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1822 June 25 1.0 item Box 4
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Lambert, William.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1822 June 29 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society. President
1825 July 4 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lambert, William.
ALS to Samuel Lewis Southard
1826 Aug. 7 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.
ALS to unidentified recipient
1797 4.0 items Box 4
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Note: includes a letter from the Maryland Historical Society (1977) and a transcription of a letter from their collection of Latrobe's papers.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.
ALS to unidentified recipient
1803 May 27 1.0 item Box 4
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Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc. Mentions B. Franklin. Concerning steam engines.

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.
ALS to Charles Willson Peale
1807 Mar. 4 1.0 item Box 4
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Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.
ALS to John Vaughan
1807 Mar. 23 2.0 items Box 4
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Note: includes illustration "a block of Freestone from Acquia".  Natural History

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.
Concerning improvements in steam-engines
1801 July 18 3.0 items Box 4
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Note: includes diagram.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Laurie, Robert.
Some observations concerning longitude
n.d. 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Leacock, John.
ALS to Thomas Coombe
1772 Dec. 29 1.0 item Box 4
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Leacock, John.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1772 Dec. 29 1.0 item Box 4
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Lee, Stephen.
ALS to Brockbanks
1813 Aug. 16 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lee, Stephen.
Rates of Mr. Hassler's chronometers by Brockbanks (1)
1813 Aug. 16 2.0 items Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Lee, Stephen.
Rates of Mr. Hassler's chronometers by Brockbanks (2)
1813 Aug. 16 2.0 items Box 4
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Leeke, Charles.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1820 1.0 item Box 4
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Legaux, Peter.
Meteorological observations made at Springmill
1787 Dec. 1.0 item Box 4
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Legaux, Peter.
Meteorological observations made at Springmill
1789 May 1.0 item Box 4
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Le Roy, Jean Baptiste.
Precis d'un ouvrage sur les hopitaux
1777 1.0 item Box 4
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Lesseps, Matthieu Maximilien Prosper de.
Concerning the Empire of Morocco (1)
1821 June 15 1.0 item Box 4
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Lesseps, Matthieu Maximilien Prosper de.
Concerning the Empire of Morocco (2)
1821 June 15 1.0 item Box 4
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Lesseps, Matthieu Maximilien Prosper de.
Concerning the Empire of Morocco (3)
1821 June 15 1.0 item Box 4
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Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846.
Description of several species of fish
1817 Oct. 17 1.0 item Box 4
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Letter to the Secretary of the A.P.S.
1802 April 16 1.0 item Box 4
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Note: c.f. minutes p. 323  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Letter to Benjamin Franklin [received]
1787 Sept. 21 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Letter to [Benjamin Franklin?]
1790 May 1.0 item Box 4
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Letter to Robert Patterson
1800 Oct. 1 1.0 item Box 4
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Letter to David Rittenhouse [received]
1791 May 20 1.0 item Box 4
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Note: c.f. minutes p. 194. For enclosure see article on "warming rooms" 1791, March 7.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Lewis, Alexander.
Concerning how to cause a mill to go by bellows and how to raise water above the level
1789 Nov. 20 1.0 item Box 4
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Lewis, Alexander.
Account of an instrument ALS to discover the distance ALS to an object
1789 Nov. 20 1.0 item Box 4
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Lime (pseud).
Concerning the prevention of decay in peach trees
1797 Dec. 15 1.0 item Box 4
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Livingston, Robert F..
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1799 June 26 2.0 items Box 4
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Note: includes an illustration of "Livingston's Steam Engine".  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Logan, George, 1753-1821.
ALS to John Vaughan
1802 July 16 1.0 item Box 4
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Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864.
ALS to John Vaughan
1821 Aug. 4 1.0 item Box 4
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Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1824 April 2 1.0 item Box 4
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Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1817 Mar. 7 1.0 item Box 4
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Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864.
ALS to Robert Maskell Patterson
1825 Feb. 3 1.0 item Box 4
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Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864.
ALS to Robert Maskell Patterson
1825 Mar. 18 1.0 item Box 4
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MacNaly, Leo.
ALS to G. G. Bogart
1817 May 28 1.0 item Box 4
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Madison, James, 1751-1836.
ALS to William Smith
1776 Sept. 25 1.0 item Box 4
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Madison, James, 1751-1836.
ALS to David Rittenhouse
1780 Nov. 1.0 item Box 4
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Madison, James, 1751-1836.
Thermometrical observations at William and Mary College
1780.Nov. 1.0 item Box 4
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Magaw, Samuel.
Concerning education
1797 June 16 1.0 item Box 4
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A.D.S. 11p. Entered for the premium.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Mansfield, Jared.
ALS to John Vaughan
1816 Sept. 2 1.0 item Box 4
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Marshall, Humphry.
ALS to Moses Bartram
1771 Mar. 23 1.0 item Box 4
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Maskelyne, Nevil.
ALS to William Smith
1769 Dec. 11 1.0 item Box 4
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Maskelyne, Nevil.
ALS to Benjamin Franklin
1769 Dec. 11 1.0 item Box 4
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Maskelyne, Nevil.
ALS to Benjamin Franklin
1769 Dec. 27 2.0 items Box 4
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Note: includes photocopy of original text.  Mathematics and Astronomy

Matlack, Timothy, 1736-1829.
Concerning the growth of plants
1780 June 16 1.0 item Box 4
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Matlack, Timothy, 1736-1829.
Concerning fireplaces
1811 Feb. 1 1.0 item Box 4
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Matthews, Thomas J..
ALS to Robert Maskell Patterson
1828 Jan. 27 1.0 item Box 4
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Maxwell, Thomas.
ALS to Thomas Francis Gordon
1835 Nov. 2 1.0 item Box 4
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May, Fancis.
ALS to Caspar Wistar
1798 July 30 1.0 item Box 4
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McCalla, Andrew.
Concerning a saw mill
1803 Mar. 24 1.0 item Box 4
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Mease, James.
ALS to American Philosophical Society
1838 Oct. 31 1831 Nov. 11 2.0 items Box 4
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Meigs, Josiah.
ALS to John Vaughan
1821 Sept. 06 1.0 item Box 4
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Memoir on experiments on meat
1804 Aug. 12 1.0 item Box 4
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Memoir on making seawater drinkable
1803 1.0 item Box 4
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In French.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Meteorological observations
1748 Aug.-1749 Sept. 1.0 item Box 4
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Meteorological observations
1764 Dec. 31-1765 Jan. 26; 1766 July 11 1.0 item Box 4
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Meteorological observations
1763 Jan. 30-1766 Dec. 30 2.0 items Box 4
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Meteorological observations
1775 1.0 item Box OS
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Meteorological observations
1817 Dec. 1- 1819 April 30 1.0 item Box OS
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Meteorological observations: Taken at Lake Erie
1798 July 4- Sept.30 1.0 item Box OS
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Meteorological observations: Taken on a ship from Philadelphia to Calcutta
1798 March 23- June 30 1.0 item Box 4
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Method of extinguishing fire in a chimney
n.d. 1.0 item Box 4
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Michaux, André, 1746-1802.
Subscription list for proposed exploration of the American West.
1793 1 document, 41 x 33 cm.Box OS
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This stunning document, the body of which is in the hand of Thomas Jefferson, gives instructions to Michaux "to explore the interior country of North America from the Mississippi along the Missouri and Westwardly to the Pacific Ocean . . ." Those subscribing money for this venture have signed below, with their pledges noted. Included are: John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Robert Morris. This expedition was never undertaken, and it is only one instance of Jefferson's continuing interest in exploring the western territory, culminating in the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806.

Provenance: Discovered in the vault in Philosophical Hall in 1979; accessioned, 1980; see Committee on Library Report, Year Book (1979): 158-160.

General physical description: 1 document, 41 x 33 cm.

Michaux, Francois André, 1770-1855.
Concerning an offer of a marble copy of the zodiac of Denderah, Egypt
n.d. 1.0 item Box 5
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In French.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Miller, George W..
A concise method of extracting the cube root
1835 Nov. 1.0 item Box 5
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Mitchill, Samuel L., (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831.
ALS to Caspar Wistar
1800 July 5 1.0 item Box 5
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Mitchill, Samuel L., (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1800 May 14 1.0 item Box 5
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Mitchill, Samuel L., (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1805 Dec. 12 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural Philosophy

Mitchill, Samuel L., (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831.
Concerning icebergs
1805 Dec. 20 Box 5
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Mitchill, Samuel L., (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831.
ALS to John Vaughan
1806 Nov. 5 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural Philosophy

Molyneux, Thomas.
ALS to the Archbishop of Ireland
1815 2.0 items Box 5
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Note: includes illustrations of elephant teeth found in Northern Ireland.  Natural History

Montgomery, Alexander.
ALS to Benjamin Smith Barton
1812 Feb. 10 3.0 items Box 5
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Natural Philosophy

Moriniere, Simon-Barthelemy-Joseph Noel de la.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1813 Feb. 5 Box 5
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Mower, T.G..
ALS to John Vaughan
1820 Jan. 31 2.0 items Box 5
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ote: includes a "Diary of the Weather at Cantonment Missouri for January 1820".  Natural Philosophy

Mugford, William.
ALS to Thomas T. Hewson
1804 Sept. 22 1.0 item Box 5
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Magellanic Premium prize winner. For report of committee, see: APS. Report..., 1805 Feb. 13 (APS Archives).  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Narrative: Respecting an Hindoo woman who lately burnt herself on the Funeral pile of her husband
n.d. Box 5
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See Washington, George to John Adams, 1798 Sept.25.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Naso (pseud).
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1771 Feb. 2.0 items Box 5
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Nelson, Hugh.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1819 Jan. 12 1.0 item Box 5
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Nevil, Francis.
ALS to Rev. St. George, Bishop of Clagher
1715 July 29 1.0 item Box 5
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Nichols, Francis.
Concerning meteorites
n.d. 1.0 item Box 5
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A new and simple method of producing decisions in certain cases by the way of chance
1805 June 21 2.0 items Box OS
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Note: Enclosed is copy communicated by Patterson

Nicola, Lewis, 1717-1807.
ALS to ...
1781 Feb. 20 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural Philosophy

Nicola, Lewis, 1717-1807.
Plans for a rain gage
1781 Feb. 19 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural Philosophy

Oliver, Andrew.
Delineation of a solar shadow
1771 Dec. 12 1.0 item Box 5
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Note: illustration  Mathematics and Astronomy

Oliver, Andrew.
ALS to William Smith
1774 April 25 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural Philosophy

On fireplaces
1796 Oct.16 1.0 item Box 5
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P.C..
Concerning the air pump
1824 Jan. 21 2.0 items Box 5
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Note: includes diagram  Natural Philosophy

Page, John, 1744-1808.
ALS to James Madison (1)
1777 July 7 1.0 item Box 5
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Page, John, 1744-1808.
ALS to James Madison (12
1777 July 7 1.0 item Box 5
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Palisot de Beauvois, M..
[to Henry Muhlenberg]
1811 Nov. 17 1.0 item Box 5
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Papers relative to the fonts of type of Fournier Le Jeune
1809 April 21 3.0 items Box 5
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Parangon.
Il y a dans
n.d. 1.0 item Box OS
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Partridge, Alden.
ALS to Jonathan Williams
1811 Oct. 30 1.0 item Box 5
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Patham, William.
ALS to John Vaughan
1808 Feb. 10 1.0 item Box 5
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Patrullo, Gerard.
ALS to Stephen Duthil
1807 Nov. 28 1.0 item Box 5
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Patrullo, Gerard.
Translation of ALS to Stephen Duthil
1807 Nov. 28 1.0 item Box 5
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854.
Verbal communications
1801 Feb.-Mar. 1.0 item Box 5
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Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1802 Nov. 1 1.0 item Box 5
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Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854.
Concerning Chapman's steam boat
1810 July 27 1.0 item Box 5
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Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854.
Specific gravity of a meteoric stone
1808 April 8 1.0 item Box 5
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Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854.
ALS to John Vaughan
1813 Dec. 3 1.0 item Box 5
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Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1810 April 1.0 item Box 5
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Patton, Tristram.
ALS to William Hembel
1804 July 16 2.0 items Box 5
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Natural Philosophy

Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
[1802] Feb. 5 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural History. Friday, A.L.S. 2p. and add., end. Refers to skeleton given by T.Jefferson FILM199 FRAME348

Peck, Jacob.
Proposed method of finding the quadrature of the circle
1826 Feb. 1 1.0 item Box 5
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Pedder, James.
Concerning the origin of coal
1834 May 16 1.0 item Box 5
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Pemberton, Israel.
Meteorological observations from Newton township and Philadelphia
1773 June 9- Sept. 30 1.0 item Box 5
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Pemberton, Israel.
Meteorological observations near Philadelphia
1775 Jan. 1-Feb. 28 1.0 item Box OS
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Natural Philosophy

Percente, Francesco.
Concerning cholera
n.d. 1.0 item Box 5
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Percival, William.
Method of roofing a house with tin in Canada
1826 1.0 item Box 5
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Perkins, Jacob.
ALS to Robert Patterson, Robert Hare, and Eugenius Nulty
1819 June 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural Philosophy

Perkins, Jacob.
Journal and experiments on his bathometer and pyrometer (1)
1819 Nov. 5 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural Philosophy

Perkins, Jacob.
Journal and experiments on his bathometer and pyrometer (2)
1819 Nov. 5 1.0 item Box 5
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Note: includes diagrams.  Natural Philosophy

Perrier, George.
ALS to William Jones
1808 July 12 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural Philosophy

Peters, Richard, 1743-1828.
ALS to Jonathan Williams
1798 March 26 1.0 item Box 5
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Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth.
ALS to John Vaughan
1804 Sept. 22 1.0 item Box 5
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Plan of a surveying quadrant
n.d. 2.0 items Box 5
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Plantou, Anthony.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1824 Nov. 25 1.0 item Box 5
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Pleasants, James B..
ALS to Benjamin Franklin
1788 Oct. 1 1.0 item Box 5
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Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851.
ALS to John Vaughan
1837 July 28 1.0 item Box 5
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Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851.
ALS to John Vaughan
1837 Aug. 21 1.0 item Box 5
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Poinsett, Joel Robertson.
ALS to John Vaughan
1827 April 20 1.0 item Box 5
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Poinsett, Joel Robertson.
ALS to John Vaughan
1827 Sept. 6 1.0 item Box 5
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Porter, James.
ALS to the President of the American Philosophical Society
1835 April 25 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural Philosophy

Priestly, Joseph.
Composition of enamel of kitchen utensils
1801 Oct. 5 1.0 item Box 5
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Question concerning the probable effects of Napoleon's return from Elba
ca. 1815 1.0 item Box 5
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Retrograde.
ALS to David Rittenhouse
1788 April 10 4.0 items Box 5
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Richarson, Joseph.
ALS to John Vaughan
1805 June 6 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural History

Ridgely, Frederick.
ALS to Benjamin Rush
1811 Mar. 15 3.0 items Box 5
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Note: Includes illustration of a saltpeter cave.  Natural History

Ridgely, Frederick.
An Eye-Draught of the Mammoth-Cave in Warren County, Kentucky
1811 Mar. 15 1.0 map, 40.6 x 25.4 cm Request Item

The covering letter addressed to Benjamin Rush states that "the needle does not traverse" the cave, therefore the "Eye-Draught."

Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1793 Jan. 18 1.0 item Box 5
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Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1793 Feb. 15 1.0 item Box 5
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Robertson, George.
Account of a gold mine in Georgia
1832 Sept. 15 1.0 item Box 5
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Robinson, J.D..
ALS to John Vaughan
1815 Jan. 7 1.0 item Box 5
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Robotham, Richard.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1801 April 08 1.0 item Box 5
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Rodgers, Richard C..
Concerning a loom
1811 Aug. 3 1.0 item Box OS
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Rumker, Charles.
ALS to John Vaughan
1838 Aug. 28 1.0 item Box OS
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Natural Philosophy

Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1788 May 2 1.0 item Box 5
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Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792.
Description of a machine for cleansing chimneys
1786 1.0 item Box 5
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Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
ALS to Robert Patterson
1791 Feb. 17 1.0 item Box 5
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Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
ALS to John Vaughan
1791 Nov. 25 1.0 item Box 5
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Sacket, Augustus.
The subscriber offers the Rapid Jack to the public [donated by T. Green]
1810 Dec. 7 1.0 item Box OS
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Sacket, Augustus.
An explanation of the Rapid Jack [donated by T. Green]
1810 Dec. 7 2.0 items Box OS
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Sanseer Machine Co..
Advertisement
1828 Oct. 14 1.0 item Box 5
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See Mease, James, to Sanseer Machine Co. ; 1831 Nov. 11  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820.
Meteorological observations at Natchez
1802 Feb. 1-June 1 1.0 item Box 5
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Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820.
Details of the rise and fall of the Mississippi River at Natchez
1799 Jan. 1-1818 Dec. 31 1.0 item Box OS
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Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820.
From the meteorological observations at Gloster Place, two miles south of Natchez.
1810-1819 1.0 item Box 5
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Saunders, Samuel Hyde.
Plan for a compositor's, printer's and bookseller's rule showing how many 1000 ems or squares are in any page of type
1810 April 06 1.0 item Box 5
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Saunders, Samuel Hyde.
Concerning light (1)
1830 May 21 1.0 item Box 5
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Saunders, Samuel Hyde.
Concerning light (2)
1830 May 21 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural Philosophy

Saunders, Samuel Hyde.
Concerning light (3)
1830 May 21 1.0 item Box 5
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Say, Thomas, 1787-1834.
ALS to John Vaughan
1832 Oct. 18 1.0 item Box 5
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Say, Thomas, 1787-1834.
ALS to John Vaughan
1832 Sept. 5 1.0 item Box 5
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Say, Thomas, 1787-1834.
ALS to Isaac Hays
1832 Dec. 1 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural History

Schultz, William.
List of his mechanical inventions
1789 1.0 item Box 5
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Scrupulous.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society. President
1791 Oct. 25 1.0 item Box 5
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Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Scrupulous.
Concerning the effects of heat and cold on springs
1791 Nov. 4 1.0 item Box 5
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Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Scrupulous.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society. President
1792 Nov. 23 1.0 item Box 5
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Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Seybert, Henry.
Anallysis of maclurite
1822 May 17 1.0 item Box 5
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Sharp, Granville.
ALS to a friend of the Abbe de Mably
1784 Dec. 30 1.0 item Box 5
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Shultz, Benjamin.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1797 Nov. 7 1.0 item Box 5
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Shultz, Benjamin.
ALS to Caspar Wistar
1807 June 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural Philosophy

Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 1779-1864.
ALS to John Vaughan
1815 May 24 1.0 item Box 5
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Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Simplicity (pseud).
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1802 Dec. 17 1.0 item Box 5
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Sketch of an item to be manufactured
n.d. 1.0 item Box OS
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Smith, Richard.
ALS to Henry Drinker
1805 Dec. 17 1.0 item Box 5
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Smith, Samuel Harrison.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1798 Mar. 30 1.0 item Box 5
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Smith, Thomas P..
ALS to Robert Patterson
1800 Dec. 20 1.0 item Box 5
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Natural History

Southard, Samuel Lewis.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society. President
1826 Aug. 12 1.0 item Box 5
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Spalding, Lyman.
ALS to John Vaughan
1801 Aug. 18 1.0 item Box 6
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology. Portsmouth, A.L.S. 3p.and add., end. Concerning vaccinations

Spalding, Lyman.
ALS to John Redman Coxe
1803 Feb. 21 1.0 item Box 6
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Spalding, Lyman.
Concerning the origin of meteorites (1)
1810 Feb. 02 1.0 item Box 6
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Natural Philosophy

Spalding, Lyman.
Concerning the origin of meteorites (2)
1810 Feb. 02 1.0 item Box 6
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Spalding, Lyman.
Concerning the origin of meteorites (3)
1810 Feb. 02 1.0 item Box 6
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Natural Philosophy

Steam Engine
1798 1.0 item Box 6
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Note: diagram. p> Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Steel, Hugh.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson (1)
1818 April 12 1.0 item Box 6
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Natural History

Steel, Hugh.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson (2)
1818 April !2 1.0 item Box 6
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Natural History

Stonemetz, George.
ALS to Thomas Bond
1782 Nov. 4 1.0 item Box 6
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Natural History

Stonemetz, Jacob.
ALS to Thomas Bond
1782 Nov. 4 1.0 item Box 6
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Natural History

Storer, David Humphreys.
To Issac Lea
1839 Oct. 21 1.0 item Box 6
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Natural History

Story, Isaac.
ALS to David Rittenhouse
1796 Feb. 29 1.0 item Box 6
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Stroebel, John Christopher.
ALS to Benjamin Franklin
1789 May 22 1.0 item Box 6
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Swift, Joseph G..
ALS to John Vaughan
1829 May 30 1.0 item Box 6
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Symmes, John Cleves.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society. President
1818 June 17 1.0 item Box 6
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Syng, Philip.
ALS to Timothy Matlack
1781 Sept. 29 1.0 item Box 6
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Synoptic table of the characteristic properties of alkalis and Earthly salts
n.d. 1.0 item Box OS
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T..
Remarks on the fattening and curing of beef as could be best practiced in America
1786 1.0 item Box OS
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Table of transit of Mercury
1799 May 7 1.0 item Box OS
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Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice.
Memoir sur les relations Commerciales des Etats-Unis avec l'Angleterre
1809 1.0 item Box OS
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Taylor, Richard C., (Richard Cowling), 1789-1851.
A Concise Abstract of ... Tertiary Fossil Shells ....
n.d. 1.0 item Box 6
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Natural History

Taylor, Sicard and Company.
ALS to the President of the American Philosophical Society
1826 Jan. 20 1.0 item Box 6
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Taylor, Thomas.
ALS to Ferdinand R. Hassler
1812 Oct. 3 1.0 item Box 6
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Thermometrical Measurements at Detroit
1797 July 1-31 1.0 item Box OS
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Thermometrical Observations
1803 May 1- 31 1.0 item Box 6
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Thermometrical Observations taken at Calcutta
1798 Aug 10- Nov. 30 1.0 item Box 6
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Thomas.
Concerning some newly discovered islands and shoals in the Indian Ocean
1802 Sept. 2 1.0 item Box 6
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Thomson, Benjamin.
Concerning the Aurora borealis
1773 April 2 1.0 item Box 6
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Natural Philosophy

Thornton, B..
ALS to the American Philosophical Society. Secretary
1835 May 6 1.0 item Box 6
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Thornton, William.
ALS to John Vaughan
1805 Dec. 13 1.0 item Box 6
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Thornton, William.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1806 Jan. 1 1.0 item Box 6
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Tiran, Prisciliano.
Concerning the AJE
1825 Oct. 29 1.0 item Box OS
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Tousard, Louis.
An enquiry in ALS to the ways of proving cast iron cannons (English translation)
1802 Jan. 4 1.0 item Box 6
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Tousard, Louis.
An enquiry in ALS to the ways of proving cast iron cannons (French original)
1802 Jan. 4 1.0 item Box 6
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Turner, G..
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1798 June 11 1.0 item Box 6
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Natural History

U.S. Commissioners of the Navy.
ALS to William Jones
1820 Jan. 27 1.0 item Box 6
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U.S. Department of State.
ALS to John Vaughan
1837 Feb. 13 1.0 item Box 6
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United States. Department of War.
ALS to Robert Walsh
1819 April 7 1.0 item Box 6
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Valltravers, Johannes Rodolph.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society. President
1792 Dec. 13 1.0 item Box 6
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Valltravers, Johannes Rodolph.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1795 May 29 1.0 item Box 6
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Vanleer, Branson.
Concerning water, dioptics, burns and scalds, salt of lime, heat and cold, and the dead in the grave
1797 Mar. 17 5.0 items Box 6
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Varle, Charles.
Plan for extinguishing fires
1795 Mar. 6 1.0 item Box 6
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Varle, Charles.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1798 Feb. 1 1.0 item Box 6
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Varle, Charles.
ALS to Caspar Wistar
1806 Nov. 20 5.0 items Box 6
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Note: includes transcription; illustration of plans for the construction of a lock for the canal of Susquehanna in Maryland.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Varle, Charles.
Concerning canals and navigation of rivers
1807 Feb. 6 3.0 items Box OS
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Varle, Charles.
ALS to American Philosophical Society. Vice President
1814 Jan. 22 1.0 item Box 6
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Varle, Charles.
Concerning a cheap method to build locks for inland navigation
1807 Feb. 6 1.0 item Box 6
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Note: originally filed with "concerning canals and navigation of rivers", Feb. 6 1807.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

Varle, Charles.
Concerning outdoor privies in cities
1814 Jan. 22 1.0 item Box 6
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Varle, Charles.
Concerning the cause of yellow fever
1814 Feb. 1.0 item Box OS
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Varle, Charles.
Concerning the making of lime
1807 Feb. 6 4.0 items Box OS
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Vaughan, Benjamin.
Commentary on Baron's paper on the power of numbers (1)
1805 July 19 1.0 item Box 6
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Vaughan, Benjamin.
Commentary on Baron's paper on the power of numbers (2)
1805 July 19 1.0 item Box 6
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Vaughan, Benjamin.
Commentary on Baron's paper on the power of numbers (3)
1805 July 19 1.0 item Box 6
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Vaughan, Benjamin.
Commentary on Baron's paper on the power of numbers (4)
1805 July 19 1.0 item Box 6
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Vaughan, Benjamin.
Commentary on Baron's paper on the power of numbers (5)
1805 July 19 1.0 item Box 6
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Vaughan, Benjamin.
Commentary on Baron's paper on the power of numbers (6)
1805 July 19 1.0 item Box 6
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Vaughan, Benjamin.
Commentary on Baron's paper on the power of numbers (7)
1805 July 19 1.0 item Box 6
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Mathematics and Astronomy

Vaughan, Benjamin.
ALS to John Vaughan
1825 Oct. 14 1.0 item Box 6
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Vaughan, Benjamin.
ALS to Benjamin Rush
1784 1.0 item Box 6
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[Vaughan, Benjamin?].
Concerning the great coldness of Maine and Massachusetts
1809 April 3 1.0 item Box 6
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Vaughan, John.
ALS to Andrew Ellicott
ca. 1803 Box 6
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See Ellicott, Andrew, to Robert Patterson, 1803 Oct 1.

Vaughan, John.
ALS to Albert Gallatin
1807 April 28 1.0 item Box 6
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Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics. Philadelphia, A.L.S. 1 p. Copy. Enc. wanting. Forward's Ferrer's ideas on a survey of the coast of the U.S. For copy of enclosure, see letter from Ferrer to J. Vaughan; April 25, 1807.

Vaughan, John.
ALS to Robert Walsh
1834 Dec. 15 1.0 item Box 6
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Vaughan, John.
ALS to Heinrich Christian Schumaker
1838 Aug. 14 1.0 item Box 6
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Vaughan, John.
ALS to Petty Vaughan
1835 Aug. 14 1.0 item Box 6
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Natural Philosophy

Vaughan, John.
Memorandum concerning communication about Norse relics in North America
1828 Dec Box 6
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See Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, to John Vaughan, 1828 Dec. 17.  Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics

Vaughan, John.
Memorandum on the destruction of pine trees by a worm
1804 Oct. 5 Box 6
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See Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, to John Vaughan, 1804 Sept. 22.

Vaughan, William.
ALS to John Vaughan
1825 May 18 1.0 item Box 6
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Vauquelin, A..
Analysis of the Nicotiana latifolia
1809 Jan. 12 1.0 item Box 6
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Vauquelin, A..
Analysis of snuff
1809 Sept. 15 1.0 item Box 6
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Vaux, James.
ALS to John Vaughan
1792 June 13 1.0 item Box 6
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Vaux, James.
ALS to John Vaughan
1792 June 25 1.0 item Box 6
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Voigt, Henry.
Concerning steam paddles for boats and mills
1809 July 21 2.0 items Box 6
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Note: includes diagram of paddles.  Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering, etc.

W., J..
Observations on the Phalaeenatinea, etc.
1812 Nov. 1 1.0 item Box OS
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W.R..
ALS to unidentified correspondent
1835 July 3 1.0 item Box 6
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Wallenstein, Jules de.
Meteorological Observations made at Washington (1)
1823 April 18- 1824 April 18 1.0 item Box 6
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Wallenstein, Jules de.
Meteorological Observations made at Washington (2)
1823 April 18- 1824 April 18 1.0 item Box 6
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Wallenstein, Jules de.
Meteorological Observations made at Washington (3)
1823 April 18- 1824 April 18 1.0 item Box 6
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Wallenstein, Jules de.
Meteorological Observations made at Washington (4)
1823 April 18- 1824 April 18 1.0 item Box 6
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Wallenstein, Jules de.
Meteorological Observations made at Washington (5)
1823 April 18- 1824 April 18 1.0 item Box 6
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W..
Concerning and improved manner of gauging
1792 Nov. 16 1.0 item Box 6
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Walker, Sears Cook.
Concerning the longitude of Philosophical Hall (with report by American Philosophical Society Publications Committee, 1834 August 6)
1833 Oct. 18 1.0 item Box 6
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Walker, Sears Cook.
Concerning phases of the occultation of Jupiter by the moon
1834 June 27 1.0 item Box 6
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Walker, Sears Cook.
ALS to John Vaughan
1838 Aug. 15 1.0 item Box 6
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Waln, Robert.
ALS to Richard Peters
1824 July 2 1.0 item Box 6
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Walsh, Robert.
ALS to John C. Calhoun
1819 Mar. 30 1.0 item Box 6
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Warden, David Baillie.
ALS to Peter S. Duponceau
1827 Dec. 20 1.0 item Box 6
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Warden, David Baillie.
Concerning a meteoric stone which fell at Weston in North American Dec. 4, 1807
1810 June 15 1.0 item Box OS
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Washington, George.
ALS to John Adams
1798 Sept. 25 1.0 item Box 6
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White, Taylor.
ALS to Thomas Coombe, Sr.
1772 Feb. 2 1.0 item Box 6
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Whitehead, John C..
Concerning a possible discovery of an effectual prevention against phthisis pulmonalis
n.d. 1.0 item Box 6
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Wilkinson, James.
Thermometrical tables taken at Detroit
1798 Oct. 16-1799 June 17 1.0 item Box 6
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Wilkinson, James.
Meteorological observations taken on a voyage from Detroit ALS to Michilimackinac
1798 Aug. 4- Sept. 3 1.0 item Box 6
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Natural Philosophy

Willard, Joseph.
Observations of the solar eclipse of Oct. 27, 1780
1780 Nov. 20 2.0 items Box 6
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Note: contains diagram of the "appearance of spots on the Sun".  Mathematics and Astronomy

Williams, Jonathan Jr..
ALS to Robert Patterson
1791 Feb. 7 1.0 item Box 6
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Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology

Williams, Jonathan Jr..
ALS to Caspar Wistar
1800 June 26 1.0 item Box 6
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Williams, Jonathan Jr..
ALS to Robert Patterson
1800 May 24 1.0 item Box 6
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Williams, Jonathan Jr..
ALS to John Vaughan
1800 Dec. 16 1.0 item Box 6
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Williams, Jonathan Jr..
ALS to John Vaughan
1801 April 28 1.0 item Box 6
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Williams, Jonathan Jr..
Remarks relating ALS to the seasons
1813 Oct. 15 1.0 item Box 6
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Williams, Jonathan Jr..
ALS to John Vaughan
1801 April 6 1.0 item Box 6
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Williams, Robert.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1809 Jan. 8 1.0 item Box 6
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Williams, Robert.
ALS to the American Philosophical Society
1811 Jan. 24 1.0 item Box 6
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Williams, Robert.
Concerning geological formations
ca.1809 Jan. 8 1.0 item Box 6
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Williams, William.
ALS to John Vaughan
1800 Dec. 8 2.0 items Box OS
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Williamson, Hugh.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1797 May 28 1.0 item Box 6
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Williamson, Hugh.
ALS to Thomas Jefferson
1797 May 24 1.0 item Box 6
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Williamson, Hugh.
Concerning the fascination of serpents
1804 June 15 1.0 item Box 6
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Williamson, Hugh.
Concerning the parhelia rainbows and halo which appeared in Philadelphia Dec. 21, 1756 [presented by George Logan]
1816 May 20 1.0 item Box 6
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