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1Author:  Lubbock, John, 1834-1913
 Member of Parliament, naturalist, author. Member of Roberts, Lubbock and Co., bankers, from 1849, later head of the firm; president, Institute of Bankers, 1879-1893; chairman, committee of London clearing bankers, and president, Central Association of Bankers, 1898-1913; M.P., 1870-1890; member of senate and vice-chancellor, London University, 1872-1880; F.R.S., member and officer of many scientific societies; popular and scientific writer on numerous topics, including prehistory and anthropology 


 Title:  Letter to Edward Tylor     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  16 August 1871 
 Extent:  1 letter 
 Abstract:  Antiquity of man 
 Source:  Sir John Lubbock Papers (B L961) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
2Author:  Dupaix, Guillermo
 Military officer in the Mexican dragoons, traveller. 


 Title:  Viages...sobre las antiquedades mejicanas     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Manuscripts 
 Language:  Spanish 
 Dates:  1805-1807 
 Extent:  2 volumes 
 Abstract:  A journal of an 1805 trip throughout Mexico to inventory monuments predating the Conquest. 2 volumes (1 of text, 1 of plates). Reprinted in Edward King, Antiquities of Mexico (1898). 
 Source:  Viages...sobre las antiquedades mejicanas (913.72 D92v) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
3Author:  Evans, Sir John, 1823-1908
 Archaeologist, numismatist, businessman. A businessman by occupation, Evans dedicated his spare time to studies of the antiquity of man in Europe and to British numismatics. He was active in numerous learned societies, serving as president of the Geological Society, Society of Antiquaries, the Numismatic Society, the Anthropological Institute, the Egypt Exploration Fund, and the Society of Arts. Evans was elected to the Royal Society in 1864 and made a KCB in 1892 


 Title:  Letter from David Ansted     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  28 March 
 Extent:  1 letter 
 Abstract:  Geology and archaeology 
 Source:  Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
4Author:  Evans, Sir John, 1823-1908
 Archaeologist, numismatist, businessman. A businessman by occupation, Evans dedicated his spare time to studies of the antiquity of man in Europe and to British numismatics. He was active in numerous learned societies, serving as president of the Geological Society, Society of Antiquaries, the Numismatic Society, the Anthropological Institute, the Egypt Exploration Fund, and the Society of Arts. Evans was elected to the Royal Society in 1864 and made a KCB in 1892 


 Title:  Letter to an unknown individual     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  18 September 1873 
 Extent:  1 letter 
 Abstract:  Prehistory 
 Source:  Letters of Scientists (509 L56.20) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
5Author:  Fougeroux de Bondaroy, Auguste Denis, 1732-1789
 French naturalist. Elected to the Academie des Sciences, 1758. Member of expedition that explored Herculaneum 


 Title:  Recherches sur les ruines d'Herculanum     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Manuscripts 
 Language:  French 
 Dates:  1770 
 Extent:  232 leaves 
 Abstract:  Author's copy with marginalia and interposed notes. 
 Source:  Recherches sur les ruines d'Herculanum (913.377 F823) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
6Author:  Gliddon, George Robbins, 1809-1857
 Egyptologist, controversialist. Gliddon was co-author of Types of Mankind (1854) with Josiah Nott and wrote several other essays on race and ethnology. While serving as American vice-consul in Cairo in the late 1830s and early 1840s, he collected skull specimens for S.G. Morton, described in the latter's published works. 


 Title:  Analecta Hieroglyphica     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Manuscripts 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  1839-1841 
 Extent:  259 leaves 
 Abstract:  Reproductions and translations of Egyptian hieroglyphics 
 Source:  Analecta Hieroglyphica (493.1 G491) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
7Author:  Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880
 Naturalist, linguist. Assistant, New Jersey Geological Survey, 1836-1837; assistant, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1837-1838; lecturer, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1842-1843; professor, natural history, University of Pennsylvania, 1851-1855; professor, geology and chemistry, Pennsylvania Agricultural College, and professor of natural sciences, Delaware College, 1853-1858; professor, comparative philology, University of Pennsylvania, 1868-1880. 


 Title:  Letter to J. P. Lesley     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  15 June 1878 
 Extent:  1 letter 
 Abstract:  Indian artifacts 
 Source:  American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
8Author:  Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880
 Naturalist, linguist. Assistant, New Jersey Geological Survey, 1836-1837; assistant, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1837-1838; lecturer, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1842-1843; professor, natural history, University of Pennsylvania, 1851-1855; professor, geology and chemistry, Pennsylvania Agricultural College, and professor of natural sciences, Delaware College, 1853-1858; professor, comparative philology, University of Pennsylvania, 1868-1880. 


 Title:  Letter to John Fries Frazer     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  31 December 1839 
 Extent:  1 letter 
 Abstract:  Indian artifacts 
 Source:  John Fries Frazer Papers (B F865) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
9Author:  Henslow, John Stevens, 1796-1861
 Botanist, Anglican clergyman. Professor, mineralogy, Cambridge University, 1822-1827; professor, botany, 1827-1861; examiner in botany, University of London, 1838-1861; president of managing committee, Ipswich Museum, 1850-1861. 


 Title:  Letter to Daniell Nihill     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  14 February 1861 
 Extent:  1 letter 
 Abstract:  "Drift Celts" and the antiquity of man 
 Source:  John Stephens Henslow Papers (B H382) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
10Author:  de la Beche, Henry Thomas
  


 Title:  Letter to John Stephens Henslow     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  7 January 1852 
 Extent:  1 letter 
 Abstract:  Disposing of Roman remains 
 Source:  Letters of Scientists (509 L56) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
11Author:  Leon y Gama, Antonio de, 1735-1802
 Mexican historian and antiquarian 


 Title:  An Historical and Chronological Description of Two Stones, Found Under Ground in the Great Square of the City of Mexico, in the Year 1790     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Manuscripts 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  1818 
 Extent:  1 volume (84 leaves); 23 leaves of notes 
 Abstract:  History and architecture of the Aztecs. 
 Source:  >An Historical and Chronological Description of Two Stones, Found Under Ground in the Great Square of the City of Mexico, in the Year 1790 (913.72 L55) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
12Author:  Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930
 Paleontologist. Assistant paleontologist, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1898, assistant curator, 1899-1901, associate curator, 1902-1910, curator, 1910-1922, curator-in-chief, earth sciences, 1922-1927; professor and head of department, paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 1927-1930. 


 Title:  Letter to an unknown individual     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  n.d. 
 Extent:  1 letter 
 Abstract:  "Snake Creek artifacts" and age of man in North America 
 Source:  Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
13Author:  Mayfair, R. L.
 British Consul, Algiers 


 Title:  Letter to John L. Le Conte     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  14 November 1876 
 Extent:  1 letter 
 Abstract:  James Bruce of Kinnaird; North African archaeology 
 Source:  John Lawrence Le Conte Papers (B L493) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
14Author:  Anonymous
  


 Title:  Notes on Egyptian Antiquities     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Manuscripts 
 Language:  French | Spanish 
 Dates:  Circa 1785 
 Extent:  72 leaves 
 Abstract:  Titles include: Sobre las monedas supuestas de los antiques Egipcios y algo de su historia natural; algo de sus piramides. Quelques hierogliphes des obelisques de Rome et la sphinx du Capitole. Figures symboliques Egiptienes. Notas tocante a los Egipcios, en lengua francesca 
 Source:  Notes on Egyptian Antiquities (913.32 N84) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
15Author:  Anonymous
  


 Title:  Notes on Mexican Antiquities     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Manuscripts 
 Language:  Spanish 
 Dates:  Circa 1785-1800 
 Extent:  42 leaves 
 Abstract:  Titles include: Algo de lengua mexicana y de la explicacion de algunos geroglifícos. Pyramide de Paplantla y Decripcion iconografica de la antiqua y famosa piramide o adoratio del Pueblo de Papantla. Varies modes de pintar. Y per geroglificos en el fresco y al temple. Notas varias y caprichosas. Tehuantepec, Tonila, etc. 
 Source:  Notes on Mexican Antiquities (913.72 N84) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
16Author:  Nuttall, Zelia, 1858-1953
 Archaeologist, Americanist. Honorary special assistant, Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; honorary professor, archaeology, National Museum, Mexico, 1908-1933; member, advisory council, department of anthropology, University of California 


 Title:  Summary of Fresh Light on Ancient American Civilizations and Calendars     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Manuscripts 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  1926 
 Extent:  51 leaves 
 Abstract:   none  
 Source:  Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
17Author:  Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
  


 Title:  Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Minute Book     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Records 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  14 November 1780 - 21 May 1782 
 Extent:  1 volume (216 leaves) 
 Abstract:  Includes 109 printed pages on the "Account of the Institution and Progress of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland," by William Smellie (1782) 
 Source:  Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Minute Book (913.41 Solm) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory 
18Author:  Abbot, Griffith Evans, 1850-1927
 Traveler, photographer 


 Title:  Abbot-Charnay Photograph Collection     
 Type:  Collection 
 Format:  Photographs 
 Dates:  1859-1882 
 Extent:  2.0 linear feet (123 items) 
 Abstract:  Photographs of Mexican and Central American Antiquities 
 Source:  Abbot-Charnay Photograph Collection (913.72 Ab23) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous 
19Author:  United States. Work Projects Administration (Pa.)
  


 Title:  Reports on Archeological Excavations in Pennsylvania     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Reports 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  Circa 1886-1947 
 Extent:  0.25 linear feet (38 items) 
 Abstract:  Schoff, Harry L. McFate site, Crawford County. Augustine, Edgar. E. Phillips site burials, Somerset County. Gilmore, Raymond M. Identification of faunal remains from southwestern Pennsylvania. Stewart, Thomas D. Skeletal remains from Fayette and Somerset Counties. Cresson, Frank C. Archaeological survey of Somerset County. Carpenter, Edmund S. Brock mound, Lycoming County. Schoff, Harry L. Excavation of the village area near the burial mound on the H.G. Brock property, Muncy, Pennsylvania. Augustine, Edgar E. Complanter Run Mounds, Warren County; Johnson Mound, Chautauqua County, New York; Miller Jacobs, Hooks Run mounds and Frank Logan site, Cornplanter Reservation; Dwight Jimerson's site, Chautauqua County, New York. Schoff, Harry A., et al. Irvine mound group. Schoff, Harry A. Nelson mound, Beale township, Juniata County. Jones, Robert W. Book mound, Beale township, Juniata County. Cadzow, Donald. A. Erie site. Smith, Charles M. Crall mound. Carpenter, Edmund S. Spartansburg mounds, Crawford County. Carpenter, Edmund S. Upper Allegheny Valley Survey report. Holland. Guyasutha mound, O'Hara township; Oakmount mound. Biss, Wesley L. William's mound, Warren County. Jones. Clemson's mound, Dauphin County. Gerrodette, F. McKee's Rocks mound, near Pittsburgh. Stewart, Thomas D. Skeletal remains from Sugar Run mounds, Warren County. n.n. Photographs from Sugar Run mound group. Fisher, G.S. Field notes, southwestern Pennsylvania. Schoff, H.L. Kipp Island site, Seneca County, New York; Wheatland mound, Monroe County, New York; Burial mound on Eagle Bluff, Cayuga County, New York. n.n. Vandali mound, Cattaraugua County, New York. n.n. 28th St. site, Erie, Pa.; Wesleyville site, Erie County. Skinner, Dorothy P., et al. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, Archaeological Reports, 1929. n.n. Profiles of Sugar Run mound site, Warren County. Carpenter, E.S., et al. Photographs of sites and artifacts, Somerset and Fayette Counties. Witthoft, John. Field drawings from Sicksite, South Towanda, Bradford See Edmund Snow Carpenter, The Ancient Mounds of Pennsylvania (913.748 C223) 
 Source:  Reports on Archeological Excavations in Pennsylvania (913.748 Un3) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork 
20Author:  Carpenter, Edmund Snow, 1922-
 Archaeologist, ethnologist 


 Title:  The Ancient Mounds of Pennsylvania. A Report to the American Philosophical Society Summarizing Archeological Data on Pennsylvania Tumuli Contained in Manuscripts Deposited in the Library     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Reports 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  1950 
 Extent:  359 leaves 
 Abstract:  Sections by T. Dale Stewart and James B. Griffin. See United States, Work Projects Administration Reports on archaeological excavations in Pennsylvania (913.748 Un3) for site reports mentioned in this volume. 
 Source:  The Ancient Mounds of Pennsylvania (913.748 C223) 
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 Subjects:  Archaeology, prehistory | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork 
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