| | 1 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Albert Gallatin
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 14 March 1810 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | American Indian ethnography | | | | Source: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers, Violetta W. Delafield Collection (B B284.d) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| 2 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers, Violetta W. Delafield Collection
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1788-1815 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 5,000 leaves (10 linear feet) | | | | Abstract: | Includes notes, vocabulary lists, paper manuscripts, correspondence dealing with American Indian antiquities, ethnography, and physical anthropology. Correspondents include William Bartram, Albert Gallatin, John Heckewelder, Thomas Jefferson, Constantine Rafinesque, John Vaughan. | | | | Source: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers, Violetta W. Delafield Collection (B B284.d) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
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