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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1790
Abstract:  

This volume, written between May 3 and December 2, includes essays on mineralogy, the vegetable kingdom (such as botany and fruitification), and the animal kingdom (such as zoology, ornithology, and generation of animals).
Call #:  
Mss.504.W15
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1747
Abstract:  

An early Welsh emigrant to Pennsylvania, David Evans was educated at Yale (1713) before answering the call to Presbyterian pulpits in the Welsh Tract of Delaware and Pennsylvania, and to the church at Pilesgrove, N.J. Written entirely in Latin in 1747 when Evans was 66 years old, the Aliquot Rudimenta Physicae consists of four separate compendia bound together, the Compendium Technologiae, Logicae, Rhetoricae, and Physicae. The work is an interesting and thorough attempt to summarize a system of knowledge with impeccable American provenance.
Call #:  
Mss.509.Ev5
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1812-1814
Abstract:  

The first volume contains mathematical problems, which appear to be college exercises (1814); the second volume is an essay on the projection of the sphere and spherical trigonometry, including an appendix on astronomy (1812); and the third volume is a lecture on natural philosophy, apparently prepared for delivery [n.d.].
Call #:  
Mss.510.R54
Extent:
3 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1820-1821
Abstract:  

This volume contains calculations of the distances of stars, eclipses, and longitude, made by William Maule, James Cresson, Joseph Jeanes, James James, and Robert Hutchinson, pupils in the Friends Academy, where Roberts was a teacher.
Call #:  
Mss.524.M44
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1812
Abstract:  

Notes kept by the Yale undergraduate John Austin Stevens on 20 lectures on natural philosophy delivered by Jeremiah Day during the fall, 1812. Includes lectures on gravitation, mechanics, and hydrostatics (hydrology), the last including theories of rivers, springs, and groundwater.
Call #:  
Mss.530.St45
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1807-1809
Abstract:  

Twice a refugee from the revolutionary violence in the French colony of Saint Domingue, John Thomas Carré became head of the Clermont Seminary in Philadelphia from 1804-1825, a select boarding school for boys. Carré's diary from 1807-1809 provides a basic chronology of his life at the Clermont Seminary, with a few comments on his students and their families. The entries are typically very brief and are confined to a relatively limited range of topics, including the weather, Carré's poor health, his visitors, and correspondents. There is also a biographical memoir by his granddaughter, Ann Virginia Sanderson Farquhar.
Call #:  
Mss.B.C232
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1761-1779
Abstract:  

These papers include a catalog of his library (1 v., 67 p.); Narative of the difference between Dr. Alison, vice provost of the college of Philadelphia & Robert Strettell Jones late student in the senior class of the said College; Hugh Williamson to Isaac Jones, dated May 7, 1763; An abridgement of metaphysicks, written March 20,1761 & A system of rhetoric wrote Nov. & Dec. 1762, by Robert Strettell Jones; Depositions in re indictment for high treason against Robert Strettell Jones, Sept. 28, 1779; Certificate naming R.S. Jones as one of the Corporation of Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital, dated Dec. 3, 1773; and a copy of the will of his aunt Ann Strettell, Aug. 6, 1767.
Call #:  
Mss.B.J732
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1848-1856
Abstract:  

These papers include letters from relatives, friends, and former students, chiefly on family affairs, social events, and schools in Maine, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Also included are receipts for personal expenditures, and letters of recommendation for teaching positions and from J. P. Lesley for admission to Yale College, where Moore received the Ph.B. degree in 1855. Moore was Lesley's assistant in preparing the Pennsylvania Railroad maps of western Pennsylvania.
Call #:  
Mss.B.M79
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1827-1829
Abstract:  

These classroom notes, taken by an unidentified student, present the state of knowledge in natural philosophy, especially astronomy, during these years. There are mentions of many contemporary scientists, and much on Newton and Newtonian philosophy.
Call #:  
Mss.B.OL5
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1810-1811
Abstract:  

These are notes of lectures and experiments made at Paris as a student at the Jardin des Plantes. The volumes are entitled: Botany & Agriculture (with a large portion actually on electrical machinery); Trees and Shrubs; Chemistry, Physics, Mineralogy; and Zoology.
Call #:  
Mss.B.P275.n
Extent:
4 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
ca. 1819
Abstract:  

Notebook of Henry Dilworth Gilpin for a course on natural philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, ca.1819, with additional notes on mathematics. The professor for both courses was probably Robert Maskell Patterson.
Call #:  
Mss.500.G42
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
January 1797 - June 1797
Abstract:  

Louis Hasbrouck was in his last year at Princeton in 1796-1797 when he attended the course of chemistry lectures given by John Maclean. In only his second year at Princeton, Maclean was rapidly becoming known for introducing the latest currents in chemical theory, including the system of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, and he was one of the first Americans to insist that students take part in active experimentation. Louis Hasbrouck was in his final year at Princeton in 1796-1797 when he attended John Maclean's lectures on chemistry. His notebook from the second half of that course includes a detailed record of the lectures from January 24-March 14 and June 22-24, 1797, covering Maclean's discussion of the chemistry of metals, "chemical combination," combustion, and botanical chemistry. Although his notes are not complete, Hasbrouck was enrolled at a singularly interesting period in the history of American chemistry. This was only the second time that Maclean had offered his course, in which he introduced the new chemical system of Lavoisier, and it includes a relatively complete version of Maclean's most important lecture, "Of combustion." This devastating attack on Joseph Priestley and phlogistic theory appeared in print in 1797 as Two Lectures on Combustion: Supplementary to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry.
Call #:  
Mss.540.H27
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1779-1793
Abstract:  

Letters of a dutiful child to his parents Richard Bache and Sarah Franklin Bache, and to his grandfather, Benjamin Franklin; also letters to William Jones, Robert Frazer, and Margaret H. Markoe, his fiancée. Also photostats of letters to Robert Alexander of Virginia, from the originals in University of Virginia Library.
Call #:  
Mss.B.B122
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1810-1877
Abstract:  

This collection contains material relating to his legal affairs, medical publications, receipts for books purchased, and information on botany. Important correspondents include Edward H. Clarke, George Mifflin Dallas, Samuel David Gross, and Joseph Henry. There is also family history in these papers.
Call #:  
Mss.B.C239
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1816-1877
Abstract:  

These are primarily papers relating to the work of the United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, with special reference to surveys of harbors of the eastern United States. Some papers and letters relate to natural history and are addressed to John Lawrence LeConte. Correspondents include Rutherford B. Hayes, Joseph Henry, Daniel Parker, and E.G. Squier.
Call #:  
Mss.B.L493.3
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1749-1788
Abstract:  

Nine of these letters are addressed to Sir Alexander Dick of Edinburgh (1763-1768), and relate to Morgan's medical studies, his travels on the Continent, and the founding of the medical department of the College of Physicians. These are copies of originals in possession of Mrs. Dick Cunyngham, Prestonfield House, Edinburgh. In addition there are letters from Morgan to: Petrus Camper, William Smith, Samuel Vaughan, Jr.; and from Peter Collinson to Camper; Camper to Morgan; S. Vaughan Jr. to Camper; and an exchange between Christian F. Michaelis and Camper. These concern Morgan, with mentions of fossils (mastodon bones in America), natural history, comments on Franklin, Jefferson, and Angelica Kauffmann. These are from originals in the Petrus Camper Papers, on deposit (1976) at the University of Amsterdam Library.
Call #:  
Mss.B.M82
Extent:
26 item(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1820-1853
Abstract:  

These papers concern business and legal affairs, and include Price's writings on the law of real and personal property, and private wrongs. Also includes a letter to Daniel Webster.
Call #:  
Mss.B.P926
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



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