6 reels. Diary, letterbooks, legal and financial papers, correspondence, and miscellany. Morris was a New York delegate to the Continental Congress, United States Senator, and Minister to France. The diary in the collection covers Morris' tenure as a diplomat in France and describes the Reign of Terror. Originals are in the Library of Congress.

12 reels. Accompanied by a guide. A historical autograph collection of manuscripts. The collection includes material relating to Sir Henry Clinton, Gen. Horatio Gates, Gen. Nathanael Greene, Benjamin Lincoln, and the New Jersey Line. Originals are in the New York Public Library.

1 reel. Orderly book of Brig. Gen. of the 5th Massachusetts Brigade at Ticonderoga. Consists of courts martial, routines, and defense of Mount Independence, and ends when the troops leave for Fort George. Entries include brigade orders of Major General Gates. Originals are in the New York Public Library.

6 reels. Transcripts (and records of some originals) of letters, dispatches, statistical data, journals, minutes of proceedings, and other papers culled from American, British and European sources by George Bancroft in the course of research for his historical works. Originals are in the New York Public Library.

1 reel. Letters (1776-79) from Lt. Col. Colman of the 12th Regiment of Foot, Continental Army, to his wife in Newbury, Mass., relating to personal matters of clothing, provisions and Army activities and describing encounters with the British at Bennington, Vt.; Boston, Mass.; Newport and Providence, R.I.; New York City, and Ticonderoga. Originals are in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Read before the Northampton Historical Society January 28, 1926, this typescript essay presents the life of a man who was raised by Oneida Indians, James Dean (1748-1823) of Westmoreland, New York. It contains a version of the Oneida creation myth.

This is Hoermann's doctoral dissertation for the University of Toronto.

This is a detailed table of contents to the Smiley Family Papers at Haverford College, pertaining chiefly to Indian conferences at Lake Mohonk (New York).

These texts concern myths, history, birds, reptiles, signs and omens, remedies, marriage, poverty, industry, food, charms, and taboos. The texts have both free and interlinear English translations.

Wolfgang Köhler was an internationally recognized leader in experimental psychology. Along with Max Wertheimer and Kurth Koffka, he was a founder of Gestalt psychology, which strongly affected the development of psychology for more then half a century. The Wolfgang Köhler Papers consist of 8 linear feet and are arranged into eight series: correspondence, grant material, lectures, manuscripts, notes, reports of assistants, research notebooks, and photographs and slides. The material relates to Köhler's career as one of the founders of Gestalt Psychology, and work as a experimental researcher.

A paleontologist and expert in Cretaceous and Tertiary invertebrates, William More Gabb was hired by the Costa Rican government to conduct of natural historical and ethnographic survey from 1873-1875. Read before the American Philosophical Society on August 20, 1875, Gabb's essay "On the Indian tribes and languages of Costa Rica" was published in full in the APS Proceedings 14 (1875): 483-602. Dealing with several tribes, including the Bribri, the paper touches on physical description, history, the names of tribes, their political organization, and ethnography. The essay includes a brief grammar of the Bribri language.

The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology. Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer.

The principal letters in this collection are to Otto L. Mohr and concern problems and progress in genetics, the Nobel Prize, and some account of Mohr and his family under the Nazi occupation of Norway, 1940-1945. Included with this group is a partial biographical essay on Calvin Blackman Bridges.

A pathologist and researcher at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, 1914-1922, Harold Lindsay Amoss (1886-1956) specialized in research on infectious diseases ranging from poliomyelitis to meningitis, erysipelas, brucellosis, and encephalitis. The Amoss Papers are comprised primarily of materials relating to Harold Amoss' medical service in the United States Army during the First World War (1918-1919), to his research at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, 1920-1922, and to his efforts to develop vaccines for meningitis and poliomyelitis.

The American Eugenics Society Records is a small, selective collection offering information on various periods of the Society's development, including correspondence, membership records, and formal and informal material on its history. Of particular interest are the records of the Society's numerous committees, including the Executive Education, Population Genetics Research, Legislative, and local and state committees, and documentation of AES educational initiatives at state fairs and eugenic health exhibits and contests, especially the Fitter Family Contests. A scrapbook containing 97 images of Fitter Family and eugenic health exhibits, 1924-1926, provides valuable visual information of AES activities. One series in the collection relates to the numerous Princeton Conferences and to a genealogical survey of the populations of Shutesbury and Leverett, Massachusetts, and there is also material on the Population Council. The collection largely revolves around Frederick Osborn, the moving force in the Society for most of its later history, and it includes approximately 100 papers written or delivered by Osborn concerning eugenics, genetics, or population related topics. This note is currently under review for revision.

Obverse: bas-relief profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin; "B. FRANKLIN / ERIPUIT COELO FULMEN SCEPTRUMQUE TYRANNIS" around perimeter. Reverse: "R. LOVETT / STONE / SEAL ENGRAVER / & / MEDALIST / NEW YORK."

Obverse: bas-relief profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin; "B. FRANKLIN / ERIPUIT COELO FULMEN SCEPTRUMQUE TYRANNIS" around perimeter. Reverse: "R. LOVETT / STONE / SEAL ENGRAVER / & / MEDALIST / NEW YORK." Surface is gold painted.

Obverse: profile portrait of Athena in helmet with "PARTHENON NEW YORK 1825" around perimeter Reverse: "ADMIT BEARER" in center. "PEALES MUSEUM & GALLERY OF THE FINE ARTS" around perimeter.

This collection contains materials related to Jonathan Wells. Contents include primarily articles, reviews of Icons of Evolution, and copies of Wells' dissertation, with a small amount of correspondence.