William S. Willis Jr. (1921-1983), anthropologist and ethnohistorian, contributed significantly to the understanding of the dynamics of inter-cultural exchange in a multicultural context. After receiving his doctorate from Columbia University, he was hired as the first African American professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. Upon resigning in protest from SMU in 1972, he returned to teach at Columbia University until 1975. His final years were spent studying Boasian anthropology. The collection includes correspondence, lecture notes, manuscripts of Willis' writings, and working notes. Of note, are the memos concerning his leaving Southern Methodist University and his extensive research notes on Franz Boas' views on race relations in America.

A politician and arch revolutionary, Richard Henry Lee was an impassioned supporter of American independence from the mid-1760s. Born into one of the most prominent families in the colony on January 20, 1732, Lee was bred to a political life, serving in the Virginia House of Burgesses during the Stamp Act and Non-importation crises, helping convey his state into the revolutionary camp. As a delegate to the Continental Congress, Lee was the first to officially move that a declaration of independence be drafted, and he ended his public career as a principled opponent of ratification of the Constitution and as Virginia's first U.S. Senator. He died at home in Virginia in June 1794. A small, but highly valuable collection, the papers of Richard Henry Lee document the political life and activities of one of the most ardent revolutionaries in Virginia. The 0.5 linear feet of letters (193 items), most addressed to Lee, are an important resource for study of pre-Revolutionary political agitation in Virginia, the increasing connections forged between the colonies, and the political course of the war. To a lesser degree the collection documents Lee's late-life anti-federalism. Among the major correspondents are Lee's brothers Arthur and William, and such leaders in the revolutionary cause as George Washington, Samuel Adams, Charles Lee, John Adams, and Thomas Paine.

9 reels. Accompanied by a guide and index. Correspondence, letterbook, accounts, memoirs, pamphlets, and newspaper articles. Mazzei was an Italian surgeon, merchant, traveler, friend and neighbor of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, pro American propagandist, and diplomat. Originals are in the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, and other institutions.

This collection includes family letters of the Eccles, Jones, and Lanneau families of North Carolina and Florida. Some letters were written from Philadelphia (and speak of the Peale family), New York, and New Haven.

This classification is made on the plan presented in the "Encyclopedia Britannica," and includes genera and species not included there, especially of North America and particularly the fresh water fish of Pennsylvania and New York states, ca. 1866-1879. Also included are many illustrations of specimens.

This is a typed list of about 500 words collected from a branch of the Sioux Indians at their reservation 40 miles west of Calgary, Canada. List gathered by matron of Macdougall Methodist Orphanage, Morely, North West Territories [i.e., Alberta]. English-Stoney, alphabetical by English. Included is a letter regarding the document from Lucile Yerdon to Charles Marius Barbeau dated March 21, 1948.

A key spokesman for the medical establishment against the antivivisection movement, Walter B. Cannon was head of the Council for the Defence of Medical Research of the American Medical Association from 1908 to 1936. He and his colleague William W. Keen monitored antivivisectionist activity, mobilized the medical profession, lobbied politicians, testified in public hearings, and wrote tirelessly in defense of animal experimentation. Cannon was George Higginson Professor of Physiology at Harvard Medical School and head of its physiology department. Keen was a prominent surgeon and neurologist from Philadelphia. The Cannon Papers consist of over 1.5 linear feet of correspondence, 1905-1928, primarily between Cannon (1871-1945) and Keen (1837-1932) regarding their mutual opposition to the antivivisection movement.

The James V. Neel Papers document nearly every phase of the career of one of the founders of human population genetics in the United States. Neel was particularly thorough and organized, and retained virtually all of his significant scientific correspondence, committee reports, minutes of meetings, and drafts of manuscripts. The collection also includes data collected during Neel's work among the Xavante, Yanomanö and other indigenous populations. In a career that spanned the period from the late work of Thomas Hunt Morgan and Charles B. Davenport to the contemporary world of molecular genetics and nucleic acids, Neel knew, worked with, and corresponded with many of the most influential 20th century practitioners of genetics. The collection begins in earnest in 1943, after Neel had decided to focus on human genetics. Neel's work with Drosophila and none of his Drosophila manuscripts are found in the collection.

[The following comprises the original Abstract, which will be significantly revised.] >>> These are notes, sketches, memoranda, etc., made while Lyman directed the geological survey of Japan, 1873-1879, with reports on petroleum resources, copper, coal, iron, and gold mines, oil, mineral springs, and other mineral resources of the Japanese archipelago. There are data on the Japanese, Chinese, Ainu, and French languages, and on Japanese manners and customs, wit and humor, gardening, painting, measurements, swords, etc. Notes and data on the life, travels, and publications of Bernard Varenius. Notes collected for Lyman's Vegetarian Diet and Dishes. Materials on the geology of New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico, and West Virginia; and on coal and iron fields in those states and elsewhere. Manuscripts of articles on instruments for boring wells, theodolites for mining and civil engineers, other surveying instruments, etc. >>> Of particular note is Lyman's period of study in Europe, where he attended the Imperial School of Mines in Paris, France (1859-1861), and the Royal Academy of Mines, Freiberg, Germany (1861-1862). There are about eleven notebooks for this period, written in English, French, and German, that contain: lecture notes, travel observations, comments on geology, mines and mining, railroads, with sketches of machinery, etc. There are a large number of letters (ca. 7,000 items), 1850-1917, from and to Lyman, on personal and business affairs.

Obverse: bas-relief profile portrait of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi; "A. BARTHOLDI" below portrait; "PRESENTED JULY 4 : 1884" at top; "A GIFT / OF THE / FRENCH / REPUBLIC" at left; "TO / THE / UNITED / STATES," at right; laurel wreath at bottom. Reverse: bas-relief of Statue of Liberty in landscape; New York Harbor and tip of Manhattan are visible; "COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENT OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE" at top; "LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING / THE WORLD / ERECTED 1886" at bottom.

The suggestion is made by Hitchcock (in Hitchcock et al., 1969: 106) that the 7 Jul 1806 Lewis collection is "probably the actual type" of var. depressa. He declares this even though Pursh states he saw the taxon "in New York, and particularly in the province of Maine, in rocky or gravelly situations." Nowhere does Pursh mention Lewis and Clark specimens. However, he did have access, in London, to a Lewis and Clark specimen (LC-PH 114), and he did ascribe a varietal name ("nana") to the collection. The use of the name appears to be based on the European species Juniperus nana Willd. (Sp. Pl. 4: 854. 1806). Pursh did not formally propose the new combination. Ewan (1979: 82) seems to support Hitchcock's notion, noting that Pursh likely did not collect specimens while in Maine in 1811. Nonetheless, there is authentic material from eastern New York gathered by Pursh that belongs to var. depressa (McVaugh, 1935: 30), and we here typify the name with that material. The variety was first found by Lewis on 17 Oct 1804 (Lewis 47, PH-LC 111, PH-LC 112) below the mouth of the Cannon Ball River in Sioux Co., North Dakota (Moulton, 1987a: 471). Either Lewis or Clark could have gathered the 7 Jul 1806 specimens (PH-LC 113 and PH-LC 114). Lewis was near Lewis and Clark Pass, Lewis and Clark Co., Montana (Moulton, 1993: 95-96); Clark and his party crossed the Continental Divided via Gibbons Pass on the Ravalli-Beaverhead Co. line (Moulton, 1993: 169-171). The plant occurs in both areas. Neither explorer mentions the plant. (The Lewis & Clark Herbarium Digital Imagery Study Set, ANSP, 2002) On deposit at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia Collected by:Meriwether Lewis & William Clark Collection date:10/17/1804

The suggestion is made by Hitchcock (in Hitchcock et al., 1969: 106) that the 7 Jul 1806 Lewis collection is "probably the actual type" of var. depressa. He declares this even though Pursh states he saw the taxon "in New York, and particularly in the province of Maine, in rocky or gravelly situations." Nowhere does Pursh mention Lewis and Clark specimens. However, he did have access, in London, to a Lewis and Clark specimen (LC-PH 114), and he did ascribe a varietal name ("nana") to the collection. The use of the name appears to be based on the European species Juniperus nana Willd. (Sp. Pl. 4: 854. 1806). Pursh did not formally propose the new combination. Ewan (1979: 82) seems to support Hitchcock's notion, noting that Pursh likely did not collect specimens while in Maine in 1811. Nonetheless, there is authentic material from eastern New York gathered by Pursh that belongs to var. depressa (McVaugh, 1935: 30), and we here typify the name with that material. The variety was first found by Lewis on 17 Oct 1804 (Lewis 47, PH-LC 111, PH-LC 112) below the mouth of the Cannon Ball River in Sioux Co., North Dakota (Moulton, 1987a: 471). Either Lewis or Clark could have gathered the 7 Jul 1806 specimens (PH-LC 113 and PH-LC 114). Lewis was near Lewis and Clark Pass, Lewis and Clark Co., Montana (Moulton, 1993: 95-96); Clark and his party crossed the Continental Divided via Gibbons Pass on the Ravalli-Beaverhead Co. line (Moulton, 1993: 169-171). The plant occurs in both areas. Neither explorer mentions the plant. (The Lewis & Clark Herbarium Digital Imagery Study Set, ANSP, 2002) On deposit at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia Collected by:Meriwether Lewis & William Clark Collection date:07/07/1806

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the Collection Description .

Correspondence and papers centering on McCulloch's study of the functional organization of the central nervous system and cybernetics. McCulloch (1898-1969) was a major figure in establishing the theoretical ground for modern computers and in "biological computer" studies during the 1960s. Other topics include the brain or neural studies, biological psychiatry, chemical warfare, space biology, and U.S. Army studies. His participation in the American Society of Cybernetics and the Josiah Macy Conferences is well documented, and there are numerous papers and notes on other conferences attended.

Captain William Scott (b.1752) was a company commander in the British 17th Regiment of Foot. He participated in many battles and campaigns during the American Revolutionary War, including the Philadelphia campaign. This three-page memorandum describes the events leading up to, and the conduct of, the Battle of Germantown, on October 4, 1777.

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the Collection Description . The materials listed here are not held at the APS.

This collection includes letters, manuscript and typescript drafts of his publications. They relate to his works Fighting the Insects: the Story of an Entomologist (1933); and with Harrison D. Dyar and Frederick Knab, A Monograph of the Culicidae of North and Central America. The latter is one volume of the larger three-volume published work The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies (1912).

This collection contains primarily professional correspondence and papers, but there is substantial material concerning Shryock family history. Most of the collection relates to Shryock's intellectual and social life at the University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, and Johns Hopkins University-- institutions where he made contributions as a professor of history and especially as a medical historian.

The linguist Walter Dyk (1899-1972) began his career as a graduate student under Edward Sapir studying the Wishram language. Following his MA thesis "Verb types in Wishram" (Chicago, 1931) and dissertation "A Grammar of Wishram" (Yale, 1933), Dyk turned to the study of Navajo language and culture, publishing his best known works, "autobiographies" of two of his consultants, Left Handed (1938) and Old Mexican (1948). The Dyk Collection consists of copies of Dyk's MA thesis and dissertation, some fields notes and related publications on Wishram, and commentary by Mary Haas, C. F. Voegelin, and Dell Hymes (who assembled the collection). Among the more interesting items are a particularly long and informative letter from Sapir commenting on Dyk's dissertation, and a series of letters between Pete McGuff and Sapir, written while the former was doing fieldwork on Wasco at Fort Simcoe, Washington, 1906-1908.

Transcripts and photocopies of Correia de Serra correspondence, made by Richard B. Davis for "The Abbé Correa in America," APS Transactions 45, 2 (1955). Seven mss. letters are also included.