Principally by Mme. Brillon, these compositions include marches, sonatas, and songs. Included is "La Marche des Insurgents" which Mme. Brillon composed after receiving news from Benjamin Franklin of General Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777.

Comedies and tragedies, possibly not all by Mme. Brillon, entitled :La mort de Sénèque," "Charles le Mauvais, roi de Navarre; ou, La clémence du roi Jean," "Charles premier, roi d'Angleterre," "Marguerite d'Anjou, reine d'Angleterre," "Molière aux enfers," "Le songe, opéra comique," and "Le bienfaisant maladroit; ou, plus de bruit que de besogne."

This item includes notes, letters, and essays on the history, manners, and languages of the American Indians, sent to the Committee and to members of the American Philosophical Society. Contains answers to queries, historical material, Indian speeches, replies to letters of Peter S. Du Ponceau, references to the Lenni Lenape, Indian writing, translations of English into Indian languages.

This item contains the story of the Great Law of Peace, lists of chiefs of the League, ceremonial chants (including Condolence Council), constitution and its acceptance (pages 1-200). There is a version of the same in Mohawk, with interlinear translations, names of principal families, and incomplete "aboriginal dictionary." This copy is duplicated from the microfilm of the original (Mss.Film.348), with marginal notes in pencil by William N. Fenton, and accompanying correspondence with the American Philosophical Society from Ray Fadden. The original is not at the American Philosophical Society, but now in possession of the Mohawk tribe.

The Corner collection includes correspondence, biographical and research data, lectures, publications, notebooks and drawings, and also photographs. He was both a scientist, specializing in mammalian reproduction and the female reproduction cycle (being a co-discoverer of the hormone progesterone along with Willard M. Allen), and a medical historian writing both biography and institutional history.

This volume includes several printed and manuscript items related to the death of Caspar Wistar, in January 1818.

These papers include correspondence concerning the publication and republication of Wood's "Dispensatory of the United States" and "Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology, or Materia Medica" by J.B. Lippincott & Co. Also included are twelve diplomas and certificates of membership in American and European professional societies.

This small collection contains manuscripts of her book reviews (1943-1947), correspondence with Christopher C. Booth [co-editor of "Chain of Friendship: Selected Letters of Dr. John Fothergill" (1971)] and with Amy E. Wallis, the owner of the Fothergill family papers in England. There are a couple of letters from Charles Joseph Singer and Francis Peyton Rous, but most of the correspondence is personal.

A recording of ?ohkiiweeh, Chanters of the Dead, recorded at Newtown Longhouse, Cattaraugus Reservation, New York, by Cornelius Seneca, with notes by W.C. Sturtevant. Lead singer with drum: Rupert Scrogg (Tonawanda); Assistant singers: Everett Parker (Tonawanda), Harold Kittle (Cattaraugus); Head women; Louise Green, Louis (Eliz.) Young; Head men: Spencer Bennett, John Cook; Speaker: Gus Williams (Six Nations, resident at Newtown)

There are letters, petitions, and reports concerning the Loyalists and the losses they sustained in the Revolutionary War. Includes the Committee of American Merchants, Observations on trade (1783), Banished American merchants petition (1789), and Classes of American loyalists and their claims.

The material in this collection is primarily the receipts for books, clothes, passages, a rhinoceros, etc., while he was in Calcutta. There is also a small volume (approximately 50 pages), a duplicate receipt book which he kept as the Consul for the U.S. in Vera Cruz, Mexico.

John James Audubon (1785-1851), the American Woodsman, is a legendary naturalist and bird artist. His technique of painting North American birds dramatically as they appeared in their natural habitat was a major contribution to the emerging discipline of ornithology in the nineteenth century. His masterpiece, The Birds of America (1827-1838), elephant folio, was followed by a companion text edition, Ornithological Biography (1831-1849), a smaller octavo edition of Birds (1840-1844) and The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, published posthumously. This collection of original letters of publication information, ornithology, and some personal notes was sent primarily to Lucy Bakewell Audubon, his wife, from 1826-1834, and to Victor Gifford Audubon, his son, from 1833-1834, 1840-1844, with some sporadic contact with both between 1836-1839. Items in the collection relate to Audubon's Florida, Great Egg Harbor, and Great Pine Forest expeditions but not to his final expedition up the Missouri River. Of particular note, letters of 1833 and 1834 contain references to his response to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia president George Ord's attacks on his credibility. A partial journal entry from New Orleans in 1821 and a few letters to other correspondents, including John Bachman, round out the material.

In 1910, the Eugenics Record Office was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, as a center for the study of human heredity and a repository for genetic data on human traits. It merged with the Station for Experimental Evolution in 1920 to become the Department of Genetics at the Carnegie Institution, and under the direction of Charles B. Davenport and later of Albert Blakeslee and Milislav Demerec, it became the most important center for eugenic research in the nation. However with intellectual currents shifting, the Carnegie Institution stopped funding the office in 1939. It remained active until 1944, when its records were transferred to the Charles Fremont Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota. When the Dight closed in 1991, the genealogical material was filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah and given to the Center for Human Genetics; the non-genealogical material was not filmed and was given to the American Philosophical Society Library. Following the original order, the ERO Records are organized into thirteen series: I. Trait Files, 1670-1964 ; II. Trait Card Boxes, 1904-1939 ; III. Family Traits Card Boxes, 1920-1939 ; IV. RFT Submitters Card Catalog, 1910s-1930s ; V. Record of Family Traits, 1911-1940 ; VI. Fitter Family Studies, 1913-1936 ; VII. Field Worker Files, 1911-1926 ; VIII. Volunteer Collaborators, 1912-1939 ; IX. Pedigrees, 1828-1926 ; X. Harry H. Laughlin Files, 1915-1938 ; XI. Bibliographia Eugenica, 1734-1934 ; XII. Midget Schedules, 1919-1964 ; XIII. Index Card Boxes, 1910s-1930s.

The North Amercian Land Company ledger contains accounts with prominent men of the time; in additon to the ledger are numerous deeds and other documents involving Robert Morris.

This item contains entries about prominent people (primarily accounts of their deaths); Philadelphia events and gossip; the Pennsylvania Hospital; questions for Meriwether Lewis on Indian physical history, medicine, morals, and religion; and his views on marriage, religion, physicians, etc. Also includes meeting with Captain Wells and Little Turtle; speculations on Indian skin color at the equator.

Seneca texts relating to the Green Corn Ceremony and Chant of Handsome Lake, given by Sherman Redeye, and an origin of the False Faces, given by Clara Redeye. Recorded in September 1948 at Coldspring Longhouse, Allegany Reservation, New York. These tapes are identified by William Fenton as "originals or copies of recordings made for the Library of Congress: Nos. 21322, 21324."

The commission of the Institut de France was charged with offering a prize on linguistics, under the will of Count Volney. Formerly, this essay was thought to have been by Baron Nicolas Massias (1764-1848), who won the Volney prize in 1828. However, the note that the volume was shipped from New York precludes that.

Meehan (1898: 23) lists this as Petalostemon violaceus Michx. (Fl. Boreali-Amer. 2: 50. 1803), a later name for P. purpureum (Vent.) Rydb. (in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 238. 1900), as the species was commonly known until recently. There is an original Lewis label that indicates "the Indians use it as an application to fresh wounds. They bruise the leaves adding a little water and apply it." According to this label the plant was gathered on 2 Sep. No year is given. This label is associated with two sterile fragments in the center of the sheet. Coues (1898: 298) suggests that the material was collected in 1804. Moulton (1987a: 469) reports this as Lewis 53. On 2 Sep 1804 the expedition was along the Missouri River near Springfield in Bon Homme Co., South Dakota (Moulton, 1987a: 42-43, 469). A second label, in Pursh's hand, is associated with the flowering specimen on the right-hand side of the sheet. This collection was made on 22 Jul 1806 "On the Missouri." On that date, Lewis arrived at "Camp Disappointment" near the Marias River in what is now Glacier Co., Montana, having traveled along Cut Bank Creek essentially the entire day (Moulton, 1993: 122-124). Clark spent the entire day in compete frustration, stuck in camp while his men searched for lost horses. The party arrived at this site on 19 Jul, camping on the north side of the Yellowstone River just south of present-day Park City in Stillwater Co., Montana. They remained there until 24 Jul (Moulton, 1993: 204-217). Neither Lewis nor Clark mentions the plant. We can not account for the Missouri River reference on the sheet. Pursh (1813: 461) does not cite a Lewis and Clark specimen, but he does indicate he saw living material. No doubt Pursh drew his description and comments from a combination of sources, including dried specimens already in England. Most likely the garden plants were raised from seeds obtained by Nuttall on the upper Missouri in 1811. (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