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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1911-1947
Abstract:  

In 1912, the University of California, Berkeley, became the first university in the nation to form a separate Department of Genetics. The first two appointments in the department went to plant geneticists Ernest Brown Babcock and Roy E. Clausen, and as the department grew slowly, shifting slightly away from its roots in agricultural science, it gained a strong reputation as an important center for research in several areas in genetics and evolutionary biology. The U.C. Berkeley Department of Genetics Collection contains a selective sampling of correspondence relating to the organization and early history of the nation's first Department of Genetics. Centered in the years 1912-1930, the collection consists primarily of correspondence to and from Babcock and Clausen, pertaining to their research, administrative matters, and the genetical community. Prominent among their correspondents are George H. Shull, Thomas Hunt Morgan, A. H. Sturtevant, and H. J. Muller.
Call #:  
Mss.378.794.C12gen
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1744-1747
Abstract:  

This volume contains letters relating to the purchase and shipment of goods in America, Europe, and the West Indies, commecing 22d, 12mo. 1744, ending 6th, 2mo. 1747. Some are signed by Matthias Aspden, John Reynell, and John Smith.
Call #:  
Mss.380.P36
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1969
Abstract:  

This is a graduate history paper and was the early research which led to Goldstein's later book, Philadelphia and the China Trade, 1682-1846 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978).
Call #:  
Mss.382.G57
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1969
Abstract:  

Course paper for Hist. 593, University of Pennsylvania.
Call #:  
Mss.382.G57jo
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
Circa 1840-1900
Abstract:  

This collection includes certificates issued primarily by railroad companies, banks, and industrial companies. There are some bonds issued by the City of Philadelphia. Also of interest are the scenic engravings of railroads on the certificates.
Call #:  
Mss.385.St6
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1893-1895
Abstract:  

These stories were related by Charles and Charlotte Kobawgam and Jacques Lapique. The stories were told in Ojibwe and translated by LePique, with Kidder writing them down. Table of contents; appendix of materials from printed sources; approximately 60 tales recorded from elder Ojibwe speakers of Sault Ste. Marie with aid of a "half-breed" interpreter. With notes by H. H. Kidder. Similar to tales of Schoolcraft and James A. Jones. With this was letter from Homer to Kidder, Aug. 12, 1898. Copied and rearranged in 1918. The title of this material reflects the title given by H. H. Kidder.
Call #:  
Mss.398.2.K534
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1912-1918
Abstract:  

This collection was gathered by Waugh at Six Nations Reservation from Cayuga and Onondaga speakers, with a scattering of Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, and Tuscarora. Includes 157 different items of fiction, folklore, and history. With this is a description of the Collection by Martha Champion Randle, May 1953, which contains a detailed Index. - taken from APS Proceedings, vol. 97, 5, 1953, 611-633.
Call #:  
Mss.398.2.W353
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1809-1811
Abstract:  

These papers consist chiefly of essays presented by the members, with such titles as "Ambition," "On Avarice," "State of Literature in the United States," and "Consequences of the French Revolution." Also included are several letters, including one from Benjamin Say, Jr.
Call #:  
Mss.405.P5o
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1888-1891
Abstract:  

Created by the German priest Johann Martin Schleyer in 1879, Volapük ("World's Speech") was the first artificial language to gain wide spread popularity as a prospective form of universal communication. During the 1880s, Volapük clubs were formed throughout Europe and the Americas, with a particularly active center in eastern Massachussetts, however it was gradually replaced by its somewhat less elaborate rival, Esperanto. The Volapük Collection includes printed materials, ephemera, and small number of letters and postcards written in Volapük. Assembled by F. L. Hutchins of Worcester, Mass., a leading American Volapükist, the collection reflects the brief, but intense international interest in the potential of Volapük to become a lingua franca of business and a medium for exchange across borders, and it conveys some of the excitement its adherents felt at its potential.
Call #:  
Mss.408.9.Ar7v
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
Circa 1815-1834
Abstract:  

Consists of extracts from rare published works on American Indian, African, and Asian languages, together with the notes and comments of Du Ponceau; linguistic essays, vocabulary lists (mostly of numerals) for North, Middle, and South American languages; materials on Chinese, Pacific, Asian, and African languages; notes on the languages of the Tartars, Arabs, Greeks, Polynesians, and others. Included are copies of several manuscripts as well as copies of two letters of Wilhelm von Humboldt. One of them is dated Berlin, April 9, 1822; L. 6p. In French. Exchange of publications [with the APS?]. Indian languages. Languages. Refers to A.von Humboldt, Heckewelder, Zeisberger, Eliot and Vater. See vol.5, 19-24. Important for references to the Historical and Literary Committee of the APS; to Du Ponceau's publications on Delaware, Chippewa, and Chinese; and to his correspondence with philologists Adelung, Heckewelder, Humboldt, Gallatin, and Vater.
Call #:  
Mss.410.D92
Extent:
9 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1823
Abstract:  

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.
Call #:  
Mss.410.D92.1
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
n.d.
Abstract:  

This is a manuscript translation into English by Jonas Altamont Phillips. Inside the cover is written "Translation of Buxtorf's Hebrew Grammar commenced 9th December 1824 Philadelphia" and "continued at intervals until"....
Call #:  
Mss.492.4.B98th
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
n.d.
Abstract:  

This lexicon was transcribed and abridged from the author's Concordance. A note by his widow says the transcription may be inaccurate, since it had not been compared with the original.
Call #:  
Mss.492.43.T21
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1839-1841
Abstract:  

This volume was compiled in Egypt, where Gliddon lived for 23 years, and was copied from his original manuscripts for Samuel G. Morton by Edward M. Kern in Philadelphia in 1842. It includes drawings and illustrations.
Call #:  
Mss.493.1.G491
Extent:
1 volume(s)



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