The William Hutton Papers relate primarily to geology and botany, and there is also much on the Newcastle Natural History Society, of which Hutton was the secretary. There is much correspondence with Alexandre Brongniart, H. S. Davis, John S. Henslow, John Lindley, David Milne, Roderick I. Murchison, George Steuart MacKenzie, and John Phillips.
A record of daily occurrence, with many features of a commonplace book, for this contains prescriptions, notes of questions asked candidates for the Lutheran ministry, the plan of a barn, etc. There is also a biographical account of Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787).
These manuscripts include a few letters to John Torrey, Amos Eaton, and Reuben Haines, and journals of travels to the Appalachian mountains (1833), and to the source of the Schuylkill River (1834).
This includes communications or correspondence from such figures as A.D. Bache, Amos Bonsall, John F. Frazer, and M. F. Maury. There are reports by committees, such as those on agriculture, botany, horticulture, and meteorology.
These are letters and papers relating to North America chiefly from the official correspondence of the Gardens and the correspondence of its two directors, Sir William Jackson Hooker and Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. There are 2 reels of letters from Asa Gray to the Hookers, in addition to other Gray letters elsewhere in the collection. A few letters (1787) from Americans to William Forsyth, superintendent of the Royal Gardens of St. James' and Kensington.
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).
These are copies in an unknown hand [the name "Meriel Nevill Watt" appears in the front of the volume] of letters, primarily from Ellis, that were published in the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society in London. Most relate to botanical topics, and many are written to Peter Collinson. A few are written by Peter Woulfe. Included are contemporary engravings from the "Transactions," as well as original wash drawings copied from the engravings.
These are principally letters to Charles Edward Sayle on musical programs and to Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing about the Linnean Society, the Royal Society, and the publication of Charles Darwin's papers. There is also a letter of Charles Darwin to Stebbings and several letters of Francis Darwin to other persons. In addition, there are several letters to William Bowman (as well as from Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann to Bowman), and one from Raphael Meldola.
This collection contains certificates and diplomas of learned societies and letters to Dodge from Charles H. Peck, William G. Farlow, David R. Goddard, Robert A. Harper, and H. Rehm. There are letters about Dodge to William J. Robbins, who used them in preparing his memoir of Dodge for the "Biographical Memoirs" (v. 36) of the National Academy of Sciences.
All but one of these letters are to Charles Alston, the professor of botany at Edinburgh University, and concern medicine, botany, and science in general. They are dated between 1737 and 1750. One letter is to George Whately, dated 1778.