This notebook contains memoranda of personal expenses.

This volume contains notes on Szász's course of study at the University of Göttingen, listing the courses he took and the lecturers.

The highlight of this small collection is a copiously illustrated notebook on railroad car wheels with specifications for manufacture created circa 1852. The notebook was kept by iron moulder John Murphy (b. 1815), of East Kensington, Philadelphia, who invented and patented improved cast iron wheels for railroad cars.

The notebook includes descriptions of land surveys in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, and notes in various hands on early history and settlers there. The maps include boundary descriptions, and there are copies of two deeds.

There are botanical notebooks which concern Bunbury's study of fossil plants in general, with special studies on the fossil plants in the Geological Society in Richmond, Virginia, and at Aix-la-Chapelle, Cape Breton Island, and Pennsylvania. There is also a historical sketch of eminent English naturalists.

"Livre de caisse," notebook used as a scrapbook for pasted-in newspaper clippings (now removed).

Recorded in the Sequoyan syllabary. Part of the papers of Will West Long of Big Cove, Qualla Reservation, North Carolina. In the hand of Long, Morgan Calhoun, Lawyer Calhoun, etc.; several pages in English, relating to Indian masks and Indians and Snake Battle. List of dancers, 1936. Native American Images Note Part of the papers of Will West Long of Big Cove Reservation, North Carolina. Two notebooks written in Sequoyan syllabary. As a consultant to Frank Speck, Mr. Long (1870-1947) played a key role in collecting and transmitting information about traditional Cherokee culture. A unique example of Sequoyan Cherokee script known as "talking leaves." Of note, a green pencil figure sketch, 2 x 3", on page 55 of the smaller notebook. Presented by John Witthoft in 1953.

These linguistic materials include field notes taken by Ronald L. Olson pertaining to the Quinault and Quileute Indians, and an Indian vocabulary of the Blackfoot language assembled by Isaac Ingalls Stevens, as well as a comparative vocabulary of Indians of the United States.

This volume includes definitions and problems on parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola.

Detailed notes from Alexander Wilson's "American ornithology," including item numbers from Peale's museum. Also two loose pages in vol. 1 attributed to John Abbot; Case for 2 volumes says "George Ord -- Birds of North America. Original manuscript."

This volume includes prescriptions for various complaints, such as epilepsy, hemorrhoids, and ringworm.

This notebook contains short essays on various topics, such as public singers ("the Mountebanks of the Voice"), the embarrassments of public men (Daniel E. Sickles and Philip Barton Key), songs, wit, wealth, suicide, Benjamin Rush, "that little sneak Kossuth," and modern authors ("the present wretches of the pen").

This notebook contains accounts with Farmers and Mechanics Bank, names of debtors and creditors, and "Feed Book," naming owners of animals and the amount of oats consumed by their beasts. Contains reference to R. Bache.

These notebooks contain lectures or reports on lectures, with corresponding watercolor and pen-and-ink drawings. There are volumes on geology (Great Britain and elsewhere), natural history, mechanics (sketches of levers, valves, and weighing machines), and steam engines (sketches of mechanics of boilers).

These papers include two pages by Rubens Peale concerning landscapes, a notebook by Rembrandt Peale relating to the portrait of Washington, and a commonplace and recipe book, with sketches of gas lights.

By an unknown author, this notebook is of experiments and the history of experiments with electricity, containing references to Franklin, Beccaria, and Priestley, etc.

This collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, diaries, notebooks, and photographs. Sanderson began his travels in the jungles of Asia and Africa before starting his formal schooling at Eton and Cambridge in the late 1920s and early 1930s. His papers reflect his interest in animals, jungles, and natural history. Late in his life Sanderson's interest turned to UFO's and he was the director of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained.

This is a circa eighteenth-century copybook with problems and illustrations in algebra and geometry. There are sections on extraction of the cube root, geometrical definitions of lines and angles, and first rudiments and preparatory problems in plane geometry.

This volume, written by an unknown author, describes general principles of physics, with numerous sketches illustrating the text. There are a few notations in Spanish by Juan Bastolleros.

A. Sager's brief notes provide an outline for a course of chemistry lectures, ca.1810. The notes, in Swedish, include sections on electricity and phlogiston.