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Dates:
Circa 1781-1877
Abstract:  

This microfilm of Somerville's papers was compiled by Elizabeth C. Patterson for her book, "Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840" (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1983). It includes Somerville's scientific writings, personal writings, "letters from celebrities," family papers, genealogy, and photographs. Subjects of some of her writings include astronomy, Halley's comet, effects of light, and physical geography.
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Mss.Film.1281
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19 microfilm_reel(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1806-1874
Abstract:  

There is correspondence concerning geology, botany, natural history, natural selection, evolution, British science and scientists, and other scientific topics. Most of the letters are written by Lyell, with a very few items by others.
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Mss.B.L981
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0.75 Linear feet
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Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 | Ball, John, 1818-1889 | Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 | Beccari, Odoardo, 1843-1920 | Bentham, George, 1800-1884 | Beyond Early America | Botany. | Bunbury, Charles James Fox, Sir, 1809-1886 | Busk, George, 1807-1886 | Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 | Conybeare, William Daniel, 1787-1857 | Curtis, John, 1791-1862 | De La Beche, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1796-1855 | Don, George, 1798-1856 | Evolution. | Fitton, William Henry, 1780-1861 | Fleming, John, 1785-1857 | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Geology. | Grey-Egerton, Philip de Malpas, -- | Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919 | Henslow, J. S. (John Stevens), 1796-1861 | Herschel, John F. W., Sir (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 | Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Sir, 1817-1911 | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 | Judd, John W. (John Wesley), 1840-1916 | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | Mackenzie, George Steuart, Sir, 1780-1848 | Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 | Milne-Home, David, 1817-1911 | Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871 | Natural history. | Natural selection. | Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 | Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Paleontology. | Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883 | Science -- Great Britain. | Scientists -- Great Britain. | Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 | Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 | Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 | Sowerby, James, 1757-1822 | Torchhammer, Georg | Turner, Dawson (1775-1858) | Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 | Whewell, William, 1794-1866 | Wood, Searles Valentine, 1798-1880