These are typed transcripts of letters between de Vries and Elizabeth Day Palmer, and are of a professional nature concerning his research in genetics and visits to the United States.

This is a copy of the original manuscript from which Castiglioni's 1790 book was taken.

These are primarily letters with family members in Ireland while Harvey traveled and lectured in the United States. In 1849 he lectured on botany at the Lowell Institute in Boston and toured much of the eastern coast of the U. S. There are detailed letters about what he saw and the people he met.

These papers include sketches made on a trip to the United States, Canada, and the West Indies; catalogs of objects of natural history, such as fish, animals, insects, and fossils, sent by him to the Museum; and notes.

This journal pertains to his travels in the eastern part of the United States.

These journeys of botanical exploration include information regarding plants, and his remarks on the condition of remote settlements he visited. The journals cover the territory from Hudson's Bay to the Indian River in Florida, and from the Bahama Islands to the banks of the Mississippi.

This film includes the account of Luigi Castiglioni's travels in America from 1785-1787, which he published as "Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell'America Settentrionale...1785, 1786 e 1787" (1790). Also included is the account of his travels in England and France, 1784-1785.

Includes Frammenti de Diario, a fragment of a diary kept on a trip to Britain, circa 1783-1784; Viaggio da Milano a Parigi, journal of a voyage from Milan to Paris, 1784; Viaggi di un gentiluomo milanese, Giornale, typed transcriptions of the travels of a gentleman from Milan, containing notes on the Iroquois Indians, 1790; Giornale de Filadelfia a Quebec, journal from Philadelphia to Quebec, 1791; and, journal of a trip through New York state (including visits to Albany, the reservations of the Six Nations, Saratoga, and the Shaker community at New Lebanon), 1790;

This is an account of overland and water travel between Morristown, New Jersey and Camden, South Carolina. It includes interesting information on the travel conditions of the time. The name Francis P. Lee appears at the end of the last journal entry.

Selected by William Coleman, this collection contains correspondence from William Bateson to his wife, Catharine, and to his colleagues, such as Francis Galton, E. Roy Lankester, Alfred Newton, and Charles Scott Sherrington; lectures given between 1897-1904; and some genealogical and miscellaneous material. This note is currently under review for revision.

This collection includes letters to Maclure, journals of travel in Europe and America, notes and essays. Also included are manuscripts, transcripts, and notes relating to Maclure.

Dalton Dorr (1846-1901) was the curator, secretary and director of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia, the forerunner of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, from 1880-1899. A journal, written in 1897, copied from his notes and from memory, of travels in Greenland (1869), the Indian Territory, Colorado and the Pacific coast (1872-73); Paris, England, Scotland, and Ireland (1882-85), with some sketches. He took the Greenland cruise with Isaac I. Hayes in 1869, which was described by Hayes in his "Land of Desolation" (New York: Harper, 1872). See also, a companion volume of albumen prints taken by William Bradford and other members of "Under the midnight sun: a pleasure cruise in Greenland" in the summer of 1869.

This correspondence is principally concerned with business between Pershouse and his brother James in England, with comments on conditions and events in the United States, including anti-British feeling, Thomas Paine's return to America, Jefferson's administration, and immigration. The papers include Pershouse's journal (1800-1838), which includes accounts of travels in England, France, and the United States, letterbooks (1836-1862) of Henry Pershouse, nephew of John, chiefly on business matters, and two volumes of Pershouse genealogical data, compiled by B.M. Pershouse Bayley (1899).

This is an interesting and detailed journal of his trip to America and travels therein. Using Philadelphia as his base, Beck commented on the city's society and institutions, and mentions locals, including an interesting note on Titian R. Peale. Other areas visited included: Atlantic City, St. Louis, Colorado, Utah, California and New York, where he visited the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company and Washington D.C., where he met, and described, artist Henry Ulke. The volume is filled with memorabilia: advertisements, photographs, playbills, menus, original pencil and watercolor sketches, some of machinery.

Narratives of travels and adventures, 1861-1864, 1881-1916, in the far western, southwestern, northwestern United States, as well as Ohio and New York; northern Mexico and Europe; apparently written from memory about 1916. Mentions hostilities of Pawnee and Apache, describes an Indian attack. Visits Navajo reservation; sees Taos Indian dance. Observes Mitla ruins; mentions Indians in Mexico. Visits Sacatoon Pima reservation; visits California Indian schools. Describes music for Indians at mission; visits Ohio mounds; comments on northwest Indian art, statues of Indian heroes in northwest. Also writes of the Nevada mines and of military service in the Southwest, 1860-1864. Two letters relate to Ayer and the Field Museum.

Robert Cushman Murphy (1887-1973), one of the twentieth century's great ornithologists, was curator of mammals and birds at the Brooklyn Museum (1911-1917) and was curator of birds and later chairman of birds at the American Museum of Natural History (1917-1973). The world's foremost authority on sea birds, in 1936, he penned Oceanic Birds of South America, a two volume set. An ardent traveler and explorer, he kept copious notes of his travels, which he typed up, illustrated and had bound. The APS library owns forty-two bound journals. Murphy was made an APS member in 1946. A pioneer in the study of the ecology, a louse, fish, plant, lizard, an Antarctic inlet, spider, and two mountains have acquired his name. This collection contains diaries, journals, articles, addresses and observations of Murph;, generously illustrated with newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, sketches, maps, and charts.