This is a slide and lecture presentation, prepared by Stephen Kramer, on the Rittenhouse orreries at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. Included is a transcript of the lecture (APS Archives 8/14/81).

Obverse: bas-relief profile portrait of Joseph Wharton; "JOSEPH WHARTON BORN 1826 / FOUNDED THE WHARTON SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND ECONOMY 1881" around perimeter; "1894" and maker's name (unintelligible) under profile. Reverse: laurel/olive wreath encircles "SUUM CUIQUE."

Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

Pin is attached to yellow ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

Pin is attached to red ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY" Similar but smaller than M-P385-1.

Pin is attached to white ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

Pin is attached to orange ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

Pin is attached to green ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

Pin is attached to brown ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

Pin is attached to red and blue ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

The physician Charles Caldwell received his medical degree under Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania in 1796, but shared little, theoretically or stylistically with his mentor. After accepting a chair in medicine at Transylvania University in 1819, Caldwell became a champion of phrenology and racial polygenism, and he was an ardent opponent of the introduction of chemistry into the medical curriculum. In his master's thesis from the University of Pennsylvania, Richard A. Glock traces Caldwell's opposition to the introduciton of chemistry into medical education in the United States during the early decades of the 19th century, his idiosyncratic vitalistic physiology, and the relations between medical schools in the eastern and western states.

This correspondence relates to botanizing expeditions in the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia, and the University of Pennsylvania and the American Philosophical Society.

These cards of admission were to lectures held at the University of Pennsylvania, St. George's Hospital (London), and the University of Edinburgh. Rush has written comments on the lecturers on the backs of several of the cards.

Although most of this large collection consists of papers of Lewis's legal practice, there are important groups which relate to the furnishing and maintenance of his city and country houses and the management of his farm, to the assembling of his outstanding collections of Asian and medieval illuminated manuscripts and of Babylonian clay tablets (now at the Free Library of Philadelphia), and to institutions with which he was closely associated, such as the American Philosophical Society, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Many letters and papers are about business (mortgages, rents, directorships in banks and insurance companies, and investments) and about the social and cultural life of Philadelphia (operas, libraries, museums, and schools for the handicapped).

Notebook of Henry Dilworth Gilpin for a course on natural philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, ca.1819, with additional notes on mathematics. The professor for both courses was probably Robert Maskell Patterson.

The bulk of the material in this collection pertains to the years Bazzoni spent at the University of Pennsylvania (BA 1911, PhD 1914). There are three notebooks filled with student lecture notes from the years 1913-1914. Also, a collection of articles Bazzoni wrote while teaching at Pennsylvania, including several memos to the Educational Survey Committee. There is a notebook tracking his experiments while in London at King's College, and copies of two dissertations by students, presumably from the years Bazzoni was at Pennsylvania. Materials from the post-Pennsylvania years is limited to a notebook of Potential Center Displacement of Logger Tests.

The Compend of Logick is an interesting illustration of late eighteenth-century American collegiate education. Student Caesar Augustus Rodney penned the work in 1788 frrom a course on logic taught by moral philosophy professor Samuel Magaw. The notebook is a noteworthy manuscript from the early days of an influential university--the University of the State of Pennsylvania--in the hands of a student who would later become an important legal and political figure in the early republic.

This correspondence is with Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Edgar Fahs Smith, and Thomas Sovereign Gates, about undergraduate days at Harvard College, his interest in Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wistar Institute. The papers include a list of publications, biographical data, papers on Robert G. LeConte and Daniel Moreau Barringer, a certificate of membership in the Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association, and 25 drawings of crystals and 35 original sketches made to accompany his Harvard thesis, "The Nature and Origin of Deposits of Phosphate of Lime."

Interviews with Mohegan elders regarding various aspects 20th-century Mohegan history, recorded in Connecticut in 1990.

A key spokesman for the medical establishment against the antivivisection movement, Walter B. Cannon was head of the Council for the Defence of Medical Research of the American Medical Association from 1908 to 1936. He and his colleague William W. Keen monitored antivivisectionist activity, mobilized the medical profession, lobbied politicians, testified in public hearings, and wrote tirelessly in defense of animal experimentation. Cannon was George Higginson Professor of Physiology at Harvard Medical School and head of its physiology department. Keen was a prominent surgeon and neurologist from Philadelphia. The Cannon Papers consist of over 1.5 linear feet of correspondence, 1905-1928, primarily between Cannon (1871-1945) and Keen (1837-1932) regarding their mutual opposition to the antivivisection movement.