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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1825-1857
Abstract:  

The primary correspondence (ca. 65 letters) is with William Cooper (1798-1864) on Bonaparte's publications, especially "American Ornithology" and "Observations on the Nomenclature of Wilson's Ornithology," but also included are many references to American and European men of science and learned societies. There are also letters to Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, George Robert Gray, Titian Ramsay Peale, and Wilhelm P. S. Rüppell.
Call #:  
Mss.B.B642.1.7
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1832-1853
Abstract:  

The first fifteen volumes of these "Notes of Travel" are Lea's account of his trips to Europe during 1832 and 1852-1853. He met with naturalists, scientists, and did much sightseeing in England, France, Germany, Italy, and Austria. He records in detail visits and discussions with scientists, and makes sketches of many of the places he saw, particularly the Rhine River. The sixteenth volume is a memorandum book, 1853, containing accounts and expenses while in Europe.
Call #:  
Mss.B.L462
Extent:
16 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1844-1879
Abstract:  

These letters concern various scientific subjects, such as fishes, insects, snakes, mice, fossils, and mosses. Other subjects include learned institutions, notably the Smithsonian Institution and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and men of science. Correspondents include S. S. Haldeman, Walter J. Hoffman, Spencer F. Baird, Edward D. Cope, and Leo Lesquereux.
Call #:  
Mss.B.St15
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
Circa 1950-1979
Abstract:  

This collection of correspondence and documents concerns the sociology of science, i.e., the relationship of governments and scientific establishments, and especially the problems of organization, planning, policy-making, and productivity. There is much on scientific research and technology, especially for the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Sweden, U.S.S.R., and Yugoslavia. There is a significant series of transcripts of interviews with scientists and government officials in various countries.
Call #:  
Mss.B.K136
Extent:
40 Linear feet
Subjects:  

American Sociological Association | Artificial Heart Assessment Panel. | Backman, Carl W. | Bershady, Harold J. | Brooks, Harvey | Chamberlain, O. (Owen) | Colbert, James | Dedijer, Stevan | Eastern Sociological Society (U.S.) | Ebbin, Steven | Gordon, Gerald | Gruner, Wayne | Hagstrom, Warren O. | Hess, Eugene Lyle | Hirsch, Walter | Holmfeld, John D. | Jaffe, Bernard | Kagarise, Ronald L. | Kaplan, Norman,1923-1976. | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. | Mesthene, Emmanuel G. | Miller, Norman | Morehouse, Ward | National Science Foundation, U.S. | Orlans, Harold | Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979 | Research -- Austria. | Research -- Belgium. | Research -- Canada. | Research -- Czechoslovakia. | Research -- Denmark. | Research -- France. | Research -- Germany. | Research -- Great Britain. | Research -- India. | Research -- Italy. | Research -- Japan. | Research -- Norway. | Research -- Poland. | Research -- Soviet Union. | Research -- Sweden. | Research -- United States. | Research -- Yugoslavia. | Roberts, John M. | Rubenstein, Albert A. | Rubinstein, Bertha | Rubinstein, Eli A. (Eli Abraham) | Science -- Social aspects. | Science -- Societies, etc. | Science and state. | Sciences Resources Project. | Scientists. | Shepard, Herbert Allen | Sherman, John | Sherwin, Chalmers William | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. | Storer, Norman W. | Taube, Henry, 1915-2005 | Technology and state. | Thimann, Kenneth Vivian, 1904-1997 | Uyeki, Eugene | Verhoogen, John | Warshaw, Israel | Wilson, Marjorie



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1949-1974
Abstract:  

The collection represents the data that Roe (Mrs. George Gaylord Simpson) collected on 64 scientists for her 1953 book, The Making of a Scientist. The material for each scientist includes transcripts of interviews, Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Tests, personal data, reprints of the scientist's publications, and letters several years afterward the interview asking for additional information. There are also photostats of letters and notes by the scientists dating earlier than 1949; holders of the originals of these letters is unknown.
Call #:  
Mss.B.R621
Extent:
6 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Allport, Gordon W. (Gordon Willard), 1897-1967 | Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988 | Anderson, Edgar, 1897-1969 | Babcock, Horace W., 1912-2003 | Beach, Frank A. (Frank Ambrose), 1911-1988 | Beadle, George Wells, 1903-1989 | Beams, Jesse W. (Jesse Wakefield), 1898-1977 | Bearden, J. A. (Joyce Alvin), 1903-1987 | Bonner, James, 1910-1996 | Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour) | Cleland, Ralph E. (Ralph Erskine), 1892-1971 | Coon, Carleton S. (Carleton Stevens), 1904-1981 | Corner, George Washington, 1889-1981 | Doisy, Edward Adelbert, 1893-1986 | Epling, Carl, 1894-1968 | Ewing, W. Maurice (William Maurice), 1906-1974 | Furry, W.H. (Wendell Hinkle) , 1907-1984 | Guilford, J. P. (Joy Paul), 1897-1987 | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Hansen, William Webster, 1909-1949 | Harlow, Harry Freerick, 1905-1981 | Hilgard, Ernest R. (Ernest Ropiequet), 1904-2001 | Kirkwood, John Gamble, 1907-1959 | Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960 | Knudsen, Vern Oliver, 1893-1974 | Lashley, Karl Spencer, 1890-1958 | Lindsey, Donald B. | Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 | Mayer, Joseph Edward, 1904-1983 | McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-1991 | Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985 | Mueller, J. Howard (John Howard), 1891-1954 | Muller, H. J. (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967 | Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, 1896-1986 | Muskat , M. (Morris) , 1906-1998 | Northrop, John Howard, 1891-1987 | Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994 | Psychology. | Rhoades, Marcus M. (Marcus Morton), 1903-1991 | Ritcher, Curt Paul, 1894-1994 | Robbins, William Jacob, 1890-1978 | Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961 | Roe, Anne, 1904-1991 | Rogers, Carl R. (Carl Ransom), 1902-1987 | Romer, Alfred Sherwood, 1894-1973 | Schwinger, Julian Seymour, 1918-1994 | Scientists. | Sears, Robert R. (Robert Richardson) | Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 | Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Fredric), 1904-1990 | Smith, Homer William, 1895-1962 | Sonneborn, T. M. (Tracy Morton), 1905-1981 | Stanley, Wendell M. (Wendell Meredith), 1904-1971 | Stebbins, G. Ledyard (George Ledyard), 1906-2000 | Stevens, S. S. (Stanley Smith), 1906-1973 | Stewart, Homer Joseph, 1915-2007 | Stratton, Julius Adams, 1901-1994 | Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1 | Sturtevant, A. H. (Alfred Henry), 1891-1970 | Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982 | Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980 | Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002 | Wright, Sewall, 1889-1988



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1638-1980, Undated
Call #:  
Mss.973.C683
Extent:
760 item(s)
Subjects:  

Abenaki language | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Abolitionists. | Acquisitions (Libraries) | Actors | Aeronautics -- History | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Agricultural exhibitions | Agriculture -- Missouri | Air -- Purification -- Equipment and supplies | Albert Medal | Alcoholic beverage industry -- United States | Alphabets | America -- Antiquities. | American Anti-Vivisection Society | American Philosophical Society | American Philosophical Society -- Prizes | American Philosophical Society. Library | American loyalists. | Anatomy -- Study and teaching. | Animal magnetism. | Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration. | Anthropology | Antiquities -- Collection and preservation | Aquariums. | Archaeology -- Mexico | Archaeology -- United States. | Architectural drawings. | Architecture | Archives | Arithmetic. | Art -- Exhibitions | Astronomical instruments. | Astronomy | Astronomy -- Early works to 1800 | Atlases | Balloons. | Bank notes -- Forgeries | Bank notes -- Great Britain | Banks and banking -- Pennsylvania | Barometers. | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company | Bible - Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Bible. New Testament | Bible. O.T. Psalms, II, 1 -- Sermons | Biology. | Birds | Birds -- North America | Birds -- Pictorial works | Birmingham (Pa.) | Bonds (financial instruments). | Bookbinding | Bookplates | Books -- Auction catalogs | Booksellers and bookselling | Boston Port Bill, 1774 | Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773 | Botany | Botany -- Catalogs -- France | Botany -- Catalogs -- Great Britain | Botany -- Catalogs -- United States | Botany -- New York (State) | Braddock's Campaign, 1755. | Brandywine, Battle of, 1777 | Bridges. | Broadsides. | Building materials | Bunker Hill, Battle of, 1775 | Business Records and Accounts | Business cards | Cables -- Atlantic Ocean | Calculators. | Calendars | Campus Martius (Marietta, Ohio) | Canada -- Description and travel | Canada -- Maps | Canals -- Pennsylvania | Capture at sea | Carriages and carts | Cements, Adhesive | Cetacea | Charities -- England -- London | Chemicals | Chemistry | Chemistry -- History | Chemistry -- Nomenclature | Chemistry -- Study and teaching | Cherokee language -- Alphabet | Cherokee language -- Texts | Chesapeake and Delaware Canal | Chile | China | China -- Medical care | Chinese language | Chipewyan language | Christian calendars | Christianity | Christmas | Chronometers | Church buildings -- Pennsylvania-Philadelphia | Church of Scotland | Civilization -- Early works to 1800 | Clocks and watches. | Coinage. | Coins | Colombia -- Census | Columbia (Symbolic character) | Columbus, Christopher, 1451-1506 | Comets -- Orbits | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Conjoined twins | Connecticut | Conservation of natural resources. | Constitutional history -- United States | Cotton | Cotton -- Diseases and pests | Cotton -- Statistics | Counting | Court summons | Courtship -- Songs and music | Criticism -- History | Crucero Iberia | Crusades | Cuba -- Statistics, Vital | Cutlery | Cyclopedia | Dance cards | Darwinism. | Daylight saving | Delaware Indians | Delaware Indians -- Religion | Democratic National Convention (1864 : Chicago, Ill.) | Design | Dickinson College -- History -- Sources | Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation | Earth (Planet) | Eclipses. | Ecton (Northamptonshire, England) | Education | Education -- Congresses | Education -- South Carolina | Education -- Study and teaching -- England. | Education -- United States. | Egypt -- Civilization. | Eidouranion | Electricity | Electrotherapeutics | Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French | English language | Entomology -- United States. | Episcopal Church -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Eskimo languages | Essays. | Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Fire extinction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Fisheries -- Great Britain | Fishes -- Catalogs and collections | Fishes -- Italy | Flags -- United States. | Flight | Flour | Forests and forestry -- United States -- Maps | Forests and forestry -- United States. | Foundries | France -- History. | France. Chambre des pairs | France. Code civil | Franklin (Aircraft carrier) | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- History | Franklin Journal | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Imprints | Freemasonry -- France -- History. | Freemasons | Freemasons -- Pennsylvania | French language | Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures | Fruits | Furnaces | Gas-lighting. | Genetics -- History. | Genetics -- Societies, etc. | Geodesy | Geography -- Europe | Geologists. | Geology | Geology -- Great Britain. | Geology -- Pennsylvania. | Geology -- Tables | Geology, Stratigraphic. | Girard College | Girls' Schools -- France -- Paris | Goldsmith, Oliver | Gorlitz (Dresden, Germany). Gymnasium | Grapes | Great Britain -- Colonies | Great Britain -- Colonies -- America | Great Britain -- Commerce -- West Indies. | Great Britain. Treaties, etc. United States, 1783 Sept. 3 | Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.) | Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 | Gulf Stream | Haiti | Haiti -- History -- Sources | Harvard University -- Students | Hessians | Historic buildings -- Canada | Historic buildings -- United States | History of the earth and animated nature | History. | Hollywood (Md.) | Honors -- Royal Society (Great Britain) | Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Hospitals -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | Human beings -- Origin | Hybridization | Hymns | Hypnotism | Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Independence National Historical Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Indians of North America | Indians of North America -- Antiquities | Indians of North America -- Government relations | Indians of North America -- History | Indians of North America -- Languages | Indulgences | Inland navigation -- United States | Insurance -- Great Britain | Invitations. | Iron and steel bridges | Iroquois Indians -- Agriculture | Jena, Battle of, Jena, Germany, 1806 | Jesus Christ | Jupiter (Planet) | Kings and rulers | Laboratories | Labrador (N.L.) | Lamps | Land use -- Ohio | Landscape architecture | Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling | Latin language | Law -- Periodicals | Law -- Virginia | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures. | Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company | Liberty Bell | Library rules and regulations | Library science -- Congresses | Life preservers | Light | Lightning | Lightning conductors | Lions | Lippincott's magazine of literature, science and education | Locks and keys | Locusts | London (England) -- Buildings. | London (England) -- Maps | Longitude. | Lord's prayer | Lotteries | Lowell Observatory | Lumadrama | Lyceums. | Machinery. | Magic squares | Magna Carta | Mammoths. | Maps | Maps. | Martial law -- Philadelphia (Pa.) | Massachusetts -- Finance | Mastodon | Mastodon -- Exhibitions | Mathematical instruments | Mauritius | Maxims | Medical sciences -- Periodicals | Medicine -- Congresses | Medicine -- Humor | Medicine -- Study and teaching. | Membership cards | Menageries -- Boston (Mass.) | Menageries -- Great Britain | Menageries -- Philadelphia | Menus. | Mercantile Library of Philadelphia | Merino sheep | Mesmerism. | Meteorology | Meteorology - Observations | Meteorology -- Observations -- England -- London | Meteorology -- Observations. | Meteorology -- Tables | Meteors. | Mexico -- History -- 1821-1861 | Mexico -- History -- Sources | Microscopy. | Mineralogy | Missionaries -- China. | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Missourium | Mohawk Indians | Mohawk language -- Texts | Mohegan Indians -- Religion | Mollusks. | Money | Moral philosophy | Moravians -- Missions | Morphology. | Mosquitoes. | Mothers | Mound-builders -- United States | Mounds -- United States | Mount Vernon School (Boston, Mass.) | Museums | Museums -- New York (State) -- New York. | Museums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century. | Music -- Scores. | Musical scores. | Mustard | Mysticism | National Academy of Sciences | National songs -- United States | Natural Philosophy | Natural history | Natural history -- Periodicals | Natural history -- Societies, etc. | Natural history -- South America | Natural history -- Technique | Natural history -- United States. | Naturalists. | Nebulae | New Orleans Canal and Banking Company | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Occultism | Odometers | Official Government Documents and Records | Olivier, Charles P. (Charles Pollard), 1884-1975 | Oneida Community | Optical instruments | Orators | Ordnance | Oregon | Ozone | Painting -- Exhibitions | Paleontology | Paleontology -- Missouri | Paper money -- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | Paris (France) -- Description and travel. | Paris (France) -- History -- 1715-1789. | Passports. | Patent medicines | Patriotische Martyrer | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel. | Pennsylvania -- History | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Perpetual calendars | Perpetual motion | Pharmacology. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Finance | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Statistics, Vital | Philadelphia (Pa.)-History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. | Philadelphia (Pa.). Militia | Phrenology. | Physical geography -- Canada | Physical instruments | Physicians | Physicians. | Phytogeography -- United States -- Maps | Planets | Planets -- Observations | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Plows. | Poetry | Polarization (Light) | Political geography | Political satire | Poor laws -- Great Britain | Portraits. | Portsmouth (N.H.) -- Statistics, Vital | Postal service -- History | Postal service -- United States. | Presidents -- United States -- Autographs | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1804 | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1840 | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1864 | Presidents -- United States. | Prices | Prices -- France | Prices -- Italy -- Trieste | Prices -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Prices -- United States | Princeton, Battle of, Princeton, N.J., 1777 | Printed Material | Printing machinery and supplies | Printing presses | Prisons | Privateering | Prizes | Processions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Promissory notes | Propaganda, American | Prophecies | Quakers. | Railroads -- Mexico | Railroads -- Pennsylvania | Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- History | Railroads. | Real property -- Pennsylvania. | Real property. | Redwood family | Reigate and Godstone Railway | Religious education -- Massachusetts | Retired women -- France -- Paris | Rewards programs (Criminal investigation) | Roads -- Pennsylvania | Roots, Numerical | Royal College of Physicians of London | Royal Humane Society (London, England) | Rutgers College | Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) | Salt industry and trade | Scales (Weighing instruments) | Schools -- Denmark | Science | Science -- Congresses | Science -- History -- Study and teaching | Science -- Philosophy -- Study and teaching | Science -- Societies, etc. | Science -- Study and teaching. | Scientific apparatus and instruments. | Scientific expeditions. | Scientists. | Seals and labels (Philately) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Seeds -- Catalogs | Seneca | Serpents | Sheffield (England) | Shipbuilding | Shippen, William, 1736?-1808 | Shippensburg (Pa.) | Ships, Iron and steel -- Great Britain | Shorthand. | Signals and signaling | Silk | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Slavery -- United States. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Slavey language | Smallpox | Smallpox -- Vaccination | Social cards | Societies. | Society of Friends | Society of Friends -- Great Britain. | Solar eclipses. | Song sheets | South America -- Discovery and exploration -- 19th century. | South Carolina -- Politics and government | Southern States -- Description and travel. | Southwark (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Spelling reform | Stamp Act, 1765 | Stars. | Steam | Steam-carriages | Steam-engines. | Steam-navigation | Steamboats -- United States. | Stoves | Strikes and lockouts | Success | Sugar beet | Sun | Susquehanna County (Pa.) | Sweden. Treaties, etc. United States, 1783 April 3 | Tariffs | Taxation -- Massachusetts | Taxation -- United States | Te Deum laudamus (Music) | Telegraph | Telescopes | Temper | Temperature -- Newfoundland -- St. John's | Temperature measurements. | Texas -- History -- Republic, 1836-1846 | Texas. Navy | Theology | Thermometers | Tickets. | Tobacco -- Commerce | Tobacco industry -- Bermuda Islands | Tobacco industry -- Virginia | Tornadoes | Trains -- Central Europe | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | Transylvania University | Travel | Treaties. | Trees -- North America. | Trees. | Trieste (Italy) -- Commerce | Trust indentures. | Tunnels -- England -- Thames River | Type and type-founding -- Specimens | Typhus fever. | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey | United Nations | United States - Politics and government | United States - Politics and government - 1783-1809 | United States -- Anniversaries, etc. | United States -- Centennial celebrations, etc. | United States -- Foreign relations -- China | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- American forces | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, German | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Prisoners and prisons | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources | United States -- Military policy | United States -- Statistics | United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Caricatures and cartoons | United States. Army | United States. Congress (2nd, 1st session : 1791-1792) | United States. Constitution | United States. Continental Army -- Organization | United States. Continental Army -- Staff -- Biography | United States. Declaration of Independence | United States. Navy -- Warrant officers | Uruguay -- History | Various authors | Vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 | Virginia. Declaration of Rights | Vivisection | Vivisection -- 19th century | Volapük | Warships | Washington Hall | Water -- Purification | Water -- Purification -- Filtration | Water mills | Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796 | Weights and measures. | Whales | Wharton School | Wills. | Wine and wine making | Women -- Education | Women -- Employment | Wood -- Preservation | Yale University | Zoology | Zoology -- India | Zoology -- Italy | Zoology -- Pictorial works | Zoology -- Study and teaching.