Benjamin Smith Lyman papers,1844-1918

Mss.B.L982

Date: 1844-1918 | Size: 49 Linear feet, Ca. 18,000 items

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Abstract

[The following comprises the original Abstract, which will be significantly revised.] >>> These are notes, sketches, memoranda, etc., made while Lyman directed the geological survey of Japan, 1873-1879, with reports on petroleum resources, copper, coal, iron, and gold mines, oil, mineral springs, and other mineral resources of the Japanese archipelago. There are data on the Japanese, Chinese, Ainu, and French languages, and on Japanese manners and customs, wit and humor, gardening, painting, measurements, swords, etc. Notes and data on the life, travels, and publications of Bernard Varenius. Notes collected for Lyman's Vegetarian Diet and Dishes. Materials on the geology of New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico, and West Virginia; and on coal and iron fields in those states and elsewhere. Manuscripts of articles on instruments for boring wells, theodolites for mining and civil engineers, other surveying instruments, etc. >>> Of particular note is Lyman's period of study in Europe, where he attended the Imperial School of Mines in Paris, France (1859-1861), and the Royal Academy of Mines, Freiberg, Germany (1861-1862). There are about eleven notebooks for this period, written in English, French, and German, that contain: lecture notes, travel observations, comments on geology, mines and mining, railroads, with sketches of machinery, etc. There are a large number of letters (ca. 7,000 items), 1850-1917, from and to Lyman, on personal and business affairs.

Background note

Benjamin Smith Lyman (1835-1920) studied geology and mining engineering in France and in Germany. He worked with J. Peter Lesley in the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, and later worked on the Iowa Geological Survey. Lyman was surveyor of the coal fields of Cape Breton Island and Nova Scotia and of the gold fields of California, and he worked on many other geological and topographical surveys in the United States. Overseas he worked briefly as geologist for the India Public Works Department, in 1870. He worked for several years in Japan, having been appointed general geologist and mining engineer for the empire in 1873. His work in Japan was as the result of the formative years of the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912), which opened Japan to the western world. There is as yet [2017] no comprehensive biographical treatment of the man and his work.

Digital objects note

This collection contains digital materials that are available in the APS Digital Library. Links to these materials are provided with context in the inventory of this finding aid. A general listing of digital objects may also be found here.

Collection Information

Physical description

Ca. 18,000 items, 49 linear feet.

Provenance

Deposited by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1942.

Custodial history:

Originally in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP), since 2011 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Deposited with American Philosophical Society (APS), 1942. Date and circumstances of acquisition by ANSP not recorded. Benjamin Smith Lyman was a member both of APS and ANSP.

Processing information

Received by American Philosophical Society (APS) on deposit from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP), 1942, apparently as a wholly unprocessed collection, mostly still in envelopes as labelled by Lyman. The collection was rehoused and arranged very generally at APS, at an unknown time, which arrangement seems to reflect the box arrangement as received from ANSP but which comprised overlapping series, misidentified materials, and mixed (unsorted) materials. Most material still was kept in envelopes labelled by Lyman, and within those envelopes many documents were folded, often several times. The correspondence series of the collection was arranged in chronological order by Albert Prime (volunteer, APS) under the direction of Charles Greifenstein (Manuscripts Librarian, APS) ca. 2010. The non-correspondence series of the collection were processed by Earle E. Spamer (Reference Archivist, APS), 2013-2014. (Spamer was also ANSP Archivist, 2001-2005.) Topical analysis of most of the Japanese-language materials was provided by Brian Carpenter (APS) in 2010, 2013 and 2014. Many additional oversized materials were rediscovered in uncataloged materials by Valerie Lutz (Head of Manuscripts Processing, APS) late in 2015 [these now comprise Oversize Collection 4 within Series XIII] and by David Gary (APS) in 2017. These materials also were part of the deposit from ANSP and had been unfolded to oversized housings at an undetermined time; they were processed into the collection by Spamer in February 2016 and May 2017.

Note regarding language of materials in this collection

This collection is mostly in English but contains a large number of documents in Japanese, including correspondence and reports. A few documents containing Chinese characters also are noted. Some additional papers and notebooks are in French and German. Miscellaneous documents in other languages are included in Series VI.

Note regarding artwork in the collection

The material in this collection derived from the Geological Survey of Japan (Series VIII and corresponding portions of the Oversized series), principally in the 1870s, includes a number of fine pieces of artwork by Japanese workers, mostly in pencil and ink on washi; some of these items are colored. These usually are graphical depictions of landscapes, on which one will see places and activities relating to mining and oil production. They represent not only informative scientific illustration, but they are excellent forms of Japanese art. Individual items of artwork are noticed as such in the finding aid.

Note regarding authorship of documents.

All documents in this collection are by Benjamin Smith Lyman except where indicated otherwise. Most of the correspondence (Series I) is inbound to Lyman. In all series except Series I, documents are listed alphabetically by title; but when an author's name is known, the folder is listed under the author's surname within the alphabetical order. Some Japanese documents in other series of this collection, received by Lyman, are attributed by him to authors he identified only by an initial within a circle; e.g., "A." or "Q.", which information is retained in this finding aid.

Note regarding folder titles.

Many folder titles are enclosed within quotation marks. These indicate actual document titles, OR notations that were written by B. S. Lyman on the original envelopes in which he had stored these documents. The highly acidic original envelopes were discarded after the envelope notations were transcribed to the present folders when the collection was fully processed in 2013/2014. Thus, titles in quotations are not always on the documents themselves. If a title is in quotation marks but does not appear on the document iteself, this indicates that the folder title is Lyman's own notation as APS transcribed it from a since-discarded envelope; this constitutes some measure of Lyman's original arrangement. A folder title that is NOT inside quotation marks indicates a generally descriptive term contrived by APS to indicate the folder's contents. When the collection was received at APS, a great number of documents were still tightly folded inside Lyman's envelopes. These were unfolded and most of them now comprise the oversized-materials components of this collection.

Note regarding page or leaf counts.

Where the number of "leaves" is counted for the amount of material in a folder, it reflects the number of sheets of paper in the folder. In the case of numerous documents written in Japan (either in English or in Japanese) on the Japanese paper, washi, many documents are composed of bound sets of double-folded sheets of washi, on which writing appears usually on the "outside" portions of the folded sheet; but in some instances, individual flat sheets of washi are interleaved in the document. Rather than contrive the number of "pages" -- except where the pages are enumerated -- the number of leaves of washi is counted rather than the number of sides on which writing appears: a single unfolded sheet is one leaf, and one folded sheet with writing on the outsides is one leaf.

Note regarding undated materials from Lyman's years in Japan

Many undated documents written on the Japanese paper, washi, may be assumed from both context and materials to have been created during the years when B. S. Lyman worked for the Geological Survey of Japan. He seems not have have used any supplies of washi after he left Japan.

Indexing Terms

Corporate Name(s)

Ecole impériale des mines (France)
Geological Survey of Japan [1870s]
Geological Survey of Pennsylvania.

Genre(s)

Lecture notes.
Notes.
Sketches.

Geographic Name(s)

France -- Description and travel.
Germany -- Description and travel.
Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1868-1912.

Personal Name(s)

Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920
Varenius, Bernhardus, 1622-1650

Subject(s)

Ainu language
Chinese language
Coal mines and mining.
French language
Gardening -- Japan.
Geological surveys.
Geology -- Colorado.
Geology -- France.
Geology -- Germany.
Geology -- Iowa.
Geology -- Japan -- Surveys.
Geology -- New Jersey.
Geology -- New Mexico.
Geology -- Ohio.
Geology -- Pennsylvania.
Geology -- Virginia.
Geology -- West Virginia.
Iron mines and mining.
Japanese language
Mines and mineral resources -- Japan.
Mining engineering.
Mining machinery.
Painting, Japanese.
Railroads -- Europe.
Surveying -- Instruments.
Theodolites.

Detailed Inventory


I. Correspondence	1850 September - 1917 June 20; n.d.	54 box		Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Other Descriptive Information: The Benjamin Smith Lyman correspondence series is in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. It contains mixed incoming and outgoing correspondence; folders each contain a single item of correspondence. Some letters are in Japanese. >>>> The correspondence is not yet itemized in this finding aid. There is no earlier list (for example, a typewritten one). Due to the very large volume of correspondence, APS at this time will not be able to search for specific names on behalf of researchers. >>>> See also "Oversize Correspondence", Series XII.

II. Personal				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Other Descriptive Information: See also Series XI. See also Oversize Collection 1 and Oversize Collection 2.

1. Personal Papers and Genealogy				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
"Accounts in India, 1890"	1890	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Costs of rail transportation, written on a fragment of form for shunting information from the "Punjab and Di----" railroad. In turn, the verso of this fragment had been a memorandum written in the first person pertaining to an employee's dissatisfaction with his work.
"Charade No. 1."	ca. 1844-1845	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "B. S. Lyman's First Charade Written at the Age of 9 yrs. Northampton Mass."
Clothing list [Japan]	1873 December 12	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Written by an assistant identified by Lyman as "Aduchi".
"Dream of Interest Accumulation"	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Expenses	1892-1895	35 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Expenses of January from N. York to Shiba, Yedo."	1872 December 4-17; 1873 January 17-19	1 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Genealogy of the Lyman Family	1895; n.d.	3 page(s) 3 pp. + small notes		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Includes "page references to the Genealogy of the Lyman Family, by Lyman Coleman, D.D., Albany, J. Munsell, 1872."
"Genealogy of the Smith Family. (Prepared by B. S. L. about 1850 or 1851.)"	ca. 1850-1851	7 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Harvard College Lecture Notes. Chemistry Mineralogy Physiology and Anatomy Physics Mathematics"	1854	10 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Harvard College, Latin"	1855; n.d.	12 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Inventory (rough) of furniture, 1880." [Japan]	1880	1 leaves.		Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
List of recipients of a photographic portrait of B. S. Lyman.	1895	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: List of recipients of "Photograph (cab. size) of self by Inscott[?], taken 10 June, 1895, first printed copies received 15 June 1895."
"Lyman, B. S."	1902, 1903	4 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Original envelope from Lyman was marked by him only, "Lyman, B. S." Contained: 1) Fragmentary newspaper article from the "Wilkesbarre Record", 5 November 1902, "Buried Valley of Wyoming. Benjamin Smith Lyman Tells About its Geological Features." 2) Report of a lecture "last June" to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania.] 3) And three small papers listing other publications by Lyman.
Lyman, Benjamin Smith. Miscellaneous account sheets.	1889-1914	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lyman, Benjamin Smith. Regarding a family loan.	1879	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Draft of a letter?
Lyman, Benjamin Smith. Reward notice.	1885 July 7	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lyman, Benjamin Smith. Tax statement for 1882, Northampton, Massachusetts	1882	3 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lyman, Benjamin Smith. Tax statement for 1887, Northampton, Massachusetts	1887	4 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lyman, Benjamin Smith. Tax statement for 1888, Northampton, Massachusetts	1888	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lyman coat of arms	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Mon[ogram] for BSL"	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Tristarred monogram designed by Lyman.
Mulgrave, Earl of. Right of search at Big Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; to B. S. Lyman	1863	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Nakajima, Toku.	1882-1886	9 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Personalia relating to a youngster, Toku Nakajima. Lyman's original enveloped labelled only, "Toku." Folder contains writing exercises in English and Japanese; two Northhampton [Massachusetts] Public Schools report cards for Nakajimo, for Fall 1884 and Spring 1885 terms; and note by Lyman dated 18 February 1886 regarding annual meeting of the Hampshire Natural History Society [misplaced here?].
Packing list, items on board the steamer Kuroda	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: In Japanese and English.
Packing list, Japanese curios	1880 January 7-9	17 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: In preparation of departure from Japan?
Probate Court of Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Historical notes.	n.d.	3 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Trunk List"	n.d.	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Warner, E. A. (Miss). Warner family.	1882	4 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "given to B.S.L. 20+/- Dec. 1882"

2. Diplomas and Certificates				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft. Berlin.	1870 November 7	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Ecole Impériale des Mines. Paris.	1860 August 25; 1861 June 11, 15	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Erlaubniss-Schein. Clausthal.	1862 August 23	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
[In German.]	1861 August 10, 17	3 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Société Géologique de France. Paris.	1861 June 3, 4	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File

III. Legal Files and Patents				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Legal. "Agreement between Thomas A. Scott and Benj. Smith Lyman in regard to an expedition to Arizona."	1863 December 21, 24	16 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Draft ("Copy by Benj. Smith Lyman"), formal copy ("Copy Jos Lesley"), and original (Lyman's copy, with 5-cent U.S. Internal Revenue stamps) of the Agreement regarding "an expedition to explore for mineral lands in the Territory of Arizona, and possibly also in the adjacent Territories."
Legal. "Cape Breton S.S. In the Supreme Court 1886."	1886 October 28	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Legal. Courtenay, Patrick J.	1896	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Drafts of agreement for land access for the purposes of mining.
Legal. Hinckley, Samuel, estate of.	1884 November 17	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten draft of payments regarding trial drilling on land in Brookfield, Ohio.
Legal. Lyman, Elizabeth. Power of attorney to Edward H. R. Lyman.	1882 January 4	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Legal. Lyman, Joseph, et al. Regarding lease in Brookfield Township, Ohio.	1863	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Legal. "Notes on Lease."	1893 April 27			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Legal. Regarding Shippen and Wetherill Tract, Schuylkill Township, Pennsylvania.	1893 August 24	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Legal. Regarding Shippen and Wetherill Tract, Schuylkill Township, Pennsylvania.	1894 June 15	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Legal. Regarding Shippen and Wetherill Tract, Schuylkill Township, Pennsylvania.	1894 July 15	16 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Legal. Regarding Shippen and Wetherill Tract, Schuylkill Township, Pennsylvania.	1894 October 15	17 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Legal. Regarding Shippen and Wetherill Tract, Schuylkill Township, Pennsylvania.	1894 October 30	10 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Legal. Riley, L. A. Lease.	1901? January	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten notes pertaing to lease and royalties pertaining to mining.
Legal. Snyder, Baird.	1892 April 18	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Original envelope marked by Lyman, ""Shippen & Whittaker Tract Option, 1892". Signed agreement regarding access to land for the purposes of trial explorations for mining.
Patent. Air engine caveat.	1867; n.d.	13 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes, calculations, and acknowledgment of receipt of caveat from U.S. Patent Office 5 January 1867.
Patent. Iron smelting caveat.	1869 March 18	6 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: B. S. Lyman, draft document to Commissioner of Patents.
Patent. Level rods.	1871-1873	16 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Original envelope marked by Lyman, "Level Rods". Contains documents to B. S. Lyman pertaining to his patent application and subsequent emendations and proceedings. File also includes pen and ink tracing of a patent illustration of "H. W. Norvill, Pendulum, Filed Aug. 26, 1871."
Patent. Solar compass.	n.d.	14 leaves. ; Draft of application for patent (24 pp. and insert). Includes draft illustration (1 leaf) in pen and ink and in pencil, titled, "Benjamin Smith Lyman's Improvements in Solar Compasses".		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File

IV. Meetings and Activities				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series

1. Professional, Administrative, and Avocational Organizations				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: See also Oversize Collection 1.
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Mineralogical and Geological Section.	1898-1916	125 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Lyman was the Director of the Mineralogical and Geological Section [later the Department of Geology and Paleontology]. File contains typewritten and draft minutes of meetings, mailing lists, information and itineraries for field excursions, etc.
American Institute of Mining Engineers. Centennial Committee.	1876	1 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Circular notifying that the City Rooms of the Institute will be open during the [American] Centennial Exhibition (world's fair) in Philadelphia.
Congrès International d'Anthropologie et d'Archéologie Préhistoriques.	1889	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Congrès International de Zoologie.	1889	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Franklin Institute [Philadelphia]. Library Committee.	1897-1901; n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Numerous small slips with notes and jottings; most are dated.
Hampshire Natural History Society. Lyman, B. S., A Device for the Natural History Society.	1886 January 21	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: A society's logo, designed by Benjamin Smith Lyman. Included in file is a copy of the constitution of the HNHS, clipped from a newspaper.
Hampshire Natural History Society. Lyman, B. S., Address before the Hampshire Natural History Society.	1885 May 21	14 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Separated material: Item removed and filed separately. See Oversize Collection 1 following Series XI: Broadside, "Hampshire County Journal. Supplement." (n.d.), which contains a published text of this address. Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten draft of presidential address.
Hampshire Natural History Society. Lyman, B. S., Address to the Hampshire Natural History Society.	1887 March 6	49 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten draft and typescript.
Hampshire Natural History Society. Notes.	1885, 1888; n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Numerous small slips. Includes "Ballots for Exec. Committee at the Hampshire Nat. Hist. Soc'y's Annual Meeting, 23 Feb. 1888."
Hampshire Natural History Society. Pomeroy Mountain Excursion.	1885 November 19	12 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten report, 10 pp.; typescript, paginated 9, 10 only.
International Congress of Geologists, 5th. Committee of Organization.	1891 January 1	1 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: 5th International Geological Congress, Washington, D.C., 1891.
International Congress of Geologists. American Committee.	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two tracts. 5th International Geological Congress, Washington, D.C., 1891.
International Congress of Geologists. Committee on the Bibliography of Geology.	1891 November, December	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: 5th International Geological Congress, Washington, D.C., 1891.
International Mining Congress	1898	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Circular and form letter for Salt Lake City meeting, 6-9 July 1898.
Japan Geological Society	n.d. [1870s]	7 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: B. S. Lyman holograph draft of a constitution for the Japan Geological Society.
"Japanese Calligraphers' Meeting"	n.d. [1870s]	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Printed meeting announcement(?) and original envelope, in Japanese. Title as given by Lyman.
New England Meteorological Society.	1885; n.d.	5 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Circular Nos. 5, 6, 8, and blank report form, pertaining to "Thunder-storm Observations."
New England Meteorological Society.	1880s	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Blank form, from W[illiam]. M[orris]. Davis, regarding a plan "for the purpose of extending the usefulness of the daily weather indications by the Signal Office in Washington."
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia	1894 December 30	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Accounts pertaining to shipping and postage.
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia	1895 February	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Accounts pertaining to shipping and postage.
Oriental Club of Philadelphia.	1888 April 22, 30	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Draft of announcement of the club's formation.
University of Pennsylvania. Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, Board of Managers.	1899			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Separated material: Item removed and filed separately. See Oversize Collection 1, following Series XI: Broadside galley proof with handwritten corrections for "The Board of Managers. Resolutions Adopted December 22d, 1891." Other Descriptive Information: Miscellaneous notes.
World's Columbian Exposition. The World's Congress Auxiliary.	1893 June 15	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Printed announcement regarding the International Congress of Anthropology of the World's Columbian Exposition.

2. Northampton, Massachusetts. Civic Meetings and Activities.				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: See also Oversize Collection 1.
City Council. Committee on Education.	1885 February 24	1 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
City Improvement Committee. Approval of a subcommittee report.	1885 December 12	1 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
City Improvement Committee. Lyman, B. S., Report of the City Improvement Committee for 1884.	1884 December 20	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
City Improvement Committee. Lyman, B. S., Report of the City Improvement Committee for the year 1885.	1885 December 28	24 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Draft report, correspondence, miscellaneous notes.
Lyman, B. S., Comments on Massachusetts State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity	1882 April 21	9 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lyman, B. S., Comments on Northampton postal delivery.	1882 September 14	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lyman, B. S., Letter to Hampshire County Journal	1882 February 13	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lyman, B. S., Letter to Hampshire County Journal	1882 September 25	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lyman, B. S., Letter to Hampshire County Journal	n.d.	1 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lyman, B. S., Letter to Hampshire Gazette	n.d.	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Memorial Services in Honor of General Grant in City Hall, Northampton, August 8, 1885. Order of Exercises."		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Heavily annotated by Lyman on subsequent days; additional verses to the song, "America".
"Road Jury. 1895"	1895			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"School Project"	1884 July 11-12	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Village Improvement"	1882 July	30 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten draft, paginated 51-64; typescript, 13 pp.; and correct galleys (four lengths).
Village Improvement Association. Minutes.	1882, 1885	23 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: File composed mostly of an abstract of Association meetings from 1 May 1876 to 1881 (prepared in April 1882), and minutes from 8 April 1885.
Village Improvement Association. Lyman, B. S., Appointments.	1885 April 15	3 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notification of Lyman's appointments as chairman of "subcommittee on Improvements about the Railroad Stations" and chairman of "subcommittee to solicit membership fees & contributions". With original mailing envelope.
Village Improvement Association. Miscellaneous.	18834-1887			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Village Improvement Society. Annual Report for 1883.	1883	11 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten drafts and typescript.

V. Notebooks	1853-1882	29 item(s)		Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Other Descriptive Information: The numerical itemization of these notebooks, 1-30, is the chronological order for this series. Lyman's order is noted as part of the notebook titles, as named and enumerated by him (e.g. "Pocket Notebook No. 34"). Not all of Lyman's notebooks survive in this collection; nor is it known where else they might be if they survive at all.
1. "B. S. Lyman. Cambridge Mass. March 1853."	1853 March			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Brief notes on the chronology of the history of England beginning 1066; cursory. Notebook largely blank.
2. "B. S. Lyman--Mar 1857 Middle Pa."	1857 March			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Notes regarding geology, mining and ore processing, with historical notes. Paginated 29-111 but only 29-34 are used.
3. "Book VIII. S.E. Penna. and Potomac Valley."	1857 April 14-May 11			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Notes regarding geology, mining and ore processing, with historical notes. Paginated 5-216; pages removed but do not interrupt the pagination. Occasional drawings and diagrams.
4. "Book IX. N. Western Virginia and Middle Pennsylvania."	1857 May 12-June 11			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Inside front cover indicates date 8 May 1856 (error). Notes regarding geology, mining and ore processing, with historical notes. Paginated 1-192; pages removed but do not interrupt the pagination. Occasional drawings and diagrams.
5. "Book X. New Jersey."	1857 June 15-July 3			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Notes regarding geology, mining and ore processing, with historical notes. Paginated 5-216; pages removed, interrupting pagination. Occasional drawings and diagrams.
6. "Book XII. E. & S. W. Va., N. E. North Ca and E. Tenn. (east of R.R.)"	1857 July 13-August 31			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Notes regarding geology, mining and ore processing, with historical notes. Paginated 1-216; pages removed that interrupt the pagination. Pages 208/209 have writing but are purposely glued together. Occasional drawings and diagrams.
7. "Book XIII. S. W. North Car., Ga., Ala. and E. Tenn & S. W. Va. (west of R.R.)"	1857 August 27-November 15			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Notes regarding geology, mining and ore processing, with historical notes. Paginated 1-180; pages removed that interrupt the pagination. Occasional drawings and diagrams.
8. "Book XIV. Valley of Va. (middle part.)"	1857 November 15-26			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Notes regarding geology, mining and ore processing, with historical notes. Paginated 1-120; pages removed that interrupt the pagination. Occasional drawings and diagrams. Half of this notebook unused.
9. "Book XVI. Ecole des Mines"	1860 June 5-9			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Geological and travel notes, in French; with drawings and diagrams. Pasted to spine are Lyman's original enumeration labels, "16" and "17". Inside front cover indicates date 4 June 1860; inside back cover indicates date 18 July 1860. Most of the notebook contains blank leaves. Pasted to inside of front cover is a separate paper, "The course of the Arago, in 1859--From New York to Havre", listing daily latitudes and longitudes and miles sailed.
10. "Livre de Notes 18." [Europe.]	1860 August 27-October 31			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Geological and travel notes from a tour of Europe; in French. Paginated 1-140. Numerous drawings and diagrams. Rear of volume contains itineraries and registers of expenses.
11. "Livre 20." [Europe.]	1861 July 1-August 16			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Geological and travel notes from a tour of Europe; in French, English and German. Paginated 1-137. Occasional drawings.
12. "Notizbrief 21." [Germany.]	1861 August 17-31			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Geological and mining notes from a tour in Germany; in French, English and German. Paginated 1-137. Numerous drawings and diagrams.
13. "Notizbrief 22." [Germany.]	1861 October 1-December 31			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Geological and mining notes in Germany; in German. Paginated 1-136. Occasional drawings and diagrams.
14. "Notizbrief 23." [Germany.]	1862 January 1-March 31			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Geological and mining notes in Germany; in German. Paginated 1-136. Occasional drawings and diagrams. Rear of volume contains itineraries and registers of expenses.
15. "Notizbrief 24." [Germany.]	1862 April 1-May 31			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Geological and mining notes in Germany; in German. Paginated 1-144. Numerous drawings and diagrams, which include on last leaf some dated characatures.
16. "Notizbuch 25." [Germany.]	1862 June 1-July 31			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Geological and mining notes in Germany; in German. Paginated 1-143. Numerous drawings and diagrams.
17. "Notizbuch 26." [Germany.]	1862 August 1-26			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Geological and mining notes in Germany; in German. Paginated 1-137. Numerous drawings and diagrams.
18. "Notizbuch 27." [Germany, Pennsylvania, Nova Scotia.]	1862 August 27-1863 May 12			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Notes in German in Bremen, 27August-1 September 1862 (pp. 0-5 [sic]). Remainder of notes in English, in America: 23 November 1862, geological section on the Swatara Railroad [Pennsylvania] (pp. 16-17) and notes on rail and timber. Subsequent notes, largely calculations, begin 25 February 1863. Notebook paginated 0-137. Occasional drawings and diagrams. End of notebook contains notes on trip to Nova Scotia.
19. "Pocket Note Book No. 28." [Nova Scotia.]	1863 July 21-September 30			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: General notes and surveying notes. Unpaginated. Surveying notes are written into the notebook with the rear cover turned upward.
20. "Pocket Note Book No. 32." [Pennsylvania.]	1865 June 16-1866 January 17			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Geological field notes; occasional personal notes and expenses. Paginated 1-137. Numerous sketches and diagrams. Includes a few loose notes. Pocket contains two invoices for mining supplies and coal on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, 30 June 1865, at the Boston Mines.
21. "Pocket Note Book No. 33." [Pennsylvania.]	1866 January 18-24			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Geological field notes; occasional personal notes and expenses. Paginated 1-137. Numerous sketches and diagrams.
22. "Pocket Notebook No. 34." [Northeastern U.S.]	1866 February 1-December 25			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Personal notes and expenses; some notes pertaining to the burning of coal and a few geological notes. Principally a commonplace book. Paginated 1-137. Numerous sketches and diagrams. Personal notes include poems, prayers, a diagram of umbrella weaving, genealogical notes, income and federal tax for 1865, personal physical measurements, a sketch of Egg Rock (Nahant, 25 July 1866). Includes on the paper (p. 83) a "streak of (aab) micaceous specular iron ore see survey note book I".
23. "Pocket Notebook No. 35."	1867 January 1-November 3			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Essentially a commonplace book; personal notes, very few geological notes. This volume comprises principally work on, and improvements to, Lyman's own form of shorthand. Paginated 1-137.
24. "Pocket Notebook No. 36." [Pennsylvania, Illinois, other?]	1867 November 21-1868 October 30			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Various notes relating to geology, coal mining, ore processing, geometry and surveying; transcriptions of passages from literature in other languages (Latin, German). Personal notes. Paginated 1-137.
25. "Pocket Note Book No. 37."	1868 November 21-1869 August 21			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Partly a commonplace book, containing personal accounts, verse in English and German, geometry and surveying calculations, diagram of a solar compass, various other notes. Paginated 1-137. Pocket contains loose notes. >>> Also in pocket and now removed is a large sheet with scribbles apparently marked "PA RI" (a child's imaginative map of the northeastern U.S.?) and scribbled notations (by a child?) reading in part, "Tell [illegible] that she is a good sister and is to be married to her cousin Mr. Lyman". This item will be found in "Oversize Collection 1", listed there under "Personal" (see following Series XI in the finding aid).
26. "Pocket Note Book No. 38." [Quebec, Europe, India.]	1869 September 6-1871 February 19			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Essentially a commonplace book, at the beginning containing superficial travel notes relating to Lyman's voyage to India by way of Quebec and the Mediterranean and Suez Canal. These notes includes some astronomical sightings on the sun en route. Of note: Faithful transcriptions of some grave markers in Quebec(?), a fragment of newsprint pasted down with the annotation, "specimen of print that could be read by the light of the aurora borealis on the St. Lawrence 6 Oct 1869." Includes expenses while in India. Paginated 1-137.
27. "Pocket Note Book No. 41." [Japan.]	1873 April 19-1874 April 25			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Notebook with folded pages made of washi. Reading one direction comprises a discontinuous diary, 19 April to 18 June 1873, with an added entry 5 April 1874 written in transliterated Japanese. Turning the notebook over, entries comprise expenses May 1873-April 1874. Use of pencil has resulted in many pages being badly smudged. Unpaginated.
28. "Pocket Notebook No. 43." [Japan, India, France.]	1876 June 3-1881 March 27			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Notebook begun in Yedo, Japan. Mixed notes including rough box list of materials to be shipped from Japan, including a rough list of rock samples. Notes on Japanese and Chinese etymology. Some cultural notes. Notes during travel to India. Concludes with daily notes of latitude/longitude and miles sailed to Venice. Of note: Rough sketch of Fuji, floor plans of Japanese houses, pencil sketch of B. S. Lyman "by MWL [Miss M. W. Lesley] at l'Hotel du Prince Albert" (undated), pencil sketch of woman seated "at Barbizon near Fontainebleu" [Miss Lesley?] April 16 1881, pencil sketches of a country house. Paginated 1-49.
29. "Pocket Notebook No. 44." [France, Massachusetts?]	1881 April 22-1882 April 12			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Essentially a commonplace book. Notebook begun in Paris, including miscellaneous notes relating to return to America. Includes various notes relating to household hardware, fixtures and furnishings. Some house floor plans are drawn out. Lists of expenses. Unpaginated.
30. [No title]	n.d.			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Mostly blank leaves. Two leaves contain writing in Lyman's unique form of shorthand. A third leaf contains "Benjamin Smith Lyman" written in Arabic (or Persian) and in Lyman's shorthand. The pocket of this notebook contains the business promotional card, "Benjamin Smith Lyman, Mining Engineer, 139 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, (Member of the French Geological Society)" with notice of his opening an office at this address, his experience, and reference; the card is dated in print, February 1862, although the date for this notebook is undetermined.

VI. Writings and Research Files				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series

1. Geological Essays, Notes and Reviews				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
"A National Mining School"	n.d.	8 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Coal Beds, How Formed"	1912 May 23	45 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two handwritten drafts and typescript.
"Coal by Measurement"	n.d.	7 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two handwritten drafts.
"Contributions to the Boston Commonwealth 1863"	1863	41 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two separate folds of pages, in the form of a letterbook.
"Discussion of Prof. Branner's Paper on Geology and Topography."	1897 November	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten draft, 5 pp.; and final page of typescript (p. 5).
"Erosion."	1885 June	52 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten draft and typescript.
Geological notes [fragment, re structure and oil pools]	n.d.	1 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Geological Observations."		21 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Geology of England."	1884 January, March	8 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Graphite, Notes Compiled by Benjamin Smith Lyman."	1902 August 5	73 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Typescript with handwritten emendations.
"The Immense Time Indicated by Erosion."	1901, 1904	37 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: One handwritten draft; one handwritten draft interleaved with typescript; and loose notes.
"Jade"	1903 June, July	11 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two handwritten drafts (by Lyman) reporting on Lyman's presentation to the Mineralogical and Geological Section [of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia]; with numerous loose notes. Includes a tear-out of the article, "Jade" by Edwawrd Pinnington, "The Mineral Collector", July 1898.
"Mountain Systems."	n.d.	4 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Pennsylvania. Critique of the Atlas of the Western Middle Anthracite Field, Pt. 1.	1884	11 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Pennsylvania. "Imaginary Peneplains."	1917 June 10	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Pennsylvania. "The Panther Creek Atlas."	1883	23 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten draft and emended typescript.
"'The Sedimentary Pebbles of Shleswig-Holstein', by C. Gottsche"	1883 August 21	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten draft and typescript. Review of "Die Sedimentar-geschiebe das Provinz Schleswig-Holstein, Von Dr C. Gottsche. Als manuscript gedruckt, Yokohama, Levy & Salabelle, 1883."
"Sediments. (Sand washed over fields by Licking Waters River flood.)"	1885 June 22; 1895 April 14	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: File includes one loose note dated 14 April 1895.
"Some Illustrations of the Influence of Geological Structure on Topography."	1897	19 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two handwritten drafts and corrected galleys.
"Well-Boring by Steam with a Spring-Pole."	1885 Novlember, December; [1886?]	11 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten draft and uncorrected galleys for a paper "written for the Engineering and Mining Journal".

2. Lectures				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
"A Museum for the Mining and Metallurgical Section. (not spoken)"	1898 September	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two handwritten drafts and another written in a very small hand on a small piece of paper. A presentation, not given, for the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.
Address to the Franklin Institute Mining and Metallurgy Department	1897 April 25	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Address to the Philadelphia Japanese Club	1895 May 11	7 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Three handwritten drafts and one leaf of Japanese calligraphy. Access digital object: https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/text:239122/
Address to the Philadelphia Japanese Club	1905 November 3	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Access digital object: https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/text:239131/
"Chinese at Harvard University"	1893 January 24, February 17	8 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "For A.D.[?] Club Dinner of 18/2/93 at Cambridge, Ma. if necessary, but not used." Two handwritten drafts. Folder title is as written on Lyman's original envelope.
"Farewell to the Presidency"	1898 February 9	9 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two handwritten drafts of Lyman's final speech as president of the Franklin Institute's Mining and Metallurgical Section.
Harvard Club	1893 February 11	3 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Separated material: See also separate item removed to Oversize Collection 1, a newspaper biographical sketch of Phillips Brooks. Other Descriptive Information: "Not used. For the Harvard Club dinner of 11/2/93 [2 November 1893] if necessary." Regarding the death of Phillips Brooks, a classmate of the Class of 1855.
"Iron Pillar at Delhi, India (The)"	1872	8 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten draft. Also a typescript with notation, "Copied from the US RR & Mg Register April 3, 1872"; an item read by Lyman before American Institute of Mining Engineers, 21 February 1872.
"Japanese Sword Lecture"	1895 November 6, 7	11 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Three handwritten drafts. One draft with notation, "Abstract of the Japanese Sword Lecture for the Franklin Institute Journal." Two drafts with notation, "Abstract of the Japanese Sword Lecture for Dr. Wahl's newspaper use."
Lesley, Joseph. "Material for lecture on Coal. Given to B.S.L. 13/11/69."	1869	23 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes and clippings.
"Metamorphosis of Plants (The)"	1854	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Read before the Natural History Society of Harvard College, 1854." "Read before the Hampshire Natural History Society, 20 Aug. 1885."
Rebuttal to Persifor Frazer	1894 September 7	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two handwritten drafts. "Read at the Am. Phil. Soc. Meeting 7/Sept/94."
Thanks to the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company	1895 April 11	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: For free passes during geological survey work. "This was read to Mr. [J. Peter] Lesley 14/4/95; but he thought it would better not be inserted in the B. & M. report."

3. Surveying and Surveying Instruments				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: See also Oversize Collection 1. See also Extra-Oversize Folder 6.
A calculation	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"A Light Transit for Topography"	1885 December 21	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Includes a fine pen-and-ink drawing, "B. S. Lyman's Light Transit for Topography."
"A New Notation for Level Reds or Stadias"	1883 September 15, October 23; 1886 January 8; n.d.	7 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"A Point as to Topographical Shading"	1886 January 9, 11	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Additions to B.S.L.'s paper on Surveying Instruments"	1900 August 15, September 4, 18, 26-28, October 5	18 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"An Old Japanese Standard Foot Measure"	1889 April 18	33 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten drafts, typescript, and corrected galleys.
Binding screw for telescope	1900 October 31	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Davis, J. B. "History of Solar Surveying Instruments."	1900	30 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Corrected typescript with illustrations pasted in.
"Errors in the Use of the Gradienter"	1896 April 27, 29, November 30	15 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two drafts. For republication in an undetermined journal; "Reprinted from the Engineering Newsl. Vol. XXXV, p. 370, June 4, 1896."
For opening a mine well	1873 March 11	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Relates to work on the Geological Survey of Japan.
"The Gradienter"	1872	4 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Written for Van Nostrand's Magazine, May, 1872, Vol. VI, p. 572."
Henderson, J. "Henderson's Patent Rapid Traverser."	1893	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Offprint from "Mining Surveying Instruments", with edits in pen.
Hoskold, H. D. "Further description of the New Civil and Mining Engineers Theodolite."	n.d.	28 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten manuscript with 14 loose illustrations.
Hoskold, H. D. "Notes Upon an Improved Form of Mining and Civil Engineers Transit Theodolite."	n.d.	32 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten manuscript.
"Logarithm Table Computations"		5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Computations only. Folder title from Lyman's original envelope.
Mine-theodolite of Prof. Combes, 1838	1900 July 27	1 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"New Logarithmic Tables for Topography."	1885 August 10-October 30	35 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
On expansion and contraction in timepieces	n.d.	4 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Scott, Dunbar D. "The Evolution of Mine-Surveying Instruments."	1899, 1900	30 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Typescript with illustrations, corrected galleys.
Scott, Dunbar D. "Scotts changes in MS. of Hulbert's contrilbution to Cont. Disc."	1899	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Secretary's Note."	1900 August 10	1 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Sine Graduation Computations"	n.d.	3 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from Lyman's original envelope.
"Sketch on the Evolution of Mine Survey Instruments." Illustrations.	n.d.	16 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Separated material: See also Oversize Collection 1.
"Surveying by Photography."	1866 December	8 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Typescripts of original article by B. S. Lyman. "Copied from the Philadelphia Photographer of December, 1866."
Telescope measurement: grand surveys		4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Telescopic Measurement in Surveying."	1868 February 22	12 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript, by B. S. Lyman. "Read before the Franklin Institute at the Stated Meeting. Mar. 18."
Young's telescope	1900 November 9	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File

4. Design and Architecture				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: See also Oversize Collection 1 and Oversize Collection 2. See also Extra-Oversize Folder 1.
"Arrangement of book shelves in study at the Brick house 1881+/-"	Ca. 1881	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Brick House at Northampton"	n.d.	11 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title is from Lyman's original envelope. Floor plans. Of note: Profile measurements, "copied from a photograph for the little Fuji at the Brick House, Northampton," which presumably was for a proposed model of Fuji.
"Designs of Rectangles acc'g. to Hay"	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title is from Lyman's original envelope.
"Dream of House Altering in 1858+/-"	Ca. 1858	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Floor plans. Folder title is from Lyman's original envelope.
Floor plans and architectural notes (in English)	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Floor plans and architectural notes (in Japanese)	[1870s]	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Geometrical designs and calculations	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Gray, S. M. Birds and winged insect.	1888 April?	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Pen and ink illustration. Gray's initials are uncertain here.
House plans (undetermined)	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Kubota Beisen"	[1870s]	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title is from Lyman's original envelope. One leaf with drawing of a portion of elevation of a Japanese house. One leaf with illustrations of Japanese headwear, with annotations "Kamuro" and "About".
Mining structure?	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Drawn on the reverse of a reused piece of paper that on verso carries the date 24 April 1882.
Plan for folding screen (in Japanese)	[1870s]	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Quadrule paper (hand-drawn)	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Stone (for furniture?); estimate for (in Japanese)	[1870s]	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Storage chest design (in Japanese)	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Trimmings Wanted"	1882 January 14?	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined plan (in Japanese)	1879 June 1	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined plan (in Japanese)	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Woodwork design	1882 May 20	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File

5. Transcriptions and Translations				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Adaihi, J. "Arithmetic Problem."	[1870s]	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Bennett, S. "From S. Bennett's 'Exercising in Bed.'"	n.d.	19 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Brougham on the Missionary's Case."		2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Copied by B. S. Lyman, Dec 12th. 1853."
Chandhuri, Prema Chandra. "Extracts from Prema Chandra Chandhuri's manuscript on Hindoo Marriage Ceremonies."	n.d.	6 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Dreams of the Red Chamber."	1881, 1882	3 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from Lyman's original envelope. Folder contains: Text in Chinese (28 pp.); transliterated text, "Hung Loeu Moeng. Ti Q. Hue.", dated 1 February 1881 (2 pp.); typescript, "Extract from the Dreams of the Red Chamber (see Edkins Grammar p. 275)" (variously paginated, 6 leaves, one leaf dated 29 January 1882).
"Extract." Re mining.	[1867] September 23	3 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Quoted; source not indicated.
Hall, J[ames]. Pompey Stone.	1884	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: An engraving of the so-called "Pompey Stone" that was contributed to the Albany (New York) Institute in 1871. Lyman has annotated the verso of this engraving, "Prof. J. Hall", "R[eceived]. 12/2/84 from Prof. Hall, Albany."
"Japanese Translations by BSL &c."	n.d.	8 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from Lyman's original envelope. Japanese translations by various writers, all from Aesop's fables.
Kaempfer, E. "The Seven Natural Wonders of the Baku Peninsula. From E. Kaempfer's 'Amoenitatum exoticarum' etc. (1712) Fascic. II, Relatio II: VI: p. 273." Translation.	1883 July 3-10			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Latin Verse"	1854	7 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Lyman's original envelope reads: "Latin Verse; Translation of Thanatipsis; Translation of Es lebt ein Ralt in Keller-Nest; Translation of Extract from Wordsworth's Excursion."
"Liehen ist nicht wider Gott, u.s.w."	1861 August 20	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Longraire, M. L. de. Hellenism and Anthropological Sciences. "Translation from Bulletins de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, 1903, No. 1, p. 61."	1904 March 31, May 6	14 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Moreri. "Jacqueline of Hollande, or of Bavaria." "From Moreri's Dictionnaire Historique (Paris, 1725) Tom. IV. page 709."	1888 November	10 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Myrial, Mme. Alexandra. "On the physical training among the Yogist Sects. (Translation from Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, 1903, No. 2, p. 201.)"	1904 March 7, 12; April 30	56 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Riley, C. V. "Defenses against Canker Worms. (Almost wholly Compiled from Prof. C. V. Riley's 7th Chapter of the 3d Report of the U.S. Entomological Commission, pp. 157-177.)"	1885 July 28-30	15 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Shun Shoku Ume Koyome"	1877 November 22; n.d.	13 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title is from Lyman's original envelope. Romanized transcription from the Japanese of a portion of "Shunshoku umegoyomi" ("Colors of Spring: The Plum Calendar"), by Tamenaga Shunsui. A novel published in 1832-1833. (Note: The correct form is "umegoyomi," not "ume koyome.")
"The Sleeping Beauty, in Japanese, revised by J. Shimada & others"	1875			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Texts in Japanese characters, transliterated Japanese with interlinear Japanese characters, and transliterated Japanese.
Varenius, Bernhard. "Lebensnachrichten von Bernard Varenius. Von Dr. A. Breusing." From Petermann's Mittheilungen, 26 (1880). Transcription in German.		17 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Varenius, Bernhard. "Sketch of the Life of Bernard Varenius. By Dr. A. Breusing." Translation of article in Petermann's Mittheilungen, 26 (1880).	n.d.	20 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Varenius, Bernhard. Transcription of "A Description of the Kingdom of Japan and Siam" (Cambridge, 1673). Pages 21-200.	n.d.	179 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: This transcription begins with the title-page to Varenius, paginated "21".
Varenius, Bernhard. Transcription of "A Description of the Kingdom of Japan and Siam" (Cambridge, 1673). Pages 201-400.	n.d.	200 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Varenius, Bernhard. Transcription of "A Description of the Kingdom of Japan and Siam" (Cambridge, 1673). Pages 401-601.	n.d.	201 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Varenius, Bernhard. Transcription of "A Description of the Kingdom of Japan and Siam" (Cambridge, 1673). Pages 602-747.	n.d.	146 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Woeikof, A. "Die Klimate der Erde" (Jena, 1887, v. 1, p. 216-221). Transcription.	n.d.	7 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File

6. Linguistics				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
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Chinese. "Canton Place-names."	1894	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Chinese. "Chinese lessons at Yedo, with Edkins' Progressive Lessons, 1869."	1880			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Chinese. Chinese phrase lists (transliterations and translations).	1880			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Chinese. "Chinese Pronunciation."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Chinese. "English and Chinese Phrases."	1881, 1882			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Chinese. "Pekingese Phrase Book, Chinese Characters."	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title is from Lyman's original envelope.
Chinese. "Some Pekingese Sounds."	1883 May 1; n.d.	9 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten draft and typescrpt.
French. "Suggestions as to French Pronunciation. By Benjamin Smith Lyman."	1859; 1888 September 21, 23; n.d.	16 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Handwritten draft, typescript, and notes.
General Linguistics. "A Practical Rational Alphabet. By Benjamin Smith Lyman."		42 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
General Linguistics. "The Consonants. By Benjamin Smith Lyman."	1867 August 10; n.d.	47 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
General Linguistics. "English Ch." By Benjamin Smith Lyman.	1883 November 9	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Letter to the editor of "Science." Draft and emended typescript.
General Linguistics. "List of Words for a Vocabulary in any new language, for Mr. Lesley."	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: On verso of one list are diagrammatic sketches involving pulleys and other equipment.
General Linguistics. "Phonographics Notes in BSL's system."	1870 December 11-1871 January 19; n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title taken from Lyman's original envelope. All items in this folder are entirely in Lyman's unique form of shorthand. One item is a hand-crafted booklet, with entries dated between 11 December 1870 and 19 January 1871. A few notations in conventional writing relate to speed of reading.
General Linguistics. "Shorthand and tests of speed with longhand."	n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title taken from Lyman's original envelope. Includes a key to lyman's unique phonographic system of shorthand, and two test passages written in French and German.
General Linguistics. "Spelling Simplified."	n.d.	5 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
General Linguistics. "Teaching Language to Brutes."	1883 November 9	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Letter to the editor of "Science." Handwritten draft and emended typescript.
Hindu. "Phoenetics."	1881 February	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Italian. "Italian Exercises from Ollendorff."	1881	200 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title taken from Lyman's original envelope.
Japanese. Aino language.	n.d.	33 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Japanese. "Change from Surd to Sonant in Japanese Compounds (The)", by Benjamin Smith Lyman.	1894			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Japanese. Character lists (in Japanese only).	n.d.	6 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Japanese. Character list.	1884	28 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Japanese characters with Pekingese, Japanese, English, French pronunciations.
Japanese. English grammar for Japanese.	1883, 1891, 1903; n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Japanese. "English Spelling" (for Japanese).	n.d.	56 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Japanese. "Etymology."		34 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Japanese. "Gamble's List of 2285 Characters."		39 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Japanese characters only. Folder title is Lyman's annotation.
Japanese. "Grammar."	1877 December 11	325 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Japanese. Guide to Japanese characters.	1880	250 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Japanese. Japanese grammar, notes on.	1877 May 14	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Japanese. Japanese Grammatical Notes. "Euphonic Changes."	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Japanese. "Japanese Phrases."	1883 May 26	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Japanese. "Japanese Provinces & Districts." [Bilingual]		4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Japanese. "Japanese Spelling Names for Chinese Radicals."	1880 September 4	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Japanese. "Jap[anese]. Verb so-called." Notes.	1901; n.d.	12 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Japanese. "The Nature of the Japanese Verb So-Called."	1902, 1905, 1911, 1912	67 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Japanese. "Notes on Japanese Grammar. By Benjamin Smith Lyman."	n.d.	10 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Japanese. "On the Japanese Nigori of Composition, by Mr. B. S. Lyman, of Northampton, Mass."	1883	34 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript, typescript drafts and galley proof of greatly shortened text.
Japanese. Pfizmaier, August. "Researches on the Structure of the Aino Language."	1880 June 25	122 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Transcription by Lyman. Original published Vienna, Royal Imperial Court and State Press.
Japanese. "Satoo, Hideaki."	1874 May 31, 1893 December 24	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope.
Japanese. "Sawa. (Reply to U.)"	1878 February 17	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Japanese. "Takuma's List of 2200 Characters. 1880."	1880	19 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Japanese. Vocabulary.	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Japanese. Word lists.	1891	12 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Japanese. Writing exercises in English (by a Japanese?).	1876	76 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Some pages marked with Japanese writing. Indicated by Lyman has having received 1876 March 27.
Mixed. "Metrology, Chinese & Japanese".	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope.
Mixed. Systems of transliteration.	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Printed leaflet, containing: "For the Devanagari Alphabet, and For All Alphabets Related To It"; and "For Persian (Including Arabic Words in Persian) and Hindustani."

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"A Japanese Sermon"	1875 June 19	4 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Credited to "Japan Weekly Mail".
"Acute Perception, an Oriental Tale."	n.d.	9 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"The Ainos."	1901 November 20; n.d.	58 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript and typescript. Also a separate "List of Aino Things."
[The Ainos.]	n.d.	31 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript in fair hand.
"The Character of the Japanese. A Study of Human Nature."	1882	118 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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"The Dragon Pool Inkstone."	1882 August 19	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Drawings of a tree and plants.	n.d.	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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"Education of Japanese"	n.d.	29 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope. Manuscript, with title, "The Educational Dependents", changed to "Educatiion in Japan."
"Hindoo Ideas about Marriage." Draft typescript.	n.d.	24 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Draft typescript, edited; variously paged.
Hindoo Ideas about Marriage. Outline.		16 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Hindoo Ideas About Marriage." Typescript 1, pages 1-200.	n.d.	200 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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"Hindoo Ideas About Marriage." Typescript 1, pages 201-399.	n.d.	199 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Hindoo Ideas About Marriage." Typescript 1, pages 400-578; and additional pages.	n.d.	200 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Hindoo Ideas About Marriage." Typescript 2, pages 1-200.	n.d.	200 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Hindoo Ideas About Marriage." Typescript 2, pages 201-400.	n.d.	200 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Hindoo Ideas About Marriage." Typescript 2, pages 401-559; plus additional pages.	n.d.-	170 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Hindoo Ideas About Marriage. Typescript 2. "Forms and Ceremonies of Hindoo Marriage."	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Hindoo Ideas About Marriage. Typescript 2. "Abstract of the Paper on Some Hindoo Marriage Ceremonies."	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript. Accompanied typescript 2.
Hindoo Ideas About Marriage. Typescript 2. "Table of Contents" and outline.	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Hindoo Ideas About Marriage. Typescript 2. Table of Contents (for typescript 2?).	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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"Hindoo Ideas About Marriage. [Typescript 2.] Table of Contents."	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Hindoo Ideas About Marriage. Typescript 3. "Forms and Ceremonies of Hindu Marriages." Pages 201-400.	n.d.	200 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Hindoo Ideas About Marriage. Typescript 3. "Forms and Ceremonies of Hindu Marriages." Pages 1-200.	n.d.	200 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Hindoo Ideas About Marriage. Typescript 3. "Forms and Ceremonies of Hindu Marriages." Pages 401-597.	n.d.	197 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Hindoo Ideas About Marriage". [Typescript 3.]	n.d.	9 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Hindoo Ideas About Marriage. Typescript 3. "Forms & Ceremonies of Hindu Marriage." Ms. from Prema Chandra Chandhuri. Contents and fragments.	n.d.	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript accompanying typescript 3, in a fair hand. Notation on verso of one sheet: "For Benjamin Smith Lyman Esquire Geologist. Northampton. Massachusetts. United States. North America. Copies of Papers on Hindu Marriage. 115 Pages. Forwarded by Post by Prema Chandra Chandhuri Ex-Pandit of the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta. Park Street."
Hindoo Ideas About Marriage. Typescript 3. "Forms & Ceremonies of Hindu Marriage." Ms. from Prema Chandra Chandhuri. Fragments.	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Hindoo Ideas About Marriage. Typescript 3. "Forms & Ceremonies of Hindu Marriage." Ms. from Prema Chandra Chandhuri. Pages [?]-56.	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Hindoo Ideas About Marriage. Typescript 3. "Forms & Ceremonies of Hindu Marriage." Ms. from Prema Chandra Chandhuri. Pages 57-102.	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Hindoo Ideas About Marriage. Typescript 3. "Forms & Ceremonies of Hindu Marriage." Ms. from Prema Chandra Chandhuri. Pages 103-150.	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Japanese Cats."	1878 February 11	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Japanese Chapter."	1882 April 26; n.d.	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes and outline for an item in the "American Encyclopedia."
Japanese geometry.	1875 January 13	9 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Japanese Landscape Gardening, a Fine Art in Aid of Natural History."	1885 May 22, 27; 1898 July 4, 19, Septer 13; 1904 March 31, May 16; 1912			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Mixed manuscripts and typescripts with revisions. One newspaper clipping from the "Doylestown (Pennsylvania) Intelligencer), 20 December 1912: "'Japanese Landscape Gardening'---Lyman. Noted Scientist Lectures Before Nature Club." >>>> See also Series XI, Subser. 2 for oversized illustration removed from original folder.
"Japanese Notes & Queries (begun for the Japan Mail)."	1878 May 12; n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title taken from original envelope.
"Japanese Painting."	1894 July 2, 4	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title taken from original envelope. Manscript with title, "Japanese Painting. (in answer to Mr. E. S. Balch, at the Geogr. Club Meeting, 7/2/94.)" Manuscript and small reading card for oration.
"Japanese Pearls."	1884 November 21, 25	12 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript in English. Also manuscript in Japanese, with notation by Lyman, "Q's Extract from Commentary on the [illegible] about Jingoo Kugro's pearls."
"The Japanese Prodigal Son. Illustrating also Japanese family solidarity, adoption and other customs.) Extracts from a Buddhist Sermon."	n.d.	13 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Accompanied by a page of printed musical hymns.
"Japanese Swords. (Rough Draft.)	1890 April; n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Includes notes and original pen-and-ink illustrations.
"Japanese Swords III."	n.d.	14 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Typescript. Folder title taken from original envelope.
[Japanese Swords.] "A Lecture on Metallurgical and Other Features of Japanese Swords."	1894 November			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript and typescripts.
"Japanese Translation from (Siri Shimbun)." [Moral story.]	1883 January 14	29 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Transcription. Original noted to have been received 9 February 1882. Folder title taken from original envelope.
"Japanese Wit and Humor."	n.d.	9 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript and typescript.
Regarding money transactions.	1877 August 30	9 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: A partial communique from B. S. Lyman to an undetermined recipient, written from Kubota, 30 August 1877. Pages 9 to 25 [conclusion] only.

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"A Chinese Girl's Tea-Picking Song."	1883 May 24			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"A Chinese Meal. By Mr. Paul d'Enjoy."	1904 May 5	34 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Translation from the Bulletins de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, 1903, No. 4, p. 474."
"Armenia."	1903 May 3, August 1, September 5			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope. Includes drawing of "Armenian churn (of earthenware)" by "Mr. Karekin 1 Aug. 1903", and sketch of "Armenian cooking range", drawing also by Karekin. File also contains small slips with Armenian words written by Karekin.
"B.S.L.'s Dinner."	Ca. 1882	1 Leaves		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: List of foods for B. S. Lyman's meals. Access digital object: https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/text:310104/
"Cooking."	1876 November 21; 1890 March 3; 1904 July 4	13 Leaves		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope, conainting three documents: 1. "Cooking of Vegetables", 21 November 1876, "from 'La Bonne Cuisine'". >>> 2. "A Vegetable Curry, as Made by Vimmall Sing for B. S. L., 3 March, 1890." >>> 3. "Rice", 4 July 1904. Access digital object: https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/text:310106/
"How To Make Japanese Tea."	1897 April 11	2 Leaves		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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"Japanese Market Price List."	n.d.	1 Leaves		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Printed leaflet in Japanese and English. Folder title from original envelope. Access digital object: https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/text:310130/
Recipes, vegetarian.	1882, 1884	50 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Salmagundi."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope. Verso of leaf contains unrelated, miscellaneous notes re Northampton insurance table; squirrel; Henry M. Willis of Monroe Co. "thinks of boring a salt well would he succeed?"
"Tea (Sagara 28/4/78)."	1878 April 28	6 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Tea Again."	1878 May 10	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Vegetarian Diet and Dishes." Manuscript. Pages 1-100.	1909	106 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Vegetarian Diet and Dishes." Manuscript. Pages 101-200.	1909	100 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Vegetarian Diet and Dishes." Manuscript. Pages 201-300.	1909	100 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Vegetarian Diet and Dishes." Manuscript. Pages 301-400.	1909	100 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Vegetarian Diet and Dishes." Manuscript. Pages 401-558.	1909	158 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Vegetarian Diet and Dishes." Typescript. Folder 1.	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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"A Fair Barbarian."	1887 February 20	9 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"The Advantage of Classical Studies".	1883 October 9, 26	49 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"The American Control of the Philippines. Mainly an Abstract of Prof. Bernard Moses's Paper."	n.d.	40 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Capital Punishment."	1885 May 2, 4	23 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"The Climate of Japan."	1873 December 30	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Climate of Yedo.	n.d.	7 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Comments on Messrs. J. P. Morgan and Co. re the banking system.	n.d.	14 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Conflict Between Science and Religion."	1884 March 7, 8	9 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Conjugal rights.	n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Engelbert Kaempfer."	1883 October 29, November 1; n.d.	16 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Exclusiveness in a Scientific Association."	1867	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope. Date given by Lyman as "1867 +/-2" (i.e., ca. February 1867).
"The Golden Rule in Ancient China."	1915 October 28; n.d.	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Happy are they who dwell in this fair fertile valley . . . Matsmoto, 19 July, 1876."	1876 July 19	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Brief remark concerning the benefit of schools.
"The Immortality of the Body."	1883 September 5; 1884 November 12, 24; 1887 June 6; 1890 October 23, 28	46 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"The Iron Pillar in Delhi, India."	1872 April 2	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Clipping of the text of an address by B. S. Lyman published in "The Engineering and Mining Journal", 2 April 1872, p. 216. "Read before the American Institute of Mining Engineers, February 21, 1872." Minor pencil emendations by Lyman.
"Jubilee Quadrille, or The Rebels." [Dance.]	n.d.	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Lucubrations, 1882 & 1883. (To be subdivided)."	1882-1883	85 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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"Natural History Morality."	1911 November 27; n.d.	13 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Natural Morality."	n.d.	88 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"On Coats; a fragment written by B.S.L., in the winter of 1855 & 6."	1855-1856	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
On weather proverbs.	1892 November 15	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"The Power of Concentration."	1882 May 3-4	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Composition for a schoolboy friend of Miss Cogens'."
"Rattlebang."	1896 September 13	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Report on an Unfinished Set of Trials of a Smoke Burning Furnace at Rising Sun, Philadelphia, under the Management of Mr. John T. Rich . . . ." [and] "On Smoke Burning."	1868 November 2, 19	28 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: By Benjamin Smith Lyman. Cover leaf has written on it: "Rich. H. C. Carey. B. S. Lyman. J. P. Lesley." Second document, "On Smoke Burning", was originally affixed to the leaves of this document.
"Revenge, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Slightly Altered."	1915	104 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: A single typescript.
Review of Andrew P. Peabody's "Conversation; its Faults and its Graces".	n.d.	4 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Rock Oil Light."	n.d. [ca. 1867-1868]	10 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Item not dated, but internal evidence indicates ca. 1867-1868: a paper published in June 1862 is noted by Lyman to have been written "nearly 6 years ago".
"The Sherman Law for Miners and Grangers."	1894 February 20; n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Temperance Legislation."	1886 December 5; n.d.	41 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Tips." [Regarding gratuities.]	n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"To the Editor of the Evening Post, New York."	1881 August 9	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Typescript, signed "B." Annotated, "Not Sent."
"To the Editor of the Springfield Republican."	1885 August 21	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft. Annotated, "Not used."
"Vindication of the Camden High School. (for Mr. J. Jubiland.)"	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File

VIII. Geological Survey of Japan				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series

1. Documents in English				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: See also Oversize Collection 1. See also Extra-Oversize Folder 7.
"A Report on the Progress of the Geological Survey of the Oil Lands of Japan during the year 1876."	1876-1877	159 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft.
Accounts (expenses, etc.).	1876-1879	47 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
American & Continental Literary Agency, London.	1872 January 27	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Itemized "Invoice of Merchandize Shipped by Trübner & Co. per the Steamer Caudia via Southampton Feb 13th on account and risk of Mr B. s. Lymahn, Yokohama, Japan." Shipping list and invoice for Lyman's order of December 7 [1871]. Presumably for the Geological Survey of Japan.
Atkinson, R. W. "Report on Petroleum" to Messrs. Sakuma & Co.	1876 September 27	3 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Atkinson, R. W. "Report on Specimens of Petroleum from Totomo."	1876 September 21	6 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Benj. Smith Lyman's Journey July to Dec. 1877."	1877 December 9	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Summary and statistics regarding Lyman's number of days and distances travelled. Signed in Yedo.
Carlyle, Robert G. "Ooguzu [Ookudzu] Mines."	1876 December 15	1 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Not signed; authorship annotated by Lyman. Lyman also corrected the name of the mines.
Coignet. "Report on the Ikuno MInes." "To Mr. Enoye."	1870 July 14	22 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Signed, "engineer of the Mine[s?] in the Service of the Hikado." Received by Lyman 27 March 1878. Lyman has annotated the author as "Coignet, (a Frenchman)."
Colors in geological mapping.	1875?, February 18	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Written description.
"Days of Halt by Benj. Smith Lyman July to Dec. 1877."	1877 December?	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Lyman's itinerary just for days stopped at the towns or places indicated, August 2-November 21, 1877.
Draft memorandum of contract (partial), re B. S. Lyman's responsibilities.	n.d.	6 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Echigo-Naganoken region (variants of two printed maps).	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Equipment inventories.	1879	17 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Equipment inventory.	1877 June 30	16 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Equipment lists. [In English and Japanese.]	1876-1878; n.d.	53 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Errata in former Reports."	1876?	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Estimated table of general expences in geological surveying for 5 months February to June Maigi 9." [For 1876 February-June.]	1876 March	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Annotated by Lyman as received 2 March 1876, answered 7 March 1876.
Frecheville, R. J. "Report on the Besshi Mine."	n.d.	25 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Lyman has annotated, "No date; but see 'Reports on the Mines of Shikoku' &c. p. 58." >>> For map, see Oversize Collection 1, Oversize Folder 24.
"Estimated table of general expences in geological surveying for 1 year from July Maigi 9 to June Maigi 10." [For 1876 July-1877June.]	[1876]	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Estimated table of general expences for 1st year of rock-oil mining (from July Maigi 10 to June Maigi 11). Estimated table of general expences for 2nd year of rock-oil mining (for 1 year July Maigi 11 to June Maigi 12). Estimated table of general expences for 3rd year of rock-oil mining (for half a year July to December Maigi 12)." [For 1877 July-1879 December.]	1876 March	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Annotated by Lyman as received 8 March 1876, answered 13 March 1876.
"Form of the list."	[1877]	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Headed, "Translation of the form of the list." Regarding departmental employees, salaries and other allowances for the period 1876 July 1-1877 June 30. Presumably these are translations of column head or row markers in a submitted financial document (not present here).
Frecheville, R. J. "Report on the Mines of The Island of Shikoku and the Provinces of Kushin, Yamato, & Hida."	1876 January 26	78 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Frecheville, R. J. "Report on the Takaiyama [Takayama] Mines."	1875 October 23	42 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: For map, see Oversize Collection 1, Oversize Folder 25
"Foot Note to page 15 of Makumbets Report."	1876 February 12	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"General Estimate of Expense of Geological Survey for 5 months Feb. to June 1876." "Implements wanted in next year." "Table of the implements for new students."	1876	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Three documents found together in original envelope.
"General Estimate of Expense of Geological Survey for the year July 1876 to June 1877."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Account sheet for survey employees, listing salaries and allowances.
Godfrey, J. G. H. "Ani Mines."	1876 December 18	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Not signed; authorship annotated by Lyman.
Godfrey, J. G. H. "Heigori Iron Mines."	1876 December 25	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Not signed; authorship annotated by Lyman.
Godfrey, J. G. H. "Innai Mines."	1876 December 18	1 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Not signed; authorship annotated by Lyman.
Godfrey, J. G. H. "Report on the Mieke Coal Mines."	1876 April 4	23 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Received by Lyman 27 March 1878.
"Gypsum."	n.d.	5 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Hokkaido, Yesso rocks & minerals 1881."	1881 May 23	49 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope.
"Idzumozaki map" [calculations].	1877 February	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Itineraries of Benjamin Smith Lyman and assistants.	1876 July-1878 June	39 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Includes one document in Japanese.
J. [author] "Toranoki Oil Region 3 ri from Nagano." [Report of assistant.]	[1876]	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Japan Minerals (except Yesso)."	n.d.	59 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Seemingly a guide to drawer layout for a collection of rocks and minerals. [See also: folder "Mineralogy, etc."]
"Japanese Accounts and Accounts in Japan." [In English and Japanese.]	1873, 1877, 1879, 1880; n.d.	10 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Includes one list, "Drink & Cigars, Fourth of July, 1879", which is also annotated as, "Gen. Grant Reception". [See also Extra-Oversize Folder 15 regarding the visit to Japan by Ulysses S. Grant.]
"Japanese Clerks' Work."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Work assignments for private clerks.
"Japanese Geological Report Slips."	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Erratum slip regarding the "Makumbets and Sankebibai Reports", received from K. S. Otori. Folder title from original envelope.
"Japanese Geological Survey Assistants, 1880, Dates of Birth, &c." [In English and Japanese.]	1873, 1880?; n.d.	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Includes class standings for individuals. Folder title from original envelope.
"Japanese Geological Surveys, Map list &c."	1880 December 15	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: List of "Unfolded Maps on Hand" with three letterpress copies of a map of a Japanese island ["Vesso"?] "traced from a rough Japanese sketch map of about 1861." Folder title from original envelope.
K. and J. [authors] "Oil Refining at Oarato crude of some villages, Kukikigoon Echigo."	n.d.	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Kuwada (Mister). Diaries. [In Japanese and English.]	1873 August 13-1874 November 4	25 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder includes "Diary by Mr. Kuwada, 1874" [Lyman's annotation], in Japanese (6 leaves). Also "day writing" on various leaves for 1873 August 13-1874 November 4, with three envelopes in which the diaries were delivered, with receipt and acknowledgment dates by Lyman.
Kuwada Tomoaki, Maeda shigeaki, and Nishiyama Shiogo. Reports of daily work.	1876 July 20	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Kuwada Tomoaki, Nishiyama shiogo, and Maeda shigeaki. Report of daily work.3	1876 July 11	3 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Leagues & ri." [Calculations.]	1879 February 24	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"List of B.S.L.'s letters to Genl. Otivi."	1877 July 5	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Japanese-character notation on this torn leaf could indicate that the paper was re-used for this list.
"List of copied writings from Koozankojokai[?]."	1878 May 27	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
List of distances.	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"List of the mines." [and] "List of the oil places."	1877	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Annotated by Lyman as received 4 July 1877.
"List of the names of assistant geologists and assistant copyist."	1876 May 27	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"List of the paper (with the cost) for the gathering of writing of Koozaki Kijoku."	1878 July	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Received by Lyman 23 July 1878.
"List of the things desirable for the Yesso Geological Survey."	1873 April 9; n.d.	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Memorandum of contract (copy) between Kuroda Kiyotaka and Benjamin Smith Lyman.	1873 April 17	6 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Mineral Springs." List with physical characteristics.	n.d.	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Mineralogy, etc.	1882; n.d.	176 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Eleven leaves of mineralogical information. The bulk of this folder comprises what seems to be the drawer layouts for a collection of rocks and minerals (165 leaves). [See also: folder "Japan Minerals (except Yesso)."]
Miscellaneous.	n.d.	17 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Naitoo, B. "Index for the Minerals of the Chi Shi Tei Yoo." [In English and Japanese.]	1880 December 4	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Naitoo, B. "Index to Minerals, Metals & Alloys of the Sanzaidzue." [In English and Japanese.]	1880 December 8	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Naitoo, B. "Index to the Catalogue of Minerals of the Hakubutsukan." [In English and Japanese.]	1880 November	23 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Naitoo, B. "Index to Wada's Catalogue of Mombushoo MInerals." [In English and Japanese.]	1880 November 30	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Naitoo, B. "Translation of San Saidzue." [Mineralogy.]	1880 December	13 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"The names of the oil regions of the provinces Suruga and Yotomi." [In English and Japanese.]	n.d.	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Not by B. S. Lyman.
Netto, C. "Kosaka Mines."	1876 December 18	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Not signed; author attribution by Lyman.
Oil (miscellaneous documents).	1877; n.d.	15 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oil (miscellaneous documents). "Prepared by B.S.L. from G's Notes.	1877 May 18; 1878 May	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oil prospecting, legal conditions.	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Oil Report of June 1877 and Hot Spring Report of 24 March 1877."	1877	106 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript reports contain title-page header, "Geological Survey of the Oil Lands of Japan." >>> 1. "A Report on the Progress of the first Year of the Geological Survey of the Oil Lands of Japan." (82 pp.) >>> 2. "A Report on the Hot or Mineral Springs Visited in 1876, Chiefly in shirano and Echigo." (13 pp.)
"Oil Statistics by the Assistants. Jan. 1877 to Sept. 1879."	1877 January-1879 September	31 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Outline for report.	1878 July 1	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Outline for report.	1878 July 4	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Outline for report.	1878 July 4	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Personnel. Borrowed and missing materials.	1878 May	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Personnel. Equipment distribution.	1878 February 21	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Personnel notes.	1877 January 17	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Personnel notes.	1876 March 3	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Regarding the hiring of T. Yamauchi as chief assistant geologist, and M. Mageda as account-keeping assistant. Signed, Kangiorio.
Personnel notes?	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Personnel records?	Ca. 1873 January; n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Preliminary Report on the First Season's work of the Geological Survey of Yesso."	1873 December 25	72 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Progress of the Geological Survey of Japan, 1878." Draft manuscript. (pp. 1-100)	1879	100 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Progress of the Geological Survey of Japan, 1878." Draft manuscript. (pp. 101-200)	1879	100 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Progress of the Geological Survey of Japan, 1878." Draft manuscript. (pp. 201-300)	1879	100 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Progress of the Geological Survey of Japan, 1878." Draft manuscript. (pp.301-400)	1879	100 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Progress of the Geological Survey of Japan, 1878." Draft manuscript. (pp. 401-491 [494])	1879	94 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Progress of the Geological Survey of Japan, 1878." Fair copy. (pp. i-xv +, and 1-100)	1879	120 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Progress of the Geological Survey of Japan, 1878." Fair copy. (pp. 101-200)	1879	100 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Progress of the Geological Survey of Japan, 1878." Fair copy. (pp. 201-300)	1879	100 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Progress of the Geological Survey of Japan, 1878." Fair copy. (pp. 301-356)	1879	56 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Progress of the Geological Survey of Japan, 1878." Fair copy. (pp. 357-375)	1879 July 30	19 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: This set of leaves remains tied together with string, in reverse order (375-357), with the string affixed to the top leaf (p. 375) with a red wax seal bearing the initial "L".
Pump sketch.	1878 April 24	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Reh, Adolf. "Sado Mines."	1876 December 14	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Not signed; author attribution by Lyman.
Remark on specimen of rock crossed by the Sado gold bearing vein.	1877 February 24	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Report of Progress of the Geological Survey of Japan for the First Half of 1879." Manuscript draft and fair copy.	1879 September 9	146 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Report on Information Obtained through Messrs. Kuwada and Mishiyama, Assistant Geologists." Manuscript draft and fair copy.	1879 September 9	56 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Report on Oil Well Statistics and rough notes."	1879 September	74 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Report on Oil Well Statistics gathered through the Assistants of the Geological Survey of Japan." [with an appendix]. Fair copy.	1879 September 25	48 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Report on the Ashio Copper Mines." Manuscript draft and fair copy.	1878 July 12	128 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notation on title-page of fair copy: "Replaced by Report and Sketch Map of 14 J[u]ne, 1879."
"Report on the progress of the second year of the Survey of the Oil Lands of Japan, ending with the month of January, 1878." Manuscript draft.	1878 April 27	191 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Report on the Second Year's Progress of the Survey of the Oil Lands of Japan." Fair copy.	1878	139 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Includes corrected and emended galley proof for the published letter of transmittal.
"Reward from the Kuwangiyoriyo[?] to the Assistant Geologists of 1876."	1877	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Rough report of my work." Benjamin Smith Lyman to Horace Capron. Pages 1-146.	1874 September 2	146 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Rough report of my work." Benjamin Smith Lyman to Horace Capron. Pages 147-284, A1-A10.	1874 September 2	147 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Scribble Notes while writing the Report of Progress for 1878. Mar. to July. 1879."	1879 March-July	26 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Scribble Notes while writing the Report of Progress for 1879, of Information gathered by Q & U, & of oil statistics for 1879."	1879 August-September	18 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Shimidz[?], T. "[E]xperimental results on one oil of Echigo."	1876 December 25	3 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Some Notes on Places of Interest in the Chiugoku. Prepared by Benj. Smith Lyman, Chief Geologist & Mining Engineer, for the use of Messrs. Yamao and Otori, on their journey of 1879." Manuscript draft and fair copy.	1879 March 30	209 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
[Some Notes on Places of Interest in the Chiugoku.] "Continuation of Some Notes on Places of Interest in the Chiugoku. Prepared by Benj. Smith Lyman, Chief Geologist & Mining Engineer, for the use of Messrs. Yamao and Otori, on their journey of 1879." Fair copy.	1879 April 14	122 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Springs."	1877 March	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Stratigraphic notes.	n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Survey stakes. List of locations.	n.d.	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Tables of contents.	n.d.	7 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: These tables are the indexes of two publications: 1) "Report on the first year's progress of the Oil Lands of Japan", covering 1874-1875 explorations, presented to authorities in 1876, and published in 1877. 2) "Report on the second year's progrss of the Oil Lands of Japan", covering 1876-1877, published in 1878.
"Table of the men & ground in the Fifteen division of Tokei."	1880 January 13	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Copied for B.S.L. by Mr. J. Adachi from the Hochi Shimburi[?], 10 July, 1880."
"Things borrowed from the Kaitakushi."	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Tootoomi Oil Field." Tracing of topographical sketch map. Scale 1:60,000.	1878 May 7	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Town of Nikko (Japan)." Rough sketch map.	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Unknown author. "Day write."	1873 September 5-16	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Brief diary of survey field work.
Unknown author. Diary in English.	1874 August 1-23	7 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Unknown author. Diary in English.	July 1-7	3 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Unknown author. "Hatama oil place. Shimo miyanoo, Minochi Kori."	[1876]	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Unknown author. "Journal of travelling and surveying in the oil places in Miuchikori, Shinano, Naganoken, July, 1876."	1876 July	14 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Unknown author. "The Mijanoo Oil Rigion [sic]."	[1876]	5 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Unknown author. "Nembutszi Oil Place. 4 ri 22 cho from Nagano."	[1876]	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Unknown author. Reports on oil wells.	1878 October 21-31	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: These may be translated reports. Annotated by Lyman as (received?) "12/20/78". Three reports: "Report on No 1 oil well being now dug at Aitamura." "Report on No 2 oil well being now dug at Katoumimura." "Report on No 3 oil well being opened at Kurodzu." Report No. 1 is noted, "(Sgd) A Kuyama."
Unknown author. "Sawairi Oil Place: 5 ri 25 cho from Nagano."	[1876]	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Unknown author. "Uzigami gas place. 15 cho +/- S.W. from Nembutozi."	[1876]	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Unknown author. "[V]ery rough map of oil lands which we visit."	[1876]	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Unknown author. "Yoshikubo oil place, Minochi Kori."	[1876]	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Y. [author] "Table of the expenses spend [sic] for the copying of the writing and the number of the volumes."	1878 May 27	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Not signed; author acknowledgment and date provided by Lyman.

2. Geological Survey of Hokkaido. [All documents in English.]				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: This subseries comprises a separately gathered group of document from Lyman, specifically identified as "Geological Survey of Hokkaido" as opposed to only "Geological Survey of Japan." >>>> See also Oversize Collection 1. For published maps that were found in the Lyman papers, see Extra-Oversize Folder 8.
"A General Report on the Geology of Yesso."	n.d.	264 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript may be dated to 1875-1876. It constitutes the major portion of the "Report of Progress of the Yesso Geological Survey for the year 1875", published in 1876.
Equipment lists.	1873-1875	22 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Hokkaidoo [sic] MInerals. Copied 13/4/82." Typescript.	n.d.	148 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Munroe, Henry S. "The Gold Fields of Yesso." Fair copy.	1875	177 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Munroe, Henry S. "Preliminary Report on the Gold Fields of Southern Yesso."	1874	31 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: File includes original delivery envelope; cover letter from Munroe to Lyman, 14 June 1874; and hand-printed and colored table of signal flags.
"Report of a Rough Survey (in 1873) of the Idzumisawa Oil Lands, in Yesso." Manuscript draft.	1875 April	20 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Report of a Rough Survey (in 1873) of the Samukushinai Oil Lands in Yesso." Manuscript draft.	n.d.	27 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Report of a Rough Survey (in 1873) of the Washinoki Oil Lands, in Yesso." Manuscript draft.	1875 April 26	31 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Report of Daily Progress of the Yesso Geological Surveys of 1875, with comments on other matters." Manuscript draft.	1876	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Title-page and addition for verso of title-page only.
"Report on the Bibai Coal Survey of 1874." Manuscript draft.	n.d.	95 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Report on the Makumbebs Coal Field, Shidzumai District, Hidaka Province, Yesso." Manuscript draft.	1875 July 15	24 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Report on the present condition of the Maps and Reports of the Geological Survey." Manuscript draft; to Genl. Horace Capron.	1875 May 4	15 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Report on the Sankebibai and Naie Coal Survey of 1875." Manuscript draft; to K. Kuroda.	1876 April 12	22 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Unknown author. "Topographical Survey."	1874 August	24 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Received by B. S. Lyman 25 August 1874; acknowledged by him 28 August.
Yesso preliminary report, memorandum.	1873 September 23	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Yesso road building project, memorandum.	1873 September 24	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Yesso survey, memorandum.	1873 September 24	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File

3. Documents in Japanese (Identified)				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: These are Japanese-language documents that are identified at least to subject area. All documents are by authors other than Lyman. Those whose names are identified here are listed within the alphabetical order of folders, including those identified by Lyman using his system of noting assistants' names only by an initial inside a circle. >>> See also Oversize Collection 2. See also Extra-Oversize Folders 9-13.
A. [author] "A's reports on the 3 oil wells." Ministry of Works (official).	1878	15 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope. Received by Lyman 7 December 1878. Original envelope, in Japanese and English, with Lyman's annotation, is present here. Wax seal remnant on envelope.
Akita Prefecture coal deposits. Survey report.	1880 September 5	17 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Author(s) noted in annotation by Lyman, but which is not completely legible.
Copper mine map, description of.	1880	56 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Annotation by Lyman: "Copied by Mr. B. Naitoo. Yedo, 15 July, 1880."
D. [author] Calculation.	1878 May 29	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Department of the Interior [Japan].	1876 February 29	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: One leaf in English: "29th 2nd month, 9th year Meigi. Benj. Smith Lyman is hereby ordered to proceed to Yokohama for the official transaction. Department of the Interior."
Engineering (construction) office receipts.		10 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Enoshima, Japan." Graphic map of an island (engraving).	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Identified on Lyman's original envelope , "Enoshima, Japan."
G. [author] Accounts for travel.	1878 June 5	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Also summarized in English by Lyman.
Geological document. Ministry of Home Affairs.	1876 March	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Received by Lyman 13 March 1876; indicated no answer. Folder contains document and original Japanese envelope.
Geological document. Official.	1876 March	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Received by Lyman 6 March 1876. Folder contains document and original Japanese envelope.
Geological document. Official.	1876 March 3	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Geological document. Official.	1876 March 3	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Geological document. Official.	1876 March 13	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Geological document, re Guwa. Official.		8 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Geological document, re Nichikawa. Official.		15 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Geological document envelopes	1878; n.d.	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Geological memoranda		3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Hokuetsu Oil Region measurement logbook, July-November 1878.	1878 July-November	10 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Ishigamori Gold Mines."	1878 July 12	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title is as annotated by Lyman on document, who also noted, "See L10506 [an undetermined filing scheme by Lyman] from the Kochoo at Wakamatsu Aidzu, 12 July 1878. (with a map.)" For map, see Extra-Oversize folder 9.
Kada, T. "Oil wells at Kariha, Bitsyama and Sakata."	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from Lyman's original envelope.
Kojiro, Akiba. Receipt.	1881 January 14	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Kusatsu." Manuscript map.	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"List of oil places in [Kaitoku?]."	1876	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title as annotated by Lyman on document (locality name not completely legible). He also noted receipt in "Nov. or Dec. 1876."
"Locality of serpentine, Echigo, Uonumagori, foot of Hakkaisan, 2 or 3 ri from Nagasaki Village."	1877	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title as annotated by Lyman on document. He noted receipt on 28 December 1877.
Maeda, Seirou. Hokuetsu Oil Region measurement logbook, July-November 1878.	1878 July-November	14 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Miigata Prefecture place names.	n.d.	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Written on an envelope.
"Mineral localities in Higo. 1878."	1878	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title as annotated by Lyman on document.
"Minerals of Shimane Ken."		12 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title as annotated by Lyman on document.
Ministry of Works, construction document.		13 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Ministry of Works, memorandum(?) to B. S. Lyman.		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Miscellaneous Memoranda (Chiefly) Oil Survey 1876 & 1877." Folder 1.	1876-1877	58 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from Lyman's original envelope (original envelope is retained in this folder). Envelope also notes dates 20 May 1877 and 25 December 1877.
"Miscellaneous Memoranda (Chiefly) Oil Survey 1876 & 1877." Folder 2.	1876-1877	93 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Notebooks in Japanese (3).		3 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oil wells report, with fine illustrations.		37 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Omoto's Notes."	n.d.	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from Lyman's original envelope.
Otori. "Genl. Otori's Report and Shinano oil place."		53 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from Lyman's original envelope. Original envelope also present in folder. [APS interpreter's title: Shinetsu Coastal Oil Region tour report.]
Personnel documents?	1879; n.d.	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Receipt of washerman."	1889 June 13	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Regulation in reference to the manner of the delivery and receipt of the fuel to be consumed by those branch offices connected with the several departments under the Kobusho."	1877 May 17	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: File contains brief document in Japanese with interlinear notations in English, and a longer "Translation" with the title as here indicated.
Satsuma Province, geological report.		11 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Shijiya's Proposal." [Estimate.]	1876 December 3	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title as annotated by Lyman on document.
Shirano. "Mr. Shirano's Satsuma Report and the Letter of Envoy."	1879	35 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title as annotated by Lyman on document. He noted receipt on 3 February 1879.

4. Documents in Japanese (Undetermined)				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: Subjects of these documents remain undetermined. >>>> See also Oversize Collection 3.
"Japanese MSS. miscellaneous."	1880; n.d.	17 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from Lyman's original envelope.
Undetermined document 1	1878 May 27	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 2		2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 3		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 4		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 5		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 6		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 7		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 8. Printed document.		3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 9		44 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 10		101 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 11		49 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 12		10 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 13		11 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 14		4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 15		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 16		29 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 17		6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 18		3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 19		3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 20		2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 21		2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Undetermined document 22		2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File

5. Japanese envelopes	1870s	100 item(s)		Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: Japanese mailing envelopes to B. S. Lyman, saved while in Japan. Many contain notations of dates of receipt and answers by Lyman, which might correlate with some of the correspondence in Series I and various items throughout Series VIII.

10. Miscellaneous Notes and Lists				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: See also Oversize Collection 1 and Oversize Collection 2.
Address and distribution lists for publications, gifts, supplies, lecture tickets, etc.	1875-1903; n.d.	107 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Regarding professional publications by B. S. Lyman and organizational publications for which Lyman oversaw publication and/or distribution.
"Archaeology."	1900 May 10	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Astronomical Notes."	n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Bibliographical citations, printed, in Spanish.	n.d.	3 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Verso of one card contains a pen-and-ink, lewd caricature of a woman.
"Book Lists."	1873-1879; n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope. Handwritten lists, printed tracts and prospectuses. International in scope; most in English, some in Japanese and German.
"C.E. Dana's Cuts Selected."	n.d.	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope. Regarding printing illustrations.
"Chaucer (sometimes)."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Chemical notation.	1863 March 7, May 1			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Leaves of chemical notations, and a manuscript, "A Modification of the Present Chemical Notation."
Coal.	1892-1905; n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Coal basins?	1894 May 29	10 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Comparison of Surfaces and Evaporation between the Boiler used by Prof Lyman and Johnson. Pittsburg Coal."	1869?	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Composition by a Child shut up for 2 hours (Judge Hoar's anecdote)."		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope.
"Compound Interest."	1876 May 28	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Copyright, re Franklin Institute.	1868 December 17, 18, 23	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Three newspaper clippings, pasted together, from the "Philadelphia Morning Post" for 17, 18, 22 December 1868. Each is a letter to the editor from "L." (i.e. B. S. Lyman), regardilng the issue of international copyright and the Franklin Institute (of Philadelphia).
Cosmogony.	Ca. 1855; n.d.	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Figure Titles 86-91."	n.d.	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope. Probably pertaining to Lyman's history of mining and surveying instruments.
"The First Japanese Geologists" [and lists of other international geologists and societies]	n.d.	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Geological notes (locality undetermined).		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Geology."	1854 October 16; 1869 September 16-18; n.d.	33 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Gospel Morality."	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Concordance created by Lyman by cut-and-paste from the Bible, arranged accounting to moral topics. File includes an envelope of loose clippings from the Bible labelled, "History Dogma Matthew".
"Gymnastics." [Physical exercises.]	n.d.	8 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope.
"Hay on Design."		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope.
Inkstones.	1895 April 13, October 2	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Inscription on the Concord Monument. Copied 31 May 1855. by B. S. Lyman."	1855 May 31	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Inventory of furniture and household goods. [In Japanese.]	1878 May 24	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Tabular information identified by individual's initials; presumably staff of the Geological Survey of Japan.
Inventory of furniture and household goods on deposit. [In Japanese.]	n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Inventory of goods, May 1878. [In Japanese.]	1878 May 28	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Japanese Alloys." [In Japanese transliteration.]	1890 February 16	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Speaking notes for a talk on Japanese swords?
"Japanese Foot Measure. List of addresses."	1891 June 6	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope. Publication distribution list, mostly by individuals' names only.
"List of Books and Periodicals."	1878 February 20	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"List of Some Books, Papers and Notices of Rock Oil and its Kindred Products."	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
List of stereoscopes. [France.]	Ca. 1861	9 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Mesozoic."	1887 August 6; 1889 July 25; 1893 June-July; n.d.	12 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Includes newspaper clipping, "The Hopewell [New Jersey] Quarry. Where the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company Gets Its Ballast." by "J.E.D.", in the "Philadelphia Ledger" for 25 July 1889. Also a clipping, "A Local Scientist. The Great Indian Relic Hunter of Berks County, Pa., Prof. D. B. Brunner." by "M.", in the "Philadelphia Ledger" for 6 August 1887.
"Mineralogy."	1873 November 15; n.d.	27 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope.
"Mining Visit Inquiry Schedules."	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope.
Mining diary note [fragment].	1903 September 15	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Miscellaneous notes, unsorted.	1895-1904; n.d.	28 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Missing Periodicals."	1890 November 5; 1902 October 12, November 2; n.d.	11 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope.
"Natural Morality."	n.d.	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope.
"New England Meteorological Society."	1884 December 19	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Membership list? Folder title from original envelope.
"Numbers of people who left Warsaw to join the insurrectionary bands in the late Polish rebellion. Taken from the Philada. Press 5 Sept. 1865."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Outline. Geology.	1876 January 17	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Outline for geological report.	n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Paleontology."	n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope.
"Parker, Theodore, Life by Weiss, Misprints."	n.d.	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope.
"Pedestrian Outfit, 1861."	1861	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Checklist. Folder title from original envelope.
"Psychology."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Just a bibliographical citation to St. Germain, 1848. Folder title from original envelope.
Railway gates.	1899-1905	13 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Apparently a list of U.S. patents issued for railway crossing safety devices.
Refraction tables.	n.d.	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Rumford Monument in the English Garden at Munich, 1862."	1862	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Transcription. Folder title from original envelope.
"Some Results of W. R. Johnson's Trials of Fuels for Steam with Common Furnace."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Spelling Book."	n.d.	17 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes for a book on spelling and pronunciation? Folder title from original envelope.
"R.W.R."	1900-1902	11 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Accountings for time spent in editing and other publishing tasks for "R.W.R." Folder title taken from original envelope.
"S.S."	n.d.	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Regarding grammar and spelling. Folder title from original envelope.
Surveying, astronomy, instruments, geometry, etc. (Numerous note slips.)	Ca. 1900			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Traveling Necessaries."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Checklist; probably 1860s. Folder title from original envelope.

X. Ephemera				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Other Descriptive Information: See also Oversize Collection 1 and Oversize Collection 2. See also Extra-Oversize Folders 14, 15.
"The American Naturalist. Announcement." Prospectus for the new journal, edited by E. D. Cope and J. S. Kingsley.	n.d.	2 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Basic City, Virginia. Its Mineral, Industrial and AgriculturalResources, Climate, Scenery, Railroad Facilities and Recent Progress. Its Singular Advantages for the Location of Manufacturing Plants." Published by The "Advance" Steam Publishing House, Basic City, Virginia. Illustrated booklet.	n.d.	36 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Basic City founded 9 May 1890.
Business and calling cards.	n.d.	12 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Christmas card.	n.d.	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Apparently has a couple of Japanese characters written on verso.
City Club of Philadelphia.	Ca. 1914; 1915	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Pamphlet, "Submitted Design; New Home of the City Club". Booklet, "Into Our Tenth Year", 1915.
Congrès International des Américanistes, Bulletin d'Adhésion.	1892	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Demarest Water Closet.	n.d.	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Card, "Directions for Setting 'The Demarest' Water Closet", printed by J. L. Mott Iron Works, New York.
Franklin Medal. (U.S. Congress.)	1906 April 20	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Card on which is printed the text of speech by the U.S. Secretary of State in presenting to the French Ambassador the Franklin Medal authorized by the U.S. Congress, at Philadelphia, 20 April 1906, with text of the ambassador's speech. In an ornamental frame of leather, with gilt embossments displaying monograms for the U.S. and France and a laurel wreath, under glass. A commemorative item.
"French Mail Steamships. Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes de France. Under Contract with the French Government. Mail Service to India, China, Japan, Batavia, Reunion, and Mauritius. (Via Suez Canal.)" Issue no. 36, 1 May 1880. Booklet.	1880 May 1	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"The Genmeisha Company, Tokio Porcelain Manufactory. Kojimachi, Kiwoi-cho, San-ban-chi, (Moto Kishiu Yashiki,) Tokio." Circular, Samuro Hara, Proprietor.	n.d.	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Girard College (Philadelphia).	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Printed leaflet from Warren Holden, which accompanied a copy of "'Oneness of Arithmetic,' in which the Metric Sytem is briefly discussed."
Hungarian Fund.	1852 February 2	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Certificate paying one dollar "On demand one year after the establishment in fact of the Independent Hungarian Government." Dated in New York.
International Congress of Americanists, 20th.	1922; 1923 September			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Commemorative medal issued for XX Congresso Internacional de Americanistas. Transmitted by A[les] Hrdlicka, Secretary, XIX I.C.A., to the American Philosophical Society with accompanying memorandum dated September 1923. Originally wrapped in a paper marked, "To the 'American Philosophical Society' from A. C. Simoens da Silva." Accompanied by a "Cartao de Congressista" for the 20th Congress signed to the American Philosophical Society.
"Introduction from Prof. Pease."	n.d.	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from Lyman's original envelope. Calling card of Mr. Ernest M. Pease to President Moore, University of Pennsylvania, introducing B. S. Lyman.
Kern, J. "Preisverzeichniss der currentesten Mathematischen Instrumente verfertigt in Werkstätten von J. Kern Mechanikus in Aarau. Schweiz."	1865	8 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Finely illustrated price list of draftilng instruments. No indication of date on the document. The attributed date, 1865, was noted on the transcribed folder originally in Series I (Correspondence); apparently it was transcribed from an original envelope so noted by Lyman.
"Lyman, Joseph. Old papers."	n.d.	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two small printed maps, of Lombardie and Venedig. Folder title from original envelope.
Milne, John.	1881 July 20; n.d.	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: 1. Offprint, "The Earthquake at 6 A.M. on July 5th, 1881. Reprinted from the 'Japan Gazette' of July 23rd."; letter, signed John Milne, Tokio, July 20th, 1881. 2. Leaflet, "Introduction", regarding an illustrated document of pendulum instruments, signed John Milne, Imperial Colelge of Engineering, Tokio.
"Minnewaska Mountain Houses. Open June 13th. Close Oct. 15th." Promotional booklet for Cliff House and Wildmere House on Lake Minnewaska, Ulster County, New York.	1895	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Peary Relief Expedition." [Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Solicitation.]	1892 February	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Peerless" radiator.	1877; n.d.	2 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two pamphlets. 1. "Important Notice to Manufacturers, Dealers and the Public, Concerning the Patents Embraced in the Construction of the 'Peerless' Shaking Grate, Manufactured Solely by Bissell & Co. Pittsburgh, Pa.", July 1877. 2. "Directions for Setting the 'Peerless' Radiator Shaking Grate."
"Penny Provident Fund of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York."	1889 April	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Stamp Deposit Card issued to Lizzie Laudes 9 April 1889, with cancellation of 8 cents worth of stamps on 17 April 1889. Notation written on card by B. S. Lyman: "Rec 'd 13/5/92, at the Meeting of the A. Aq. Pol. & Sci."
Ripley, Ezra. Silhouette (lithograph).	n.d.	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Sample pages of new Directory containing 3500. Mining Companies with P.O. addresses."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"United States Geological Survey. Circular Concerning Publications."	1880s	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Wistar Party. Invitation issued to Benjamin Smith Lyman by "Dr. [Persifor] Frazer".	April 22	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Wood Carpet Company. Booklet, "How To Make the 'Home Beautiful' by Using the Wood Carpet Co's Elegant Parquet and Inlaid Floors. Wainscots and Ceilings." From Wm. Hannam & Co., New York.	n.d.	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Includes pencilled annotations by B. S. Lyman.

VII. American Geology Writings and Research				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series

1. Eastern America				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: See also Oversize Collection 1. See also Extra-Oversize Folder 2.
Eastern United States (?). Partial plane-table maps (pencilled originals, inked over); localities not identified (likely eastern U.S.).	n.d.	4 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Eastern United States. "Some New Red Horizons." Manuscript.	1893-1895	121 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: File also contains numerous note slips.
Eastern United States. "Some New Red Horizons." Typescript and corrected galleys.	1894			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Georgia. "Georgia Gold Report." [Note-slips only.]	1899 February 22	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Quoted folder title from original envelope.
Iowa. "A Geological Report on Appanoose County, Iowa, with a Map and two Sections."	1858			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Accompanied by: 1. "Rough Draft of Geological Report of Appanoose Co., Iowa." 2. "Notes to Appanoose Co., Iowa." >>> Map and sections are not present in this collection.
Iowa. "Geology of Appanoose, Monroe and Lucas Counties, Iowa. Notes and Reports."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: One folded leaf containing title and pp. 2, 8 of report. The remainder is absent.
Iowa. "Report of the Geology of Lucas Co., Iowa" (draft) and "Notes to Lucas Co., Iowa."	1858?			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Iowa. "Report on the Geology of Monroe Co., Iowa" (draft), and "Notes to Monroe Co., Iowa."	1858?			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Includes two short stratigraphic sections, for "Baker's Mill" and "Wells's Mill."
Massachusetts. "A Report on the New YOrk & Westmoreland Gas Coal Company's Lands . . ."	1883 August 13	9 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript. The accompanying sketch map is not present in this collection.
Massachusetts. "MInerals of Old Hampshire County."	1885 October 21; n.d.	29 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript notes and typescript report.
New Jersey. "Abstract of B. S. Lyman's Comments on Dr. H. B. Kümmel's Report of Progress for 1896 on the New Jersey New Red before the Mineralogical & Geological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 28 June, 1897." Manuscript.	1897 June 30	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
New Jersey. "Age of the Newark Brown Stone."	1893 December 11, 24; 1894 January	19 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes, manuscript, and typescript.
New Jersey. "Further on the Age of the Newark Brownstone."	1894 January 19	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two manuscript drafts.
New Jersey. "Answer to G. K. Gilbert on 'the name "Newark" in American Stratigraphy'."	1893 December 9; n.d.	7 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft and page 2 of typescript only.
New Jersey. "The Great Mesozoic Fault in New Jersey."	1893 September 12, 13, 15, November 18	14 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft and typescript.
Newfoundland. Sketches of fossil shells in slabs from Port au Port, St. George's Bay.	1865 February 4	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Pencil and pen-and-ink on tracing paper.
Nova Scotia. "Some Features of the Acadia Coal Company's Property."	1885 September	86 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft and letterpress draft.
Ohio. "The Fifth Volume of Ohio Geology" [review].	1885 April, May 11-12; n.d.	8 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft, notes, and typescript.
Ohio. "Report on the Hinckley Coal Lands, near Warsaw, Coshocton Co., Ohio . . ."	n.d.	7 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft. The accmpanying geological map is not present in this collection.
Ohio. "Report on the Hinckley Coal Tracts in Brookfield Township, Trumhill County, Ohio; accompanied by a Geological and Topographical Sketch Map . . ."	1883 June, July 28, August 21; n.d.	41 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes and manuscript drafts. Includes draft sketch map noted as a tracing "from M. G. Read's Geological Map of Ashtahala, Lake, Geanga & Trumbull Counties, Ohio."
Ohio. "Report on the Hinckley Mineral Lands of Lots 41 and 42, at Brookfield Centre, Trumbull County, Ohio; accompanied by a Geoloical and Topographical Map . . ."	1884 December 17; 1885 May 12, 19	11 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript. Includes a copy of the printed geological and topographical map, scale 1:4800.
Pennsylvania. "An Occurrence of Coarse Conglomerate Above the Mammoth Anthracite-Bed."	1892 October	15 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript, notes, and typescript. Typescript indicates, "Schuylkill Valley Meeting, Reading, October, 1892."
Pennsylvania. "Anthracite Southern Field Tracts for Sale."	1889	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope. Added to first leaf: "Pottsville, Pa., 1889."
Pennsylvania. "Bucks & Montgomery Fossil Places."	1895 August 17	21 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: This is the key to the annotated topographical maps that are in Extra-Oversize Folder 3.
Pennsylvania. "Bucks Co., Pa."	1891-1892			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes and small reference map. Folder title from original envelope.
Pennsylvania. Bucks County and Montgomery County.	1892, 1887, 1891-1893; n.d.	24 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes, including roughly sketched geologic map.
Pennsylvania. "Coal analyses" from the Chemical Laboratory of Andrew s. McCreath, Harrisburg.	1887 February 21	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Localities of analyses are identified only by a "Label" number.
Pennsylvania. "The Chalfont Fault Rock, So-Called."	1895 August 24-26, 28	21 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript and typescript.
Pennsylvania. "Compass Variation Affected by Geological Structure in Bucks and Montgomery Counties, Pa."		23 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes, manuscript drafts, typescript. Includes copy of printed map, scale 1:380,160, indicated by annotation to be from "Journal of the Franklin Institute", v. 144 (October 1897).
Pennsylvania. "Durham Township."	1890 November 7, 21	8 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript.
Pennsylvania. "Folds and Faults in Pennsylvania Anthracite Beds."	1895	62 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes, manuscript, and typewritten drafts. One draft indicates, "Atlanta Meeting, October 1895."
Pennsylvania. "General Report on the Mesozoic of Bucks and Montgomery Counties."	1893 January 30; n.d.	33 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft, and four pages in a fair hand. The indicated geological and topographic map, and four cross-sections, are not present in this collection.
Pennsylvania. "Haycock."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Field trip notes, with numerous calculations.
Pennsylvania. "Lower Makefield Township."	1890 August 1	25 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript.
Pennsylvania. "Marlborough."	1891 January 27, February 11	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Field notes.
Pennsylvania. "Milford Township."	1890 November 24; 1892 September 14; n.d.	46 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript and typescript.
Pennsylvania. "Montgomery Co., Pa."	1889-1890	13 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes and small reference map. Folder title from original envelope. Includes the business cards of "Spring Mount Granite Quarries, [John] Conrad & [Francis] Emmert, Prop."; "The Weldon House, M. H. Bean, Prop., on the Banks of the Perkiomen"; and "Frank Buchman, Proprietor of The Buchman Hotel, Pennsburg, Pa."
Pennsylvania. "The New Red in Pennsylvania, 1876 and 1893."	1894 August 15, 20, 28, 29	25 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript drafts and typescript; with notes.
Pennsylvania. "On some glacial scratches in Northern Pennsylvania."	1867 November 5	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Abstract of a verbal communication [never made] to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, by Benj. Smith Lyman." The notation in square brackets was added later by Lyman, thus.
Pennsylvania. "Report on a Reconnaissance of the Bechtel Graphite Mine, near Boyertown, Berks Co., Pa."	1904 March 24	25 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript, "Copied 24 March, 1904." Includes original pen-and-ink illustration and a blueprint copy of "Sketch Map of the Bechtel Graphite Mine" made by Lyman 7 July 1902, scale 1:480, with cross-section at same scale.
Pennsylvania. "Report on the New Boston and Morea Coal Lands." Manuscript.	1889 February 14	95 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Pennsylvania. "Report on the New Boston and Morea Coal Lands, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania . . ." Typescript.	1889 February 14	87 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: The referred geological and topographical map is not present in this collection.
Pennsylvania. "Report on the New Red of Bucks and Montgomery Counties."	1895, 1897	147 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes, manuscript draft, typescripts. The referred geological and topographical map is not present in this collection.
Pennsylvania. "Report on the Shippen and Wetherill Tract, Schuylkill Twp., Schuylkill Co., Pa."	1892, 1893; n.d.	89 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Draft manuscript, typescript, and corrected galleys. The referred geological and topographical map is not present in this collection.
Pennsylvania. "Report on the Waltham Three Hundred and Nineteen Acre Tract, near the Eagleton Coal Mines, Clinto County, Penna." "Rough Draft."	1866 November 26	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Pennsylvania. Revere well boring.	1891 April 4	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript report of a presentation "At the American Philosophical Society, 3 April, 1891."
Pennsylvania. "Richland Township."	1890 November 26; 1892 September 14, October 7; n.d.	73 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft and typescript.
Pennsylvania. "Springfield Township."	1891 January 9; n.d.	66 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft and typescript.
Pennsylvania. "Tracing of sketch made in a newspaper by Joseph Lesley."	1864 May 12			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: The map depicts a few geological features in the region southeast of Erie, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio.
Pennsylvania. "Upper Hanover Township." Manuscript.	1891 January 14; 1892 August 1, September 9	37 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: A cut-and-paste draft manuscript.
Pennsylvania. "Upper Hanover Township." Typescript.	1892 September 9; n.d.	55 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Pennsylvania. "Various descriptions of the Shippen Tract." [Shippen and Wetherill Tract, Schuylkill County.]	1892, 1893; n.d.	19 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: See also Series XI for a blueprint map of "The Shippen & Wetherill Tract, Sch'll. Co. Pa."
Pennsylvania. Visit to Northampton lead mine.	1853 January 28	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Personal manuscript report of a walking trip to the lead mine.
Pennsylvania. "The Yardley Fault."	1893; 1895 August 8, 15; 1896 January	29 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes, draft manuscript and typescript. Typescript notes, "Read before A.P.S. [American Philosophical Society] Sept. 6 [1895]."
Virginia. "Geology of the Low Moor, Va., Iron-Ores.	1886 February 14-15	17 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft and typescript. Typescript notes, "Pittsburgh Meeting February 1886."
Virginia. "Herman Tract Report." "Report on the Herman Tract, near Waynesboro, Augusta Co., Va."	1890 July 25	47 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft. Includes three leaves of original pen-and-ink with pencil stratigraphic columns.
Virginia. "The Perfoter Coal Tract, Montgomery County, Southwestern Virginia . . ."	n.d.	7 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: The referred geological and topographical map is not present in this collection.
Virginia. "Report on the Campbell Iron Tracts near Marion, Smythe County, Virginia . . ."	1867 July 22	8 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Fair copy. The referred "Geological and Topographical Map of a Rough Survey, including neighboring Tracts" is not present in this collection.
Virginia. "Report on the Fulton Lead Tract, at Binghamon Bottom, Wythe County, Virginia . . ."	1867 March 5	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Fair copy. The referred geological and topographical map is not present in this collection.
Virginia. "Report on the Henderlite Iron Tract near Marion, Smyth County, Virginia . . ."	1867 July 19	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Fair copy. The referred "Geological and Topographical Map of a Rough Survey, including neighboring Tracts" is not present in this collection.
Virginia. "Report on the Staley's Creek and Nick's Creek Iron Region near Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, incuding the Thomas, Henderlite, Wright, Campbell and some adjoining tracts . . ."	1867 July 12	17 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Fair copy. The referred geological and topographical map is not present in this collection.
Virginia. "Report on the Thomas Iron Tract, near Marion, Smyth County, Virginia . . ."	1867 July 16	12 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Fair copy. The referred "Geological and Topographical Map of a Rough Survey, including neighboring Tracts" is not present in this collection.
Virginia. "Report on the Wright Iron Tract, near Marion, Smyth County, Virginia . . ."	1867 July 20	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Fair copy. The referred "Geological and Topographical Map of a Rough Survey, including neighboring Tracts" is not present in this collection.
Virginia and West Virginia. "Reports on Low Moor, Stack's and New River. 1881. (Not copied until Aug. 1885.)" [and] "Notes on Some Coal Openings on New River in West Virginia."	1881 JUne 20, July 9; 1885	36 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft of the Low Moor-Stack's-New River report. Typescript of the West Virginia report. These two reports were found punched and physically tied together in Lyman's original envelope.
West Virginia. "Report on the Peytona Cannel Coal Company's Tract in Boone County, West Virginia . . ."	n.d.	14 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft. The referred geological and topographical map is not present in this collection.
West Virginia. "Report on the two Parker Coal Tracts of Lens Creek, Kanawho County, West Virginia . . ."	n.d.	25 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript draft. The referred geological and topographical map is not present in this collection.
West Virginia. "Some Coal Measure Sections near Peytona, West Virginia."	1894 October-November	110 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Notes, manuscript draft, typescript, and corrected galleys.

2. Western America				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: See also Extra-Oversize Folders 3-5.
"Assays and Analyses of Rocky Mountain Coals."	1887 April	50 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Fair copy.
"Colorado and New Mexico Coals. (Rough Draft of Text.)" Manuscript. Notes and pp. 1-100.	1886	104 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Colorado and New Mexico Coals. (Rough Draft of Text.)" Manuscript, pp. 101-200.	1886	100 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Colorado and New Mexico Coals. (Rough Draft of Text.)" Manuscript, pp. 201-300.	1886	100 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Colorado and New Mexico Coals. (Rough Draft of Text.)" Manuscript, pp. 301-400.	1886	100 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Colorado and New Mexico Coals. (Rough Draft of Text.)" Manuscript, pp. 401-500.	1886	100 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Colorado and New Mexico Coals. (Rough Draft of Text.)" Manuscript, pp. 501-600.	1886	100 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Colorado and New Mexico Coals. (Rough Draft of Text.)" Manuscript, pp. 601-735.	1886	135 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Colorado and New Mexico Coals. (Rough Draft of Text.)" Manuscript, "Contents" (i.e., Index), pp. 736-809.	1886	74 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Computations for the Assay Tables of Rocky Mtn. Coals. April, 1887. (Rough)."	1887 April	33 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: For these artithmetic calculations Lyman had used the verso of individual leaves of disused manuscripts and other documents, not otherwise identified here.
"The Elk Head Anthracite Field."	[1886]	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Copied from part of Chisolm's report in the U.S. Geol. Survey's Rep[t. of Mineral Resources for 1886."
"General Summary and Averages of Assays of Rocky Mountain Coals (with Iowa & Indian Territory.) from BSL's reports." "General Summary of the Colorado and Western New Mexico Coals."	1887 April	10 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Fair copy.
"Summaries of the Coal Fields from Los Cerrillos to Coal Basin, Copied from the Reports for 1886 by B.S.L."		82 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Fair copy.

IX. India Public Works Department [Geology]	1870, 1872			Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Other Descriptive Information: See also Series XI. See also Series XIII, Oversize Collection 1 (Oversize Folder 37A).
"Copy of Rough Report on the Ganada Oil Wells, Rawul Pindo District, Panjab; accompanied by a geological and topographical map of a rough Survey by Benjamin Smith Lyman, Mining Engineer, Public Works Department, of India."	1870 April 7	12 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: A fragment of the map tracing is in Series XI.
"General Report on the Punjab Oil Lands by Benjamin Smith Lyman, Mining Engineer, for the Public Works Department of the Government of India."	1870 November 5	56 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Reports on the Punjab Oil Lands." Benjamin Smith Lyman to Col. Robert Maclagan, Royal Engineers.	1870 November 8	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Cover-title and letter of transmittal only. Letter is in both draft and fair hands.
"Special Report on the Punjab Oil Lands."	1870 September 28-November 5	121 page(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Comprising separate reports in one document: 1. "Report on the Rutta Otoor Oil Lands, Rawul Pindee District, Punjab . . .", 28 September 1870. 2. "Report on the socalled Oil Spring in the Cheerpar Mountain, Rawul Pindee District, Punjab . . .", 29 September 1870. 3. "Report on the Bussala Oil Lands, on the Seel River, Rawul Pindee District, Punjab . . .", 30 September 1870. 4. "Report on the Loondeegar Oil Lands, near Moorut, Rawul Pindee District, Punjab . . .", 1 October 1870. 5. "Report on the Gunda Oil Lands, Rawul Pindee District, Punjab . . .", 3 November 1870 [a fragment of the accompanying geological map can be found in Series XI]. 6. "Report on the Chhurrut Oil Lands, Rawul Pindee District, Punjab . . .", 3 November 1870. 7. "Report on the Boraree Oil Lnds, near Chhurrut, Rawul Pindee District, Punjab . . .", 3 November 1870. 8. "Report on the Jafir Oil Bore of 1869, Rawul, Pindee District, Punjab . . .", 3 November 1870. 9. "Report on the Dulla Oil Lands, Rawul Pindee Districtr, Punjab . . .", 1 November 1870. 10. "Report on the Punnola Oil Lands, Kohat District, Punjab . . .", 2 November 1870. 11. "Report on Aluggud Oil Lands, Dunnoo District, Punjab . . .", 4 November 1870. 12. "Report on the Chhota Kutta Oil Lands near Jaba, Bunnor District, Punjab . . .", 5 November 1870. 13. "Report on the Burra Lutta Oil Lands near Jaba Bunnoo District, Punjab . . .", 5 November 1870. 14. "Report on the Sudeealee Rock Tar Spring, near Nara, Jheelum Distict, Punjab . . .", 3 November 1870. 15. "Report on the Chinnoor Rock Tar Springs, near Murdawal, Shahpoor District, Punjab . . .", 5 November 1870. 16. "Report on the Hungoock Rock Tar Springs, near Dhuddur, Shahpoor District, Punjab . . .", 5 November 1870. >>>> Except for one partial map (as noted), the accompanying geological maps are not present in this collection.
"Topography of the Punjab Oil Region."	1872	47 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript, plus two abstracts one of which is shorter and written in French. The abstracts are noted, "Abstract of a paper read before the Am. Phil. Soc. [American Philosophical Society] (19 Jan. 1872.)"

XI. Smaller Flat Materials Housed Separately				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series

1. Personal (= Ser. II)				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
"Art Efforts"	1856 October 30; n.d.	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope. Art booklet containing pencil and pen-and-ink illustrations by B. S. Lyman. Cartoons and sketches, some dated 1850s. One leaf comprises an exercise in topographic contour drawing around an unidentified structure.

2. Writings and Research Files -- Asian Culture (= Ser. VI, Subser. 7)				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
"Japanese Landscape Gardening"		1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Mounted photograph of garden model, with Japanese inscription. Originally accompanied the material in Series VI, Subser. 7, folder "Japanese Landscape Gardening, a Fine Art in Aid of Natural History."
Reference notes on Asian culture	n.d.	1 box		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Cut-and-paste from printed works with an arrangement determined and notations by Lyman.

3. American Geology Writings and Research. Eastern America. Pennsylvania. (= Ser. VII, Subser. 1)	1887-1890			Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: Very detailed stratigraphic columns drawn with pen-and-ink; with pencilled labels and annotations.
"Bucks & Montgomery Columnar Sections. 1887-1890."				Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Title from original envelope. Ca. 200 leaves of stratigraphic columns and calculations. Plus separate envelopes containing numerous strips comprising stratigraphic columns; each original envelope was labelled, "0", "1", "2", "3", [no. 4 was an empty envelope], "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", and the contents of each envelope are rehoused here within envelopes bearing the same numbers.
"Douglas Twp. Montgomery Co." Stratigraphic columns.		1 folder		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"Milford Twp. Bucks Co." Stratigraphic columns.		1 folder		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"The Shippen & Wetherill Tract, Sch'll Co. Pa. Surveys made in July 1892 by H. T. Fisher."	1892 July	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Small blueprint map removed from Series VII, Subseries 1, folder "Various descriptions of the Shippen Tract."
"Upper Hanover Twp. Montgomery Co." Stratigraphic columns.		1 folder		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File

4. India Public Works Department (Geology) (= Ser. IX)				Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
"A Tracing of a Rough Draft of a Geological and Topographical Map of a Rough Survey of the Oil Wells at Gunda, Rawul Pindee Dist., Punjab, by Benjamin Smith Lyman, of the Public Works Department of India."	1870 April 14	1 box		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Only fragments of a map with the title shown, partial detailed stratigraphic column, and fragments of cross-sections; with a few penciled annotations. Folded map and very small fragments originally in an envelope labeled by Lyman, "Torn Tracing of Gunda Rough Map." >>> For the written report see Series IX.

Oversize Collection 4 -- Geological Survey of Japan (= Ser. VIII). [O/S Folder Nos. 95-100] Documents relating to coal fields. Chiefly in English; some in Japanese.	1870s	6 folders		Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: The material in Oversize Collection 4 (Series XIII) -- and see Extra-Oversize Folders 7A-7D (Series XIV) -- was rediscovered in late 2015 in oversized, uncataloged flat-items storage. These documents have lost their original documentary evidence from Lyman, in the form of labelled envelopes into which most of Lyman's papers were placed by him, and from which the Lyman Papers were processed. When this disassociation was done is not known; apparently after these materials were sent from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in 1942. Because of this, only the most obviously related materials have been isolated into separate folders, based on information written on the leaves themselves. The remainder of the material, though related by subject, will remain unsorted until such a time when various parts of it can be more closely correlated to existing material within Series VIII.
Oversize Folder 95. Kuwada, T. "Kayanoma Coal Field. Caculation of thickness of coal beds."	n.d.	19 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 96. [by] U. "Kayanoma Coal Field in Iwanai Dist., Shiribets Prov., Yesso, Japan."	1876 May 20	19 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 97. Map and mine[?] sketch, in Japanese. Locale undetermined.	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 98. Various documents in English and Japanese relating to coal and minerals of Hokkaido (etc.?). (Folder 1)	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 99. Various documents in English and Japanese relating to coal and minerals of Hokkaido (etc.?). (Folder 2)	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 100. Various documents in English and Japanese, relating to stratigraphy and structure of coal beds. Included here are sketch maps.	1875, 1876; n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: See also Extra-Oversize Folders 7A-7D.

XII. Oversize Correspondence (= Ser. I)				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
[Undetermined] to Lyman, Benjamin Smith	1876 June 29	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Correspondence in Japanese, in three pieces still affixed to original mailing folder. On the inside portion of the mailing folder is written (in English): "Asiatic Society meets at Kaiseigakko - Wed. 14th at 4.30 Papers = on Cotton in Japan T. P. Poate Esqr. Notes from Yedo to Kioto via the Hokkai Kukaido [corrected by Lyman to 'Hokkurokodo'] Prof. Marshall."

XIII. Oversize Collection [O/S Folder Nos. 1-100]		103 folders		Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Other Descriptive Information: The contents of the Oversize Collection are arranged in a way that mirrors Series I-X of the Lyman Papers. The corresponding series/subseries to which a folder pertains is indicated in the folder title.

Oversize Collection 1 -- Documents in English [O/S Folder Nos. 1-38A]		40 folders		Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Oversize Folder 1 (= Ser. II). Child or children's (?) works.	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Removed from "Pocket Notebook No. 37" (Ser. V, no. 25).
Oversize Folder 2 (= Ser. II). Lyman, Benjamin Smith. Passport.	1869 December 8			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Original envelope included.
Oversize Folder 3 (= Ser. IV, Subser. 1). Congrès International des Américanistes de 1892. Programme.	1892			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 4 (= Ser. IV, Subser. 1). Hampshire Natural History Society.	1885			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Broadside, "Hampshire County Journal. Supplement." (n.d.) Contains address, "Natural History Up in Hampshire. Address Before the Hampshire Natural History Society, May 21, 1885, by President Benj. S. Lyman, Esq[.]"
Oversize Folder 5 (= Ser. IV, Subser. 1). International Geological Congress.	1885, 1891, 1894			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Circulars for the 3rd, 5th, and 6th congresses.
Oversize Folder 6 (= Ser. IV, Subser. 1). University of Pennsylvania. Department of Archaeology and Paleontololgy. Board of Managers.	1891 December 22			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Heavily corrected and annotated galley proof for the Board of Managers meeting of 22 December 1891.
Oversize Folder 7 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 2). Brooks, Phillips. Biographical material (oversize) accompanying the draft memorial presented by B. S. Lyman to the Harvard Club, 11 February 1893.	1893			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Includes the entire issue of the "Boston Weekly Transcript", 27 January 1893, the front page of which pertains entirely to the death of Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), long-time recctor of Boston's Trinity Church (Episcopal) and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts.
Oversize Folder 8 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 3). Haskold, H. D. "Notes on Mine-Survying Instruments, with Special Reference to Mr. Dunbar D. Scott's Paper on their Evolution, and its Discussion".	n.d.	27 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Heavily edited cut-and-paste manuscript.
Oversize Folder 9 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 3). Sketch on the evolution of mine-surveying instruments. Illustrations. [Folder 1.]	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 10 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 3). Sketch on the evolution of mine-surveying instruments. Illustrations. [Folder 2.]	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 11 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). Doorway moulding.	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 12 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). Plans for fireplace and mantel.	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 13 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). "For the Little Fuji at the Brick House, Elm St., Northampton. Copied from a photograph (of Fuji or of Konegadake?)"	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Plan in profile for a model of Mount Fuji, more than 16 feet across at its base. Perhaps to serve as a fountain at the Lyman home.
Oversize Folder 14 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). Design layout for a signal station panel for use in a home (?).	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 15 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). "Position of the axes of the wheels of a wooden clock taken apart on Saturday, Oct. 4, 1851, by B. S. Lyman."	1851 October 4	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 16 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 7). Lyman, Benjamin Smith. "Metallurgical and Other Features of Japanese Swords".	1895	5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two versions of edited galley proofs for an "Abstract of a lecture delivered before the Franklin Institute, Friday, November 8, 1895." File also includes one original pen-and-ink illustration.
Oversize Folder 17 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 10). Comparative list of Japanese trees.	n.d.	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 18 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 10). Deerfield Academy, attendance sheet for March 1856 [and] Signed list of individuals requesting that May 1 "be a Holidlay" (n.d.).	1856 March; n.d.	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 19 (= Ser. VII, Subser. 1). Nova Scotia, Great Glace Bay. Colored ms. map of coal seams and leased tracts. Fragment.		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 20 (= Ser. VII, Subser. 1). Pennsylvania. Moss Glenn Coal Company, Brockton.	1905, 1908	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Ms. diagrams of "western trial hole on Kentucky Bank bed", 1905 March 1. Blueprint "Sketch shwoing mine workigns of Moss Glenn Coal Company at Brockton Penna.", 1908 February 2. Newspaper clippings from "Pottsville Republican", 1908 May 25.
Oversize Folder 21 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). "A Geological Sketch Map of the Island of Yesso, Japan", noting "Probable Amount of Workable Coal". Two variants of the published map. 1:2,000,000.	1876 May 10	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: One map in English. One map in English and Japanese.
Oversize Folder 22 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). "Bronai[?]. Workable Coal within the limits of the Map."; "Certified Copy Made by G. Noguchi". Calculations.	1876 June	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 23 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). "Estimates in Japan"	1878 May 30; n.d.	13 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Various sheets of calculations, regarding supplies and mining equipment, and possibly gardening equipment.
Oversize Folder 24 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). Frecheville, R. J. "Sketch plan and Section of Besshi Mine".		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Colored ms. map and section. For Frecheville's report, see Box 75.
Oversize Folder 25 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). Frecheville, R. J. Maps and sections accompanying "Report on the Takayama Mines."	1875 October 23	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Colored ms. maps and sections: "General sketch plan showing the realtive position of the Takaiyama MInes"; "Ni ju yo ban workings & Kane Schichi ban Workings - Ideal plan"; "Ideal plan of vein at level of 'Midzu nu ki' gallery"; "Ideal cross section through the Mountain containing Otomi, Tochibira & Sugizawa MInes"; "Ideal longitudinal section of the Iaharra & Ginsodan Mines". >>> For Frecheville's report see Box 75.
Oversize Folder 26 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). "J." and "E." "Bibai".	n.d.	18 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Written stratigraphic sections.
Oversize Folder 27 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). "L." Map of Udo Mine.	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Faint sketch map.
Oversize Folder 28 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). Lyman, Benjamin Smith, and Kada, T. "Map of a Part of Eastern Asia to show the Commercial Position of the Productive Coal Fields of Yesso, Japan."	1876 May 17	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Published map, in Englisha and Japanese, to which is added grid lines with coordinate corners in pencil (to depict other, detail maps?).
Oversize Folder 29 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). Ms. sketch maps of coal lands (locales undetermined) [Japan].	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 30 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). Miscellaneous documents regarding oil; in English and Japanese.	1876-1879	9 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 31 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). Munroe, H. S. "Geological Notes."	n.d.	57 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 32 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). Notes and calculations.	1876 June; 1878 June; n.d.	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Includes draft letter from B. S. Lyman to H. Ito, Public Works Minister [1876], and one document in transliterated Japanese.
Oversize Folder 33 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). Obana [Mister]. Ikuno metallurgical works. Map.	1878 September 11	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 34 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). "Tables of the Names, Daily Yields, Depths and Corners &c. of the Oil Wells in Nagano and Nigata Kens. Collected Oct. 1875."	1875 October	13 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 35 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 2). "Hokkaido Survey." Documents.	1873; n.d.	19 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 36 (= Ser. ViII, Subser. 2). "Report of Daily Progress" (title-page only), with geometric sketch.	1876	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 37 (= Ser. IX). Lyman, Benjamin Smith. Itinerary and travel notes, India.	1870 January	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Itinerary is added to printed broadside, "Deccan Horse Dak. List of Stages, Dâk Bungalows, &c., on the Road from Jubbulpore to Nagpore.", "Howard Brothers, Proprietors", printed at "Mirzapore Orphan School Press". Ms. notes by Lyman.
Oversize Folder 37A (= Series IX). "A Geological and Topographical Sketch Map of the Panjab Oil Region. By Benjamin Smith Lyman, for the Public Works Dept., Govt. of India. Oct. 1871." Scale 1:900,000. Plate, published in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, v. 15, pl. 1.		1 map		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 38 (= Ser. X). "Map of the Country Contiguous to the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal." Printed map, "Drawn & Engraved by H. S. Tanner."	n.d.	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 38A (= Ser. X). "In the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Schuylkill. M. T. Brown vs. The Schuylkill-Lehigh Coal Company . . . Receiver's Sale." Broadside notice.	1913 June 23	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File

Oversize Collection 2 -- Documents in Japanese (Identified) [O/S Folder Nos. 39-83]		46 folders		Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: These are Japanese-language documents that are identified at least to subject area.
Oversize Folder 39 (= Ser. II). "Evening dramatic recitations". Schedule?	1877 April 13	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 40 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). Estimate for -- ?	n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 41 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). Estimate for -- ?	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 42 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). Floor plans and cabinetry.	n.d.	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 43 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). "Kitagawi Ganji (Cabinet Maker) Designs &c."	n.d.	8 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope. Designs for a bed. One leaf includes watercolor artwork sample.
Oversize Folder 44 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). "Mineral Table and Trays".	n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 45 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). "Negishi . . . ."	n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 46 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). "Sketch of house for office at No. 4 Shidome."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 47 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). Undetermined (official document).		3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 48 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). Undetermined (official document).		4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 49 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 6). Japanese. Calligraphy exercises.	n.d.	85 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 50 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 6). Japanese. Calligraphy exercises.	n.d.	32 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 51 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 6). Japanese. Calligraphy exericse. (Poetry?)	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 52 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 10). "Japanese Meteorology".	n.d.	4 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title taken from original envelope.
Oversize Folder 53 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 10). "Japanese Photograph List".	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title taken from original envelope.
Oversize Folder 54 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). "Daira." Geologic map, colored.	1877	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Ms. map, "Given to L[yman?] 19 Aug. 1877".
Oversize Folder 55 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). "Daira Statistics of product July 1876-June 1877" [and] "Daira Statistics of population".	1876-1877	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 56 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Finance bureau, documents.		6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Also includes original envelope in Japanese.
Oversize Folder 57 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Invoice(?) for -- (official document).		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 58 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Invoice(?) estimate(?) for -- (official document).		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 59 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). "Iwami Ginzan Machi Mines". Geologic map, colored.	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Traced by Kawano Kanjuro from an old drawing equally rough . . . [not legible]." Labels and additional note affixed.
Oversize Folder 60 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). "Iwazaka only trial workings yet". Map and calculations.	n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Map (in pencil) "Traced from a colored sketch attached to [illegible] document at the office".
Oversize Folder 61 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). 'Kagoyama Product 1876-1877 July to June one year" [and] "Kagoyama History".	1876 July-1877 June; n.d.	2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 62 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). "Kanazaki (Shirasuzi_) Mines. Tango."	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 63 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Landscape illustration with mining detail.	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Wash on washi. Artist not indicated.
Oversize Folder 64 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Landscape illustration with mining detail.	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Wash on washi. Artist not indicated.
Oversize Folder 65 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Landscape illustration with mining detail.	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Wash on washi. Artist not indicated.
Oversize Folder 65A (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Landscape illustration depicting oil well.	1877 April 13			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Arrangement: Found separately and incorporated into collection May 2017. Other Descriptive Information: "By Mr. Itoi. Brought 13 April, 1877."
Oversize Folder 66 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Lyman, Benjamin Smith (official document for).	1876 February 29	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 67 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Map of farms(?) and houses(?) along river.	n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 68 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Map, geographical; locale not determined.	1878 March	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Benj. Smith Lyman. Yedo: March 1878. from A". Colored ms. relief map.
Oversize Folder 69 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Map, geographical; locale not determined.	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Intricate colored ms. map; diagrammatic. Verso of map has partly illegible rubber stamp.
Oversize Folder 70 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Map, geological. Akhio(?) Mines.	1878 June 30	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "L[yman] from the Akhio(?) Mines". Ms. physiographic map wih geological overwriting; colored.
Oversize Folder 71 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Map, geological; locale undetermined.	1877 August 19	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Yabets[?] given to L[yman] 19 Aug. 1877." Ms. geological map with physiographic details; colored.
Oversize Folder 72 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Maps of mines.		5 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Pencil sketch maps. "Tamanoi gold mines." "Kadzuraki. Kanahira Gold Mines." "places chiefly in Hidakuni[?]. Map by G of mineral 11 July, 1876. (South Sheet)." "(North Sheet) Map by G of mineral places chiefly in Hidakuni[?]. 11 July, 1876." One sheet wholly in Japanese; undetermined.
Oversize Folder 73 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). "Memo" re mining.	n.d.	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: In English and Japanese.
Oversize Folder 74 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Ministry of Works, official document with attachment.		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 75 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Ministry of Works, official document, accounting. Salaries or expenses (?) for individuals.		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 76 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Ministry of Works, document.		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 77 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). "Oonogoori Etchizen." Map.				Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Ms. geographical map.
Oversize Folder 78 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). "Oshige's Bond". Security legal document.		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Folder title from original envelope.
Oversize Folder 79 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). "Price of Surveying Chain offered by Iamalya Kichijiro."	1873 April	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Price of Surveying Chain offered by Iamalya Kichijiro. April 1873. $12 50/100 for a fifty foot chain." [Note by Lyman.]
Oversize Folder 80 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). "Rules for mixing the clay and glaze . . ."	1878 November 21	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "R%ules for mixing the clay & glaze at Tanoura Pottery Kangoshima[?]." [Note by Lyman.]
Oversize Folder 81 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Shinano River.	1876 July	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Shinano River near its entrance into Echigo. Traced by G from a map at the upper end of the Carry." [Note by Lyman.]
Oversize Folder 82 (= Ser. X). "Japanese Wood Cut Border".	1879?	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Wood block advertisement, in English, for "Mikawaya, Dealer in Bronze Jewellery . . . . Tokio Japan." With ornamental border. Corner inscription in Japanese, a part of the wood block. Date written by Lyman, "1879??" [sic].
Oversize Folder 83 (= Ser. X). Paper samples. Imperial Japanese Finance Ministry. Printing Bureau.	n.d.	1 item(s)		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Package of paper samples. Standardized labels in Japanese and English, providing size, weight, and price.

Oversize Collection 3 -- Documents in Japanese (Undetermined) [O/S Folder Nos. 84-94] (=? Ser. VIII, Subser. 4)		11 folders		Request Subseries for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Subseries
Other Descriptive Information: Oversize Collection 3 comprises documents in Japanese whose subjects remain undetermined. Each folder contains one or a group of documents that were together within an envelope in the Lyman papers, most without any identifying notations from Lyman (unlike the majority of his papers). Each folder's contents are retained together as found, until such time that further segregation may be possible.
Oversize Folder 84. Documents in Japanese.		2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 85. Documents in Japanese.		8 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 86. Ms. map in Japanese.		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 87. Document in Japanese.		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 88. Document in Japanese.	1878 May 28	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "D" indicates a person's name. Information in tabular arrangement.
Oversize Folder 89. Document in Japanese.		2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Information in tabular arrangment; apparently personnel information.
Oversize Folder 90. Document in Japanese.		2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Information in tabular arrangment; apparently personnel information.
Oversize Folder 91. Documents in Japanese.		2 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 92. Documents in Japanese.		7 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 93. Document in Japanese. Official.		1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 94. Documents in Japanese.	1873	3 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Original envelope was marked "1873".
Oversize Collection 4. Folders Nos. 95-100.	1876, undated			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Oversize Folder 95. Kowada, T. Kayanoma Coal Field			Box Oversize LH-B-19	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Calculation of thickness of coal beds.
Oversize Folder 96. Kayanoma Coal Field	1876 May 20		Box Oversize LH-B-19	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
In Iwanai District, Shiribets Province, Yesso, Japan
Oversize Folder 97. Map and mine? sketch in Japanese.			Box Oversize LH-B-19	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Other Descriptive Information: Undetermined.
Oversize Folder 98. Coal and minerals of Hokkaido. Folder 1.			Box Oversize LH-B-19	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Various documents.
Oversize Folder 99. Coal and minerals of Hokkaido. Folder 2.			Box Oversize LH-B-19	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Various documents.
Oversize Folder 100. Stratigraphy and structure of coal beds.			Box Oversize LH-B-19	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File

XIV. Extra-Oversize Collection [XO/S Folder Nos. 1-15]		22 folders		Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Other Descriptive Information: The contents of the Extra-Oversize Collection are arranged in a way that mirrors Series I-X of the Lyman Papers. The corresponding series/subseries to which a folder pertains is indicated in the folder title.
Extra-Oversize Folder 1 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 3). Logarithmic and other tables.	1885			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: For accompanying text see Box 60.
Extra-Oversize Folder 2 (= Ser. VI, Subser. 4). "Japanese House and Grounds".	1876, 1877; n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: 1. "Sketch Plan of a Part of Jo-Un-In at Daimon, Shiba, Yedo, Japan". March 1876. In English. 2. Plans and calculations, "No. 17 Gochome, Hirashawa Cho", 1877 January 26. In English. 3. Other plans wholly in Japanese. Other Descriptive Information: Folder title taken from original envelope.
Extra-Oversize Folder 2A (= Ser. VII, Subser. 1). "A Geological and topographical Sketch Map of the Hinckley Coal Tracts, in Bookfield Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, by Benj. Smith Lyman, Northampton, mass.--31 July, 1883." Photolithographed by J. Bien and Co., New York. Scale 1:18,000.	1883 July 31	1 map		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Extra-Oversize Folder 3 (= Ser. VII, Subser. 1). "Bucks and Montgomery Fossil Places".	1895 August 17			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two topographic sheets with fossil localities identified. The key to this map is in Box 71. Folder title is taken from original envelope.
Extra-Oversize Folder 4 (= Ser. VII, Subser. 2). "Rough Drawings, Survey of 1866, Rocky Mtn. Coals" [folder 1]	1866			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript maps, stratigraphic sections.
Extra-Oversize Folder 5 (= Ser. VII, Subser. 2). "Rough Drawings, Survey of 1866, Rocky Mtn. Coals" [folder 2]	1866			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript map, "Prospect Camp to Harvey's Ranch, Colorado (south end), 1866".
Extra-Oversize Folder 6 (= Ser. VII, Subser. 2). "Rough Drawings, Survey of 1866, Rocky Mtn. Coals" [folder 3]	1866			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Stratigraphic sections.
Extra-Oversize Folder 7 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). "Japan Topography Road Sketching".	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Manuscript sketch maps. Folder title from original envelope.
Extra-Oversize Folder 7A (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). Stratigraphy and structure work sheets relating to coal fields. Bibai. Furshiki. Honshiki. Ogurasawa (part). Onkosawa. Sanke-Bibai and Naiye.	n.d.	6 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Extra-Oversize Folder 7B (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). Stratigraphy and structure work sheets relating to coal fields. Ichikishiri.	n.d.	8 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Extra-Oversize Folder 7C (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). Stratigraphy and structure work sheets relating to coal fields. Nuppaomanai.	n.d.	11 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Extra-Oversize Folder 7D (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 1). Stratigraphy and structure work sheets relating to coal fields. Poronai.	n.d.	7 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Extra-Oversize Folder 8 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 2). Published maps.	1874-1876			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Other Descriptive Information: Published maps by Benjamin Smith Lyman, Chief Geologist, et al. Only one is colored, which is indicated. Geological and hydrological data and isopachs are superimposed on topography, labeled in English and Japanese; with sections. Keys or notes in English and Japanese. Some maps include various calculations of resource potential. This list is in no particular order. All sheets are oversized, of various dimensions; but sizes of a few physically small maps are indicated. ------ >>> 1. A Geological Sketch Map of the Island of Yesso, Japan. 1876 May 10. 1:2,000,000. Colored; with rudimentary "Probable Section of the Rock Groups" as key to geology (four groups only, underlying "new volcanic rocks" and "old-" and "new-alluvium"). Map approx. 39 x 29 cm. >>> 2. A Geological and Topographical Map of a Rough Survey of Part of the Ichikishiri Coal Field in Yesso, Japan. 1876 May 13. 1:5,000. >>> 3. A Geological and Topographical Map of a Rough Survey of Part of the Nuppaomanai Coal Field in Yesso, Japan. 1876 May 16. 1:5,000. >>> 4. A Geological Sketch Map of the Sorachi Coal Field in Yesso, Japan. 1875 May. 1:12,960. >>> 5. A Geological and Topographical Map of a Rough Survey of the Yumukushinai Oil Lands in Yesso, Japan. 1875 April. 1:5,000. >>> 6. A Geological and Topographical Map of a Rough Survey of the Washinoki Oil Lands in Yesso, Japan. 1875 June 5. 1:5,000. >>> 7. A Geological and Topographical map of a Rough Survey of the Makumbets Coal Field, Shidzunai Dist., Hidaka Prov., Yesso. 1875 July 17. 1:5,000. >>> 8. A Map of the Ishcari and Otopchi Rivers and Part of the Tokachi in Yesso Japan. 1875 March 27. 1:1,000,000. Map approx 20 x 13 cm. >>> 9. Map of a Rough Survey of the Harbors of Shibui and Chatsnai, near Iwanai, Yesso, Showing the Place of the Proposed Breakwaters. 1874 May 4. Map approx. 28 x 22 cm. >>> 10. Map of a Part of Eastern Asia to Show the Commercial Position of the Productive Coal Fields of Yesso, Japan. 1876 May 17. 1:10,000,000. >>> 11. A Geological and Topographical Map of a Rough Survey of the Idzumisawa Oil Lands in Yesso, Japan. 1875 April. 1:5,000. >>> 12. A Geological and Topographical Map of a rough Survey of Part of the Sankebibai and Naiye Coalf Fields, in Yesso, Japan. 1876 March 29. 1:5,000. >>> 13. A Geological and Topographical Map of a Rough Survey of the Poronai Coal Field in Yesso, Japan. 1876 May 10. 1:5,000. >>> 14. A Geological and Topographical Map of a Rough Survey of the Kayanoma Coal Field, in Yesso, Japan. 1876 May 18. 1:5,000. >>> 15. A Geological and Topographical Map Uniting the Surveys Made in the Ishcari Coal Region in Yesso, Japan. 1876 May 9. 1:50,000; insets various scales. >>> 16. A Geological and Topographical Map of a Rough Survey of Part of the Bibai Coal Field in Yesso, Japan. 1876 April 19. 1:5,000.
Extra-Oversize Folder 9 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Map, Ishigamori gold mines, Aizu District, Iwashiro Province.	1878 July 12			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Pictorial manuscript map. Includes attached small overlay with portrayal of mountain landscape, which when lifted displays a map plan of the gold mines beneath that part of the landscape. For accompanying text, see Series VIII, Subseries 3, Ishigamori Gold Mines.
Extra-Oversize Folder 10 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Map and profiles (locale undetermined).	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Extra-Oversize Folder 11 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Map, "Traced from a colored map by Takashima Tokuzo of Feb. 1878"; with topographical profile and an accompanying plat map(?).	1878?			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Extra-Oversize Folder 12 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Map (undetermined).				Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Ikimo (author?). B.S. Lyman replied (acknowledged) ca. 1879 February 4. Very large manuscript map, colored, with relief and habitations portrayed. Relief distinguishes between vegetation and rock outcroppings.
Extra-Oversize Folder 13 (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 3). Maps.	n.d.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Two maps and envelope in Japanese. >>> 1. Rough Inspection Map of Oil Wells in Akuni District, Ugo Province and Gold Dust Deposits in Tagawa District, Uzen Province. ("Rough Inspection" is a direct translation.) >>> 2. Map of Ani MInes, Akita District, Ugo Province.
Extra-Oversize Folder 13A (= Ser. VIII, Subser. 4). Manuscript map of undetermined locale, in Japanese. Mountainous terrain. Latitude/longitude grid pencilled in, between 42 deg 40 min to 42 deg 50 min(+) N, 7 deg 10 min to 8 deg E (prime meridian not identified).	n.d.	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Extra-Oversize Folder 14 (= Ser. X). "International Postage Table", General Post Office, Tokio.	1879 July 31	1 leaves.		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Extra-Oversize Folder 14A (= Ser. X). Printed historical timeline for western civilizations, AD 1-1500. [s.n., s.l.] 61 x 57 inches.				Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Physical & technical details: Affixed to a cloth backing. In very poor, fragile condition.
Extra-Oversize Folder 15 (= Ser. X). "Japanese Fête Champétre in honor of Gen. Grant, 1879."	1879			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: "Programme" in English. Map and one document in Japanese; the map delineates Ueno Park. This material pertains to the visit of Ulysses S. Grant to Japan. [For other records relating to Grant's visit, see in Ser. VIII, Subser. 1, folder "Japanese Accounts and Accounts in Japan" (Box 75).]