| | | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1783-1817 | | | | Abstract: | The extensive Benjamin Smith Barton collection contains six sections: Correspondence, Bound Volumes (including notebooks), Subject Files, and Graphic Materials. The material includes numerous images, sketches, notes, printed material, and other correspondence. The collection also has numerous copper plates that were used to print images drawn by Barton. Although a collection this large touches on a variety of interesting and important subjects, the collection's strength is its wealth of data on nineteenth century medical, botanical, and Native American studies.
View finding aid for a full description
| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B284d | | | | Extent: | 10 Linear Feet | | | | Topics: | Business and Skilled Trades | Education | Language and Linguistics | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Medicine | Native America | Natural history | Printing and Publishing | Science and technology | Travel | | | | Genre: | Art | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Language Material | Notebooks | Political Correspondence | Sketchbooks | Travel Narratives and Journals | | | | Subjects: | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Botanists | Botany -- Study and teaching -- 19th century | Botany -- Virginia | Chemistry -- 18th century | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee language | Choctaw Indians | Dysentery. | Electricity -- 18th century | Ethnobotany | Geology -- 18th century | Gout | Indians of North America | Indians of North America -- Agriculture | Indians of North America -- Languages | Kaigana Indians | Kaskaskia Indians | Mammals -- Classification | Mandan Indians | Mastodons | Materia medica | Medicine -- Practice -- 18th century | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- 18th century | Meteorology -- United States -- 18th century | Meteors | Mineralogy | Natural history -- 18th century | Natural history -- 19th century | Osage language | Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Physics | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Seminole Indians | Seneca Indians | Tuscarora Indians | University of Pennsylvania -- Faculty | Venereal disease | Yellow fever | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1793 | Zoology -- 18th century | |
| | Author: | Patterson, , Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Robert Maskell Patterson notebooks, 1810-1811
| | | | Dates: | 1810-1811 | | | | Abstract: | Previously catalogued as part of the the Robert Patterson Collection, this portion contains lecture notes on natural philosophy, death, mathematics, engineering, and other subjects. In addition to the notes, there is a class roster from the Universities of Pennsylvania and Virginia and copies of exams. There is also meteorological data for 1775 and 1776.
View finding aid for a full description
| | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P275.n | | | | Extent: | 4 volume(s) | | | | Topics: | Education | Natural history | Science and technology | | | | Genre: | Educational Material | Meteorological Data | Notebooks | | | | Subjects: | Agriculture | Botany | Chemistry | Mineralogy | Physics | Zoology | |
| | Author: | Stevens, John Austin, 1795-1874 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Notes, from Professor Day's Lectures, on Natural Philosophy
| | | | Dates: | 1812 | | | | Abstract: | This bound volume contains notes taken by John Austin Stevens, a student at Yale University, in 1812 during Jeremiah Day's course on Natural Philosophy. The twenty lectures touch on a wide range of subjects, including electricity, astronomy, magnetism, meteorology, and fluids.
View finding aid for a full description
| | | | Call #: | Mss.530.St45 | | | | Extent: | 1 volume(s) | | | | Topics: | Education | Natural history | Science and technology | | | | Genre: | Educational Material | Notebooks | Scientific Data | | | | Subjects: | Gravitation | Hydraulics | Mechanics | Physics -- Study and teaching -- 19th century | |
|
