| 6 | Author: | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Asa Gray papers, 1838-1887
| | | Dates: | 1838-1887 | | | Abstract: | This Collection consists of a variety of correspondence Asa Gray carried on with fellow scientists and collectors in the United States and Europe. Asa Gray was a leading nineteenth American botanist; securing a professorship at Harvard in 1842, he became perhaps the first professional botanist in America. The topic of the letters is almost exclusively botanical in nature. The correspondence includes discussions of publications, current specimens, and fossilized flora. Although Gray carried on extensive correspondence with Charles Darwin, none of that is in this manuscript collection, although the APS does have microfilm of Asa Gray's correspondence that contains some of this Darwin material.
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| | | Call #: | Mss.B.G78 | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear Feet | | | Topics: | Science and technology | | | Genre: | Educational Material | Scientific Correspondence | | | Subjects: | Botanical gardens. | Botany. | Education -- United States. | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Shells. | |
18 | 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.
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| | | 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 | |
19 | 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.
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| | | 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 | |
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