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1Author:  Accademia delle scienze di TorinoRequires cookie*
 Title:  Accademia delle scienze di Torino correspondence with Philadelphia institutions, 1824-1912     
 Dates:  1824-1912 
 Abstract:  This is a microfilm of an early American collection that may be of interest to researchers at the APS and may complement an original manuscript collection at the APS.

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 Call #:  Mss.Film.574 
 Extent:  1 microfilm_reel(s) 
 Genre:  Microfilm Collection 
 Subjects:  Learned institutions and societies. | Science -- Societies, etc. 
2Author:  Alexander, William, 1726-1783Requires cookie*
 Title:  Variation of the compass, 1773     
 Dates:  1773 
 Abstract:  This slender volume is an essay by William Alexander, a prominent figure in New Jersey politics and business. Alexander wrote this essay with the hope that it would spur the American Philosophical Society to support the study of variations in compasses. Alexander's interest in this subject likely had to do with his background as a merchant. He realized compass variations created inefficiencies and risks for captains and the merchants that relied on them. Alexander appeals specifically to the APS's mission by stating that such a study would be "useful to mankind." Alexander's essays shows that he is conversant in many of the current theories about variations. He also proposed a plan for the APS to facilitate a systematic study of compass variations that he believed would produce a clear general law for variations in compasses.

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 Call #:  Mss.522.76.Al2 
 Extent:  1 item(s) 
 Topics:  Science and technology | Surveying and Maps | Trade 
 Genre:  Scientific Correspondence | Scientific Data 
 Subjects:  Astronomy -- 18th century | Compass. | Learned institutions and societies. 
3Author:  Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857Requires cookie*
 Title:  Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte letters, 1825-1857     
 Dates:  1825-1857 
 Abstract:  The Charles Lucien Bonaparte collection is noteworthy for its ornithological content and for the exchanges with William Cooper, a fellow ornithologist who had a large collection of bird specimens. The majority of the correspondence surrounds Bonaparte's American Ornithology. The letters are all from Bonaparte to Cooper. Their content shows Cooper to be an engaged and active ornithologist who provided Bonaparte with critical advice on his proofs. Copper founded the Lyceum of Natural History in New York and studied zoology in Europe. He is credited with helping edit Bonaparte's last two works. Bonaparte, for his part, repaid his friend by naming a new species of hawk Cooper's Hawk.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.B642.1.7 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear Feet 
 Topics:  Literature, Arts, and Culture | Natural history | Science and technology 
 Genre:  General Correspondence | Scientific Correspondence 
 Subjects:  Learned institutions and societies. | Ornithology. | Science -- Societies, etc. 
4Author:  Académie des sciences (France)Requires cookie*
 Title:  Selections from the Procès-verbaux, 1758-1789     
 Dates:  1758-1789 
 Abstract:  This is a microfilm of an early American collection that may be of interest to researchers at the APS and may complement an original manuscript collection at the APS.

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 Call #:  Mss.Film.1367 
 Extent:  1 microfilm_reel(s) 
 Genre:  Microfilm Collection 
 Subjects:  Astronomy -- 18th century | Learned institutions and societies. | Science -- Societies, etc. 
5Author:  Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de, 1743-1794Requires cookie*
 Title:  Sur l'utilité des académies, 1785     
 Dates:  1785 
 Abstract:  This manuscript collection falls outside the geographic scope of the Early American guide (British North America and the United States before 1840). It may be of interest to scholars interested in global history, international relations, imperialism, or the U.S. in the world.

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 Call #:  Mss.506.C75 
 Extent:  1 volume(s) 
 Topics:  Beyond Early America 
 Subjects:  Learned institutions and societies -- Spain. | Learned institutions and societies. | Science -- Spain -- Societies, etc. 
6Author:  Stauffer, Jacob,b. 1808.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Jacob Stauffer Papers, 1844-1879     
 Dates:  1844-1879 
 Abstract:  The Jacob Stauffer Collection contains correspondence about science and scientific institutions in the United States. Only one letter dates to before the 1850s (1844).

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 Call #:  Mss.B.St15 
 Extent:  0.5 Linear Feet 
 Topics:  Science and technology 
 Genre:  Scientific Correspondence 
 Subjects:  Botany. | Learned institutions and societies. | Natural history. | Paleontology. | Zoology.