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Yarrell, William, 1784-1856. Letter, 1840 Jan. 17.

Title: Letter, 1840 Jan. 17.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122595150 View

Collection of autograph letters, ca. 1829-1915.

Title: Collection of autograph letters, ca. 1829-1915.

Autograph letters collected by Daniel Butler Fearing.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.3 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01859/catalog View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc, 1826-1836

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc 1826-1836

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIc-ead.xml View

Yarrell, William, 1784-1856. William Yarrell collection, 1830-1961 (bulk 1833-1856).

Title: William Yarrell collection, 1830-1961 (bulk 1833-1856).

Consists of letters to Yarrell, a Scottish fishery law document (1842), ninety watercolors, pencil drawings, and engravings of fish, and related printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 0.45 cu. ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80527489 View

Autograph File, Y, 1754-1914.

Title: Autograph File, Y, 1754-1914.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of singleletters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times.Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: .5 boxes (.2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01447/catalog View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource:

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01543/catalog View

Album materials, 1777-1925

Title: Album materials 1777-1925

Materials removed from albums, of letters and autographs of various persons.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.AL1-ead.xml View

Fox, George Townshend, of Durham, F. L. S., fl. 1827. Autograph letters signed (2) : Crescent, Buxton and Mattock, Bath, to John Adamson, 1827 May 2 and 1827 May 16.

Title: Autograph letters signed (2) : Crescent, Buxton and Mattock, Bath, to John Adamson, 1827 May 2 and 1827 May 16.

Asking him to exhibit "the rare Tunstall Birds" and present his "Synopsis" to the Linnaean Society and recommending he see William Yarrell's bird collection.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (5 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270475652 View

Scientists Collection, 1563-1973

Title: Scientists Collection 1563-1973

The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology. Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 Linear feet; 13 upright boxes, 8 oversize folders.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.509.L56-ead.xml View

Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31-ead.xml View

Thomas Campbell Eyton correspondence, 1836-1874, 1836-1874

Title: Thomas Campbell Eyton correspondence, 1836-1874 1836-1874

These letters cover subjects in natural history, especially birds and mollusks.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Linear feet, Ca. 325 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Ey83-ead.xml View

American Philosophical Society Library. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection. 1668-1983.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science.

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.200-ead.xml View