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Leeper, Robert H. William Darlington commemorative addresses and collective essays, 1965-1972.

Title: William Darlington commemorative addresses and collective essays, 1965-1972.

The collection contains essays commemorating the accomplishments of Dr. William Darlington, including two offprints and two pamphlets by Dr. Dorothy I. Lansing about William Darlington, and the history of medicine in Chester County, Pa., with special reference to Darlington; and a compilation of commemorative program addresses by Dr. Robert H. Leeper, Dr. Dorothy I. Lansing, and Dr. William R. Overlease for the Chester County Medical Society, 1965.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49877709 View

Darlington, William, 1782-1863. Notes taken from Doctor Rush's lectures upon the institutes and practice of medicine, and on clinical cases, 1802-1804 / by William Darlington.

Title: Notes taken from Doctor Rush's lectures upon the institutes and practice of medicine, and on clinical cases, 1802-1804 / by William Darlington.

Three volumes of lecture notes on Benjamin Rush's medical lectures delivered at the University of Pennsylvania. Topics include physiology, pathology, therapeutics and the practice of medicine. Vols. 1-2 comprise the 1st year course; vol. 3 is the 2nd year course.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

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Joseph Carson letters, 1789-1858, 1789-1858

Title: Joseph Carson letters, 1789-1858 1789-1858

These letters of American Philosophical Society members and prominent early American scientists were selected from Carson's extra-illustrated draft of "A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia, 1869).

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

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Stauffer, Jacob, 1808-1880. Correspondence, 1844-1879.

Title: Correspondence, 1844-1879.

These letters concern various scientific subjects, such as fishes, insects, snakes, mice, fossils, and mosses. Other subjects include learned institutions, notably the Smithsonian Institution and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and men of science.

ArchivalResource: ca. 235 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122689524 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

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Darlington, William, 1782-1863. The synthetical register; or, A mental reservatory, being a repository of the superfluous mental effusions, and containing a summary of the life and transactions of "Euterpius." Vol.1-2.

Title: The synthetical register; or, A mental reservatory, being a repository of the superfluous mental effusions, and containing a summary of the life and transactions of "Euterpius." Vol.1-2. 1801-1847.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6588428 View

Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830. Papers of Stephen Elliott, 1791-1829 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Stephen Elliott, 1791-1829 (inclusive).

Consists of correspondence (mostly incoming) 1803-1828, from Henry Muhlenberg, James Macbride and others; a botanical manuscript containing Elliott's firsthand observations of 280 species of plants, 1810-1814; a notebook, 1791-1810, concerning his slaves and notes on gardening, rotation of crops and other topics; subscription forms from Elliott's book: A sketch of the botany ... ; and miscellaneous manuscripts, such as plant lists.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40879911 View

Darlington, William, 1782-1863. Practical astronomy, 1819.

Title: Practical astronomy, 1819.

Manuscript copy by William Darlington of parts of Alexander Ewing's Practical astronomy (Edinburgh, 1797). Includes problems, elements, and four folding diagrams. Written on blank or pencil-lined pages in a paper-bound book sold by Bennett & Walton of Philadelphia, with diagrams pasted in.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (44 p., 4 folded leaves) ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50337596 View

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Papers, 1798-1893 (bulk 1827-1887)

Title: Dorothea Lynde Dix papers, 1798-1893 (inclusive), 1827-1887 (bulk).

Correspondence and manuscripts of American educator, social reformer, and humanitarian, Dorothea Dix.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes (9.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00078/catalog View

Short, Charles Wilkins, 1794-1863. Letter : Hayfield, Ky., to Dr. William Darlington, 1850 Feb. 23.

Title: Letter : Hayfield, Ky., to Dr. William Darlington, 1850 Feb. 23.

Autograph letter signed. Signed by Short. Short compliments Darlington on his Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79053265 View

Flanner, Henry Beeson, 1820-1863. Papers, 1803-1884.

Title: Papers, 1803-1884.

The collection contains correspondence, deeds, Flanner's military service materials, and booklets. The correspondence mainly concerns the Henry Beeson family in Uniontown, Pa., and Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Richard Beeson is a frequent correspondent. Also included is botanical correspondence between Flanner and Dr. William Darlington; materials concerning Flanner's military service with the 113th Ohio regiment and his wife's attempts to collect his back pay; correspondence from Indianapolis of Orpha Annette Flanner; two booklets on Dr. William Darlington by Dr. Dorothy Lansing; and an oversized letter from Henry Beeson about dissipated residents of Mount Pleasant, Ohio and Uniontown, Pa.

ArchivalResource: 1 box and 1 oversize box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28591082 View

Darlington, William, 1782-1863. Correspondence with various persons / by William Darlington.

Title: Correspondence with various persons / by William Darlington.

ArchivalResource: 4 v. ; 26 cm.

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Darlington, William, 1782-1863. Notes taken from the lectures of Philip Syng Physick, M.D., on surgery, 1803-1804 / by William Darlington.

Title: Notes taken from the lectures of Philip Syng Physick, M.D., on surgery, 1803-1804 / by William Darlington.

One volume (327 pages) of notes on 29 surgery lectures delivered by Philip Syng Physick at the University of Pennsylvania during the winter session, 1803-1804. Lectures are dated from November 15, 1803 to February 28, 1804. Table of contents on 3 leaves at end.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Linnean Society of London. Correspondence of American scientists, 1738-1865.

Title: Correspondence of American scientists, 1738-1865.

Letters and papers to or from American scientists or about America, selected from the Linnean Society's collections. Includes letters to William Swainson from John Abbott, John J. Audubon, Constantine S. Rafinesque, Isaac Lea, and John E. LeConte; letters to Sir James Edward Smith from Jacob Bigelow, DeWitt Clinton, J.F. Correia da Serra, David Hosack, Theodore Lyman, William Dandridge Peck, Rafinesque, and Gotthilf H.E. Muhlenberg; letters to William Darlington; letters to Asa Gray; letters of John Bartram; letters of Peter Collinson to J.F. Gronovius; letters and papers of John Ellis, including letters from Alexander Garden, Samuel Martin, and Bernard Romans; letters to Carl Linnaeus from John Bartram, John Clayton, Cadwallader Colden, Correia da Serra, Peter Kalm, Adam Kuhn, James Logan, John Mitchell, and Charles Wrangel.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122488801 View

Darlington, William, 1782-1863. Table showing the whole no. of British plants with the number in the C.C. Cabinet : & the number wanting, in each class, February, 1832 holograph / [William Darlington].

Title: Table showing the whole no. of British plants with the number in the C.C. Cabinet : & the number wanting, in each class, February, 1832 holograph / [William Darlington]. 1832.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 12 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13246606 View

Darlington, William, 1782-1863. Papers, 1788, [ca. 1800]-1863.

Title: Papers, 1788, [ca. 1800]-1863.

Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, scrapbooks, a ship's log, and a minute book of William Darlington, 1788-1863.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

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Marshall, Humphry, 1722-1801. Humphry Marshall Papers, 1721-1863 (bulk: 1760-1800).

Title: Humphry Marshall Papers, 1721-1863 (bulk: 1760-1800).

Comprised predominantly of incoming correspondence of Quaker botanist and horticulturist, Humphry Marshall and his nephew, Moses Marshall. Two letter books kept by Moses Marshall in 1791 and 1793 provide a record of the Marshalls' responses to inquiries from clients seeking plants and seeds. Samuel Kramsh. These men were admirers and F/friends of Marshall's who exchanged specimens collected in distant parts of the country for native Pennsylvania species and species cultivated by Marshall in his garden. The unsuccessful search for wild Franklinia alatamaha is mentioned in three letters, while six letters outline plans for scientific expeditions to the west in the 1790's, mostly intended to involve Moses Marshall. While there is little in these letters to indicate the Marshalls' scientific. Abilities, per se, they help to delineate the complex network of family members, scientific associates and fellow Quakers used by the Marshalls to collect, sell and distribute plants. Morality of paying taxes during wartime (see Anthony Benezet and James Kenny), a letter relating to the North Carolina Regulator Insurrection, and one concerning the arrest and imprisonment of Quakers in Philadelphia as suspected loyalists. Finally, James Kenny's letters from the Pittsburg area, written in 1759-1760 provide an excellent account of plant collecting and life in the vicinity of Forts Pitt and Duquesne. A few letters concern Quaker doctrine and Quaker attempts to deal with the non-Quaker. World.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166587038 View

Vaughan, John, 1755-1841. Papers, 1768 - ca. 1936

Title: John Vaughan papers, 1768 - Circa 1936

The collection of about 850 items covers the period from 1782 to c. 1936, with the bulk dating to the 1780s to 1840s. The collection is divided into four series. Series I contains correspondence relating to a wide variety of topics, including French and English politics, business, trade, religious matters, and personal affairs. Many of the items are letters of introduction. There is also information on John Vaughan’s immigration to America, Joseph Priestley, vaccines and inoculation (with Jefferson's comments on the same), Vaughan's business in Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical Society. Also included in this series are 2 boxes with copies of Vaughan correspondence as well as miscellaneous notes by E. W. Madeira, gathered in the course of his research on Vaughan in the 1930s. Series II consists of three volumes. Included are two of Vaughan's commonplace books. One, entitled, "J. Vaughan's book," May 17, 1779 (47 pp., in Latin; 870/L34), includes mostly Latin notations. The other commonplace book, dated 1783 (ca. 66 pp.; B V 462.c), includes comments on several prominent Americans, such as Benjamin Rush and David Rittenhouse, as well as American society generally. The third volume is a copybook with thirty letters spanning the period 1784 to 1801 (B V462.1). Series III includes material relating to Vaughan's administration of the estate of the Philadelphia merchant Samuel Merrick, 1796-1822 (Vaughan-Merrick Papers, B V462.m; 2 boxes). Series IV consists of correspondence between Vaughan and the DuPont Co. for which he served as agent (B V462.4; photocopies of 73 letters).

ArchivalResource: 5.0 Linear feet, Ca. 850 items

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIb, 1807-1825

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIb 1807-1825

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.IIb-ead.xml View

Torrey, John, 1796-1873. Papers, 1818-1859.

Title: Papers, 1818-1859.

ALS. Papers consist mostly of letters written to Torrey by professional colleagues, botanists and geologists involved in exploration and surveyor expeditions. Notable correspondents include Louis Agassiz, A. D. Bache, Spencer Fullerton Baird, George Bentham, Jacob Bigelow, James Dwight Dana, William Darlington, Amos Eaton, Ebenezer Emmons, Asa Gray, A. Guyot, Robert Hare, Joseph Henry, Edward Hitchcock, John Lindley, Josiah Clark Nott, C. S. Rafinesque, and John White Webster. A complete list of correspondents is available.

ArchivalResource: 59 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35527699 View

Darlington, William, 1782-1863. Papers, 1777-1863.

Title: Papers, 1777-1863.

This collection includes miscellaneous letters and drafts of letters; genealogical notes, medical essays, copies of letters and essays sent to newspapers and magazines; bills and receipts; invitations; military and other commissions; and a biographical memoir of General John Lacey, 1823. There are also papers, principally official, of his son Lieut. B. S. B. Darlington, U.S.N.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122589373 View

Castle-Bache Collection, 1683-1922

Title: Castle-Bache Collection 1683-1922

A leading Jeffersonian journalist, Benjamin Franklin Bache was the eldest son of Richard and Sarah (Franklin) Bache, and grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Educated in France and Switzerland, Bache returned to the United States with his grandfather in 1785 and by 1790, had established himself as editor of the , a newspaper that became one of the most important voices for radical Republicanism in early national Philadelphia. Bache died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1798. His son Franklin Bache became a noted physician and chemist, teaching at the Franklin Institute (1826-1832), the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science (1831-1841), and at Jefferson Medical College. The Castle-Bache Collection contains a diverse assemblage of both personal and professional correspondence relating to the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin Bache, with interesting material relating to Bache's son, Franklin, and later generations of the Bache family. The collection also includes genealogical materials on the Franklins, Baches, Markoes, and cognate families, as well as a selection of miscellaneous printed materials. Aurora

ArchivalResource: 9.0 Reel(s)

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Shippen, William, 1736?-1808. Notes taken from the anatomical lectures of Doctors Shippen and Wistar, in the University of Pennsylvania, by Wm. Darlington, student of medicine [manuscript] : [followed by notes of William Shippen's "Lectures on midwifery"].

Title: Notes taken from the anatomical lectures of Doctors Shippen and Wistar, in the University of Pennsylvania, by Wm. Darlington, student of medicine [manuscript] : [followed by notes of William Shippen's "Lectures on midwifery"]. 1802-1803.

ArchivalResource: i, 91 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/252331179 View

Administrative correspondence of the Gray Herbarium and Harvard University Herbaria, 1890-2019, bulk 1890-1955

Title: Administrative correspondence of the Gray Herbarium and Harvard University Herbaria, 1890-2019, bulk 1890-1955

The collection consists of Gray Herbarium correspondence from the 1890s to present day but the bulk of the letters are from 1890-1955. Most of the letters are addressed to staff members of the Gray Herbarium and were transferred to the archives from office files. Some letters were gifts to the Gray Herbarium that were interfiled into the collection.

ArchivalResource: 75 linear feet

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00079/catalog View

Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876,. Letters, 1789-1858.

Title: Letters, 1789-1858.

These letters of American Philosophical Society members and prominent early American scientists were selected from Carson's extra-illustrated draft of "A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia, 1869).

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523529 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

Jacob Stauffer Papers, 1844-1879, 1844-1879

Title: Jacob Stauffer Papers, 1844-1879 1844-1879

These letters concern various scientific subjects, such as fishes, insects, snakes, mice, fossils, and mosses. Other subjects include learned institutions, notably the Smithsonian Institution and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and men of science. Correspondents include S. S. Haldeman, Walter J. Hoffman, Spencer F. Baird, Edward D. Cope, and Leo Lesquereux.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet, Ca. 235 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.St15-ead.xml View

Darlington, William, 1782-1863. William Darlington papers, 1843-1860, 1951.

Title: William Darlington papers, 1843-1860, 1951.

Letters (1848-1860) to Edward Tatnall, Jr., of Wilmington, Del., on botanical topics; On the Darlingtonia californica, a new pitcher-plant, by John Torrey (Smithsonian Institution, 1850); and speech (1951) on Darlington by Francis W. Pennell.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70979431 View

Eastwick Collection, 1767-1903.

Title: Eastwick Collection, 1767-1903.

This collection includes letters, diaries, notebooks, and early photographs, relating primarily to the Wister family of Germantown and Philadelphia. Much of the correspondence concerns domestic news and consists of letters from or to Sarah Wister. These include interesting observations on Germantown and Philadelphia society from other families as well, such as the Bayntons and Bullocks. There are numerous letters from various Wisters, including Casper, Charles Jones, Elizabeth (including a journal of a trip to Bristol, 1783), Hannah, John, Owen Jones, and others. There is also poetry by Sarah.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1500 items (2 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122464741 View

Papers, 1819-1852.

Title: Papers, 1819-1852.

Papers of American Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01265/catalog View

Lancaster, Joseph, 1778-1838. Letter : Washington, to William Darlington, 1821 Feb. 26.

Title: Letter : Washington, to William Darlington, 1821 Feb. 26.

Holograph signed. Sends copies of his books.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22532897 View

Darlington, William, 1782-1863. Letters, 1836-1857.

Title: Letters, 1836-1857.

These are to Darlington from Spencer F. Baird, Robert Carr, Edward D. Ingraham, Moses Marshall, George Ord, John Jay Smith, and John F. Watson, among others. A letter from Joseph Johnson encloses a sketch of the life of Stephen Elliott (1771-1830).

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122316436 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIe. 1845-1865.

Title: Record Group IIe.

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.IIe-ead.xml View

Eastwick Collection, 1746-1929, 1746-1929

Title: Eastwick Collection, 1746-1929 1746-1929

This collection includes letters, diaries, notebooks, and early photographs, relating primarily to the Wister family of Germantown and Philadelphia. Much of the correspondence concerns domestic news and consists of letters from or to Sarah Wister. These include interesting observations on Germantown and Philadelphia society from other families as well, such as the Bayntons and Bullocks. There are numerous letters from various Wisters, including Casper, Charles Jones, Elizabeth (including a journal of a trip to Bristol, 1783), Hannah, John, Owen Jones, and others. There is also poetry by Sarah.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Linear feet, Ca. 1500 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.974.811.Ea7-ead.xml View

Darlington, William, 1782-1863. William Darlington correspondence, 1801-1834.

Title: William Darlington correspondence, 1801-1834.

Correspondents include James Jefferson Wilson and Hezekiah Niles.

ArchivalResource: 280 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/152569242 View