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Sir Roderick Impey Murchison correspondence, 1829-1871, 1829-1871

Title: Sir Roderick Impey Murchison correspondence, 1829-1871 1829-1871

Series I is a miscellaneous collection of letters concerning geology, geological exploration of Russia, entomology, glaciers, appointments in the British Museum, Geological Society of London business, Royal Geographical Society, references to David Livingstone, and zoology. Series II consists of letters written from America, to Murchison, discussing geology, natural history, and contemporary topics.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet, 72 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M93-ead.xml View

John Endicott Peabody autograph album, 1816-1885.

Title: John Endicott Peabody autograph album, 1816-1885.

Autograph album of 19th century historical and literary figures compiled by John Endicott Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01513/catalog View

American Science and Medicine collection 1702-1897 American Science and Medicine collection

Title: American Science and Medicine collection 1702-1897 American Science and Medicine collection

The American Science and Medicine collection consists of miscellaneous items that document various aspects of science and medicine in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries.

ArchivalResource: 152 items

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-1898ame?rgn=main;view=text View

Owen, Richard, 1804-1892. Papers, 1827-1889.

Title: Papers, 1827-1889.

This collection contains correspondence on natural history, expecially mollusks, fishes, and birds, and on medicine and social affairs, with references to the British Museum of Natural History. Also included are a paper by Owen on dinosaurs and a synopsis of a course of lectures, 1857.

ArchivalResource: ca. 200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173465864 View

Buckland, William, 1784-1856. Letter to John Stevens Henslow, 1833, September 11.

Title: Letter to John Stevens Henslow, 1833, September 11.

In this four-page handwritten letter, Buckland talks about an excavation in Ely, Cambridgeshire. Henslow was working on it at the time but Buckland also knew the site. Buckland goes into detail about the strata of the "Great Gault Pit," and sketched the pit for Henslow (in pencil, with labels in ink). Buckland also talks about other geology issues as well as a skeleton of a megatherium (an ancient giant sloth) that Henslow found.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281307584 View

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873. Correspondence and other papers, 1821-1877

Title: Louis Agassiz correspondence and other papers, 1821-1877

Correspondence and legal papers of American professor of natural history Louis Agassiz.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00416/catalog View

William Buckland papers, 1817-1848, 1817-1848

Title: William Buckland papers, 1817-1848 1817-1848

These are primarily scientific letters from Buckland. The subjects mentioned include Milne-Home's seismological investigations, Wheatstone's self-registering instruments, geology (glacial phenomena in Scotland, mineralogy, etc.), numerous references to fossils, and mentions of Mastodon bones and sloths.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, 85 items.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B854.p-ead.xml View

Wells, John West, 1907-1994,. Collection of letters relating to William Buckland, 1842-1967.

Title: Collection of letters relating to William Buckland, 1842-1967.

Includes a holograph letter by Buckland (Oxford) to David Milne-Home (Edinburgh), dated 1842 Feb. 4, concerning the Geological Society of London, earthquake research in Scotland, and Louis Agassiz's theory on glaciers; a typed letter signed by Joan M. Eyles (Cheltenham) to John West Wells (Ithaca, N.Y.?), dated 1967 Nov. 8, discussing Buckland and Milne-Home and providing details on Eyles's recent book collecting activities and travels; and Eyles's typed transcript of Buckland's letter to Milne-Home, which she enclosed with her letter to Wells.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34175168 View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Autograph letters signed (2) : Denmark Hill [London] and [n.p.], to Mrs. Buckland, [no year] Dec. 14 and [n.d.].

Title: Autograph letters signed (2) : Denmark Hill [London] and [n.p.], to Mrs. Buckland, [no year] Dec. 14 and [n.d.].

Concerning the health of Mrs. Buckland's husband, William, professor of minerology at Oxford, and inviting him to stay with the Ruskins; also concerning a pupil.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (4 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270866266 View

An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, 1799-1882

Title: An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society 1799-1882

One of the most important natural historians in nineteenth century Britain, Charles Darwin provided the first compelling mechanism to account for organismal evolutionary change. Although lacking a coherent model of heredity, Darwin's natural selection has exerted an enormous influence over the biological sciences and since the introduction of Mendelian genetics, had remained the key unifying principle in the discipline. The APS Darwin Papers are a large a valuable assemblage of Darwin's correspondence with scientific colleagues, including Charles Lyell and George J. Romanes. They are included in the print version of the (Cambridge Univ. Press). Correspondence of Charles Darwin

ArchivalResource: 2.5 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.D25-ead.xml View

Smyth, W. H. (William Henry), 1788-1865. Correspondence, 1820-1864.

Title: Correspondence, 1820-1864.

This is a miscellaneous collection of letters, almost all written to Smyth by prominent scientists. The topics discussed include astronomy, microscopes, nautical almanacs, and submarine excursions. Also of interest is a letter from Thomas Graves, reporting what the Beagle (Charles Darwin's voyage) was encountering in South American waters.

ArchivalResource: 123 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122364941 View

Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871. Correspondence, 1829-1871.

Title: Correspondence, 1829-1871.

This is a miscellaneous collection of letters concerning geology, geological exploration of Russia, entomology, glaciers, appointments in the British Museum, Geological Society of London business, Royal Geographical Society, references to David Livingstone, and zoology.

ArchivalResource: 40 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173465852 View

Royal Society (Great Britain). Letters and communications from Americans, 1662-1900.

Title: Letters and communications from Americans, 1662-1900.

This collection includes letters to and from Americans (including South America and the West Indies) and letters about America selected from the Society's manuscripts (Classified Papers, Letter Books, Letters and Papers, Royal Society Letters, Miscellaneous Correspondence, and other official groups) and from collections of private papers (Sir Charles Blagden, William Buckland, John Canton, Sir John F. W. Herschel, Sir Edward Sabine, and others). The documents range in time and character from John Winthrop, Jr., "A Description of the Artifice & Making of Tarr & Pitch in New England" (1662), to letters from Sir Thomas Edward Thorne to his wife describing the American West, where he was on a surveying party in the 1880s.

ArchivalResource: 10 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17270716 View

Buckland, William, 1784-1856. Autograph letter signed : to Mr. Brookfield, 1846 Apr. 9.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to Mr. Brookfield, 1846 Apr. 9.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270528308 View

Crosse, Andrew, 1784-1855. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1842.

Two A.L.S. (undated, and 1842 Aug. 25), the former making a dinner appointment with Buckland, the latter recounting Crosse's theory of batteries creating organic life.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10062480 View

Manuscript Albums, 1615 - 1959

Title: Manuscript Albums 1615 - 1959

ArchivalResource: 2 volumes (1 linear metre)

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb186-msa View

William Hutton letters, 1821-1852, 1821-1852

Title: William Hutton letters, 1821-1852 1821-1852

These letters relate primarily to geology and botany, and there is also much on the Newcastle Natural History Society, of which Hutton was the secretary. There is much correspondence with Alexandre Brongniart, H. S. Davis, John S. Henslow, John Lindley, David Milne-Home, Roderick I. Murchison, George Steuart MacKenzie, and John Phillips.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet, Ca. 450 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.H978-ead.xml View

William L. Clements Library. American Science and Medicine collection, 1702-1897.

Title: American Science and Medicine collection, 1702-1897.

The American Science and Medicine collection consists of miscellaneous items that document various aspects of science and medicine in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries.

ArchivalResource: 152 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/740676968 View

Buckland, William, 1784-1856. Letter.

Title: Letter. 1834-1849.

Five A.L.S. to various correspondents including Ransom and Crosse, and an envelope.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9951948 View

Letters of Joseph Pentland (1797-1873), explorer, to Reverend William Buckland (1784-1856), geologist, 1820-1822, 1820-1822

Title: Letters of Joseph Pentland (1797-1873), explorer, to Reverend William Buckland (1784-1856), geologist, 1820-1822 1820-1822

Correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 1 box

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb159-pd View

Richard Owen papers, 1827-1889, 1827-1889

Title: Richard Owen papers, 1827-1889 1827-1889

This collection contains correspondence on natural history, expecially mollusks, fishes, and birds, and on medicine and social affairs, with references to the British Museum of Natural History. Also included are a paper by Owen on dinosaurs and a synopsis of a course of lectures, 1857.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 Linear feet; Ca. 200 items.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Ow2-ead.xml View

Samuel George Morton Papers, 1819-1850

Title: Samuel George Morton Papers 1819-1850

Through his craniometic studies of human races, the Philadelphia physician Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) exerted a profound influence on the development of physical anthropology in antebellum America, and made substantial contributions to mineralogy, paleontology, and natural history. Relating primarily to Morton's scientific interests, the Morton Papers include insights into Morton's perspectives on education, medical practice, geology and mineralogy, craniology, paleontology, the Wilkes Exploring Expedition (also known as the United States Exploring Expedition 1838-1842), and his two major monographs, the and . Several of the letters were written by Morton in his capacity as corresponding secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Also included in this collection are Morton's "Some Remarks on the Infrequency of Mixed Offspring Between the European and Australian Races" (1850), Joseph Barclay Pentland's notes on the aborigines of Peru (ca. 1840?), and newspaper clippings on Morton's death; a diary of Morton's trip to the West Indies, 1834, a set of craniological sketches for use in Crania Americana, and a microfilm of letters in private hands, written to Morton, 1838-1844 Crania Americana Crania Aegyptiaca

ArchivalResource: 2.25 Linear feet; 5 boxes, bound volumes, microfilm

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M843-ead.xml View

Royal Society (Great Britain) letters and communications from Americans, 1662-1900, 1662-1900

Title: Royal Society (Great Britain) letters and communications from Americans, 1662-1900 1662-1900

This collection includes letters to and from Americans (including South America and the West Indies) and letters about America selected from the Society's manuscripts (Classified Papers, Letter Books, Letters and Papers, Royal Society Letters, Miscellaneous Correspondence, and other official groups) and from collections of private papers (Sir Charles Blagden, William Buckland, John Canton, Sir John F. W. Herschel, Sir Edward Sabine, and others). The documents range in time and character from John Winthrop, Jr., "A Description of the Artifice & Making of Tarr & Pitch in New England" (1662), to letters from Sir Thomas Edward Thorne to his wife describing the American West, where he was on a surveying party in the 1880s.

ArchivalResource: 10.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.H.S.Film.1-ead.xml View

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. Letters, 1837-1882.

Title: Letters, 1837-1882.

Chiefly correspondence between Darwin and other scientists on scientific topics, notably natural selection, the theory of evolution, the controversy caused by "On the Origin of Species," and coral islands.

ArchivalResource: ca. 950 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122689491 View

Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859. Papers, 1801-1859.

Title: Papers, 1801-1859.

This collection contains miscellaneous letters and papers relating to his explorations in South America, Cuba, and Mexico, his scientific investigations, and his publications.

ArchivalResource: ca. 250 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122589207 View

Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875. Papers, 1783-1884.

Title: Papers, 1783-1884.

These are primarily letters to Gray on various aspects of natural history, with many references to collections at the British Museum of Natural History. There are numerous letters from British scientists and from European colleagues. There are letters from Americans too, such as those from Agassiz which relate to his Florida expeditions and the creation of natural history collections.

ArchivalResource: ca. 500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523596 View

William Buckland letters, 1827-1840

Title: William Buckland letters 1827-1840

English geologist and clergy member. Seven letters.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/7948 View

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873. Papers, 1833-1873.

Title: Papers, 1833-1873.

This is a miscellaneous collection of letters written by Agassiz and concerning a wide range of topics: natural history and naturalists, geology, mineralogy, fossils, publications, expeditions, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122347512 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

Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

https://sova.si.edu/record/SIA.FARU7060 View

Eyles Collection, 1679-1983

Title: Eyles Collection 1679-1983

ArchivalResource: 5 archive boxes

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb3-dm1186 View

Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866. [Letter, 1832 Oct. 13, Buckland, Va., to William Buckland, Christ's Church, Oxford, England] [manuscript].

Title: [Letter, 1832 Oct. 13, Buckland, Va., to William Buckland, Christ's Church, Oxford, England] [manuscript]. [1832]

Letter from George William Featherstonhaugh to William Buckland, discussing the geology and mineralogy of the area surrounding Buckland, Virginia; while the author briefly touches on the larger geological features and mineral deposits of the entire American East, he focuses on the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains, particularly on a lode of quartz that "has in some instances 30 to 50 per cent of pure gold ... a lode (about 15 feet broad) richer than has ever been found in any country"; the author mentions the possibility of publishing the find in a memoir for the Geological Society, and closes his letter by deprecating John Mardon, who was apparently publishing something for him.

ArchivalResource: [4] p. on 1 bifolium : paper ; 244 x 196 mm. + 1 seal.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436467244 View

W. H. (William Henry) Smyth correspondence, 1820-1864, 1820-1864

Title: W. H. (William Henry) Smyth correspondence, 1820-1864 1820-1864

This is a miscellaneous collection of letters, almost all written to Smyth by prominent scientists. The topics discussed include astronomy, microscopes, nautical almanacs, and submarine excursions. Also of interest is a letter from Thomas Graves, reporting what the Beagle (Charles Darwin's voyage) was encountering in South American waters.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, 123 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sm98-ead.xml View