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Thomson, John Arthur, Sir 1861-1933. John Arthur Thomson papers, 1898-1924.

Title: John Arthur Thomson papers, 1898-1924.

Letters addressed to the British biologist from J.M. Dent, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, William P. Paterson, W.R. Sorley, Chalmers Watson, James Ward, J.T. Merz and others; manuscripts and corrected proofs of articles and portions of some of his books; and notes.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86093730 View

Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900. Letter : to Mr. Gross, 1898 Sep 15.

Title: Letter : to Mr. Gross, 1898 Sep 15.

Letter from Henry Acland to an unidentified recipient discussing raising funds for a public health building and the search for a successor to Lankester.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702165565 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

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Milner, Richard, 1941-. Collection, c1989, c2000.

Title: Collection, c1989, c2000.

The collection consists of two items: a typescript of Darwin for the prosecution, Wallace for the defense : how two great naturalists put the supernatural on trial; and a music cassette entitled Musical salute to Stephen Jay Gould.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound cassette (14 min.), 1/8 in. tape.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/137288469 View

Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854. Letters.

Title: Letters. [between 1835 and 1854]

A.L.S. (London) to Buckingham declining a speaking invitation and recommending Lankester, and A.L.S. (June 21) to an unidentified correspondent concerning a collection of specimens including a Lias urchin.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10166420 View

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895. Papers, 1846-1895.

Title: Papers, 1846-1895.

ArchivalResource: 20 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122644668 View

Stirling, Edward Charles, Sir. Papers and photos concerning specimens of Diprotodon australis collected by E.C. Stirling, 1893, 1899-1901.

Title: Papers and photos concerning specimens of Diprotodon australis collected by E.C. Stirling, 1893, 1899-1901.

ArchivalResource: : black & white ; 11 x17 cm or 26 x21 cm (11) photos.34 cm or smaller + 6 clippings, and "list of fossils for British Museum" 10 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182944191 View

Lankester Manuscript, 1922

Title: Lankester Manuscript 1922

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb103-msadd252 View

Sir William Rothenstein correspondence and other papers, 1887-1957.

Title: Sir William Rothenstein correspondence and other papers, 1887-1957.

Letters to English painter Sir William Rothenstein concerning both his professional and personal life as well as compositions by other authors.

ArchivalResource: 66 boxes and 2 volumes (33 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00491/catalog 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

Rawlins, Ray E. D., 1917-1979,. Collection of autographs of scientists, 1772-1973.

Title: Collection of autographs of scientists, 1772-1973.

This is a miscellaneous collection of letters, mainly of English scientists, written to various people. There are mostly one or two letters, except for those of John Peter Gassiot, William Huggins, Edwin R. Lankester, James Mackintosh, David Prain, and William Whewell.

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122489472 View

Autograph collection, 1816-1917, 1816-1917

Title: Autograph collection, 1816-1917 1816-1917

There are 153 letters in this collection, many addressed to Aubrey Lackington Moore, an English writer who tried to reconcile evolution and traditional Christianity. Some letters discuss scientific questions of the day, while others are formal social notes. Also includes 24 clipped signatures, inlcuding those of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland; Goerge Bentham; H. A. Bruce; S. H. Butcher; Matthewss Duncan; Percy Gardner; George Gritchett; G. Grote; Alfred Cort Haddon; Sir Prescott Gardner Hewitt; William Guyer Hunter; Thomas Henry Huxley; John Lingard; Thomas Babington Macauley; Miss K. Aubrey Moore; Louis Pasteur; Sir John Russell Reynolds, bart.; Thomas Smith; James Leigh Strachan-Davidson; Agnes Strickland; and Arthur Thomason.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M781-ead.xml View

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. Archive of the Darwin Papers Editorial Project, 1821-1882.

Title: Archive of the Darwin Papers Editorial Project, 1821-1882.

This collection contains a copy of almost every known Darwin letter and many letters written to him, arranged alphabetically by correspondent. They were used by the Project in preparation for their calendar (Frederick Burkhardt, et al., "A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882," New York, 1985) and in the edited edition of letters that is forthcoming. There is much useful information in the "Calendar" on the history of the Darwin papers and their present state.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122439822 View

Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900. Letter : to Mr. Gross, 1898 Sep 15.

Title: Letter : to Mr. Gross, 1898 Sep 15.

Letter from Henry Acland to an unidentified recipient discussing raising funds for a public health building and the search for a successor to Lankester.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/703648551 View

English Scientific Autograph Collection, [ca. 19th century], Circa 19th century

Title: English Scientific Autograph Collection, [ca. 19th century] Circa 19th century

The collection is a miscellaneous group of letters of mainly British scientists and physicians, purchased as an existing autograph collection. There are a few American signatures. The letters are primarily from the nineteenth century and focus on medical and geological topics, but also there are some earlier and later dates. In addition to the letters are anatomical drawings of surgery, sketches of bones, and one geological notebook.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Linear feet, Ca. 3,000 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.509.En3-ead.xml View

Collection of autographs of scientists, 1772-1973, 1772-1973

Title: Collection of autographs of scientists, 1772-1973 1772-1973

A miscellaneous collection of letters, mainly of English scientists, written to various people. There are mostly one or two letters, except for those of John Peter Gassiot, William Huggins, Edwin R. Lankester, James Mackintosh, David Prain, and William Whewell.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, Ca. 300 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.R199-ead.xml View

Lankester, Edwin Ray, Sir, 1847-1929. Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified recipient, 1897 May 5.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified recipient, 1897 May 5.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270846472 View

Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929. Letter.

Title: Letter. [between 1867 and 1929]

A.L.S. (May 9, South Kensington) to Lady Evans concerning the kindness of the Evanses during a vacation in Monte Carlo.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10326656 View

HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825-1895), 1839-1931

Title: HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825-1895) 1839-1931

ArchivalResource: 216 volumes/boxes

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb98-b/huxley View

Rogers Memorial Collection: Papers of James R. Osgood and A. V. S. Anthony, 1853-1912.

Title: Rogers Memorial Collection: Papers of James R. Osgood and A. V. S. Anthony, 1853-1912.

Primarily letters sent to the Boston publisher James R. Osgood and his associate A. V. S. Anthony.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01510/catalog 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

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

English Scientific Autograph Collection, [ca. 19th century].

Title: English Scientific Autograph Collection, [ca. 19th century].

This is a miscellaneous group of letters, purchased as an existing autograph collection, which centers on British scientists and physicians, but with a few American signatures. The letters are primarily from the nineteenth century and focus on medical and geological topics, but there are also some earlier and later dates. In addition to the letters are anatomical drawings of surgery, sketches of bones, and one geological notebook.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. : ca. 3,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122488704 View

Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester letters, 1892-[ca. 1903], 1892-1903

Title: Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester letters,1892-[ca. 1903] 1892-1903

These letters, most of which are undated, concern natural history, spiritualism, his publications, lectures, and teaching.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, 50 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.L28-ead.xml View

William Bateson papers, ca. 1875-1924, Circa 1875-1924

Title: William Bateson papers, ca. 1875-1924 Circa 1875-1924

Selected by William Coleman, this collection contains correspondence from Bateson to his wife, Catharine, and to his colleagues, such as Francis Galton, E. Roy Lankester, Alfred Newton, and Charles Scott Sherrington; lectures given between 1897-1904; and some genealogical and miscellaneous material.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.H.S.Film.26-ead.xml View

Bateson, William, 1861-1926. Papers, ca. 1875-1924.

Title: Papers, ca. 1875-1924.

Selected by William Coleman, this collection contains correspondence from Bateson to his wife, Catharine, and to his colleagues, such as Francis Galton, E. Roy Lankester, Alfred Newton, and Charles Scott Sherrington; lectures given between 1897-1904; and some genealogical and miscellaneous material.

ArchivalResource: 6 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122347511 View

Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929. Letters, 1892-[ca. 1903].

Title: Letters, 1892-[ca. 1903].

These letters, most of which are undated, concern natural history, spiritualism, his publications, lectures, and teaching.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173465793 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

Lankester, E Ray, Sir (Edwin Ray), 1847-1929. [Letters to Peter Chance 1924-1926] / Ray Lankester.

Title: [Letters to Peter Chance 1924-1926] / Ray Lankester.

ArchivalResource: ; 18 cm (5) letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182944011 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

W. J. (William Johnson) Sollas letters, 1888-1928, 1888-1928

Title: W. J. (William Johnson) Sollas letters, 1888-1928 1888-1928

These are letters written to Sollas primarily concerning British geology and paleontology. There are mostly one or two letters per author, and there is one letter from Sollas.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, 36 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.So4-ead.xml 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

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Thomas Henry Huxley papers, 1846-1895, 1846-1895

Title: Thomas Henry Huxley papers, 1846-1895 1846-1895

ArchivalResource: 20.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.H.S.Film.2-ead.xml View

Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932, 1784-1932

Title: Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932 1784-1932

These letters were assembled by Lady Paget as a collection of autographs. Most are addressed to Paget, and their subjects include medicine, science, and family.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 Linear feet, 196 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P212-ead.xml View

Sollas, W. J. (William Johnson), 1849-1936. Letters, 1888-1928.

Title: Letters, 1888-1928.

These are letters written to Sollas primarily concerning British geology and paleontology. There are mostly one or two letters per author, and there is one letter from Sollas.

ArchivalResource: 36 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122464721 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