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Rhode Island Medical Society. Records, [ca. 1791-1987].

Title: Records, [ca. 1791-1987].

Relates to the activities of the Society and various topics in medical research and the history of the medical sciences. Includes correspondence, reports, memos; addresses and speeches; case studies; documents; research/lecture notes and papers; medical notebooks; autograph letters of prominent men of medicine collected by George Dallas Hersey; medical drawings; photographs; meeting programs; biographical data; slides; miscellanea. Names of persons and groups represented include: William P. Davis; Helen DeJong; Robert F. Noyes; Herbert G. Partridge; Providence Franklin Society; Brown University School of Medicine.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 4 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122631792 View

Spalding, Matthias. Papers, 1801-1802, England.

Title: Papers, 1801-1802, England.

Papers include letters, a journal, lecture notes, and a printed advertisment for "Passage, packet and pleasure boats on the Grand Junction Canal". Correspondence from Edward Augustus Holyoke, Benjamin Waterhouse and Edward Jenner relate to Spalding's efforts to secure "vaccine matter" for both Holyoke and Waterhouse. Spalding's journal includes a meticulous record of expenses, under various headings, e.g. "amusements", "barber", and "washing woman and shoe black". Spalding took notes on lectures by Babington (72 pp.), Cline (113 pp.), Cooper (20 and 112 pp.), Fox (116 pp.) and Haighton (176 pp.).

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35359543 View

Babington, William, 1756-1833. Letter, 1828.

Title: Letter, 1828.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63644672 View

Babington, William, 1756-1833. William Babington letter fragment : [Alderwasly?] : ALS, 1826 Feb. 11.

Title: William Babington letter fragment : [Alderwasly?] : ALS, 1826 Feb. 11.

Second Babington signature attached.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 9 x 16 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26615538 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

Gibson, John. Notes taken during a course of lectures on chemistry by Wm. Babington M.D. &c. ... / by John Gibson.

Title: Notes taken during a course of lectures on chemistry by Wm. Babington M.D. &c. ... / by John Gibson. 1799-1800.

ArchivalResource: [2] leaves, 160 leaves, [10] leaves : ill. ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56960329 View