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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.

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Sheepshanks, R. (Richard), 1794-1855. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1850-1851.

Two A.L.S. (1850 July 3 and 1851 June 23, Royal Astronomical Society) to Lubbock, and 1 A.L.S. to Airy of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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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

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Wheatstone, Charles, Sir, 1802-1875. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1830-1879.

Twenty-one A.L.S. (1830-1875), one in French, to various correspondents including Frankland (1860), Home (1843), Lubbock (1845, 1851), and Moigno (1852), and Doc. S. (1879[!] July 28, Paris) concerning the Institut de France, Academie des Sciences. Topics include photography electro-magnetism, telegraphy, scientific apparatus, the Atmospheric Railway, and the stereoscope.

ArchivalResource: 22 items : ill., port.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10448723 View

Hind, J. Russell (John Russell), 1823-1895. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1848-1850.

Three A.L.S. to Lubbock concerning astronomical subjects.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 1774-1862. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1815-1856.

11 A.L.S. to various correspondents including Bersin, Blagden, and Lubbock.

ArchivalResource: 11 items : port.

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Lubbock, J. W. (John William), 1803-1865. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1832-1860.

Six A.L.S. to various correspondents including Herschel and Kingsley, 2 zincographs concerning a Cambridge University election, and an autograph fragment with signature to the executors of Chantrey.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10369783 View

Autograph File, L, 1641-1976.

Title: Autograph File, L, 1641-1976.

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

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (5.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01435/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

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Baily, Francis, 1774-1844. Papers ca. 1820-1844.

Title: Papers ca. 1820-1844.

Pendulum observations, correspondence (261 items) with Sir J.F.W. Herschel, 1820-1844, 48 letters to Sir E. Sabine, and 44 to Sir J.W. Lubbock, 1830-1840.

ArchivalResource: 353 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84185965 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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Lassell, William, 1799-1880. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1851-[1860?]

A.L.S. (1851 Nov. 13, Starfield) declining invitation from Lubbock, and A.L.S. (Wednesday, Bradstones) declining invitation from Mrs. Thompson.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10318768 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.

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John F. Glaser collection of historical autograph letters and manuscripts, 1739-1933.

Title: John F. Glaser collection of historical autograph letters and manuscripts, 1739-1933.

Correspondence of William Eward Gladstone as well as other letters written by British royalty, various British prime ministers, and other prominent persons, collected by John F. Glaser.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00500/catalog View

Arago, F. (François), 1786-1853. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1815-1850.

Letters from Arago, including A.L.S. to Berthier, Milne-Edwards, Oersted, an A.L.S. recommending Bruslé for a professorship, and an A.L.S. mentioning Annales de chimie; manuscripts, including a fragment of a eulogy for Volta; and A.D.S. acknowledging receipt of books from Lubbock, Wheatstone, and Huot in Arago's position as secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie royale des sciences; in French and English.

ArchivalResource: 32 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9844185 View

Whewell, William, 1794-1866. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1831-1861.

Five A.L.S. to Hodgeson ([18]31), Murchison (1841), Lubbock (1846, 1847), and Richard Bentley (1861).

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10448692 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

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Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801-1892. Letters, 1827-1883

Title: Letters. 1827-1883.

63 A.L.S. to various recipients, including Arago, Beaufort, Hogg, Lubbock, and Oersted; 2 D.S. acknowledging receipt of books for the Royal Observatory; holograph copy of letter to Comptroller General of the Exchequer; and 3 envelopes.

ArchivalResource: 69 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9873033 View

Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883. Papers, 1818-1870.

Title: Papers, 1818-1870.

Correspondence (1,841 items); memoirs (6); journal of observataions made on the Ross expedition, 1818; correspondence (363 items) with Sir. J. F. W. Herschel, 1825-1870; letters (35) with Sir. J. W. Lubbock, 1830-1852.

ArchivalResource: Ca. 1840 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77584632 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.

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Charles Darwin papers, 1831-1882, 1831-1882

Title: Charles Darwin papers, 1831-1882 1831-1882

Correspondence of Charles Darwin with his family, Sir William J. Hooker, Sir John W. Lubbock, William Ogle, Daniel Oliver, John Tyndall, and Sir William Ramsay, 1836-1882. (1 reel). Letters to J. Brodie-Innes, W. H. Bates, Lady Dorothy Nevill, and others (1846-1882); also letters to his wife and son and letters and papers about him (1 reel). Letters from Darwin to G. H. K. Thwaites, William B. Tegetmeier, Albany Hancock, Richard Owen, Bernhard Studer, Auguste H. Forel, J. Moulinie, A. Bohrn, Karl Christoph Vogt, François Joseph Pictet de la Rive, and others.

ArchivalResource: 8.0 Microfilm reel(s)

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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1836-1881.

Correspondence, including 26 A.L.S. to various correspondents including Busk, Henslow, Hutton, Lubbock, Mallet, Popper, Stuart-Murray, Westropp, and White, holograph excerpts from a letter to Chambers, envelopes, and holograph documents, including pages from the text of Origin of Species and Insectivorous Plants.

ArchivalResource: 42 items in 4 cases.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10074025 View

Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872. Papers, [ca. 1781-ca. 1877].

Title: Papers, [ca. 1781-ca. 1877].

This microfilm of Somerville's papers was compiled by Elizabeth C. Patterson for her book, "Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840" (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1983). It includes Somerville's scientific writings, personal writings, "letters from celebrities," family papers, genealogy, and photographs. Subjects of some of her writings include astronomy, Halley's comet, effects of light, and physical geography.

ArchivalResource: 19 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122616125 View

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. Papers, 1831-1882.

Title: Papers, 1831-1882.

ArchivalResource: 8 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584290 View

Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801-1892. Papers, 1824-1875.

Title: Papers, 1824-1875.

Correspondence (327 items) with Sir J. F. W. Herschel, 1824-1875; letters (113) to Sir J. W. Lubbock, 1829-1860; miscellaneous letters (220).

ArchivalResource: Ca. 660 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79752711 View

Pontécoulant, G. de (Gustave), 1795-1874. Letter.

Title: Letter. 1853.

A.L.S. (1853 Nov. 10, Paris) to Lubbock about Lubbock's research on the moon and the astronomical topics Pontécoulant plans to treat in his next book, with envelope ; in French.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10377462 View

Le Verrier, U.-J. (Urbain J.), 1811-1877. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1846-1876.

Twenty-six A.L.S. and 1 L.S. in a fair hand to various correspondents including Barral, Bernays, and Lubbock ; in French.

ArchivalResource: 27 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10326560 View

Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1871. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1851-1869.

Thirty-five A.L.S. to various recipients including Arago, Collingwood, Daniell, Elliott, Lubbock, Moigno, Quetelet, and Schumacher, 2 autograph signatures, 1 D.S., 8 holograph manuscripts, 4 envelopes, 2 printed sheets with annotations, and a manuscript copy of a speech by Herschel.

ArchivalResource: 53 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10238833 View

Mary Somerville papers, [ca. 1781-ca. 1877], Circa 1781-1877

Title: Mary Somerville papers, [ca. 1781-ca. 1877] Circa 1781-1877

This microfilm of Somerville's papers was compiled by Elizabeth C. Patterson for her book, "Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840" (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1983). It includes Somerville's scientific writings, personal writings, "letters from celebrities," family papers, genealogy, and photographs. Subjects of some of her writings include astronomy, Halley's comet, effects of light, and physical geography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Film.1281-ead.xml View

Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774-1857. Letter.

Title: Letter. 1850.

A.L.S. (1850 May 14) from Beaufort to Lubbock concerning Lubbock's gnomonic projection.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9851131 View

Buckland, William, 1784-1856. Letters, 1817-1848.

Title: Letters, 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: 85 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122689446 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

Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1828-1854.

One A.L.S. (1829 Dec. 27) to Arago concerning the Aurora Borealis and magnetism, in French, 1 printed form letter of the Royal Society (1828 June 13) signed by Sabine as secretary, to Rev. Josiah Forshall, 5 A.L.S. to various correspondents including J. B. Yates, Dr. Neumeyer, Gassiot, and perhaps Lubbock, and 1 A.L.S. (1838 Feb. 20) enclosing 1 A. Ms. S. (3 p.) concerning magnetic observations in India.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10416259 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

Herschel Family. Papers, 1721-1951, (bulk 1810-1871).

Title: Papers, 1721-1951, (bulk 1810-1871).

The bulk of the Herschel papers consists of Sir John F.W. Herschel's correspondence, essays, drawings, notes, calculations, reports, notebooks, charts, documents, memoranda books, diaries, and travel journals from 1809 to 1871. Also present are Caroline Lucretia Herschel's correspondence, biographical memoranda, documents, tables, and diaries from 1787 to 1846; Sir William Herschel's correspondence, essays, notes, and tables from 1758 to 1822; correspondence and essays by other members of the Herschel family, colleagues, and acquaintances; and reports, minutes, and documents of various organizations to which John F.W. Herschel belonged. Among manuscripts of Sir John Herschel's works are his writings on actinometry, astronomy, the barometer, biology, chemistry, geology, music, photography, physical optics, physics, and other subjects, as well as 37 poems he wrote between 1826 and 1842. A manuscript of one of Herschel's earliest works, Memoir on a Remarkable Application of Cote's Theorems, is present in the collection, as are notebooks from his student years. Notes from numerous chemistry experiments date from 1848 to 1870. Diaries cover the years 1820-71, while travel journals from 1809 to 1850 contain observations on tours in Italy, France, Germany, and England. Herschel's reports, notes, star charts, financial accounts, and diaries from his work at an observation point at the Cape of Good Hope are present. Reports, essays, and documents of various organizations with which Sir John was associated, including the Royal Mint (1850-55), the English Committee for the Terrestrial Magnetism Survey (1838-39), the Greenwich Observatory (1830), the Royal University Commission (1850), the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Commission on Standards of Weights and Measurements (1838-43), are also included. Items in the miscellaneous works series include Sir John Herschel's sketches titled "Profiles Taken with the Camera Lucida," sketches of apparatus, and various writings and calculations. Sir John's list of his publications chronologically records all of his published books, articles, and letters from 1812 to 1870. The letters series comprises correspondence from Sir John Herschel to over 200 correspondents, including George Biddell Airy, Mary Baldwin, W.E. Gladstone, Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel, Richard Jones, Henry Rich, Edward Sabine, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Charles E. Trevelyan. The miscellaneous series is comprised of correspondence to Sir John Herschel, correspondence and works of other members of the Herschel family, and correspondence and works of colleagues and acquaintances. Also included are Sir John's account books, memoranda books, and Lady Herschel's housekeeping books from 1822 to 1840. Correspondence to Sir John Herschel includes nearly 1200 letters from such correspondents as George Biddell Airy, Jasper Atkinson, Charles Babbage, William Thomas Brande, Henry Drury Harness, George Peacock, Richard Sheepshanks, and William Whewell. Within Sir William Herschel's correspondence are letters from his father and other relatives in Germany. Sir William's "Concerning the Central Powers of the Particles of Matter," "My Idea of Matter," "Remarks on Dr. Priestly's Disquisition on Matter and Spirit," "Interference of Light," notes on astronomy, notes on optics, and various mathematical tables are represented in the collection. A list of the telescopes Sir William constructed and documents relating to his early musical career are also present. Sir William's biographical memoranda from 1758 to 1787, recopied by Caroline Herschel, and the original draft of Sir John's obituary of his father, are included as well. Among Caroline Herschel's correspondence are letters from Carl Gauss, John Haygarth, Alexander von Humboldt, and Joseph Lalande. Caroline Herschel's manuscripts include diaries from 1833 to 1845, biographical memoranda, an autobiography, documents about the disposal of her property, her will, diplomas, the royal warrant for her salary, and her astronomical tables. Her commonplace book of astronomical memoranda records her education as an astronomer. Correspondence by various other members of the Herschel family dates from 1721 to 1951. Correspondence and writings by other scientists, such as George Biddell Airy and John Dalton, complete the miscellaneous series.

ArchivalResource: 47 boxes (20 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122472759 View