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Sir Charles Lyell correspondence, 1811-1882, 1811-1882

Title: Sir Charles Lyell correspondence, 1811-1882 1811-1882

From negative microfilm held by Dr. Leonard G. Wilson, the collection consists mostly of incoming correspondence from English and American scientists, with a small section of correspondence from Lyell.

ArchivalResource: 10.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.H.S.Film.4-ead.xml View

John Torrey Papers, 1788-1871 (bulk 1806-1871)

Title: John Torrey Papers, 1788-1871 (bulk 1806-1871)

The collection consists of correspondence, both incoming and outgoing, from 1818 to 1873, and pertains to Torrey's work as a botanist and professor. Much of the scientific correspondence is in regard to the identification of plants from the vast interior of the continent through government sponsored expeditions, primarily John Fremont's second and third expeditions to the Rocky Mountains in 1842 and to Oregon and northern California in 1843. The collection contains plant lists and collecting localities as well as botanical notes and plant descriptions from Asa Gray and John Torrey. A collection of letters to and from individuals other than John Torrey, (some of which pre-date Torrey's birth) are also contained in the collection. It is not clear how Torrey came to possess these letters. Manuscripts of Torrey's Florula Princetoniana and Calendarium florae for the vicinity of New York have been cataloged and reside in the Rare Book Room. The collection also contains some artwork drawn by John Torrey himself, and other drawings he used as a reference for his identification work. The artwork from Torrey's Plants of New York for the Cabinet at Albany and Genera of Fungi were drawn by John Torrey. Other drawings include "'Figures of Hepaticae' copied from Hooker's great work", Musci exotici. The artwork has been removed to the New York Botanical Garden Art and Illustration collection - Collection #60. John Torrey's vasculum is also contained within the collection.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 linear feet (11 boxes)

http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/libr/finding_guide/torrey.asp.html View

Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856. Correspondence, 1812-1856

Title: John Collins Warren correspondence, 1812-1856 (inclusive).

Most of the collection consists of autograph letters by prominent physicians and scientists in America and abroad to Warren. There is one letter from his son, John Warren. Two letters are by Warren, one to David Hosack, a copy made by Warren, and the other ia letter to Philip Syng Physick.

ArchivalResource: 36 items (1 box).

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/6602696 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

Pease, Arthur Stanley, 1881-1964. Correspondence and compositions, 1870-1963

Title: Arthur Stanley Pease correspondence and compositions 1870-1963

Contains correspondence and writings of classics professor andAmherst College president Arthur Stanley Pease.

ArchivalResource: 16 linear feet (32 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01321/catalog View

Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874. Diaries, 1857-1873 (inclusive).

Title: Diaries, 1857-1873 (inclusive).

Diary notes and descriptions of travel (in South America) and daily events, including some drawings.

ArchivalResource: 16 volumes at 19 x 13 x 1 centimeters each.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/731129244 View

Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925. Collection related to Dorothy G. Wayman's 1942 biography of Edward Sylvester Morse, 1854-1964.

Title: Collection related to Dorothy G. Wayman's 1942 biography of Edward Sylvester Morse, 1854-1964.

ArchivalResource: 30 folders in 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181160057 View

Oliver Wendell Holmes letters from various correspondents, 1820-1894

Title: Oliver Wendell Holmes letters from various correspondents

Letters sent to Oliver Wendell Holmes by various correspondents.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet (10 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01350/catalog View

Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874. Sketchbooks, 1865-1870 (inclusive).

Title: Sketchbooks, 1865-1870 (inclusive).

Sketches drawn by Wyman, including sketches from travels in Florida.

ArchivalResource: 2 volumes at 11 x 17 x 1 centimeters each.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/731129255 View

Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874. Papers of Jeffries Wyman, 1826-1909 (inclusive), 1832-1874 (bulk).

Title: Papers of Jeffries Wyman, 1826-1909 (inclusive), 1832-1874 (bulk).

Contains correspondence with colleagues, including Charles Darwin, Asa Gray, and Louis Agassiz, concerning such topics as collecting specimens for the ethnology museum, scientific expeditions, Harvard Medical School, spontaneous generation, fossils, and shell heaps. Correspondence with family members, especially Wyman's father, his brother Morrill Wyman, and friends, pertains to his medical studies in Paris, travels, teaching at Hampden-Sydney College, and family and social matters. Also includes account books, bibliographies, photographs, family memorabilia, and biographical information.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281435333 View

North American Review papers, 1831-1843

Title: North American Review papers, 1831-1843

These papers are primarily manuscripts of, and materials relating to, articles published in the magazine during the editorship of John Gorham Palfrey. North American Review

ArchivalResource: 7 linear feet (20 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00073/catalog View

Putnam, Frederic Ward, 1839-1915. Papers, 1807-1971 (bulk: 1855-1935)

Title: Frederic Ward Putnam papers, 1807-1971, bulk 1855-1935

This collection of Putnam papers were formerly part of the Ralph Dexter Papers at Kent State University Archives. They include FW Putnam family correspondence, professional papers and ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/pea00054/catalog View

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911. Carte de visite album, 1862-1866

Title: Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) Carte de Visite Album (1862-1866)

Album entitled "Harvard Photographs" consists of 25 cartes-de-visite, chiefly taken between 1862-1866, collected by Higginson, mainly of Harvard University graduates, professors or administrators, with a few exceptions: a crayon drawing of Mrs. W.E. Channing, carte- de- visite of Francis Jackson, and one of Holworthy Hall on the Harvard University campus. Persons represented include Louis Agassiz, Francis Bowen, William Ellery Channing, Ruth Gibbs Channing, Walter Channing, George William Curtis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, C.C. Felton, Waldo Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Samuel Longfellow, Charles Russell Lowell, James Jackson Lowell, James Russell Lowell, James Jackson, Joseph Lovering. John Lothrop Motley, Benjamin Pierce, Jared Sparks, John F.W. Ware, Jeffries Wyman, and Morrill Wyman.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (25 cartes-de-visite)

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Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914. Papers, 1854-1915 and undated.

Title: Papers, 1854-1915 and undated.

Papers include documents and correspondence relating to matters personal and professional. Mitchell's principal correspondents include his relative Mitchell Henry, his publisher Frank H. Scott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jeffries Wyman, Charles-Eduoard Brown-Seguard, Louis Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, Anna Eliot Ticknor, W. T. Gairdner, Louis Lee Lawrence, Charles Leonard Moore, Julian Stafford Corbett, Harrison S. Morris, T. Lauder Brunton, William Osler and Hideyo Noguchi, among others. A complete list of correspondents and brief descriptions of the content of the letters are available. Papers are arranged chronologically. The principal language is English, although there are some letters in French and German.

ArchivalResource: 747 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31756949 View

Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864. Letter, 1849 Oct. 30, Amherst, to Publishing Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, care of Jeffries Wyman, Cambridge, Mass.

Title: Letter, 1849 Oct. 30, Amherst, to Publishing Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, care of Jeffries Wyman, Cambridge, Mass.

Transmits a letter of W.W. Mather to Hitchcock (1838 Oct. 26) about the origins of the Association of American Geologists (forerunner of the AAAS), and requests the committee to publish a correction regarding the roles of Mather and Hitchcock in founding the AAG.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. on 2 l. 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6297633 View

Papers of George Wald, 1927-1996

Title: Papers of George Wald, 1927-1996

George David Wald, 1906-1997, was a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, Higgins Professor of Biology at Harvard University, and a promoter of progressive political and social causes. These papers document both his life as a scientist and his life as a social activist.

ArchivalResource: ca. 48 cubic feet in 145 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua02000/catalog View

Charles Eliot Norton papers

Title: Charles Eliot Norton papers

This archive contains letters addressed to Charles Eliot Norton from about 1845 to1908. Norton was a Harvard graduate (A.B. 1846) and professor of the History of Fine Arts at Harvard from 1874 to 1898, with a special interest in the study and translation of Dante. Many of the letters in this collection deal with art and with Dante. In addition he knew a great many prominent figures in both England and the United States, especially those in the political field and the literary and artistics fields. His correspondence with these people often touches upon their public and their private lives. From 1863 to 1868 Norton was joint editor with his friend James Russell Lowell of the North American review. The letters addressed to him as editor are marked in this index by a star (*) and the folders containing them are stamped with a red N.A.R.(=North American Review). In 1898 Norton's opposition to the Spanish-American war led Senator George F. Hoar to criticize him. A list of some of the letters Norton received commenting on this controversy is at the end of this index. Referenced throughout the finding aid is the Excavations at Delphi (scrapbook folder) with a folder designation, such as f.1, f.2, and so on. All folders can be found at item number 5308.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear feet (45 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00083/catalog View

Parsons, Usher, 1788-1868. Papers, 1819-1840.

Title: Papers, 1819-1840.

ALS. Personal and professional correspondence includes letters from R.N.D. Desgenettes, Jeffries Wyman, John Jeffries, John Collins Warren, James Thacher, Thomas M. Potter, George Hayward, John Witt Randall, Enoch Hale, John White Webster, Jerome van Crowninshield Smith, John D. Fisher, James Jackson and J.B. Whitridge. Papers also include a letter from Parsons to his brother-in-law, Oliver Wendell Holmes.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35231275 View

Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874. Catalogue of collection of comparative anatomy in Boylston Hall belonging to Jeffries Wyman.

Title: Catalogue of collection of comparative anatomy in Boylston Hall belonging to Jeffries Wyman. [1860?]

Ms. (photocopy)

ArchivalResource: 141, [11] leaves. 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154323341 View

Letters sent to Francis Minot, 1847-1879.

Title: Letters sent to Francis Minot, 1847-1879.

Letters sent to Professor of Medicine, Francis Minot.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00023/catalog View

Haurowitz, Felix, 1896-1987. Mss., 1920-1985

Title: Haurowitz mss. 1920-1985

Papers of chemist and Indiana University professor Felix Haurowitz, 1896-1987.

ArchivalResource: 7500 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA1268 View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

Salvador E. Luria Papers, 1923-1992

Title: Salvador E. Luria Papers 1923-1992

A bacteriologist from MIT, Salvador E. Luria's work with Max Delbruck on bacteriophage demonstrated that bacterial resistance to certain phages arose through genetic mutations. His later work showed that phages also mutate genetically. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969 with Max Delbruck and Alfred D. Hershey. The collection is organized into seven series: I. Correspondence, 1938-1992 ; IIa. Subject Files, 1938-1990 ; IIb. Personal Material. 1923-1991 ; III. Works by Luria, 1938-1987 ; IV. Works by Others, 1944-1990 ; V. Research Notes and Notebooks, 1941-1979 ; VI. Course Material, 1931-1991 ; VII. Photographs and Negatives, 1957-1982. Arrangement: Alphabetical by folder title and then chronological within each folder.

ArchivalResource: 44.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.39-ead.xml View

Harris, Thaddeus William, 1795-1856. Papers, ca. 1818-1852

Title: Thaddeus William Harris papers, approximately 1818-1852

Correspondence, botanical lectures, and notebooks of natural historian and Harvard librarian Thaddeus William Harris.

ArchivalResource: 0.3 linear feet (14 folders)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00030/catalog View

Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Title: Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Papers of the Palfrey family of New England. The material of this collection encompasses over 150 years of American history and many items of interest besides those documenting the life and works of John Gorham Palfrey, who is its central figure. A few of these may be briefly mentioned here. The papers of William Palfrey include letters between John Wilkes and the Sons of Liberty and William Palfrey's personal correspondence with Wilkes at the time of the latter's imprisonment in 1769-1770, including Palfrey's description of the Boston Massacre. William Palfrey's business account and financial papers are extensive and range in subject from accounts of trade with Virginia in 1763 to the disposition of funds of the Continental Army during the time Palfrey was Pay Master General. His close association and correspondence with John Hancock should be noted. Several interesting items pertain to the dispute between Hancock and the Boston printer, John Mein, which resulted in Thomas Longman's suit against Mein and the latter's imprisonment. The papers of John Palfrey deal mainly with his business affairs and the management of his plantation at Attakapas. However, several letters by his sons, Edward, William Taylor, and Henry William give first-hand accounts of battles in the war of 1812. Letters to John Gorham Palfrey from over 1000 corespondents form the largest single section in the collection. Of special importance are 377 letters from Jared Sparks and 148 letters from Charles Sumner.

ArchivalResource: 60 linear feet (130 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00387/catalog 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

Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891. Letter, 1870 February 4, Philadelphia, to Jeffries Wyman, [n.p.].

Title: Letter, 1870 February 4, Philadelphia, to Jeffries Wyman, [n.p.].

Removed from Journal of Natural Sciences, n.s., v. 7 to which it refers.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. on 1 fold. leaf. 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5337220 View

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873. Reports of the Museum of Comp[arative] Zoology and Am[erican] Archaeology / Agassiz [and] Wyman.

Title: Reports of the Museum of Comp[arative] Zoology and Am[erican] Archaeology / Agassiz [and] Wyman. 1861-1872 [i.e. 1874]

ArchivalResource: 23 items in 1 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43451450 View