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Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778. Films of the Linnaean collections / Carl Linnaeus.

Title: Films of the Linnaean collections / Carl Linnaeus.

ArchivalResource: ; 35 mm + list of items (6 leaves; 30 cm) (141) Microfilms.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182944402 View

Sir Francis Darwin letters, 1868-1925, 1868-1925

Title: Sir Francis Darwin letters, 1868-1925 1868-1925

These are principally letters to Charles Edward Sayle on musical programs and to Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing about the Linnean Society, the Royal Society, and the publication of Charles Darwin's papers. There is also a letter of Charles Darwin to Stebbings and several letters of Francis Darwin to other persons. In addition, there are several letters to William Bowman (as well as from Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann to Bowman), and one from Raphael Meldola.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, 50 items.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.D254-ead.xml 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

Linnean Society of London correspondence of American scientists, 1738-1865, 1738-1865

Title: Linnean Society of London correspondence of American scientists, 1738-1865 1738-1865

Letters and papers to or from American scientists or about America, selected from the Linnean Society's collections. Includes letters to William Swainson from John Abbott, John J. Audubon, Constantine S. Rafinesque, Isaac Lea, and John E. LeConte; letters to Sir James Edward Smith from Jacob Bigelow, DeWitt Clinton, J.F. Correia da Serra, David Hosack, Theodore Lyman, William Dandridge Peck, Rafinesque, and Gotthilf H.E. Muhlenberg; letters to William Darlington; letters to Asa Gray; letters of John Bartram; letters of Peter Collinson to J.F. Gronovius; letters and papers of John Ellis, including letters from Alexander Garden, Samuel Martin, and Bernard Romans; letters to Carl Linnaeus from John Bartram, John Clayton, Cadwallader Colden, Correia da Serra, Peter Kalm, Adam Kuhn, James Logan, John Mitchell, and Charles Wrangel.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Film reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.H.S.Film.6-ead.xml View

Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919,. Autograph letter signed from Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Jena, to Walter Haeckel [manuscript], 1894 May 3.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Jena, to Walter Haeckel [manuscript], 1894 May 3.

Mentions the Linnean Society in London giving him its gold medal.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436223222 View

Materials on the history of science in America from the library of the Royal society [microform] 1963.

Title: Materials on the history of science in America from the library of the Royal society [microform] 1963. 1963.

The history of science collection consists of letters and papers on scientific matters sent to the Royal Society in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The A.P.S.'s microfilm contains a table of contents for the collection and a dictionary index to the table of contents. The same microfoilm also contains a table of contents to similar material in the Linnean Society of London.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel ; 33 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647970770 View

Gulick, John Thomas, 1832-1923. Papers, 1853-1898

Title: John Thomas Gulick papers, 1853-1898

This collection includes correspondence on natural history and evolution, and especially on his collection and study of shells from Japan and the Pacific islands. Principal correspondents include Louis Agassiz, Charles Robert Darwin, Sir William Henry Flower, Alpheus Hyatt, George Newbold Lawrence, George J. Romanes, Alfred R. Wallace, and the Linnean Society of London.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet; Ca. 100 items.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.G96-ead.xml View

Farlow Reference Library collection of botanists papers, 1855-1946 (inclusive).

Title: Farlow Reference Library collection of botanists papers, 1855-1946 (inclusive).

Composite collection of papers of botanists, gathered by the Farlow Reference Library, Harvard University, from various sources. Each scientist's papers generally comprise a folder and typically include the following: letters, manuscripts for publication, Exsiccati and specimen lists, botanical drawings, photographs, and notes. Materials document the research of botanists affiliated with various private and governmental institutions both in the United States and Europe, of amateur cryptogamic botanists, and of illustrators. Included are the algae drawings of Charles Bullard and a card index created by Edward B. Chamberlain.

ArchivalResource: ca. 5 linear ft. (7 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122557083 View

Frederick W. Kobbé and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers, 1817-1944

Title: Frederick W. Kobbé and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers 1817-1944

Frederick William Kobbé (1887-1946) was an attorney and an amateur genealogist. The collection contains his correspondence, genealogical notes and charts.

ArchivalResource: 1.42 linear feet; 2 boxes, 1 volume

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18173 View

Linnean Society of London. [Linnean butterlies held in the Linnean Society].

Title: [Linnean butterlies held in the Linnean Society].

ArchivalResource: b&w ; 38 x 31 cm 35 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182965564 View

Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Sir, 1817-1911. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker collection, 1828-1909.

Title: Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker collection, 1828-1909.

The collection consists of papers of Sir Joseph D. Hooker from 1828-1909. His wife, Lady Hyacinth Hooker evidently removed letters from her husband's files and created a collection of letters, photographs, and autographs of their contemporaries. Addressed mainly to Hooker, the letters are from members of the Linnaen Society and the Royal Society of Arts, botanists, natural historians, statesmen and politicians, artists and literary figures, royalty, and European and American notables. The correspondence relates to Hooker's work at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, botany in general, and the Hooker's social activities.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477374 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

Darwin, Francis Galton, Sir, 1848-1925. Letters, 1868-1925.

Title: Letters, 1868-1925.

These are principally letters to Charles Edward Sayle on musical programs and to Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing about the Linnean Society, the Royal Society, and the publication of Charles Darwin's papers. There is also a letter of Charles Darwin to Stebbings and several letters of Francis Darwin to other persons. In addition, there are several letters to William Bowman (as well as from Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann to Bowman), and one from Raphael Meldola.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540118 View

Linnean Society of London. Correspondence of American scientists, 1738-1865.

Title: Correspondence of American scientists, 1738-1865.

Letters and papers to or from American scientists or about America, selected from the Linnean Society's collections. Includes letters to William Swainson from John Abbott, John J. Audubon, Constantine S. Rafinesque, Isaac Lea, and John E. LeConte; letters to Sir James Edward Smith from Jacob Bigelow, DeWitt Clinton, J.F. Correia da Serra, David Hosack, Theodore Lyman, William Dandridge Peck, Rafinesque, and Gotthilf H.E. Muhlenberg; letters to William Darlington; letters to Asa Gray; letters of John Bartram; letters of Peter Collinson to J.F. Gronovius; letters and papers of John Ellis, including letters from Alexander Garden, Samuel Martin, and Bernard Romans; letters to Carl Linnaeus from John Bartram, John Clayton, Cadwallader Colden, Correia da Serra, Peter Kalm, Adam Kuhn, James Logan, John Mitchell, and Charles Wrangel.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122488801 View

Frederick W. Kobbe and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers, [ca. 1800-1945]

Title: Frederick W. Kobbe and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers, [ca. 1800-1945]

Genealogical notes and charts, and Frederick W. Kobbe's genealogical correspondence, ca. 1930s-1940s, on the Kobbe family, and also on the Clarkson, Cornell, Du Bois, Smith, Taylor, Van Schaick, and miscellaneous families. Also, copies and a few originals of 17th through 19th century wills, correspondence, accounts, certificates, receipts, clippings of illustrations of coats of arms, and miscellaneous documents of the above families. Of note are membership certificates issued to Thomas Say of Philadelphia from the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, 1817; the Societatis Regiae Physicae Edinburghenae, ca. 1831; Linnean Society, London, 1829; Musuem Philadelphiense, ca. 1821; the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1824; and a membership certificate from the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 1863, to Lucy Say of Newburgh, New York.

ArchivalResource: .7 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155496852 View

Gulick, John Thomas, 1832-1923. Papers, 1853-1898.

Title: Papers, 1853-1898.

This collection includes correspondence on natural history and evolution, and especially on his collection and study of shells from Japan and the Pacific islands. Principal correspondents include Louis Agassiz, Charles Robert Darwin, Sir William Henry Flower, Alpheus Hyatt, George Newbold Lawrence, George J. Romanes, Alfred R. Wallace, and the Linnean Society of London.

ArchivalResource: ca. 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122632838 View

Smithsonian Archives. Spencer F. Baird Papers (Mc 2000.11).

Title: Smithsonian Archives. Spencer F. Baird Papers (Mc 2000.11).

ArchivalResource:

Kobbé, Frederick William. Frederick W. Kobbe and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers, [ca. 1800-1945]

Title: Frederick W. Kobbe and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers, [ca. 1800-1945]

Genealogical notes and charts, and Frederick W. Kobbé's genealogical correspondence, ca. 1930s-1940s, on the Kobbé family, and also on the Clarkson, Cornell, Du Bois, Smith, and miscellaneous families. Also, copies and a few originals of 17th through 19th century wills, correspondence, accounts, certificates, receipts, clippings of illustrations of coats of arms, and miscellaneous documents of the above families. Of note are membership certificates issued to Thomas Say of Philadelphia from the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, 1817; the Societatis Regiae Physicae Edinburghenae, ca. 1831; Linnean Society, London, 1829; Musuem Philadelphiense, ca. 1821; the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1824; and a membership certificate from the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 1863, to Lucy Say of Newburgh, New York.

ArchivalResource: .7 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/664354026 View

Linnean Society of London. [Photographic record of the Linnaean collections] on 35 mm microfilm : Insects.

Title: [Photographic record of the Linnaean collections] on 35 mm microfilm : Insects. 1942.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181162762 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216647 View