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McLauren, George Gilbert. Letter, 12 August 1900.

Title: Letter, 12 August 1900.

From Falcon House, Blairgowrie, N.B. thanking Fayrer for a copy of his book.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. ; 18 x 11 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21943382 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

Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950. [Wabanaki Indians : material from collections at the American Philosophical Society]

Title: [Wabanaki Indians : material from collections at the American Philosophical Society] 1872-1977.

The collection contains photocopies of material on Abenaki Indians and others and consists primarily of field notes by 20th century anthropologists. It was copied from various collections at the American Philosophical Society Library for University of Maine history professor Liam Riordan in 2002. The majority of the collection consists of material from the collection of Frank G. Speck, including some of his correspondence with Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and others, field notes about the Penobscot Indians and their culture, and notes for his book, Penobscot Man. Also included are works of Marine Leland, Philip S. LeSourd, and Nicholas N. Smith on Passamaquoddy and Malecite languages and natural history. The collection also contains two reels of microfilm containing information from the Franz Boas collection on Indian linguistics as well as copies of works by Dalton Dorr, J. Dyneley Prince, and Joseph Fayrer.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (24 folders) + 2 reels of microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/126864880 View

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. Letter, 1 September 1875.

Title: Letter, 1 September 1875.

From Bassett, Southampton to Sir Joseph Fayrer thanking him for a copy of his book.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21943372 View

Fayrer, Joseph, Sir, 1824-1907. Papers, 1882-1900.

Title: Papers, 1882-1900.

Includes a letter to Edward John Waring; Morell Mackenzie's letter to Fayrer; and a newspaper clipping of a review of Fayrer's book "Recollections of my life".

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35067678 View

Hart, Ernest Abraham, 1835-1898. Papers, 1873-1895 and undated.

Title: Papers, 1873-1895 and undated.

ANS to Hart, relating to social engagements and editorial matters, from Samuel Wilks, Alfred Baring Garrod, John Simon, George Burrows, Thomas Lauder Brunton, William Stokes, Thomas Spencer Wells, Henry Thompson, Joseph Fayrer, James Paget and John Russell Reynolds, among others. Oddly, one note is dated 4 Feb. --18.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35090937 View

McLauren, George Gilbert. Letter, 12 August 1900.

Title: Letter, 12 August 1900.

From Falcon House, Blairgowrie, N.B. thanking Fayrer for a copy of his book.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. ; 18 x 11 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154324061 View