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Zach, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von, 1754-1832. Letter, 1821 February 10, Geneva, to J.L. Pons, Lucques.

Title: Letter, 1821 February 10, Geneva, to J.L. Pons, Lucques.

Gives information on the observation of a comet, not to confuse it with stars; comments on some petition.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3998422 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

Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811. Papers of Nevil Maskelyne, 1771-1809.

Title: Papers of Nevil Maskelyne, 1771-1809. 1771-1809.

Photocopies of papers relating to Nevil Maskelyne held in the Royal Greenwich Observatory Archive. RGO 4: includes lists of latitudes and longitudes of places in the East Indies, 1798-1807; letter from Baron de Zach relating to new discoveries between New Holland and Van Diemen's Land, 1802; observations of John Crosley made on the "Investigator", 1801-1803; diary of tasks sent to Crosley on behalf of the Nautical Almanac Office, 1791-1809; accounts by William Bligh of his observations of a solar eclipse and comet, Sydney, 1807; miscellaneous correspondence relating to scientific voyages of the "Investigator" and "Dolphin". RGO 35 (photocopies of material held in other archives): including letters from Maskelyne to Sir Joseph Banks, 1786 regarding instruments for astronomical observations and introducing a Mr Dawes; Board of Longitude papers concerned with the naming and charting of Australia, 1798-1800.

ArchivalResource: 3 cm. (1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225688734 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

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.200-ead.xml View

Zach, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von, 1754-1832. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1796-1831.

One A.L.S. (1801 Aug. 1, Seeberg) in German, one A.L.S. (1831 Dec. 12, Paris) to a woman concerning astronomy and containing a table of predicted appearnces of a comet in 1832, and holograph leaf S. (1796 June 2, Seeberg) perhaps from a ledger, headed "118" ; in French.

ArchivalResource: 3 items : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10449199 View

W. H. (William Henry) Smyth correspondence, 1820-1864, 1820-1864

Title: W. H. (William Henry) Smyth correspondence, 1820-1864 1820-1864

This is a miscellaneous collection of letters, almost all written to Smyth by prominent scientists. The topics discussed include astronomy, microscopes, nautical almanacs, and submarine excursions. Also of interest is a letter from Thomas Graves, reporting what the Beagle (Charles Darwin's voyage) was encountering in South American waters.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, 123 items

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Smyth, W. H. (William Henry), 1788-1865. Correspondence, 1820-1864.

Title: Correspondence, 1820-1864.

This is a miscellaneous collection of letters, almost all written to Smyth by prominent scientists. The topics discussed include astronomy, microscopes, nautical almanacs, and submarine excursions. Also of interest is a letter from Thomas Graves, reporting what the Beagle (Charles Darwin's voyage) was encountering in South American waters.

ArchivalResource: 123 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122364941 View

Albrecht, Herbert, 1899-. Collection of German letters, 1777-1854.

Title: Collection of German letters, 1777-1854.

These individual letters comprise an autograph collection of leading German authors, artists, and scholars who lived at approximately the same time as J.W. Goethe.

ArchivalResource: 47 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84038615 View

Encke, Johann Franz, 1791-1865. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1828-1856.

Holograph article, "Ueber Herrn von Zachs astronomische Statigkeit" (1832), 8 A.L.S., 2 holograph pages, and 1 calling card ; in German.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10135421 View