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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.

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Eyles Collection, 1679-1983

Title: Eyles Collection 1679-1983

ArchivalResource: 5 archive boxes

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Royal Botanic Society of London, 1838-1931. Letters, 1863-1896.

Title: Letters, 1863-1896.

The letters are on letterhead of the Royal Botanic Society of London. Two of them are printed admission forms filled in with names and other information, as appropriate, signed by the secretary. One is a study permit for A. J. Elwes, initially issued on 1863 Oct. 22, signed by James de Carle Sowerby, and renewed in 1865, signed W. Sowerby. The other informs Mr. Cooper Forster that his "Ivory Tickets" are ready to be delivered (1875 Sept. 2); printed signature, W. Sowerby. The third item is a two-page handwritten circular to periodical publishers signed by Secretary G. B. Sowerly. It invites them to send copies of their publications to the Botanic Society's reading room, in exchange for tickets sent "before each show for reporting purposes" (1896 Feb. 19).

ArchivalResource: 3 items (6 p.)

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Museum of Comparative Zoology collection of historical manuscripts, 1736-1908 (inclusive), 1810-1870 (bulk).

Title: Museum of Comparative Zoology collection of historical manuscripts, 1736-1908 (inclusive), 1810-1870 (bulk).

Collection includes miscellaneous correspondence, manuscripts, and notes of eminent American, British and European biologists, naturalists and zoologists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Contains extensive holdings of the entomologist, Thomas Say.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear ft.

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Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1832-1871.

Six A.L.S. to various correspondents including Rev. William Robinson, Sowerby, and Webster, and autograph signature (1870).

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10421463 View