Compare Constellations

University Of Pennsylvania, Archives. [Contact repository for more information].

Title: University Of Pennsylvania, Archives. [Contact repository for more information].

ArchivalResource:

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIf, 1866-1886

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIf 1866-1886

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIf-ead.xml View

Rogers, R. E. (Robert Empie), 1813-1884. Notes on Roger's [sic] lectures of chemistry, 1868-1869 : [University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,] / taken by George Douglas Meriwether.

Title: Notes on Roger's [sic] lectures of chemistry, 1868-1869 : [University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,] / taken by George Douglas Meriwether.

Autograph manuscript of lecture notes.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31932522 View

Rogers, R. E. (Robert Empie), 1813-1884. Letter, 1856.

Title: Letter, 1856.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63645111 View

LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883. Papers, 1812-1897

Title: John L. (John Lawrence) LeConte papers, 1812-1897

This collection contains mostly entomological material, with much information on the description and identification of particular insects, entomological collections, and the study of entomology in Europe and the United States. In addition, there are materials on medicine and hospitals during the American Civil War, on the Corps of Topographical Engineers, the United States Army, on natural history in the United States, and on the LeConte's family. Some letters are written to President Rutherford B. Hayes and concern the Commissionership of Agriculture, for which LeConte was considered, but not appointed. Letters of John Eatton LeConte and Joseph LeConte are included.

ArchivalResource: 7.7 Linear feet, Ca. 1900 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.L493-ead.xml View

Robert Hare papers, 1764-1858, 1764-1858

Title: Robert Hare papers, 1764-1858 1764-1858

Personal and professional correspondence of the chemist Robert Hare, including drafts of letters to editors of journals on such varied topics as fish guano, slaughterhouses, paper money, and the meaning of the term "Yankee annexations." The collection originally contained over 300 scrolls, since disbound, which contained drafts of letters, essays, and lectures, composed by Hare on ordinary sheets of paper, then pasted end to end, and rolled up. The essay and lecture topics include: chemistry, storms, slavery, currency, fire-fighting, capital punishment, railroads, the Smithsonian Institution, Michael Faraday, religion and Spiritualism, riots in Philadelphia, epidemics, underwater blasting, and Ralph W. Emerson; there is some verse. The collection also contains an account book of Hare and his wife, 1806-1829 (180 pp.; B/H22#3); a volume by Hare on Cyclones (tornadoes), n.d. (ca. 60 pp.; B/H22#4); and Samuel Powel, Jr.'s "Short notes on a course of antiquities at Rome... under M. Byre Antiquarian," 1764. (60 pp.).

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.H22-ead.xml View

Rogers II, William Barton papers

Title: William Barton Rogers II papers

The substance though not the bulk of the papers consists of letters from Henry Darwin Rogers to his nephew William Barton Rogers II, son of James Blythe Rogers. From 1852 to about 1857 William Barton Rogers II worked as an assistant to Henry D. Rogers on the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, and the papers of are interest because they shed light on the working methods of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. The collection includes correspondence from Henry Darwin Rogers instructing William Barton Rogers II in survey methods, and requesting progress reports on his work with the survey. Also included is William Barton Rogers II's personal correspondence with his father, James Blythe Rogers, and uncle, Robert Empie Rogers; papers concerning family history; and pamphlets about family members and on scientific subjects.

ArchivalResource: 0.3 cubic feet; (1 manuscript box)

https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/588 View

American Philosophical Society. John L. Leconte Papers.

Title: American Philosophical Society. John L. Leconte Papers.

ArchivalResource:

Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Libraries. William Barton Rogers Papers.

Title: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Libraries. William Barton Rogers Papers.

ArchivalResource:

Yale University Library, Manuscripts & Archives). W. D. Whitney Collection.

Title: Yale University Library, Manuscripts & Archives). W. D. Whitney Collection.

ArchivalResource:

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216640 View

Rogers, William Barton papers

Title: William Barton Rogers papers

This collection contains the personal correspondence of William Barton Rogers, the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Family and professional correspondence, notes, articles, lectures, clippings, and drafts of articles on scientific topics, documents relating his philosophy on science and technology education, and many antecedent documents relating to the establishment and early years of MIT are included. An important part of the collection is drafts of documents prepared during Rogers's efforts to establish a new kind of scientific Institute and to organize the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which was formally incorporated on April 10, 1861, in Boston, Massachusetts. Later documents relate to the development of the educational curriculum, finances, faculty, and facilities of the Institute. There are also papers relating to Rogers' term as president of the National Academy of Sciences, and his involvement with the American Social Science Association and the American Association of Geologists and Naturalists (later the American Association for the Advancement of Science).

ArchivalResource: 5.0 cubic feet; (14 manuscript boxes, 1 flat box, 1 oversize enclosure)

https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/586 View

Adams, John, d. 1855. [Collection of 19th-century matriculation tickets, lecture admission cards, schedule cards, and graduation tickets from various colleges of medicine and pharmacy.].

Title: [Collection of 19th-century matriculation tickets, lecture admission cards, schedule cards, and graduation tickets from various colleges of medicine and pharmacy.]. [1807-1898]

ArchivalResource: 119 items : ill., ports. ; 9 x 13 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/738426874 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

Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891. Correspondence, 1850-1890.

Title: Correspondence, 1850-1890.

Typewritten list of the correspondents, prepared by David L. Wenrich, included in box 1.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes (ca. 2,900 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20155862 View

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

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

ArchivalResource:

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