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Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891. [Letters and drawings, 1847?-1890, collected by Joseph Willcox]

Title: [Letters and drawings, 1847?-1890, collected by Joseph Willcox]

Various holograph letters and drawings of J. Willcox and J. Leidy.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20102225 View

Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913. Correspondence, 1865-1913, "King" to "Marcon."

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1913, "King" to "Marcon."

Includes letters from correspondents "King" to "Marcon."

ArchivalResource: approx. 5,800 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122639518 View

Holbrook, John Edwards, 1794-1871. John Edwards Holbrook papers, 1819-1860.

Title: John Edwards Holbrook papers, 1819-1860.

Travel memoir in two volumes re Holbrook's two years touring Great Britain, 1819-1820, during his four year visit to Europe; and transcribed letters, 1832-1860. Memoir, 1819-1820, written as a series of lengthy letters in a literary style, addressed to his brother, reporting details of stops at various scientific, educational, and charitable institutions in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, as well as meetings with physicians, educators, politicans, clergymen, and other learned individuals; other portions of the account describe landscapes and natural phenomena, with references to mineral specimens collected en route, and observations re the native population of each locale. Also includes volume, "A Selection of Letters of or Pertaining to John Edwards Holbrook, 1832-1860," transcribed by Reese E. Griffin, Jr., Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, typed transcripts from original manuscript collections held by the American Philosophical Society, and the Academy of Natural Sciences, containing correspondence with Achille Valenciennes, Samuel George Morton, Samuel S. Haldeman, George Ord, John E. Gray, Joseph Leidy, John LeConte, Louis Aggassiz, and John Vaughan.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

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Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887. [Geology of Nebraska Territory]

Title: [Geology of Nebraska Territory] 1856-1859.

ArchivalResource: 21 pamphlets : ill., 1 folded col. map ; 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30013965 View

Poupard, James A.,. The Joseph Leidy letters : a comprehensive index and summary / compiled by James A. Poupard and Richard B. Thomson, 1978.

Title: The Joseph Leidy letters : a comprehensive index and summary / compiled by James A. Poupard and Richard B. Thomson, 1978.

Alphabetical summary of letters of Joseph Leidy, Philadelphia, Pa., anatomist and naturalist, housed at Academy of Natural Sciences and College of Physicians of Philadelphia and transcribed for use of D. H. Wenrich in 1950s. Includes name of correspondent, date, place of origin, location of original item, and brief notes on contents, with biographical information, indices of personal and corporate names and subjects, and lists of letters not transcribed.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.4 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122440841 View

College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on Lectures. Records, 1864-1882.

Title: Records, 1864-1882.

The records of the Committee on Lectures include its minute book, 1864-1882, and several reports made to the Secretary of the College of Physicians, 1866-1882.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (1 v. and 7 items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523695 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.

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Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891. [Notes to his course on anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine].

Title: [Notes to his course on anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine]. [n.d]

Manuscript; Contents. Env. 1. Circulatory system, 13 pieces. Env. 2. Digestive system, 14 pieces. Env. 3. Ears and nose, 5 pieces. Env. 4. Eye, 15 pieces. Env. 5. Glandular system, 7 pieces. Env. 6. Introductory lectures and embryology, 6 pieces. Env. 7. Muscular system, 10 pieces. Env. 8. Nervous system and brain, 55 pieces. Env. 9. Respiratory system, 2 pieces. Env. 10. Skeletal system, 23 pieces. Env. 11. Skin, 7 pieces. Env. 12. Urogenital system, 16 pieces. Env. 13. Various tissues, 10 pieces. Env. 14. Miscellaneous, incl. proofs of chapter of Leidy's Human anatomy, 2d ed., and receipts signed by Leidy to William Horner. Notes within envelope not in order.

ArchivalResource: 1 box 14 envelopes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20114096 View

Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865. Papers, 1840-1865

Title: William Parker Foulke Papers, 1840-1865

The Foulke Papers are the product of the diverse social and intellectual interests of the Philadelphia attorney and philanthropist William Parker Foulke. A product of the distinctive culture of reform in antebellum Philadelphia, Foulke was the scion of the old elite who put a conservative stamp on social change. The collection onsists primarily of correspondence, notes, and essays. It includes numerous lectures delivered by Foulke along with material on the Lancaster County Prison, New York Prison Association, and the Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons; notebooks concerning prisons and prisoners, including a 1846-1852 diary, and a listing of prisoners, their race, age, crime, sentence, and observations; a diary concerning the American Colonization Society (1852); a copy of an arctic diary (1853-1854) by John Wall Wilson, in the hand of Isaac Israel Hayes, which recounts much of the journey aboard the brig Advance, commanded by Elisha Kent Kane. There is also a list of buildings (1820-1841) designed by John Haviland, and material on the American Academy of Music, Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 Linear feet, ca. 3,000 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F826-ead.xml View

Andrew, John. The Pendulograph: a series of bi-pendulum writings of the twenty ratios of the musical system; or sound seen in the the silenceand scrapbook, ca. 1898.

Title: The Pendulograph: a series of bi-pendulum writings of the twenty ratios of the musical system; or sound seen in the the silenceand scrapbook, ca. 1898.

V. 1 is the 1881 edition of The Pendulograph..., containing 22 plates and manuscript additions, including four loose pendulograph drawings and four pendulographs inserted in the printed text. Also contains a printed handbill advertising the publication of The Pendulograph. V. 2 is a scrapbook of 70 pendulograph drawings with a printed explanation of the pendulograph pasted on the front inside cover. Also contains two loose sheets : one is memoranda regarding the deaths of John W. Keely, Dr. Joseph Leidy and Mrs. Bloomfield Moore and the other is another pendulograph drawing.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122580288 View

Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891. [Drawings and letters, 1845?-1891 / collected by Joseph Willcox]

Title: [Drawings and letters, 1845?-1891 / collected by Joseph Willcox]

Various drawings by Joseph Leidy and holograph letters by Joseph Willcox and Joseph Leidy.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30039579 View

De Schweinitz, G. E. (George Edmund), 1858-1938. Address : [Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Club, Baltimore, Md.?], 1917 Jan. 15.

Title: Address : [Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Club, Baltimore, Md.?], 1917 Jan. 15.

Address describes events witnessed by G. E. De Schweinitz as Prosector of Anatomy in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and his work with Joseph Leidy, 1883-1888. Includes many anecdotes concerning Leidy, his personality, and habits, as well as accounts of human dissection procedures.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (13 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122632935 View

Historical manuscripts collection, 1347-1969, bulk: 1775-1885

Title: Historical manuscripts collection [bulk]:1775-1885 [inclusive]: 1347-1969

This is a varied collection of historical manuscripts obtained by the Free Library of Philadelphia over the course of its history. The collection dates from 1347 to 1969 and is primarily an autograph collection. The collection includes American, British, and European materials; the majority of the items are American. There are typewritten transcriptions of some of the letters in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 Linear feet

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.html?id=PACSCL_FLP_FLPRBDHISTMSS View

Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891. Letter, 1870 February 4, Philadelphia, to Jeffries Wyman, [n.p.].

Title: Letter, 1870 February 4, Philadelphia, to Jeffries Wyman, [n.p.].

Removed from Journal of Natural Sciences, n.s., v. 7 to which it refers.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. on 1 fold. leaf. 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5337220 View

Joseph Henry letters, 1836-1878, 1836-1878

Title: Joseph Henry letters, 1836-1878 1836-1878

The letters in this small collection concern the Smithsonian Institution, the Colorado Territory, and Humboldt's observations, among many other topics.

ArchivalResource: 48.0 Item(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.H39p-ead.xml View

Forwood, W. Stump (William Stump), 1830-1892. Papers, 1857-1863.

Title: Papers, 1857-1863.

ALS. This body of correspondence, almost exclusively letters to Forwood and written immediately before and during the early part of the Civil War, relates to questions of race, e.g. "the Negro problem", intermarriage and consanguinity. The mechanics of editing and publishing a medical journal also form a topic of discussion. Principal correspondents are Samuel Worcester Butler and Washington Chew Van Bibber. Other correspondents are Sylvester David Willard, John H. Van Evrie, J.P. Evans, Joseph Leidy, S.M. Bemiss, James A. Bayard, and Samuel A. Cartwright.

ArchivalResource: 71 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35070864 View

J. Percy Moore papers, 1847-1963

Title: J. Percy Moore papers 1847-1963

John Percy Moore (1869-1965) was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1912 to 1939, an Assistant Curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences from 1902 to 1938, and held several positions between 1920 and 1956 at the Ludwick Institute, which offered free lectures and courses in the natural sciences. He was also a world recognized authority on leeches. During his career, Moore named six genera, 229 species, five subspecies and four varieties of polychaetous annelids, or segmented worms (Loi 1980). The J. Percy Moore papers document Moore's professional career as a zoologist, primarily his study of leeches and other annelids; educator; and biographer. The collection dates from 1847 to 1963 and consists of his specimen notes, sketches, photographs, 16 mm film, travel logs, and field notes related to his study of leeches and other annelids. The collection also contains materials related to his involvement with The Academy of Natural Sciences (ANSP) Board of Trustees, ANSP Library Committee, Ludwick Institute, Philadelphia Metropolitan Library Committee, American Philosophical Society Library Committee, and his report on mosquito control which he completed for the Bureau of Fisheries. In addition are Moore's lecture notes on various topics, most notably evolution and heredity; Moore's course notes; manuscripts and drafts of articles Moore wrote; professional correspondence with students and colleagues; correspondence on the progress of Joseph Leidy's biography; correspondence and research materials for Samuel George Morton and William Maclure biographies; and lantern slides, photographs and correspondence related to Moore's expedition in India in 1931 and 1932.

ArchivalResource: 16.0 Linear feet; 45 containers

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.html?id=PACSCL_ANSP_ANSP2010018 View

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902. Correspondence, 1869-1879, of the Powell Survey.

Title: Correspondence, 1869-1879, of the Powell Survey.

This correspondence concerning the survey of western lands was received by the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. Also includes a selection of letters sent by the Survey (1876-1878).

ArchivalResource: 4 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122440435 View

Persifor Frazer papers, 1882-1906, 1882-1906

Title: Persifor Frazer papers, 1882-1906 1882-1906

The letters to Persifor Frazer cover primarily matters related to geology and mineralogy. A portion of the correspondence, principally from British scientists, concerns the 1884 meeting in Philadelphia of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (B F867).

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Linear feet, c. 220 items in 2 boxes

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F867-ead.xml View

Ward, Henry Baldwin, 1865-1945. Correspondence, 1859-1942.

Title: Correspondence, 1859-1942.

This collection is composed chiefly of professional correspondence, and includes business memoranda, job reference letters, personal letters, and other materials relating to "The Journal of Parasitology," which Ward founded in 1914.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. : ca. 1000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122364943 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

An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, 1799-1882

Title: An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society 1799-1882

One of the most important natural historians in nineteenth century Britain, Charles Darwin provided the first compelling mechanism to account for organismal evolutionary change. Although lacking a coherent model of heredity, Darwin's natural selection has exerted an enormous influence over the biological sciences and since the introduction of Mendelian genetics, had remained the key unifying principle in the discipline. The APS Darwin Papers are a large a valuable assemblage of Darwin's correspondence with scientific colleagues, including Charles Lyell and George J. Romanes. They are included in the print version of the (Cambridge Univ. Press). Correspondence of Charles Darwin

ArchivalResource: 2.5 Linear feet

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