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Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875

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Sir Charles Lyell, first baronet, (1797-1875, APS, 1842) was a geologist and lawyer, whose Principles of Geology explained “former changes of the earth’s surface” by means of “modern causes.” Critical of the “catastrophist” views of many contemporary geologists, Lyell considered the earth “a system of balanced antagonistic processes,” a theory later described as uniformitarian. Although he rejected Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of species mutability early in his career, later he favorabl...

Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864

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Leonard Horner was a Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer. He was the younger brother of Francis Horner. He was a founder of the School of Arts of Edinburgh and one of the founders of the Edinburgh Academy; he was also involved in the establishment of University College School. As a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Employment of Children in Factories, Horner arguably did more to improve the working conditions of women and children in North England than any other perso...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts– April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts), American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.Epithet: American essayist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x000365 ...

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Ticknor, George, 1791-1871

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George Ticknor (1791-1871), educator and author, served as the first Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard from 1817 to 1835. After his arrival at Harvard, Ticknor became disenchanted with the school curriculum, characterizing the College as a well-disciplined high school, and began an effort to reorganize the College around four main goals: the division of students in courses according to academic proficiency and merit; the division of the ...

Vaughan, John, 1756-1841

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John Vaughan (1756–1841, APS 1784) was a wine merchant, philanthropist, and long-time treasurer and librarian of the American Philosophical Society. A native of England, Vaughan moved to Philadelphia in 1782. He soon was one of the most respected members of Philadelphia society, largely because of his tireless support of numerous literary, scientific and benevolent causes. Over the course of his five decades of service to the American Philosophical Society, Vaughan met and correspo...

Von Humboldt, Alexander, 1769-1859

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Born in Berlin, Germany, and educated at the universities of Frankfurt and Göttingen, Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most prominent European figures of his age. His fame largely derived from his scientific expedition in Latin America between 1799 and 1804, which resulted in numerous discoveries, particularly related to physical geography and meteorology. Notably, he spent 1803 in New Spain (present day Mexico) conducting a census of the territory. Source: Alexander von ...

Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, 1794-1868

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Epithet: writer on art British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x000398 German art critic. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Berlin, to to S.C. Hall, 1856 Jan. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270586146 Art historian, critic. From the description of Letters, 1846, 1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77615515 ...

Jomard, M. (Edme-François), 1777-1862

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Warden, David Bailie, 1772-1845

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American diplomat, author, and book-collector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Noah Webster, 1829 Sept. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270659525 Author, book collector, and diplomat. From the description of Papers of David Bailie Warden, 1800-1843. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455374 David Bailie Warden was a diplomat and teacher, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1809. From the descr...

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849

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Diplomat and U.S. secretary of the treasury. From the description of Albert Gallatin papers, 1783-1847. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82919649 Albert Gallatin was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives (1790-1792), a U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania (1795-1801), Secretary of the Treasury (1801-1814), and Minister Plenipotentiary to France (1815-1823) and Great Britain (1826-1827). From the description of Albert Gallatin letter, 1803 Oct....

Willdenow, Karl Ludwig, 1765-1812

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...

Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883

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Edward Sabine was born in 1788 and joined the Royal Artillery in 1803. While stationed on the Niagara frontier of Canada he began his studies into natural history, which were eventually to encompass ornithology, meteorology and the study of terrestrial magnetism. The latter study was his particular specialism and led to his attachment to the Arctic expeditions of John Ross (1777-1856) in the Isabella (1818) and Edward Parry (1790-1855) in the Hecla (1819-1820). During his long career he rose to ...

The Times

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Thénard, Louis Jacques, baron, 1777-1857

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Cettzet, L

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Deleuze, J. P. F. (Joseph Philippe François), 1753-1835

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Epithet: French Naturalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000267.0x000279 ...

Azaïs, Pierre Hyacinthe, 1766-1845

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Gaggiotti-Richards, Emma, 1825-1912.

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Berger de Xivrey, Jules, 1801-1863

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K., A.

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Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844

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Du Ponceau was a Philadelphia lawyer who arrived in Portsmouth, N.H., from France in 1777, achieved early prominence as an aide to von Steuben, and as secretary to Robert Livingston, Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Congress in 1781. Du Ponceau was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1785 where his familiarity with both American and European law brought him an important practice. His intellectual interests included both history and linguistics and he published extensively in both fields. He ...

Pickersgill, Henry William, 1782-1875

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English painter. From the description of Letters, ca. 1828-1869. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83101655 ...

Michaux, André, 1746-1802

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André Michaux was a French botanist and traveler. From the guide to the Botanical journal in North America, 1787-1796, 1787-1796, (American Philosophical Society) From the guide to the Documents on his botanizing in the United States, 1785-1807, 1785-1807, (American Philosophical Society) André Michaux, French botanist, was the first botanical explorer to travel widely in North America. André Michaux's botanical career started off amidst difficult times; his wife ...

Humboldt, Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1767-1835

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German philologist and diplomat. From the description of Autograph letters signed (11) : Rome, to Giovanni Fabbroni [Fabroni], 1806 Jan. 25-1811 Sept. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269542916 ...

Jomard, M. (Edme-François), 1777-1862.

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Galunsky, Louis Charles

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Buckland, William, 1784-1856

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William Buckland was an English cleric, geologist, and vertebrate paleontologist. He was the first Reader of Geology, University of Oxford (from 1819). Buckland is most noted as the scientific discoverer of dinosaurs. From the description of Letters, 1817-1848. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122689446 English cleric William Buckland worked as a geologist and vertebrate paleontologist. The first Reader of Geology, University of Oxford (from 1819...

Coquerel, Athanase, 1795-1868

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This could be Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel (1795-1868) or Athanase Josué Coquerel (1820-1875). From the description of Autographed commentary, 1856. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155888386 Athanase Coquerel was a French cleric of the Eglise Réformée of Paris who visited the United States in the 1850s, and corresponded with a number of people active in the abolitionist movement. From the description of Athanase Laurent Charles C...

Institut de France.

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Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Isidore, 1805-1861

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French naturalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to an unidentified lady, 1844 Oct. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269579006 French zoologist; defined a system of "parallel" evolution and followed the Lamarckian tradition of classification. From the description of Histoire naturelle generale des regnes organiques, ca. 1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122332787 Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French zoologist and an...

Frederick William

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Schlagintweit-Sakünlunski, Hermann Rudolph Alfred von,

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Brown, Robert, 1773-1858

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Robert Brown, a botanist and protege of Sir Joseph Banks, accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyage in the Investigator. His diary (or journal), begun during a visit to Ireland in 1800 was kept until January 1805. From the description of Diary extract. 1802. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225828145 Scottish physician. From the description of Robert Brown manuscript, [after 1826], [London]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34992600 ...

Tappan, Henry Philip, 1805-1881

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First president of the University of Michigan. From the description of Henry P. Tappan letters, 1870-1881. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63534515 First president of University of Michigan. Clergyman. From the description of Letter, 1860, November 18, Ann Arbor, to the Librarian of Brown University. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122593979 First president of University of Michigan. From the description of Henry Philip Tappa...

Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823

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Portuguese statesman; scholar and botanist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to [Thomas Jefferson], 1817 Feb. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270530939 José Francisco Correia da Serra was a Portuguese scholar, naturalist, and diplomat. Caspar Wistar was a Philadelphia physician. From the description of Note nécrologique sur le Docteur Wistar, 1818. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122539921 J...