Papers, 1783-1884.

Berkeley, M. J. (Miles Joseph), 1803-1889

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Reverend Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803-1899) of King's Cliff, Wansford and Sibbertoft, Harborough, England, Anglican minister and founder of British mycology. From the finding aid for M.A. Curtis Papers, 1720-1952, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University Libraries Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley; born 1 April 1803, Benefield, East Northamptonshire Borough, Northamptonshire, England; died 30 July 1889, Sibbertoft, Daventry District,...

Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887

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At only 27, the ornithologist Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887) was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, a precocious appointment that suited a precocious scientist. Born into a well to do family in Reading, Pa., and raised in Carlisle, Baird acquired an interest in natural history even prior to enrolling at Dickinson College at age 13. Although he was not an outstanding student, he was unusually committed to his course in life, keeping meticulous notes of ...

Airy, George Biddell, 1801-1892

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Sir George Biddell Airy was educated at Cambridge and became Plumain Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Cambridge Observatory in 1828. In 1835 he accepted the post of Astronomer based at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, which he held until 1881. In 1835 Airy was invited to become a member of the University of London Senate. Although he was unable to attend Senate meetings on a regular basis, he discussed the pressing issues of the University at the time with other Senate members, in part...

Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867

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English physicist and chemist. From the guide to the Michael Faraday letter, 1867 May 1, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) English chemist and physicist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Royal Institution, to Benjamin Dockray, 1856 Jan. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 607104668 Chemist, physicist. From the description of Michael Faraday letter, 1836. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 77010683 Engli...

Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900

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Sir Henry Wentworth Acland (1815-1900) was a physician. In 1834 Acland matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, he graduated B.A. in 1840, M.A. in 1842, M.B. in 1846, and M.D. in 1848. In 1840 he was elected fellow of All Souls' College and, in the same year, commenced the study of medicine, entering himself at St. George's Hospital, London. It was for his services to medicine and medical education that Acland was accorded his Baronetcy in 1890. See the Dictionary of National Biogra...

Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895

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American scientist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Utica, New York, to T.F. Dwight, 1865 Apr. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270530661 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New Haven, Ct., to E.W. Hilgard, 1877 Mar. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870623 ...

Babington, Charles Cardale, 1808-1895

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Epithet: FRS, Professor of Botany at Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000566.0x000257 ...

Hoeven, Jan van der, Doctor in de geneeskunde

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Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851

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Samuel George Morton was a physician, naturalist, and anthropologist. From the description of Papers, 1819-1850. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122489495 From the description of Diary, 1833-[ca. 1837]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173465849 From the description of Papers, 1838-1844. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 17270630 From the description of Letter book : Philadelphia, Pa., 1832-1837. (Peki...

Galton, Francis, 1822-1911

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Eugenicist. Fellow of the Royal Society. Born in Birmingham, England, educated in Boulogne, Kenilworth and King Edward's School, Birmingham; trained in medicine at Birmingham General Hospital and Kings College London until 1840; B. A. Trinity College, Cambridge. A generous inheritance allowed him to devote his life to travel, and to the study of a succession of virtually unexplored fields: the weather; physical and mental characteristics in man and animals; the influence of heredity on them; her...

Allman, George James, 1812-1898

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1844 regius professor of botany, Dublin University; 1855 regius professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh; 1874 President of the Linnean Society; 1879 President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Epithet: naturalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x000196 ...

Brookes, Joshua, 1754-1821.

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Bland, Thomas, 1809-1885

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Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899

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Green, Jacob, 1797-1841.

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Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873

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American naval officer and oceanographer. From the description of Letter to Capt. Charles Wilkes [manuscript], 1848 March 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647808228 From the description of Letter to Andrew Hull Foote [manuscript], 1856 April 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817495 Epithet: Astronomer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000135.0x000219 ...

Bonomi, Joseph, 1796-1878

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Thomas H. Court was a historian. From the guide to the Collection on microscopes and other optical instruments, 1588-1935, 1588-1935, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Geological society of London

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Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857

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Charles Lucian Bonaparte was a naturalist and ornithologist. From the description of Correspondence, 1824-1855, from American scientists. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173465723 From the description of Letters, 1825-1857. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122316342 From the guide to the Correspondence, 1824-1855, from American scientists, 1824-1855, (American Philosophical Society) Scientist; author of American Ornithology and o...

Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854

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Steenstrup, J. Japetus Sm. (Johannes Japetus Sm.), 1813-1897

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Bate, Charles Spencer, 1819-1889.

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Schomburgk, Robert H. (Robert Hermann), Sir, 1804-1865

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Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875

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John Edward Gray was an English naturalist and was the Keeper of the Zoological Department at the British Museum of Natural History for many years. From the description of Papers, 1783-1884. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523596 John Edward Gray (1800-1875) was an English naturalist and the Keeper of the Zoological Department at the British Museum of Natural History from 1840 until 1874. He endeavored to make the British Museum’...

Broderip, William John, 1789-1859

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English lawyer and naturalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Mr. Smedley, 1824 July 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133440 ...

Jardine, William, 1800-1874

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Valenciennes, M., 1794-1865

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Epithet: naturalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000506.0x0002c5 ...

British Museum. Natural History.

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Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850

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Bowles was an English clergyman and author. From the description of Autograph, 1844. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77877875 Epithet: Reverend; of Add MS 36527 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x000023 Bowles was an English clergyman and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1829 Feb. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122444972 Epithet: Reverend; ...

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...

Blainville, H.-M. Ducrotay de (Henri-Marie Ducrotay), 1777-1850

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French zoologist and comparative anatomist. From the description of Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville note, 1846, [Jul.] 21, [Paris]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847589 Athénée de Paris (1792-1853). The Athénée of Paris was a private school for popular scientific instruction in Paris in the late 18th and first half of the 19th century. The school was founded by Pilâtre de Rozer in 1781 as the Musée de Monsieurand, and offered adult clas...

Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859

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Naturalist, of England; explorer and writer on plants, birds, and other native species in North America; surname spelled variously. From the description of Note from Thomas Nuttale, probably to a Professor Terry, 1838. (New London County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 222009131 Zaccheus Collins was a merchant and botanist. From the guide to the Zaccheus Collins botanical correspondence, 1805-1827, 1805-1827, (American Philosophical Society) Nat...

Balard, Antoine-Jérôme, 1802-1876

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Epithet: French chemist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000677.0x000269 ...

Cuming, Hugh 1791-1865

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Andrews, William, 1802-1880.

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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...

Müller, Johannes, 1801-1858

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Société des sciences naturelle de France.

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Duméril, C. (Constant), 1774-1860.

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Pfeiffer, Louis Georg Karl, b.1805.

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Worsaee, Jens Jacob Asmussen, 1821-1885.

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Busk, George, 1807-1886

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Fitch, Asa, 1809-1879

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The Saratoga Patent was originally granted to Peter Schuyler and others on November 4, 1684. From the description of Map of Saratoga Patent and Margaret Livingston's and Bayard's Lots, Saratoga and Washington Counties, New York, 1849. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122346632 Asa Fitch (1809-1879) of Salem, New York was an entomologist and genealogist. He was the grandson of Jabez Fitch (1737-1812) of Norwich, Connecticut and Hyde Park, Vermont, a soldier in the French and In...

Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878

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Joseph Henry (1797-1878, APS 1835), a physicist, was the first secretary and director of the Smithsonian Institution, a post he retained for over three decades. Henry was a leading experimental scientist whose contributions include several discoveries in the field of electromagnetics. He has been credited with the invention of the electromagnet and the telegraph, among other things. Henry was born in 1797 in Albany, New York, the son of William Henry, a teamster, and his wife An...

Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni, 1831-1903

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American explorer born in France. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to "My dear Pounden", 1862 July. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870692 Epithet: explorer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000575.0x0003c7 ...

Lefèvre, Jean-Jacques 1779-1858

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Bouchard-Chantereaux, Nicholas-Robert.

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