Papers, 1779-1979 (bulk 1860-1909).

Mitchell, Silas Weir, 1829-1914

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Silas Weir Mitchell was a Philadelphia physician and author. After graduating from medical school, he studied in Europe, joined his father's practice, and ran Turner's Lane Hospital in Philadelphia during the Civil War, becoming the preeminent American neurologist of his generation. In addition to numerous medical papers and texts, he published popular novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Born on 15 Feb. 1829, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a son of physician John Kear...

New York Academy of Sciences

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The New York Academy of Sciences was established in 1817 as the Lyceum of Natural History. It provided a forum for scientific research; it maintained a library, natural history specimens, and published scientific papers. The Academy sponsors conferences, continues to publish scientific articles specializing in medicine and other biological subjects. ...

Bodley, Rachel L. (Rachel Littler), 1831-1888

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Rachel Littler Bodley (December 7, 1831 – June 15, 1888) was an American professor, botanist, and university leader. She was best known for her term as Dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1874–1888). She helped found the American Chemical Society in New York City. Bodley's main contribution to botany was Catalogue of Plants Contained in Herbarium of Joseph Clark, a report on an herbarium she personally organized and catalogued. She taught various subjects, primarily chemistry...

Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867

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Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an important scientific reformer during the early nineteenth century. From his position as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and through leadership roles in the scientific institutions of the time, Bache helped bring American science into alignment with the professional nature of its European counterpart. In addition, Bache fostered the reform of public education in America. On July 19, 1806 Alexander Dalla...

Lesley, J. Peter, 1819-1903

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When J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903) graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838, he intended for the Presbyterian ministry, but when ill health intervened, he was set off on a path that would make him one of the most influential geologists in 19th century Pennsylvania. In order to help rebuild his strength and restore his health, Lesley accepted an appointment with the first Pennsylvania Geological Survey under the direction of Henry Darwin Rogers and engaged in structural a...

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

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The oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was founded in 1812 "for the encouragement and cultivation of the sciences, and the advancement of useful learning." Since the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, there have been twenty-eight presidents and five acting presidents (please see additional note for a complete list of Academy presidents). From 1937 to 1995, there were four pre...

American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

Franklin Chess Club

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Cadwalader, John, 1842-1925

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Frazer, Robert, 1771-1821

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Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

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Patriotic society composed of male descendants of Union veterans of the Civil War; founded 1865. From the description of Records, 1921-1922. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70961019 ...

Koenig, George Augustus, 1844-1913

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George A. Koenig delivered a paper "On the composition of Schorlomite" before the National Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia in November 1875, according to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In this notebook, Koenig mentions delivering a paper to the Academy September 5, 1876. From the description of On the oxyds of s[c]horlomite, current notes of the investigation : manuscript, 1875-1878. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155904578 ...

Preu, Bernhard

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Edmund W. Sinnott was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the time of this correspondence. Walter G. Berl was an editor for the Association. From the description of Letters, 1948-1971, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155878457 ...

Pepper, Edward, 1847-1913

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Pepper, William, 1843-1898

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William Pepper was provost of the University of Pennsylvania from 1880 to 1890. The University commissioned Muybridge to complete his animal locomotion studies under their auspices. The results were published in 1887. From the description of William Pepper papers on Eadweard Muybridge, 1883-1898. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122566066 Physician and professor of medicine of Philadelphia. From the description of Papers, 1872-1886, Philadelphia. (Duke University)....

Whelen, Isabella N.

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British association for the advancement of science

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Stevens Institute of Technology

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The Stevens Institute of Technology was founded in 1870 in Hoboken, New Jersey following the death of Edwin Stevens, who, in his will, donated the money to establish an engineering school that would bear the family name. Harvey Nathaniel Davis was inaugurated as Stevens Institute of Technology's third president in 1928. He would guide the Institute through both a great depression and World War before stepping down in 1951. Today there is a dormitory named after Davis at Stevens to commemorate hi...

Whelen, Henry

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Harrison, Charles Custis, 1844-1929

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Philadelphia Fencing and Sparring Club

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Harris, Joseph S. (Joseph Smith), 1836-1910

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Joseph S. Harris was a railroad surveyor and topographer, a land surveyor, an astronomer, and a mathematician, during the period 1853 to 1870. He was employed by the North Pennsylvania Railroad, the Kentucky Geological Survey, the U.S. Coast Survey, and the U.S./Canadian Northwest Boundary Survey prior to the Civil War. During the Civil War he advised Admirals Farragut and Porter, and General Butler for the New Orleans campaign. After the war he was a civil and mining engineer for coal mines and...

Pennsylvania. Militia. Troop of Philadelphia Cavalry, 1st

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Ashhurst, Richard Lewis, 1838-1911

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Kimball, Joseph P.

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Sons of the Revolution. Pennsylvania Society

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Brown, Amos P. (Amos Peaslee), 1864-1917

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University Club of Philadelphia

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Penrose, Boies, 1860-1921

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Born in Philadelphia in 1860, Boies Penrose graduated from Harvard University and practiced law in his native city in 1883. From 1884 until 1897 he served in the Pennsylvania legislature as a representative and senator. An unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Philadelphia in 1895, he served as a United States senator from 1897 until his death in Washington, D.C., in 1921. From the description of Boies Penrose political and legal journal, 1889. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries)...

Whelen, John Nevins, 1845-1901.

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McKean, Thomas, 1842-1898

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Frazer, John, 1882-1964

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Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil, 1824-1902

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Alfred Selwyn was the Director of the Geological Survey of Victoria from 1853-69. From the description of Scrapbook, 1859-1971 [manuscript]. 1859-1971. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225461420 Selwyn, born in England on July 28th, 1824, became a geologist working in several countries including Canada, England and Australia. He was the Director of the Geological Survey of Victoria between 1853-69, and later became director of the Geological Survey of Canada betwee...

Holley, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1804-1887

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John Churchill Coffing of Salisbury, Connecticut (1776-1847), and his second wife, Maria Birch (ca. 1780-1865), had five children: Churchill (1813-1873), Joshua B. (1815-1841), Marcia (1817-1854), Maria (1819-1839), and George (b. 1822). Joshua attended Yale as a member of the class of 1837, but dropped out after one year. Marcia and Maria both attended Grove Hall School in New Haven, Connecticut, in the 1830s. Marcia married Alexander Hamilton Holley (1804-1887) on September 10, 1835; their chi...

Metcalf, William, 1838-1909

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Robinson, Beverley, 1844-1924

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Though he was born in Philadelphia, Beverley Robinson earned his medical degree at the University of Paris, France in 1872. He was clinical professor of medicine at the University of Paris and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City. Among his writings are Practical treatise on nasal catarrh (1880), and Treatment of ordinary diseases; notes from the record book of an old practitioner (1921). From the description of Introductory lecture on diseases of the heart : given at B...

Sons of the Revolution

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Welsh, Herbert, 1851-1941

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Herbert Welsh established the Indian Rights Association in 1882, and served as the organization's corresponding secretary, president and president emeritus. The Association investigated and publicized conditions of Indians, and was particularly successful in arousing public interest and exposing frauds on reservations. Bishop William Hobart Hare (1839-1909), known as the "Apostle to the Sioux," was appointed in 1872 Bishop of Niobrara, which was expanded and renamed the ...

Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897

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Vertebrate paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope became the leading theorist of the neo-Lamarckian movement in American biology. He sold his fossil collection to the American Museum of Natural History in 1894. From the guide to the Edward Drinker Cope Field diaries, 1872-1874, 1876-1877, 1879, 1881-1885, 1892, 1872-1892, (American Philosophical Society) Zoologist, paleontologist and educator. Member Society of Friends. Professor at Haverford College (1864-1867) and University o...

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he...

International Geological Congress

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Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey

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Franklin Institute Philadelphia, Pa

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Fulton, John, 1826-1916

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Whelen, Edward Siddons, 1839-1884

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Vossion, Louis, 1847-1906

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Society of American Geologists

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Frazer, Persifor, 1844-1909

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Persifor Frazer was a geologist and mineralogist. From the description of Papers, 1884. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122632840 Persifor Frazer (1844–1909, APS 1872) was a geologist and handwriting expert. He participated in geological surveys for the United States and for Pennsylvania and, after 1870, held the chair in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He also published a manual on handwriting and, as a specialist in t...

Togno, Rosalie Acelie Guillou

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Delta Alumni Association.

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Raymond, Rossiter W. (Rossiter Worthington), 1840-1918

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This collection contains 12 of his American Institute of Mining letters addressed to Robert Bell. They were written between 1886 and 1889. From the description of Letters, 1886-1899. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 45288585 Professor of Mineralogy and Geology. From the description of [Articles, book reviews, etc.]. 1913- (Lafayette College). WorldCat record id: 47969234 ...

Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872

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John Fries Frazer was a Philadelphia scientist, who studied under A. D. Bache, Robert Hare, and Henry D. Rogers. He taught chemistry and natural philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (1844-1872) and was editor of the Franklin Institute's "Journal" (1850-1866). From the description of Papers, 1834-1871. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523586 John Fries Frazer was a professor of chemistry and natural philosophy at the University of Penns...

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 ...

Prime, Frederick, 1846-1915

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Professor of Mining and Metallurgy. From the description of [Articles, book reviews, etc.]. 1870- (Lafayette College). WorldCat record id: 32342290 ...

Frazer, Persifor, 1736-1792

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Page, W. Byrd (William Byrd), 1866-1940

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William Byrd Page was born in Philadelphia in 1866, the son of a prominent lawyer. He was a weak and sickly child with legs that necessitated heavy iron braces. He was given a bicycle at an early age and prescribed exercise as a way to strengthen his legs. Bicycling and jumping exercise became routine, and by the fall of 1883, upon entering the University of Pennsylvania, Page was prepared to compete in intercollegiate competitions. He set the American, collegiate, and world records in the Runni...

Frazer family.

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The Frazer family had close ties to the city of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. Persifor Frazer (1736-1792) served as Brigadier General in the Pennsylvania State Militia, and was an iron manufacturer and merchant. Robert Frazer (1771-1821) was admitted to the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, served as a member of the House of Representatives in 1795, and was later District Attorney for Delaware County, Pa. John Fries Frazer (1812-1872), Persifor Frazer (1844-1909), and John F...

Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker), 1843-1916

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Samuel Pennypacker -- governor, jurist and historian -- was born in Phoenixville and educated at the University of Pennsylvania where he studied law. He was called to the bar in 1868 and elected president of the Law Academy of Philadelphia. In 1889, he became judge of the Court of Common Pleas and remained in that post for 20 years. Pennypacker became governor of Penn. in 1902. He built a new capitol building and organized the health and highway departments as well as th...