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SCIENCE-RELATED COLLECTIONS
This list gives the collection name, date range and number of items in a collection followed by a very brief description of the contents of the collection. All of these collections are related to science.
ALTENBURG MSS.- DATE RANGE: 1946-1960
- ITEM COUNT: 72 items
- Papers of geneticist Edgar Altenburg. Includes correspondence with scientists, scientific papers, drawings, and printed matter.
- DATE RANGE: 1891-1968
- ITEM COUNT: 8,586 items
- Correspondence and writings of social scientist Arthur Fisher Bentley. Writings by Bentley in the collection include: On the relation of the individual to society in the social sciences and Knowledge and Society and Makers, Users and Masters.
- DATE RANGE: 1937-1974
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 1,000 items
- Class lecture notes and writings of Indiana University Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy David Bidney.
- DATE RANGE: 1883-1940
- ITEM COUNT: 122 items
- Papers of Willis Stanley Blatchley, Indiana state geologist and naturalist. Includes papers written by Blatchley relating to the geology and natural science of Indiana.
- DATE RANGE: 1835-1937
- ITEM COUNT: 10,597 items
- Papers of Amos William Butler, zoologist, anthropologist, and sociologist. The papers from 1877-1888 deal with zoological subjects, particularly birds. The later years of the collection deal mainly with charities and correctional institutions.
- DATE RANGE: 1911-1946
- ITEM COUNT: 507 items
- Papers of botanist Ralph Erskine Cleland. They consist chiefly of correspondence with prominent scientists on Oenothera, evening primrose.
- DATE RANGE: 1851-1971
- ITEM COUNT: 1,767 items
- Papers of ichthyologist Carl H. Eigenmann and his wife, ichthyologist Rosa Smith Eigenmann. Both were students at Indiana University, Carl Eigenmann later becoming Dean of the Graduate School. Both the Eigenmanns made extensive contributions toward the study of blind fish and other fish species.
- DATE RANGE: 16th century-1883
- ITEM COUNT: 980 items
- Papers of Jose Fernandez Nodal, a Peruvian scholar. Of interest are miscellaneous notes and essays concerning the properties of minerals and other scientific subjects written by Fernandez Nodal.
- DATE RANGE: ca. 1920s-1985
- ITEM COUNT: 7,500 items
- Papers and writings of Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Felix Haurowitz of Indiana University.
- DATE RANGE: 1925-1962
- ITEM COUNT: 88 items
- Letters of patent and correspondence concerning the patents issued to physicist Clarence Nichols Hickman. The patents for over 70 inventions are related to Hickman's work for Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Atomic Energy Commission.
- DATE RANGE: 1942-1969
- ITEM COUNT: 8,038 items
- Papers and scientific writings of mathematician Vaclav Hlavaty. Includes scientific and political speeches and correspondence with prominent scientists, former students and politicians.
- DATE RANGE: 1960
- Consists of the manuscript Races of Mankind: Their Origin and Migration... by army officer Calvin Ira Kephart.
- DATE RANGE: 19th century
- ITEM COUNT: 22 items
- Notes, drafts, revisions, and corrected proofs of Antiquities of Mexico written by viscount Edward King Kingsborough.
- DATE RANGE: 1934-1988
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 110 items
- Papers and writings of physicist Emil John Konopinski. An Indiana University faculty member who took a leave of absence during World War II to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos where he made the calculations which proved that an explosion of a hydrogen bomb would not ignite the atmosphere or oceans and destroy the earth.
- DATE RANGE: 1885-1887
- ITEM COUNT: 4 items
- Letters from John Casper Branner, professor of geology at Indiana University to mineralogist George Frederick Kunz. The letters relate to geological matters.
- DATE RANGE: 1940-1976
- ITEM COUNT: 119 items
- Professional papers and reprints of Lawrence Marvin Langer, Professor Emeritus of Physics at Indiana University. Langer participated in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and later as a consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission. Of interest is a set of glass slides of Hiroshima taken after the dropping of the atomic bomb.
- DATE RANGE: 1819-1830
- ITEM COUNT: 13 items
- Letters to Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and naturalist and bills of lading for minerals shipped by or to Lesueur.
- Of interest: "Cum volueris scire gradum solis...", Part 2 of Practica circa astrolabium, 15th-century Latin translation of the work by Messahala, a Jewish astronomer. Also, a 15th- century Latin text entitled Horalogium equinoxiale with diagrams, charts and tables dealing with astronomy.
- DATE RANGE: 1963-1966
- ITEM COUNT: 7 items
- Consists of the writings of educator Alan Parkhurst Merriam: The Anthropology of Music and Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians.
- Of interest:
- 1795 astrophysical text entitled, Elementa Philosophie Universe written by professor Thoma Garcia de Zuniga.
- March 24, 1820 letter from astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre to mathematician Joseph Nicolas Nicollet.
- 1845 copy of a text in Turkish which deals with medical and pharmaceutical chemistry. Undated German text written by Indiana University botany professor Frank Marion Andrews entitled Zoologie.
- DATE RANGE: 1892-1918
- ITEM COUNT: 177 items
- Correspondence of zoologist William J. Moenkhaus, former professor at Indiana University.
- DATE RANGE: 1910-1967
- ITEM COUNT: 75,050 items
- Papers of Hermann Joseph Muller, biologist and Nobel prize laureate. Consists of correspondence, drafts of published and unpublished writings, collected articles, class notes, newspaper clippings and grant proposals, all related to Mullers' work in genetics, evolution, mutations and the gene.
- DATE RANGE: 1946-1947
- ITEM COUNT: 8 items
- An article and some letters to science editor of Nelson's Encyclopedia Myron R. Kirsch from pathologist Sir Howard Florey and biologist Hermann Joseph Muller.
- DATE RANGE: 1894-1923
- ITEM COUNT: 273 items
- Letters and papers of mining geologist John Flesher Newsom. Newsom was an assistant professor in geology at Indiana University for a time and also in charge of geological field work in southern Indiana.
- DATE RANGE: 1821-1911
- ITEM COUNT: 163 items
- Of interest are notes and addresses by Richard Owen, professor at Indiana University on botany, chemistry, ethnology, geology and zoology dated March 13, 1870-Jan. 1881.
- DATE RANGE: 1264-1871
- ITEM COUNT: 188 items
- Of interest: Notes on the study of astronomy geometry and geography, undated.
- DATE RANGE: 1900-1928
- ITEM COUNT: 125 items
- Letters from Thomas Parkin, British ornithologist from prominent ornithologists, artists, and others. The letters deal chiefly with ornithological matters.
- DATE RANGE: 1907-1971
- ITEM COUNT: 270 items
- Papers of zoologist Fernandus Payne. Consists of correspondence with prominent scientists and educators and speeches on science, teaching as a profession, and research.
- DATE RANGE: 1968-1989
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 5,580 items
- Papers and correspondence of Indiana University Distinguished Professor emeritus of genetics Marcus C. Morton Rhoades.
- DATE RANGE: 1815-1888
- ITEM COUNT: 42 items
- Papers of Riley Root, teacher, surveyor, inventor and author. Of interest is the Dec. 12, 1851 Treatise on natural philosophy, dealing with the philosophy of salt lake, cause of deserts, origin of gold, matter, magnetism, and planetary motion written by Riley Root.
- Of interest: His Booke of Arithmeticke and Algebra written by John Napier, baron of Merchiston and the inventor of logarithms.
- DATE RANGE: ca. 1928-1980
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 75,000 items
- Personal and professional papers of zoologist Tracy Morton Sonneborn. Subjects dealt with in the papers are the biological effects of atomic energy and immunological research.
- DATE RANGE: 1915-1975
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 3,825 items
- Papers of botanist Paul Weatherwax. Includes correspondence, writings, photographs, college class notes, and seed lists. Weatherwax's major areas of research were the morphology of grasses and the morphology, origin and history of the Indian corn plant.
- DATE RANGE: 1878-1881
- ITEM COUNT: 12 items
- Letters from German biologist August Weismann to French biologist Antoine Fortune Marion. All relate to scientific topics, requests and queries.
- DATE RANGE: 1738-1869
- ITEM COUNT: 7,203 items Papers of Jonathan Williams, merchant, soldier, and first superintendent of West Point. Of interest are scientific papers concerned with thermometrical navigation written by Williams.
- DATE RANGE: 1820-1958
- ITEM COUNT: 3,646 items
- Papers of Kenneth Powers Williams, professor of mathematics at Indiana University. Includes mathematics notes and problems, including worked out problems from courses taken at Indiana University and notes of early lecture courses given by him at Indiana University and reprints of articles, on mathematical subjects written by Williams.