Natural history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 552
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence and subject files documenting the operations of the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory at Yale University. Topics include faculty and personnel, environmental issues, national biological stations and institutions, and naval reports and research.
Dates:
1927-1965
Bosch Mineral Collection, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 478
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence, gift account records, and news releases documenting the development of the Bosch Mineral Collection in the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.
Dates:
1950-1966
James Bruce archive
Collection
Call Number: MSS 68
Scope and Contents:
The archive comprises original manuscript material concerning the travels of James Bruce of Kinnaird in North Africa and Ethiopia, from 1762 to 1774. Bruce (1730-1794) was originally posted as British consul-general at Algiers, though his diplomatic service concluded in 1765. Over the next 10 years, Bruce traveled in North Africa to document the antiquities, flora, and fauna of the region. Bruce then traveled to Ethiopia to document the source of the Nile. The bulk of material concerns Bruce's...
Dates:
ca. 1750-ca.1850.
James Harvey Linsley family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1424
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, notes, school compositions, other writings, and accounts of the Linsley family. James Harvey Linsley's papers reflect his interest in natural history and include newspaper articles and student notes from Yale College.
Dates:
1815-1858
Natural Science manuscripts collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 583
Overview:
An artificial collection of papers of Yale faculty members and other individuals active in the academic fields of astronomy, biology, botany, geology, mathematics, physics, agriculture, chemistry and zoology. The papers of inventors are also included. Individuals and organizations represented in the collection include: Oscar Dana Allen, Jesse Buel, William Whitman Bailey, John Torrey, Attale Riche, Denison Olmsted, Simon Newcomb, James Duncan Hague, Amos Beebe Eaton, Asa Gray, Arthur Williams...
Dates:
1817-1918
John Collins Warren correspondence
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 15
Overview:
Most of the collection consists of autograph letters by prominent physicians and scientists in America and abroad to John Collins Warren, surgeon and naturalist. Two letters are by Warren.
Dates:
1812-1856