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Science
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Albert Einstein Archives 
 This site provides information regarding Einstein's contributions as a scientist, humanist, and Jew. It includes a timeline of key events during his life, a bibliography of primary and secondary literature, links to other sites, and a description of the archive's text and multimedia resources. The "Einstein for Kids" section reproduces some of Einstein's letters to and from children as well as other correspondence. http://www.albert-einstein.org/ Topics: Correspondence, Mathematics, Physics Last updated Jan 27, 2005 American Museum of Natural History, Division of Paleontology
This museum "has one of the largest and most significant paleontology collections in the world. This collection contains an estimated five million fossil specimens, including over three hundred thousand fossil vertebrates, collected over 125 years." This site features more than 8,000 images of the specimens and more than a thousand images of old photographs, letters, and field notebooks. http://research.amnh.org/paleontology/ Topics: Animals, Correspondence, Environment, Geology, Museums, Museums by Place: United States, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Science Last updated Oct 26, 2009 The Barren Lands: J.B. Tyrrell's Expeditions for the Geological Survey of Canada, 1892-1894
"Documents two exploratory surveys of the Barren Lands region west of Hudson Bay, in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the area now known as Nunavut" between 1892 and 1894. Contains over "5,000 images from original field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, maps and published reports." Searchable and browsable. Includes biographical information on geologist J.B. Tyrrell and his brother, surveyor and interpreter James W. Tyrrell. Also features interactive expedition maps. From the University of Toronto Library. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/tyrrell/ Topics: Correspondence, Geography, Geology, History, Photograph Collections: Regional Last updated Apr 1, 2006 California Explores the Ocean: Expeditions
A collection of reports, letters, clippings, ships' logs, published research, and photos of numerous expeditions of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography "to study the seas, marine life and the geology of the sea floor." Includes the Mid-Pacific Expedition (1950), the Capricorn Expedition (1952), the Lusiad Expedition (1962), and the Nova Expedition (1967). A collaboration of the San Diego Historical Society and the University of California, San Diego. http://ceo.ucsd.edu/expeditions/ Topics: Correspondence, Geology, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Science Last updated Mar 7, 2006 Carl Albert Purpus, Plant Collector in Western North America
Presents "historical, floristic and related data" concerning German-born Carl Albert Purpus, "the first botanist to explore many parts of California, particularly the North Coast Ranges and southern Sierra Nevada [in the 1890s]." Contains correspondence and published writings by Purpus, articles, and a list of plants first described by the botanist. Also includes photographs and a browsable geographical index. From the University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley. http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/Purpus/ Topics: Biology, Correspondence, Notable People, Plants, Science Last updated Oct 1, 2004 Invention and Enterprise: Ezra Cornell, A Nineteenth Century Life
This site is a biographical exhibition and timeline of philanthropist Ezra Cornell. Includes letters, diaries, photographs, documents, and publications of the founder of the Western Union Telegraph Company and Cornell University. A presentation of the Cornell University Library. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Ezra-exhibit/ Topics: Correspondence, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People, Technology Last updated Oct 2, 2004 The Lehmers at Berkeley
This online exhibit profiles mathematicians Derrick Norman Lehmer, Derrick Henry Lehmer, and Emma Trotskaia Lehmer, known for research in number theory, computational mathematics, and Fermat's Last Theorem. Features photographs, notes, covers of publications, and letters. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/Math/ Topics: Correspondence, Mathematics, Notable People, Photograph Collections Last updated Aug 22, 2006 Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA
This site explores one of the greatest scientific achievements of the twentieth century: the legendary race for the discovery of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, the basic foundation of life. Features over 800 scanned manuscripts, letters, communications, photographs, audio clips, video excerpts, and rare documents never previously displayed. Includes a chronological illustrated narrative written from Linus Pauling's perspective. From the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, Valley Library, Oregon State University. http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/ Topics: Correspondence, Notable People, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Science, Science Last updated Nov 23, 2005 Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
An exhibit about the American anthropologist and writer. It includes selected materials from the vast collection of manuscripts, diaries, letters, field notes, drawings, prints, photographs, sound recordings, and film in the Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives at the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mead/ Topics: Correspondence, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Science, Social Science Last updated Oct 2, 2004 The Margaret Sanger Papers: Margaret Sanger and The Woman Rebel
A searchable collection of writings, letters, and other documents that "chronicle Margaret Sanger's publication of the radical, feminist journal, The Woman Rebel, and her emergence as the foremost leader of the birth control movement." Includes a chronology of events (1914-1916) and an index of related names and information. From the University of South Carolina. http://adh.sc.edu/ms/ms-table.html Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Correspondence, Families, History, Notable People, Reproductive and Sexual Health, United States History, Women, Women's Health Last updated May 19, 2005 The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS) NOVA program about "Typhoid Mary" (Mary Mallon), "a cook who was quarantined for life against her will in the early 1900s" because she was a carrier of typhoid fever. The site features a historical analysis, a letter from Mary asking for her release, and a chronology of quarantine. Also includes an interactive epidemiology feature, program transcript, teacher's guide, bibliography, and links to related sites. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/ Topics: Correspondence, Diseases & Conditions, Health & Medical Disciplines, Infectious Diseases, Public Health & Safety Last updated Mar 28, 2005 Online Research Center: George Perkins Marsh
This site contains the text of selected published works and transcriptions of 650 letters written by or to George Perkins Marsh, the author of "Man and Nature" and "one of the first to recognize and describe in detail the significance of human action in transforming the natural world." Topics discussed include the American Civil War, sculpture, architecture, Vermont geography, and the Smithsonian Institution. Searchable and browsable by recipient. From the University of Vermont. http://bailey2.uvm.edu/specialcollections/gpmorc.html Topics: Correspondence, Environment, Notable People, Notable People: Government Last updated May 8, 2007 The Papers of Sir Joseph Banks
This site contains images of the complete holdings of the papers of naturalist Sir Joseph Banks, who served as botanist on the first Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook's Endeavor . Find brief biographical information and see "approximately 10,000 manuscript pages," including letters from William Bligh, captain of H.M.S. Bounty . A full transcript of Banks' Endeavor Journal is available. From the State Library of New South Wales and the Joseph Banks Memorial Fund. Searchable. http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/banks/ Topics: Archives, Correspondence, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People, Science Last updated Oct 4, 2004 Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection
This collection is an "extensive compilation of correspondence, notes, reports, printed materials, photographs, negatives, and artifacts" (spanning the mid-19th through mid-20th centuries) related to the conquest of yellow fever. Includes essays about major themes and personalities, a guide to the collection, and links to related sites. Searchable and browsable by date, individual, or subject. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/healthsci/reed/ Topics: Correspondence, Health, Infectious Diseases, Medical Treatments & Devices, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife Last updated Aug 4, 2005 Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress
This collection documents Morse's invention of the electromagnetic telegraph, role in developing telegraph systems, "career as a painter, his family life, his travels, and his interest in early photography, religion, and the nativist movement." Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, maps, drawings, and material from various publications. Also features a biographical timeline and a family tree. Searchable. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sfbmhtml/ Topics: Correspondence, Electrical Energy, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Science, Technology Last updated Nov 28, 2004 A Selection of Letters Written by Florence Nightingale
About 40 letters held by the Clendening History of Medicine Library are shown in digital format. Scanned images of often illegible original documents are displayed in tandem with the transcribed text. From the University of Kansas. http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/fn/ Topics: Correspondence, Notable People Last updated Jul 28, 2006 The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers
This presentation of almost 50,000 images "documents the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and highlights their pioneering work which led to the world's first powered, controlled and sustained flight. Included ... are correspondence, diaries and notebooks, scrapbooks, drawings, printed matter, and other documents, as well as the Wrights' collection of glass-plate photographic negatives." Also features a timeline and family tree. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/ Topics: Correspondence, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Transportation Last updated Nov 20, 2009 |
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