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The Aborigines' friend : journal of the Aborigines protection society
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The meeting of the ... annual meeting of the Aborigines Protection Society
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The Friend of peace
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Includes the 1st-12th annual reports of the Massachusetts Peace Society
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American journal of physiology
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Volumes for 1898-1941, 1948-56 include the Society's proceedings (primarily abstracts of papers presented at the 10th-53rd annual meetings, and the 1948-56 fall meetings).
658077
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The Search for Life on Mars and Planetary Protection Is there a Role for The Planetary Society?
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This collection consists of material created by and related to The Planetary Society since its beginning in 1980 and up to 2016. It contains Board of Directors correspondence, memorandums, and meeting minutes; material related to public relations, events, fundraising and membership; copies of The Planetary Report (not a complete set); NASA photo files; material related to the Solar Sail and the Mars Rover program; NASA and space exploration in general; Apollo reports; the Hubble Telescope; and US and Russian cooperation in space (including Planetary Society staff's trips to Russia). The collection also contains photographs and negatives; video cassette tapes and film; clippings; T-shirts, posters, badges, stickers, memorabilia; artwork; and miscellaneous material. There is material both about and by: Carl Sagan (including his 265-page curriculum vitae), Bruce Murray, Louis Friedman, Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Buzz Aldrin. There is artwork by space artists Ron Miller, Michael W. Carroll and Mark Paternostro among others.
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Society of Friends in Ohio collection
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Collection of papers relating to the Society of Friends in Ohio (Orthodox). Included are communications and epistles received by Ohio Yearly Meeting from the Yearly Meetings in Philadelphia, New York, and Maryland; minutes and other records of the Stillwater, Short Creek, and Redstone Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, marriage announcements, certificates, and other miscellaneous records, including a proposal submitted to the Yearly meeting for establishing labor schools, approximately 1840. The collection also contains some personal letters discussing religious practice, theology, history, child rearing, etc. Also included are: an epistle from Women Friends Meeting in London to Women Friends Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia, 1789, two addresses to a "Spiritual Improvement Society", by Edward Hoops, 1840, two short memoirs of the underground railroad and Quaker abolitionists, and a copy of August Diamond's Levi Coffin, the friend of the slave, published for the Friends' Tract Association (London : Headley Bros.; New York : Friends' Book & Tract Committee), approximately 1915. The collection also contains a bound manuscript "Memoirs of Rachel E. Paterson, 1828-1869." Rachel E. Paterson (born 1810) was a Quaker preacher, daughter of James Edgerton and Anne Hall, members of Stillwater Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). The manuscript consists of copies of letters that she exchanged with her family.
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