Rare Books
Collection of 54 offprints, pamphlets and other documents
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Sir Richard Francis Burton Pamphlet Collection
Rare Books
This collection contains approximately 450 articles, offprints, pamphlets and other works, covering a span of 1812 to 1894, collected by the British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton and forming part of his library. The items are contained in 432 envelopes and cover 17 different categories of material: General; Periodicals, Congress Reports; Anthropology, Archaeology, Folklore; Biography; Geography, Travel; Linguistics; Literature; Medicine, Psychology; Religion, Philosophy; Science, Pure, Natural, Applied; Sword; Africa; Americas; Asia; Europe; Pacific, Australasia. Some of the works include manuscript annotations by Burton as well as correspondence sent to him and insertions of articles and clippings. This is a subsection of the Sir Richard Francis Burton Library Printed Material Collection in the Rare Books Department. Those items can be searched as a whole under the heading: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890, former owner or Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896, former owner.
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Vito Volterra offprints collection
Manuscripts
Collection contains approximately 17,000 offprints, reprints, and pamphlets on the history of science collected by Vito Volterra, many of which are dedicated by the authors to Volterra. Materials date from 1754 through 1956; however, the bulk of the papers date to the first few decades of the twentieth century. Materials relate to Volterra's involvement with the international scientific community of the time, especially in Europe and the United States. Subjects represented are primarily the physical sciences, in particular astronomy, mathematics, fluid mechanics, energetics, and chemistry. Materials include works by many of Volterra's Italian and European mathematician contemporaries, including Beppo Levi, Tullio Levi-Civita, Gösta Mittag-Lefler, Jacques Hadamard, G. H. Hardy, and Paul Lévy, as well as inaugural lectures of many noted scholars and theses of their students. Of note is the most complete collection of reprints pertaining to the first phase of general relativity, which includes the works of Élie Cartan, Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein, David Hilbert, Levi-Civita, and Hermann Weyl. However, the collection also includes papers and lectures by lesser-known scholars. Please see the Other Finding Aids note for more information on the materials within the collection.
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Approx. 12 items: memos, charts and reports related to the ratio of advertising to news in LAT.
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American Academy of Forensic Sciences: Newsletters, Documents, and Correspondence (1950-1967). 54 items
Manuscripts
The chief topics of the Curphey papers are: his work as Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Battered Child Syndrome, air pollution, smoking and smog, aircraft accidents, suicide and suicide prevention, drug addiction and overdose, causes of death, homicides, asphyxia, autopsy, drowning, forensic pathology, forensic science, oral contraceptives, and violent deaths. The collection contains several boxes of glass lantern slides Curphey created for talks that he would give to other physicians. Prior to cataloging, most of the papers were stored in manila file folders with subject headings written in Curphey's handwriting. The current organizational structure of the collection for the most part replicates the classification system of Curphey's folders. In most cases, the contents of his folders were transferred in the order and under the conditions in which they were found. When appropriate and possible, the titles and sequence of Curphey's folders were retained. The original sequence of folders was not retained in those instances where no organizational schema seemed apparent, or when larger thematic groupings seemed preferable. For instance, all of Curphey's papers on air pollution and smoking, suicide, the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, battered child syndrome, and aviation accident investigations have been grouped together within the collection. While the contents of the folders on each of these topics generally replicate the contents of Curphey's individual folders, the folders themselves have been consolidated for organizational purposes and ease of access.
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Offprints
Manuscripts
Collection contains approximately 17,000 offprints, reprints, and pamphlets on the history of science collected by Vito Volterra, many of which are dedicated by the authors to Volterra. Materials date from 1754 through 1956; however, the bulk of the papers date to the first few decades of the twentieth century. Materials relate to Volterra's involvement with the international scientific community of the time, especially in Europe and the United States. Subjects represented are primarily the physical sciences, in particular astronomy, mathematics, fluid mechanics, energetics, and chemistry. Materials include works by many of Volterra's Italian and European mathematician contemporaries, including Beppo Levi, Tullio Levi-Civita, G̲sta Mittag-Lefler, Jacques Hadamard, G. H. Hardy, and Paul Ľvy, as well as inaugural lectures of many noted scholars and theses of their students. Of note is the most complete collection of reprints pertaining to the first phase of general relativity, which includes the works of ⁹lie Cartan, Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein, David Hilbert, Levi-Civita, and Hermann Weyl. However, the collection also includes papers and lectures by lesser-known scholars.
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Offprints
Manuscripts
Collection contains approximately 17,000 offprints, reprints, and pamphlets on the history of science collected by Vito Volterra, many of which are dedicated by the authors to Volterra. Materials date from 1754 through 1956; however, the bulk of the papers date to the first few decades of the twentieth century. Materials relate to Volterra's involvement with the international scientific community of the time, especially in Europe and the United States. Subjects represented are primarily the physical sciences, in particular astronomy, mathematics, fluid mechanics, energetics, and chemistry. Materials include works by many of Volterra's Italian and European mathematician contemporaries, including Beppo Levi, Tullio Levi-Civita, G̲sta Mittag-Lefler, Jacques Hadamard, G. H. Hardy, and Paul Ľvy, as well as inaugural lectures of many noted scholars and theses of their students. Of note is the most complete collection of reprints pertaining to the first phase of general relativity, which includes the works of ⁹lie Cartan, Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein, David Hilbert, Levi-Civita, and Hermann Weyl. However, the collection also includes papers and lectures by lesser-known scholars.
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