Manuscripts
Francis Xavier Ammann notebook
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Francisco Xavier Monteiro de Barros papers, (bulk 1821-1825)
Manuscripts
The chronologically-arranged papers consist of eleven manuscripts, eighty-nine pieces of correspondence, and three ephemera folders. The bulk of the collection is letters authored by the colleagues of Francisco Xavier Monteiro de Barros, documenting changes in the Portuguese politics and government and United States-Portuguese foreign relations. Prominent persons represented in the correspondence series include João José Miguel Ferreira da Silva Amaral (1773-1857); José Ferreira Borges (1786-1838); Francisco Solano Constancio (1777-1846); Joaquim Cesar de Figanière e Mourão (1798-1866); and João Bernardo da Rocha Loureiro (1778-1853). Most of the works penned by Monteiro de Barros are scientific and mathematical notes and tracts, specifically relating to celestial mechanics and mathematical physics. The dates of these papers are unknown, and were therefore dated before 1855, the year of his death.
mssHM 72402-72504
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Notebook kept by Dunstan Thompson
Manuscripts
The notebook contains Dunstan Thompson's research notes, drafts of his poems, and a draft letter to Harry Brown; the notebook also contains autograph notes by Philip Trower.
mssHM 80249
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Surgical notes: notebook
Manuscripts
This notebook contains handwritten surgical notes (30 pages) by a Dr. Carmen (first name is unknown), probably in California. The notes are undated but the approximate date is 1856. The subjects vary and include: colds, burns, blood vessels, aneurysms, small pox, cancer and many others. There are also a few pages of "General Remarks." The volume also contains a 12-page index near the back of the notebook. Most of the volume is blank. On the inside front cover is a note about the provenance of the notebook.
mssHM 80415
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Law student's notebook
Manuscripts
Notebook, presumably of a law student at one of the Inns of Court in London, England. It includes notes on writs and on several cases chiefly regarding Essex, as well as a collection of precedents in copyhold law and an alphabetical index to Christopher St. German's Dyaloge in Englysshe bytwyxt a doctoure of dyvynyte and a student in the lawes of Englande
mssHM 55669
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Wärmelehre: autograph notebook
Manuscripts
These notes, which are in German, were written by Loránd Eötvös most probably while he was attending the University of Heidelberg. In the notebook Eötvös includes notes regarding: heat; themodynamics; comparisons of water, alcohol and mercury thermometers; linear expansion of glass and various metals from 0 to 100 degrees Celsius; and the thermal expansion of solids and gases. It is illustrated with pen-and-ink sketches of laboratory apparatus and a few diagrams. The text of the last page breaks off in the middle of a sentence suggesting that Eötvös continued his notes in another notebook.
mssHM 71157
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M. W. T. Co. notebook
Manuscripts
Notebook on static electric experiments, jigger experiments, and battery experiments. In several hands over a period of time. Includes labeled diagrams. One of the authors of the notebook was employed to construct generating plants for the Madeira-Mamoré Railway in Brazil. Several pages contain information about his work with the railway including a newspaper clipping, in Portuguese.
mssHM 72505