Manuscripts

Georges Cuvier sketch of a gecko

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Description: This is a drawing of a gecko (in pencil) probably done by Georges Cuvier. It has text, in French, about the gecko including it's species name and a description. There is a faint, unclear sketch on the verso.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1817.
Call number: mssHM 80418
Creator: Cuvier, Georges (1769-1832)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Transferred from Rare Books Department, 2003.
Dimensions: 15 x 14 cm
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Georges Cuvier diplomas

Manuscripts

Three diplomas signed by Georges Cuvier: Doctorate in Medicine and two different Bachelor of Belles-Lettres. All printed on vellum. The doctoral diploma is dated 1817, July 26. The first Bachelor of Belles-Lettres diplomas is dated 1822, March 9. The second Bachelor's diploma is dated 1830, September 30. All three signed by Cuvier and the president of the University of France.

mssHM 80408 (a-c)

A sketch of the lower falls, and ferry of Saratoga, thirty six miles above Albany and nine miles below Fort Edward. [cartographic material]

Manuscripts

Manuscript plan, a copy by Patrick Mackellar, and drafted probably around 1756, before the fort was built on Georges Island. Kashnor, in the Museum Book Store catalog, locates Georges Island on the Hudson River, just above the junction with Fish Creek River in Saratoga County. The location of Georges Island, or its modern-day name has not been verified.

mssHM 15458

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Génération continue des races actuelles par les séries animales et végétales: memoir, autograph manuscript draft

Manuscripts

In this handwritten, signed manuscript, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is discussing evolutionary theory from a philosophical and historical standpoint. He cites a number of important scientists and philosophers such as Georges-Louis Lecler, Comte de Buffon, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Johann Wolfgang von Geothe, Johannes Müller, Lorenz Oken, Georges Cuvier, Jan van der Hoeven, Henri Dutrochet, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and devotes several pages of the manuscript to a discussion of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. It is likely that this manuscript was intended for publication and as a follow-up to another unpublished memoir titled "Mémoire pour établier que le principe de l'unité typéale de l'organisation contient des élémens revelatoires..." The manuscript is in French.

mssHM 74831

[Drawing of left leg and 15 lines of verse] : [graphic, manuscript]

Manuscripts

Black chalk drawing of left leg accompanied by 15 lines of verse in brown ink. Both in the hand of Michelangelo Buonarroti. Depicts a left leg slightly bent, with thigh, knee and part of the calf visible. The drawing has been identified by some scholars as a study for the Last Judgement. A second faint sketch of an architectural detail lies in the center of the page, near lines 8-12 of the verse. The verse has been identified as fragments of one or two madrigals written by Michelangelo, probably a draft of "gli sguardi che mi strazji."

mssHM 36088

Plan of the fort on Georges Island. [cartographic material]

Manuscripts

Manuscript plan, a copy by Samuel Holland, showing a fort on Georges Island. Kashnor, in the Museum Book Store catalog, locates Georges Island on the Hudson River, just above the junction with Fish Creek River in Saratoga County. The location of Georges Island, or its modern-day name has not been verified.

mssHM 15455

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George Cuvier Harlan papers

Manuscripts

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of George C. Harlan, chiefly covering his Civil War experience. The bulk of the collection consists of his letters to his mother Margaret Simmons Hart Howell Harlan and younger brother Edward S. Harlan. George C. Harlan regularly reported to his "Philadelphia headquarters" war news and rumors and recounted the details of his hospital work, including the numerous challenges he faced in his effort to keep his camp and field hospitals up to the "hospital standards of Pennsylvania," and described his patients, colleagues, commanders, fellow officers, soldiers, escaped enslaved persons, and Southern secessionists. His letters contain accounts of the military operations and events he witnessed, including the capture of blockade-runners, the rampage of the Confederate armored warships, the Monitor and the Merrimack, the Peninsular Campaign of 1862, and the siege of Petersburg in 1864. The letters written from Confederate prisons describe Harlan's capture and his medical work in Confederate hospitals. Also included are letters by Ely McClellan (1834-1893), H.W. Rivers, surgeon-in-chief of Kautz Cavalry Division, and others, relating to Harlan's capture and efforts made to secure his release; Harlan's military and professional records, including his Navy commissions signed by Gideon Welles and his muster-out roll; letters of recommendation; pension documents; his obituary, and resolutions by veteran and professional societies and associations on the occasion of his death in November 1909. Also included is a copy of Harlan's book Memoir of Dr. William Fisher Norris, published in 1902.

mssHM 69448-69628

Georges Cuvier sketch of a gecko

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A sketch of the lower falls, and ferry of Saratoga, thirty six miles above Albany and nine miles below Fort Edward. [cartographic material]

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