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Autograph letter signed (in Italian) by Giovanni Amici to Swiss-born entrepreneur, museum agent, and entomologist André Melly, discusses a microscope that Amici had built for Melly, and touches on the state of microscopy in the early nineteenth century including current prices. In the letter Amici also talks about how English physicist William Wollaston is "unwilling to believe in any observation made with the microscope" but forgives him due to Wollaston's eye and sight problems. Amici also asks Melly for the addresses of "famous botanists Dawson Turner...Robert Brown, William Roscoe, and William Ker, all members of the Linnean Society." The letter Includes a small drawing of and a small clipping about Amici.
mssHM 72876
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The volume is a compendium on measuring and calculation, with a final section on a "weather rope;" this is a type of hygrometer, whose use is apparently not described in Britain in other sources, which was first described by Santorio in 1612. The volume is bound with thread in paper covers; with some damage and staining to covers. Facing title page is written: "Thomas Turner / huius libri possesor / est : Anno Domini 1701."
mssHM 83315
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A Victorian era commonplace book containing poems, drawings, and locks of hair. The original poems include an acrostic of Caroline Corry's name and "Lines for an Album," "Friendship," and "Memory," as well as many unattributed pieces; the volume also includes several attributed pieces including poems by Joanna Baillie, Geoge Gordon, Lord Byron, and Reginald Heber. The volume is illustrated with a pen and ink drawing of a man, a pencil drawing of a dog's head, and several pasted-in engravings of various people and scenes. The volume also contains one page with 28 locks of hair stitched onto the page; each lock of hair is labeled with a name, and, in some cases, a date, of Corry's family and friends. The volume is bound in contemporary quarter red roan with faded blue-gray sides, with some damage to the spine and one loose page laid into the volume.
mssHM 84412
Visual Materials
One framed glass drawing slate designed and patented by Anson K. Cross, Ashland, Mass., copyright 1914. An instructional sheet with directions for use, entitled The 'Cross' Drawing and Painting Glass for Perfecting Visual Power, is mounted on the back of the slate. The glass slate is contained within a wooden frame, and below it are two circular magnifying glasses. Explanations and directions for use are printed on a paper entitled "Directions for Use". Accompanying this glass slate are three grease crayons, designed as either Cross crayons or for use with the Cross Slate. A leveler containing red liquid is at the top of the slate and is intact.
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A signed, autograph manuscript; this is an early draft, with revisions. Volume also includes a printed black and white drawing of Aldrich. First printed in "The Century Magazine," May 1893.
mssHM 17239
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This is a group of eighteen letters by Dr. Francis West Lewis to James Lorimer Graham, of New York, mainly describing the "getting up" of a microscope for Graham by Lewis. One of the letters is in the form of an illustrated poem and another letter has illustrations (hand-drawn sketches by Lewis). The letters also deal with Dr. Lewis' personal life, his activities, and local gossip. Six of the letters are undated. Seventeen of the letters were written from Philadelphia (one was written from Bellows Falls, Vermont).
mssHM 81250-81267