Agglutination Manuscripts
Content Description
Collection includes two manuscripts (without author information) about biological agglutination. Manuscripts are handwritten in ink on A5 size paper. First manuscript, titled "Agglutination" is 41 pages with 4 additional pages of footnotes and sources. Second manuscript, titled "The Agglutination Reaction in Paratyphoid Infections" is 27 pages with a single page bibliography. Third manuscript is notes on the article "Variation in Clumping of Typhoid Bacilli" [author name unintelligible], from French journal [name unintelligible], 9 pages. Also included is an envelope from the Lexington Book Shop of NYC to Dr. Arthur Lincoln Reagh, with evidence of a BSNH acquisitions label that has either fallen off or been removed.
Dates
- circa 1901-1904; the " The Agglutination Reaction in Paratyphoid Infections" manuscript references 1904 papers, and the "Variation in Clumping of Typhoid Bacilli" manuscript is marked "1901"
Conditions Governing Use
Materials are in the public domain.
Biographical Note
While the author or authors of the manuscripts are unknown, the envelope found in the collection was addressed to Dr. Arthur Lincoln Reagh. Dr. Reagh could potentially be the author and/or the depositor of the collection to the Boston Society of Natural History. Dr. Reagh was a doctor who wrote at least one text on agglutination and also wrote a small notice for The Auk, indicating a hobby in ornithology that likely connected him to the Boston Society of Natural History.
Extent
0.08 Linear Feet (4 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Materials are arranged in chronological order.
Custodial History
The "Variation in Clumping of Typhoid Bacilli" included (now separated in Folder 1) a mailed envelope from the Lexington Book Shop (730 Lexington Ave. New York City, New York). The envelope is addressed as:
"Papers and Agglutination
Dr. Arthur Lincoln Reagh
39 Maple St.
West Roxbury,
Mass."
The envelope also has a very small, torn fragment of a BSNH acquisitions label. The 3 handwritten manuscripts are the size of the envelope and likely mailed from the Book Shop to Dr. Reagh.
Provenance is unclear and possibly donated by Dr. Arthur L. Reagh to the BSNH Library; materials were found in storage with Boston Society of Natural History Library materials identified as "BSNH Library Manuscripts (Non-Members)" in 2022.
- Title
- Agglutination Manuscripts Finding Aid
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Becca Webster (Archives Management Graduate Intern)
- Date
- October 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Edition statement
- First Edition
Repository Details
Part of the Museum of Science, Boston Archives Repository