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Agglutination Manuscripts

Collection

Identifier: A2022-09-01

Content Description This collection includes two manuscripts about biological agglutination with no author information. The manuscripts are handwritten in ink on A5 size paper. The first manuscript, titled "Agglutination" is 41 pages with 4 additional pages of footnotes and sources. The second manuscript, titled "The Agglutination Reaction in Paratyphoid Infections" is 27 pages with a single page bibliography. The third manuscript is 9 pages of notes on the article "Variation in Clumping of Typhoid Bacilli"...

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"

Found in: Museum of Science, Boston Archives

Angee the Ant Manuscript

Collection

Identifier: A2022-17-01

Content Description

This collection is of a manuscript of an educational children’s book “Angee, the Ant” describing the life cycle of a queen black ant who encounters various other species of ant on her journey. The text includes references to ant behavior, ecology, and differences between species told via the narrative story. There is an introduction written by Charles T. Brues, a bibliography, and an appendix providing further scientific context.

Dates: circa 1937-1947

Found in: Museum of Science, Boston Archives

Arthur L. Reagh Papers

Collection

Identifier: A2023-02-01

Content Description

This collection contains 2 notebooks of handwritten ornithological sightings from West Roxbury, Massachusetts, dating from 1885-1901, 1 notebook of handwritten ornithological sightings and report drafts from West Roxbury, Massachusetts, dating from 1885-1890, 1 notebook of histology laboratory from 1894-1895 containing detailed illustrations of microscopic biological tissues, and a compilation of Pasquaney nature lectures series from 1897.

Dates: 1885 - 1897

Found in: Museum of Science, Boston Archives

Book Plates of The Fishes of Porto Rico

Collection

Identifier: A2023-10-01

Content Description This collection contains 48 illustrated book plates, with Albertus H. Baldwin creating 32 plates and Charles B. Hudson creating 16 plates. Plates by Baldwin were painted while he was aboard the Fish Hawk. Descriptions on the plates contain both Latin and English designations, and every fish is illustrated from a side profile view. Each fish ranges in size, and the text denotes the "natural size" (life-size scale) and some not to scale. The plates...

Dates: 1900

Found in: Museum of Science, Boston Archives