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Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America. Each item is connected to countless stories—of lives lived quietly and extravagantly, of encounters peaceful and volatile, and of places near and far – providing an opportunity to travel back in time, to rethink familiar stories, and to discover new ones.
Works
Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820. Joseph Banks correspondence to John Churchman, 1787 September 1. bMs 2a.10.1, Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Correspondence from British naturalist and botanist Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) to surveyor John Churchman (1753-1805) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dated September 1, 1787, regarding Churchman's publication describing a process for determining longitude using a combination of latitude and...
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck report on botanical observations, 1797 June 18. bMs 16.41.1, Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Report by French naturalist Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck (1744-1829) on his observations on various plants, given to Société des naturalistes parisiens on June 18, 1797. Plant species mentioned include Veronica scutellata, Linum catharticum, Hypericum perforatum, and...
Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778. Carl von Linné address to Albrecht von Haller, 1736-1749. bMs 19.10.2 , Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Correspondence in Latin from Swedish botanist Carl von Linné (1707-1778) to Swiss anatomist and naturalist Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777). One letter, dated December 23, 1736, is entitled "Botanico Consummatissimo," or perfect botanist. The other letter, dated September 26, 1749, offers...
Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778. Carl von Linné correspondence to Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, 1774 October 16. bMs 19.10.1, Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Correspondence in Latin from Swedish botanist Carl von Linné (1707-1778) to Italian physician and naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723-1788), dated October 16, 1774. Also contains a message in French from a member of the Linnean Society in 1822. Biographical Notes Carl Linnaeus...