Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullteron Baird writes to his colleague Winfrid A. Stearns regarding a request for a steamer to use in research. Despite Baird's enthusiasm for steamer technology, the Smithsonian cannot offer Stearns the use of one, nor can they afford to rent...
Location: I-Friends-1989-1
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to his colleague Winfrid A. Stearns, regretting that the Smithsonian cannot fund "a special expedition to Labrador." Additionally, Baird is expecting Professor Addison E. Verrill's "papers on [Stearns'] invertebrates" to be...
Location: I-Friends-1989-1
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to Professor Robert Bell of the Geological Survey of Canada, thanking him for his advice on how to get alcohol to researchers in Canada. Baird also writes that he will add Queen's College, McGill University, the Peter...
Location: I-Friends-1987-5
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to his colleague Winfrid A. Stearns about sending supplies to Quebec at the address of George Tanguay. These include "one dredge; two dredge nets; one four-gallon tank, and about eighteen jars of alcohol." Baird anticipates...
Location: I-Friends-1989-1
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Franklin F. Bond prepared this oration, entitled “The Choice," for the commencement ceremonies held June 28, 1883. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.
Location: OrationsX-1883-B711c
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
Natural Science Professor Charles F. Himes (Class of 1855) delivers this address at the opening of the Jacob Tome Scientific Building at Dickinson College on June 24, 1885.
Location: MC 2000.1, B251, F11
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
Jennie May Taylor prepared this oration, entitled “Chaldni," for the commencement ceremonies held June 27, 1889. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.
Location: Orations-1889-T238c
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
Elizabeth A. Low prepared this oration, entitled “The Development of Science from Superstition," for the commencement ceremonies held June 18, 1891. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.
Location: Orations-1891-L912d
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
Mary Ann Humrich prepared this oration, entitled “The Achievements of Our Age," for the commencement ceremonies held June 14, 1893. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.
Location: Orations-1893-H929a
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
Paul Peyton Appenzellar prepared this oration, entitled "Urban Growth at Expense of Rural," for the commencement ceremonies held June 5, 1895. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.
Location: Orations-1895-A646u
Subject: Science and Technology, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
Professor Charles F. Himes, a member of the Class of 1855, describes the collection of Joseph Priestley's equipment held at Dickinson College.
Location: DC 1855 H657ap
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
Caleb E. Burchenal prepared this oration, entitled “Evolution vs Special Creation," for the commencement ceremonies held June 6, 1900. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.
Location: Orations-1900-B947e
Subject: Religion and Spirituality, Science and Technology
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1900-1919
This pamphlet describes the collection of Joseph Priestley's equipment held at Dickinson College. This pamphlet was produced to coincide with the establishment of the Joseph Priestley Award in 1952.
Location: Priestley Collection
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1940-1959
Publisher: New York: Fleming H. Revell Company
Volume 2 of the Boyd Lee Spahr Lectures in Americana series includes essays from scholars that focus on various aspects of Dickinson College's history.
Table of Contents:
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Location: SC 378.748 D553b
Subject: Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Science and Technology, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1940-1959
Publisher: Harrisburg, PA: The Telegraph Press
Volume 3 of the Boyd Lee Spahr Lectures in Americana series includes essays from scholars that focus on various aspects of Dickinson College's history.
Table of Contents:
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Location: SC 378.748 D553b
Subject: Dickinson College History, Education, Politics and Government, Science and Technology
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1960-1979
Mabel Abbott provides an overview of Joseph Priestley and his house in central Pennsylvania in "The Story of Joseph Priestley House" by Mabel Abbott.
Location: I-ShentonJ-1970-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Science and Technology
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period: 1960-1979
Dr. Clarence E. Jackson presents this paper, "Oxygen- The Good and Bad Performer in Welding," at the 1st BOC Priestley Conference in Leeds, England in September 1977. The paper includes 20 illustrations. Jackson is a Professor in the Department of Welding Engineering at the of Ohio State...
Location: I-JacksonC-1977-1
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period: 1960-1979
Chemist and 1979 Priestley Award recipient Melvin Calvin responds to an inquiry from Barry Fortson, explaining that the "most exciting moment in my life in chemistry" was "clos[ing] the carbon cycle one day in my head."
Location: I-Friends-1983-3
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
John W. Steigleman Jr. shares his experiences and personal memories, having worked at Dickinson College for forty years as the technician for the Physics and Astronomy Department.
Location: I-SteiglemanJ-2020-1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Autobiography and Memoir
