Manuscript of a brief introduction to the Linnean system of botanical classification. Opening with a defense of botany against those who think it "a trifling insipid amusement and almost childish," Boutell argues that botanists seek to understand "the...
Description:
Possibly by the Rev. Charles Boutell (b. 1772), later rector of Litcham in Norfolk and father of the author of Boutell's Heraldry.
Subject (Name):
Boutell, Charles, b. 1772., Hayward, Matilda., and Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Botany, Study and teaching, Education, Women, and Intellectual life
Manuscript on paper in a single hand containing two sets of lecture notes on logic by a student of the University of Louvain. The first set of lectures was given by Guillielmo Philippi; the second by the Cartesian philosopher Arnold Geulincx. The manu...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Name):
Eversdijck, Marcellus van., Geulincx, Arnold, 1624-1669., Philipps, William., and Université de Louvain (1425-1797)
Subject (Topic):
Logic, Study and teaching, Logic, Modern, and Philosophy, Modern
The manuscript consists of typed lectures on obstetrics for students at the South Carolina Baptist Hospital School of Nursing. The pages have been glued by Dr. Welbourne into a scrapbook. The inside front cover lists the members and officers of the Ba...
Description:
Born on May 31, 1873, in Perry, Ohio, Edythe Roberta Winn married Frank Fitzhugh Welbourne (1867-1900) and had four children. Her medical career began after her husband's death. She graduated from Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1911 and...
Subject (Geographic):
United States, South Carolina, and Columbia
Subject (Name):
South Carolina Baptist Hospital and South Carolina Baptist Hospital School of Nursing
Subject (Topic):
Anesthesiology, Births, Childbirth at home, Delivery (Obstetrics), Hospitals, Infants, Care, Labor (Obstetrics), Maternity nursing, Nurses, Study and teaching, Nursing schools, Nursing students, Obstetrics, Operations, Surgical, Pregnancy, and Puerperium
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection primarily of arithmetic problems and conversion tables interspersed with a large number of verses, both satirical and sentimental, on such subjects as marriage, the sexes, love, and friendship. The collec...
Description:
Christian Kerr, Lady of Chatto and Sunlaws, was the daughter of William Kerr of Chatto and Sunlaws, and inherited her father's estates in preference to her brother. She married her cousin, Charles Kerr, but left no children. In 1759, she entailed th...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, Great Britain, Great Britain, and Kelso (Scotland)
Subject (Name):
Chatto and Sunlaws, Christian Kerr, Lady. and Kerr family.
Subject (Topic):
Accounts, Arithmetic, Study and teaching, English poetry, Households, Inventories, Occasional verse, English, Private libraries, Sentimentalism in literature, Verse satire, English, Women authors, Intellectual life, and Social life and customs
Manuscript, on parchment, in two Gothic bookhands, containig copies of Walter of Biblesworth (Bibbesworth), Le tretiz ff.1-27v; Nicholas Bozon (c.1280-1320), Les proverbes de bons enseignements, here called Liber de proverbiis sapientie, ff.28-40v; Hu...
Description:
In Anglo-Norman French with Middle English glosses and annotations.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Biblesworth, Walter de.
Subject (Topic):
Administration of estates, Anglo-Norman dialect, Chivalry, Conduct of life, French language, Study and teaching, and Manuscripts, Medieval
