Scope and content Records of the activities and administration of the History of Science Collections, including correspondence, budget and accounting information, and files on its projects and book and manuscript holdings, including the Boncompagni Archive and the cataloging of the Boyle Collection in 1988. Also, circulation records documenting the use of materials in the reading room, 1964-1992, and conservation survey results concerning the collection's flat paper materials. Office files include desiderata...

Scope and content Letters, documents, and offprints given to or purchased by the History of Science Collections from 1967-1978. Includes signed letter from John James Audubon to Robert Havell, typewritten letters to A.D. White and Simon Henry Gage, a letter from Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon to the abbé de Launay; two letters from Schilling to Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring; a 1757 contract between James Grosett and John Newbery for the latter to manufacture various diet drinks; and documents concerning...