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    <title>Lewis Reeves Gibbes papers, 1793-1894 (bulk 1838-1894)</title>
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    <namePart>Gibbes, Lewis Reeves</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1810-1894</namePart>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Chiefly correspondence along with specimen lists, resolutions, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Gibbes's career as professor of astronomy, mathematics, and physics at the College of Charleston, South Carolina.  Includes his correspondence with other scientists on the subjects of astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, meteorology, physics, and zoology.  Other subjects relate to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Smithsonian Institution.  Also includes Gibbes (Gibbs) family letters.</abstract>
  <abstract>An addendum to the collection contains correspondence of James McBride (1784-1817), botanist of South Carolina, including letters from Thomas Smith Grimké and John C. Calhoun, the latter discussing matters relating to the War of 1812.</abstract>
  <abstract>Gibbes's correspondents include Stephen Alexander, A. D. Bache, Jacob Whitman Bailey, E. R. Beadle, Amos Binney, Langdon Cheves, Thomas Cooper, James Dwight Dana, J. D. B. De Bow, Henry William De Saussure, Charles Ellet, E. F. Ellet, James P. Espy, Alex M. Forster, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Asa Gray, Samuel Steman Haldeman, Joseph Henry, Edward Claudius Herrick, John L. LeConte, Joseph LeConte, Elias Loomis, Joseph Lovering, Gabriel E. Manigault, Francis Markoe, Matthew Fontaine Maury, C. G. Memminger, Robert Treat Paine, James Louis Petigru, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, W. C. Redfield, E. S. Ritchie, John Daniel Runkle, Jared Sparks, William Stimpson, David Humphreys Storer, William Henry Trescot, M. Tuomey, Joseph Winlock, and William Wurdemann.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 17,327.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1978.</note>
  <note>Mathematician and naturalist.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Alexander, Stephen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1806-1883</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1806-1867</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bailey, Jacob Whitman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1857</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Beadle, E. R. (Elias Root)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1812-1879</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Binney, Amos</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1803-1847</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1850</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cheves, Langdon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1776-1857</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cooper, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1759-1839</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dana, James Dwight</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1895</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>De Bow, J. D. B. (James Dunwoody Brownson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1867</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>De Saussure, Henry William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1763-1839</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ellet, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1810-1862</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1877</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Espy, James P. (James Pollard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1785-1860</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Forster, Alex M</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gould, Benjamin Apthorp</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1896</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gray, Asa</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1810-1888</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grimké, Thomas Smith</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1786-1834</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Haldeman, Samuel Stehman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1812-1880</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Henry, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1878</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Herrick, Edward Claudius</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1862</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1825-1883</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>LeConte, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1901</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Loomis, Elias</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1889</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lovering, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1892</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Manigault, Gabriel E. (Gabriel Edward)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1899</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Markoe, Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1801-1871</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Maury, Matthew Fontaine</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1806-1873</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1803-1888</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Paine, Robert Treat</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1910</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Petigru, James Louis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1863</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1746-1825</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Redfield, W. C. (William C.)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1857</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ritchie, E. S</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Runkle, John Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1902</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sparks, Jared</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1866</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stimpson, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1872</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Storer, David Humphreys</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1804-1891</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Trescot, William Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1898</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tuomey, M. (Michael)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1805-1857</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Winlock, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1826-1875</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wurdemann, William</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gibbs family</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American Association for the Advancement of Science.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>College of Charleston.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Smithsonian Institution.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Astronomy</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Botany</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Chemistry</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Geology</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Meteorology</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Physics</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Science</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
    <geographic>South Carolina</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Zoology</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>War of 1812</temporal>
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    <occupation>Mathematicians</occupation>
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    <occupation>Naturalists</occupation>
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      <title>James McBride papers. 1808-1817</title>
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      <namePart>McBride, James,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1784-1817</namePart>
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