| Description Of Item | From the front the volume contains notes from 'Physiologie des passions, ou, Nouvelle doctrine des sentimens moraux' Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, 1826 and 'The Book of Nature' by John Mason Good, 1834 (with sample of grass); poem by Elizabeth Leslie Findlater, obtained from her mother July 11th 1827; notes on the inhabitants of the moon based on Olbers' theory; further poems by Findalter including one on the proposed move of Wallace's sword; notes on plants and birds with their Latin names; the affect of the mind on the body with notes from Dr M Bailie and Dr Brown's 'Philosophy of the Human Mind', 1838; notes on the fate of female children of Indians from 'Criticism of Franklyn's Second Expedition'; description of petrified trees in Ohio [United States of America] from Silliman's Journal (American Journal of Science), June 1827; a poem from 'Bishop Heber's India', 1828; and (almost at the end of the volume) a list of references to scientific works. The front section also contains the following inserts: the definition of an animal secretion (written on the reverse of a torn envelope addressed 'To Will[iam]') and a slip with references to works on natural history (both next to the page with Findlater's poem on Wallace); Thatcher's diagnosis of puerperal fever (written on the reverse of a prescription signed by Will[iam] F Browne) and book references to Ulysses Aldrovandus and Barton's 'Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania' (both after Bishop Heber's India); list of birds with their Latin names and book references on botany and medicine (three quarters through the volume); and list of animals with their Latin names and habits (a few pages before the last entry).
From the rear is a journal entry for May 1826 in which the writer reports the responses of Grant and Dr Milligan to plane trees near Lover's Lane and a conversation with RG on love.
From evidence in the volume the writer may be a William F Browne. |