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Title: Emma M. Stirling to Charles Willing, 1885 October 16
Identifier(s): text:272748
Description: Severe storms on voyage. Welcome home. Meeting - Mr. Buchanan.
Subject: Ocean travel
Date: 1885-10-16

Title: Directions for taking care of the cochineal insects while at sea / Soins a observer pour la Conservation des Insects Cochenille a bord des Vaisseaux Sur Mer
Identifier(s): text:1191; local: APSimg6643; local: 213
Description: Detailed instructions on shipping this economically valuable insect to the "settlements in India." In English and French.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1198, no. 5.
Creator: Anderson, James, 1739-1808et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Insects; Dyeing; Ocean travel
Date: 1789

Title: To the public. The subscriber, intending to publish as account of his voyage from Charleston (S.C.) to the coast of Africa, and his travels when there, hereby solicits subscriptions
Identifier(s): text:693; APSimg6563; Goodman Number: 320
Description: Prospectus for a work published in 1797. Letter on reverse is from J. L. to [Benjamin Smith Barton], April 27, 1797. Signed in type by Joseph Hawkins.
Creator: Hawkins, Joseph, b. 1772
Source: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B284d-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Discovery & exploration; Ocean travel
Date: 1796