Mr. Vaughan's case, March 2, 1724

Opinion (or brief or judgement?) delivered in a case involving a claim by the Colony of New Hampshire to a proprietory right in a ferry running between Portsmouth and Kittery (then in Massachusetts) on the Piscataqua River. The ferry was started in 1684 by John Woodman and conveyed by franchise to Colonel Vaughan by Governor Dudley in 1708. Vaughan died in 1724 and the patent passed to his estate. The town of Portsmouth laid claim to the ferry. Read concluded that this action was not well founded since the ferry is not being operated by possession but by franchise and that, furthermore, New Hampshire does not have complete power over the ferry because Massachusetts has power of franchise on the Kittery end of its route.

Libro quinto de la Arca de este Juzgado de Testamentos de Valladolid ..., 1778-1784

Testamentarias; --Concursos y acreedores; --Capellanias; --Obras pias.

Thaddeus Mason Harris' working documents regarding subject-based library catalog, ca. 1790

Thaddeus Mason Harris, who served as interim librarian of the Harvard College Library in 1787 and as its librarian from 1791 through 1793, is believed to have created these notes while helping compile the library's first printed subject-based catalog. The catalog, Catalogus Bibliothecae Harvardianae Cantabrigiae Nov-Anglorum, was published in 1790 and represented a significant change in approach to the cataloging of the library's collections, which had formerly been cataloged alphabetically. These documents, many of them on small scraps of paper, contain the titles and bibliographic information of books on a range of topics, from "Anatomici" to "Rhetorica."

John Warren's copy of votes from a meeting of the Boston Medical Society, 1784 May 3

This document lists the eleven votes cast at a meeting of the Boston Medical Society on May 3, 1784. It was authorized as a "true coppy" by Thomas Kast, the Secretary of the Society. The following members of the Society were present at the meeting, all of them doctors: James Pecker, James Lloyd, Joseph Gardner, Samuel Danforth, Isaac Rand, Jr., Charles Jarvis, Thomas Kast, Benjamin Curtis, Thomas Welsh, Nathaniel Walker Appleton, and doctors whose last names were Adams, Townsend, Eustis, Homans, and Whitwell. The document indicates that a meeting had been held the previous evening, as well (May 2, 1784), at which the topics on which votes were taken had been discussed. The votes, eleven in total, were all related to the doctors' concerns about John Warren and his involvement with the emerging medical school (now Harvard Medical School), that school's relation to almshouses, the medical care of the poor, and other related matters. The tone and content of these votes reveals anger on the part of the members of the Boston Medical Society towards Warren. This anger appears to have stemmed from the perceived threat of Warren to their own practices, exacerbated by a vote of the Harvard Corporation on April 19, 1784. This vote authorized Warren to apply to the Overseers of the Poor for the town of Boston, requesting that students in the newly-established Harvard medical program, where Warren was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, be allowed to visit the hospital of the almshouse with their professors for the purpose of clinical instruction. Although Warren believed that the students would learn far more from these visits, in regards to surgical experience, than they could possibly learn in Cambridge, the proposal provoked great distrust from the members of the Boston Medical Society, who accused Warren of an "attempt to direct the public medical business from its usual channels" for his own financial and professional gain.

Saray Bosna'da ebniye-yi hayriyenin musavver tarihi

1. Hünkâr Cami-i şerifi.

Qānūn dīwān al-rasāʼil: manqūl ʻan nuskhah khaṭṭīyah bi-Maktabat Kambritsh

li-Tāj al-Riyāsah Abī al-Qāsim ʻAlī ibn Munjib ibn Sulaymān al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Ṣayrafī ; ʻuniya bi-nashrihi wa-al-taʻlīq ʻalayhi ʻAlī Bahjat.

Mecmua-yı münşeat-i Feridun Bey

Caption title.

Taʼrikh-i emeniyye

Mullā Mūsá ibn Mullā ʻĪsá Sayrāmī nīng taʼlīfī.

Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-bayyināt fī bayān ḥaqāʼiq al-ḥayawānāt

li-muʼallifihi Muḥammad al-Iskandarānī.

Janāb-i Ba-davlatnī hikāyātlārī : manuscript, 1904 or 5

An eyewitness account of Yaqub Beg's rule in parts of Xinjiang.

Central Asian documents : manuscript, 1558-1804

Various dates (966-1219 [1558-1804]). Addressed to various local rulers in Yarkand and Kashgar.

Synthesis and fabrication of refractory uranium compounds.

"Contract No. AT-(40-1)-2558"

Proceedings of the Sixth AFOSR Symposium on Advanced Propulsion Concepts, v. 1.

"Volume II (AFOSR-TR-71-3129) consists of the classified portions of the symposium."

Report.

The Special report ... on the preservaton of the scenery of Niagara Falls contains also a "facsimile [of a portion] of the first London edition of Father Hennepin's descreption of Niagara" with title: A new description of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles between New France and New Mexico ... by L. Hennepin ... London, 1698. (t.-p., 29-32 p. fold. pl.)

Occupational compensation survey--pay only.

Title from caption.