Student lecture notes of Benjamin Peirce, 1797-1798

This collection contains approximately twenty-three handwritten lecture summaries on six leaves made by Harvard undergraduate Benjamin Peirce between September 1797 and November 22, 1798. The summaries generally provide a few sentences describing the topic covered and primarily pertain to lectures on English grammar delivered by Eliphalet Pearson, the Hollis Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages. There are also summaries for single lectures by David Tappan, the Hollis Professor Divinity; Samuel Webber, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; and John Snelling Popkin, the Greek Tutor from 1795 to 1798, and later the Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. There is also an undated summary of a lecture by Benjamin Waterhouse, the Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Physic.

Institutes of natural philosophy, theoretical and practical. With some corrections; change in the order of the branches; and the addition of an appendix to the astronomical part, selected from Mr. Ewing's Practical astronomy.

"Appendix to the astronomy. Containing solar and lunar tables, with their explanation and use, and the projection of eclipses, selected from 'Ewing's Practical astronomy'": [233]-297.

Mathematics, compiled from the best authors, and intended to be the text-book of the course of private lectures on these sciences in the university at Cambridge.

Part of: Theodore P. Hill collection of early American mathematics books.

The American universal geography, or, A view of the present state of all the empires, kingdoms, states, and republics in the known world, and of the United States in particular : in two parts, the first part treats of astronomical geography ... the second part describes at large, and from the latest and best authorities, the present state ... : to which are added, an improved catalogue of names and places ... : the whole comprehending a complete and improved system of modern geography, calculated for Americans /

"Illustrated with twenty-eight maps and charts."

Die deutschen Giftpflanzen zur Verhütung trauriger Vorfälle in den Haushaltungen, nach ihren botanischen Kennzeichen beschrieben, nebst Hinzufügung der bey dem zufälligen Genuss derselben erforderlichen Gegenmittel /von Johann Samuel Halle.

Includes index.

Sir Samuel Ferguson in the Ireland of his day,

Bibliography: v.2, p. [369]-374.

A descriptive account of the several processes which are usually pursued in the manufacture of the article known in commerce by the name of tin-plate /

Printed by the executors of S. Russell, Manchester.

Colloquial Japanese : or, Conversational sentences and dialogues in English and Japanese, together with an English-Japanese index to serve as a vocabulary, and an introduction on the grammatical structure of the language /

Mode of access: Internet.

An introduction to the study of English grammar /

Appendix on teachng methods: p. 225-236.

Outlines of English grammar as evolved from the language itself /

Mode of access: Internet.

A treatise on the structure of the English language : or, the analysis and classification of sentences and their component parts with illustrations and exercises adapted to the use of schools /

At head of t.-p.: Green's analysis.

Hibernian nights' entertainments /

All volumes also have decorative t.p. without statement of publication.

The chemical catechism : with notes, illustrations, and experiments /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An introduction to English grammar, on an analytical plan : adapted to the use of students in colleges and the higher classes in schools and academies /

Mode of access: Internet.