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297 letters, 371 typed and handwritten pages, dated 1 May 1877 to 5 December 1947, also includes 16 paper and manuscript ephemeral items including 7 newspaper clippings, 1 manuscript poem, a 64-page tourist pamphlet for "Cohoes, New York," 1 circular, 5 cards with manuscript notes and writing etc., 35 letters were written between 1877 - 1899, the rest date from 1900-1947.The correspondence in this collection consists mainly of incoming letters written to geologist Alfred Church Lane, a Harvard graduate, and professor at Michigan College of Mines and at Tufts College (the present Tufts University). The collection includes letters written by U.S. Congressmen and U.S. Senators, both in office and out, as well as college presidents, professors, business leaders, publishers, editors, friends, etc. While Lane was a geologist and professor, he took an active interest in politics, and many letters deal with the political issues of the day, including required military conscription, World War One, the League of Nations, local Michigan and Massachusetts elections, etc.Alfred Church Lane (1863-1948)Alfred C. Lane was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 29 January 1863. He was a great-great-grandson of a Concord minuteman and grandson of an abolitionist. He belonged to the eleventh generation of his family in New England. His father, Jonathan Abbot Lane, served some years as president of the Boston Merchants' Association and the Massachusetts State Senate. His mother was Sarah Delia Clarke, a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College. The Lanes were members of the Congregationalist church and the Republican party.Lane was educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard University, where he received his A.B. degree in 1883. Between 1883 and 1885 he taught mathematics at Harvard, then studied petrography under Prof. Harry Rosenbusch at the University of Heidelberg until 1887, before returning to Harvard to earn his Ph.D. in 1888. The following year he joined the Michigan State Geologic Survey as a petrographer, and he remained in that post into 1892, while also serving as an instructor at the Michigan College of Mines. He became assistant state geologist for Michigan in 1892, and from 1899 to 1909 he was the state geologist. Finally, he joined Tufts College in 1892, becoming the Pearson professor of geology and mineralogy. He retired from the college in 1936 as professor emeritus.While at Tufts, Lane served as vice president of the AAAS Division of Geology in 1907. He received an honorary D.Sc. from Tufts in 1913. During World War One, Lane went to France to do educational work for the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), and he stayed on through 1919 as head of the department of mining in the college organized by the American Expeditionary Force at the Université de Beaune. From 1922 - 1946, Lane was chairman for the Committee on the Measurement of Geologic Time for the National Research Council. He served as a member of the Board of Visitors at Harvard Observatory in 1924. Lane was appointed as consultant of science to the Library of Congress in 1929; the first person to hold that post. In 1931, he was president of the Geological Society of America. He was awarded the Ballou Medal by Tufts College in 1940 for "distinguished service to education and the nation". During his career, he authored 1,087 publications. He published in the areas of science, religion, local and national politics, economics, word affairs, and other subjects, with many of his popular papers appearing in newspapers or periodicals, as well as scientific journals.Lane married Susan Foster Lauriat on 15 April 1896. Together they had three children: Lauriat Lane, Frederic Chapin Lane, and Harriet Page Lane, who married C.D. Rouillard.Alfred Church Lane died suddenly on 15 April 1948, of a heart attack, at the home office of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, in New York City, where he had gone to greet friends who were returning with the Finn Ronne South Polar Expedition. He was 85.List of Correspondents:George R. Agassiz (1862-1951) professor of zoology at Harvard University,son of American scientist and engineer Alexander Agassiz, and grandson of Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) noted biologist and geologist. He wrote 4 letters to A.C. Lane.Rodolphe Louis Agassiz (1871-1933) was a ten-goal polo champion who participated in the 1902 International Polo Cup. He later became chairman of the board of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. He was the son of Alexander Agassiz, grandson of Louis Agassiz. Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. (1873-1936) was an economist, an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, the founder and director of the American Ambulance Field Service during World War I, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts. James Burrill Angell (1829-1916) was an American educator, academic administrator, and diplomat. He is best known for being the longest-serving president of the University of Michigan, from 1871 to 1909. He wrote 2 letters to A.C. Lane.Roger Ward Babson (1875-1967) was an American entrepreneur, economist and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for founding Babson College. Julius Caesar Burrows (1837-1915) was a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan. Hermon Carey Bumpus (1862-1943) was a biologist, museum director, and the fifth president of Tufts College (later Tufts University). Leonard Carmichael (1898-1973) was an American educator and psychologist. In addition, he became the seventh secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1953. He was appointed president of Tufts University in 1938, serving until his departure for the Smithsonian in 1953. Louis Arthur Coolidge (1861-) Newspaper correspondent; private secretary to U.S. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, 1888-91; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1920. Karl Taylor Compton (1887- 1954) was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. Ada Louise Comstock (1876-1973) was an American women's education pioneer. She served as the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and later as the first full-time president of Radcliffe College. George Bruce Cortelyou (1862-1940) was an American Cabinet secretary of the early twentieth century. He held various positions in the presidential administrations of Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt. John Albert Cousens (1874-1937) was an American Universalist businessman and educator who was the sixth president of Tufts College (later Tufts University) from 1919 to 1937. He wrote 4 letters to A.C. Lane.Frederick William Dallinger (1871-1955) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts and a Judge of the United States Customs Court. He wrote 2 letters to A.C. Lane.Edwin Denby (1870-1929) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of the Navy in the administrations of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge from 1921 to 1924. He also played a notable role in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal which took place during the Harding presidency. Grover C. Dillman (1889-1979) He became President of Michigan Technological University in 1935 and in the next 21 years guided the development of its top-ranking engineering school, training ground for many hundreds of highway engineers. William Yandell Elliott (18961979) was an American historian, hired by Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, and he was to remain at Harvard for the next 41 years, during which time he became an advisor to a American presidents and presidential candidates, including Al Smith in 1928. He was a member of Roosevelt's Brain Trust in the 1930s and '40s, and Vice President of the War Production Board in Charge of Civilian Requirements during World War II. He also accompanied Roosevelt to Yalta. and political advisor to six U.S. presidents. Elizabeth Gardiner Evans (1856-1937) privately educated; married Glendower Evans. Served as trustee, Massachusetts State Reform Schools (18861914); was a member of the Massachusetts Consumers' League and the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston (1890s); was a member and officer, Boston Women's Trade Union League (190412); was a member of the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission (191112); was active in the campaign for women's suffrage (191214); sent as a delegate to the International Congress of Women at the Hague (1915); was a national director, American Civil Liberties Union (192037); was on the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee (192027); awarded the first annual Ford Hall Forum medal (1933). Publications: several articles in LaFollette's Weekly, The Progressive, and other periodicals. Joseph Warren Fordney (1853-1932)was a politician from Michigan, serving as a U.S. Congressman from the 8th District from 1899 to 1923. Frederick Huntington Gillett (1851-1935) was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts state government and both houses of the U.S. Congress between 1879 -1931, including six years as Speaker of the House. Carter Glass (1858-1946) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Woodrow Wilson. He played a major role in the establishment of the U.S. financial regulatory system, helping to establish the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. use. Jeanette E. Granstein Women's College, University of Delaware, Newark. Arthur Norman Holcombe (1884-1977) was an American historian, and educator. He was credited with establishing political philosophy and theory as basic disciplines in Harvard University's government curriculum, where he was Professor of Government, from 1910 to 1955. Among his students were John F. Kennedy, Henry Kissinger and Henry Cabot Lodge. In 1949, he assisted Chiang Kai-shek in drafting a constitution for the Republic of China. Lucius Lee Hubbard (1849-1933) From 1891 to 1893, Hubbard served as assistant to M. E. Wadsworth with the State Geological Survey of Michigan based in Houghton, and then from 1893 to 1899 as Michigan state geologist. Hubbard was instrumental in the development the state mining industry, most notably in the area of Houghton. After leaving the geological survey, he then became general manager of the Copper Range Mining Co. and the Champion Copper Co., and afterwards was president of the Ojibway Mining Co. From 1905 to 1917 he was a member of the board of control of the Michigan College of Mines. He served as Regent of the University of Michigan from 1911 until his death. Julius Kahn (1861-1924) was a United States Congressman who was succeeded by his wife Florence Prag Kahn after his death. He has been described by the American Jerusalem as "among the most influential Jews in San Franciscoas well as nationalcivic life, from the middle of the 19th century into the 1930s". Patrick Henry Kelley (1867-1925) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served as U.S. Representative from Michigan's 6th congressional district from 1915-1923. Prof. Alfred Church Lane (1863-1948) collection includes 6 retained 'copies' of letters by Lane, written to Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Senator. There is also 1 copy of a letter to Hon. Spencer Penrose.Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) was an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts. A member of the prominent Lodge family. Collection includes a typed letter by Lodge, not signed, to Gov'r Arthur M. Hyde of Missouri.Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902-1985), sometimes referred to as Henry Cabot Lodge II,[1] was a Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts and a United States ambassador. He was the Republican nominee for Vice President in the 1960 presidential election alongside incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon. Robert Luce (1862-1946) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1899 and 19011908. He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1912. He was Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, and was an author, on the subject of political science. Luce was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919 January 3, 1935). He wrote 4 letters to A.C. Lane.Donald Baxter MacMillan (1874-1970) was an American explorer, sailor, researcher and lecturer who made over 30 expeditions to the Arctic during his 46-year career. He pioneered the use of radios, airplanes, and electricity in the Arctic, brought back films and thousands of photographs of Arctic scenes, and put together a dictionary of the Inuktitut language. Daniel Lash Marsh (1880-1968) was president of Boston University from 1926 to 1951. Joseph William Martin Jr. (1884-1968) was an American politician who served as the 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949 and 1953 to 1955; he represented the district covering North Attleborough, Massachusetts. He was the only Republican to serve as Speaker in a sixty-four-year period from 1931 to 1995. Edward B. Mathews (1869-1944) instructor of Mineralogy and Petrography at Johns Hopkins University and served the institution for almost fifty years. In 1895 he was promoted to the rank of associate, to associate professor in 1899, and he became professor in 1904. He succeeded W. B. Clark as chairman of the department in 1917. He retired in 1939 at the age of 70 with the title professor emeritus. Fred Walter McNair (1862-1924) Asst. Prof. Math, Michigan Agricultural College, 1891-1893; Prof. Math and Physics, Michigan College of Mines, 1893-1924; and President, Michigan College of Mines, 1899-1924. During World War I worked with U.S. Bureau of Standards and later worked on firing methods for large Naval guns. Ogden Livingston Mills (1884-1937) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as United States Secretary of the Treasury in President Herbert Hoover's cabinet, during which time Mills pushed for tax increases, spending cuts and other austerity measures that would deepen the economic crisis.George Foot Moore (1851-1931) was an eminent Asian scholar, historian of religion, author, Presbyterian minister, 33rd Degree Mason of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and accomplished teacher. Arthur Ernest Morgan (1878-1975) was a civil engineer, U.S. administrator, and educator. He was the design engineer for the Miami Conservancy District flood control system and oversaw construction. He served as the president of Antioch College between 1920 and 1936. He was also the first chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from 1933 until 1938 in which he used the concepts proven in his earlier, 0, Philadelphia: McCook, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1889, 1890, 1893. First edition, limited to 250 copies, of which this set is No. 197. 1889-1893 THREE-VOLUME LIMITED EDITION MAGNUM OPUS ON AMERICAN SPIDERS WITH 40 EXQUISITE HAND-COLORED PLATES BY CLERGYMAN-NATURALIST HENRY McCOOK, EACH VOLUME SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 3 hardcover volumes (Vol. II with flexible covers), each 11 inches tall, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt titles to spines, small book label of John D. Locke, Haverhill, N.H., and armorial bookplate of Dartmouth College Library (with ""DISCARD"" handstamp to front paste-down, pictorial endpapers, perforated library stamp to bottom of title page, with verso of each volume signed and numbered by author. Vol I, 372 pp, 354 wood engravings, 1 p author/publisher advertisement for publication of subsequent volumes; Vol II, 479 pp, 401 wood engravings, 5 lithographic plates colored by hand from nature, supplementary list of subscribers; Vol. III, frontis portrait engraving of Prof. Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, "Father of American Araneology," 284 pp, 98 wood engravings, advertisement, 30 handcolored lithographic plates. There are 913 figures included in the total of 40 colored plates. Corners bumped, covers clean, spines bright, hinges of vols I and III reinforced with archival tape, text pages and plates clean and unmarked, very good. PREFACE: ""The studies whose results are here given have been prosecuted throughout the last sixteen years. I have largely limited my investigations to the habits and industry of spiders, as the matters which seemed most important at this stage of scientific knowledge. I have made a point of illustrating all descriptions with drawings whenever the proper material was in hand. During my studies of aranead spinningwork, I have made thousands of original sketches in my note books, from which I have selected those that seemed best suited to make clear the points treated of. Judging by my own experience, even an outline drawing is better to communicate certain facts than pages of verbal explanation. Acting upon this belief, I have preferred to risk excessive illustration rather than fall upon obscure description. Indeed, I cherish the hope that the contents of some of the following chapters might be fairly understood by a simple examination of the cuts with their explanatory legends. Many of the cuts have been redrawn by competent artists, but a large number remain as figured by myself on block or paper. Among those who' have assisted in making the drawings are the well known artists and arachnologists, Mr. J. H. Emerton, of Boston, and Dr. George Marx, of Washington; also, Messrs. Edwin Sheppard and Frank Stout, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; and the Misses Bonsall, of this city. It may not be out of place to allude to the fact that, in order to give my investigations to the public in any form that would satisfy me, I have been compelled to undertake the entire burden and expense of publication. Few things could be more inconvenient and distasteful than the business details thus imposed; but I have accepted them as a part of the sacrifice required of one who, as a prophet of the mysteries of Nature, feels called to declare, at whatever cost, the truths known to him."" LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS contains notable American naturalists Alexander Agassiz, William J. Holland, and Samuel Scudder; German evolutionary biologist August Weismann, and major scholarly institutions across America and Europe. HENRY CHRISTOPHER McCOOK (1837 - 1911) was an American Presbyterian clergyman, naturalist, and prolific author on religion, history, and nature. He was a member of the celebrated Fighting McCooks, a family of Ohio military officers and volunteers during the American Civil War. He was a member of the Franklin Literary Society and founded the chapter of Theta Delta Chi at Jefferson College. After graduation in 1859, he studied theology privately and in the Western Theological Seminary in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the 41st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a chaplain with the rank of first lieutenant, and helped tend the wounded. As a minister in Clinton, Illinois, St. Louis, and Steubenville, Ohio, McCook became known for his compassion and intellect, and for his leadership in the movement to create Sunday Schools. In 1869, he became pastor of the Seventh Presbyterian church of Philadelphia, where he lived for the rest of his life. He spent his summers studying the behavior of ants and spiders. He published his observations and discoveries in a number of journals and books, as well as in a series of well-received illustrated children's books that explained the insects characteristics and traits in language and drawings for young minds. Many of McCook's books used illustrations drawn by Daniel Carter Beard, the founder of the Boy Scouts of America. In the summer of 1877, he travelled to Texas to study agricultural ants. Two years later, McCook wrote The Natural History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas. In 1889-93, he published his most ambitious work, American Spiders and Their Spinning Work, in three illustrated volumes (offered here). He also wrote a book on his ancestors in the Whiskey Rebellion, and delivered a number of papers on Civil War history at meetings of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States veterans organization. McCook was Vice President of both the American Entomological Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences. He again served as an Army Chaplain during the Spanish-American War in 1898. PROVENANCE: JOHN DEXTER LOCKE donated his collection of microscope slides to Dartmouth College, and these volumes were presented to Dartmouth College Library in his memory (subsequently discarded by library)., McCook, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1889, 1890, 1893, 0<

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Philadelphia: McCook, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1889, 1890, 1893. First edition, limited to 250 copies, of which this set is No. 197. 1889-1893 THREE-VOLUME LIMITED EDITION MAGNUM OPUS ON AMERICAN SPIDERS WITH 40 EXQUISITE HAND-COLORED PLATES BY CLERGYMAN-NATURALIST HENRY McCOOK, EACH VOLUME SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 3 hardcover volumes (Vol. II with flexible covers), each 11 inches tall, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt titles to spines, small book label of John D. Locke, Haverhill, N.H., and armorial bookplate of Dartmouth College Library (with ""DISCARD"" handstamp to front paste-down, pictorial endpapers, perforated library stamp to bottom of title page, with verso of each volume signed and numbered by author. Vol I, 372 pp, 354 wood engravings, 1 p author/publisher advertisement for publication of subsequent volumes; Vol II, 479 pp, 401 wood engravings, 5 lithographic plates colored by hand from nature, supplementary list of subscribers; Vol. III, frontis portrait engraving of Prof. Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, "Father of American Araneology," 284 pp, 98 wood engravings, advertisement, 30 handcolored lithographic plates. There are 913 figures included in the total of 40 colored plates. Corners bumped, covers clean, spines bright, hinges of vols I and III reinforced with archival tape, text pages and plates clean and unmarked, very good. HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.PREFACE: ""The studies whose results are here given have been prosecuted throughout the last sixteen years. I have largely limited my investigations to the habits and industry of spiders, as the matters which seemed most important at this stage of scientific knowledge. I have made a point of illustrating all descriptions with drawings whenever the proper material was in hand. During my studies of aranead spinningwork, I have made thousands of original sketches in my note books, from which I have selected those that seemed best suited to make clear the points treated of. Judging by my own experience, even an outline drawing is better to communicate certain facts than pages of verbal explanation. Acting upon this belief, I have preferred to risk excessive illustration rather than fall upon obscure description. Indeed, I cherish the hope that the contents of some of the following chapters might be fairly understood by a simple examination of the cuts with their explanatory legends. Many of the cuts have been redrawn by competent artists, but a large number remain as figured by myself on block or paper. Among those who' have assisted in making the drawings are the well known artists and arachnologists, Mr. J. H. Emerton, of Boston, and Dr. George Marx, of Washington; also, Messrs. Edwin Sheppard and Frank Stout, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; and the Misses Bonsall, of this city. It may not be out of place to allude to the fact that, in order to give my investigations to the public in any form that would satisfy me, I have been compelled to undertake the entire burden and expense of publication. Few things could be more inconvenient and distasteful than the business details thus imposed; but I have accepted them as a part of the sacrifice required of one who, as a prophet of the mysteries of Nature, feels called to declare, at whatever cost, the truths known to him."" LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS contains notable American naturalists Alexander Agassiz, William J. Holland, and Samuel Scudder; German evolutionary biologist August Weismann, and major scholarly institutions across America and Europe. HENRY CHRISTOPHER McCOOK (1837 - 1911) was an American Presbyterian clergyman, naturalist, and prolific author on religion, history, and nature. He was a member of the celebrated Fighting McCooks, a family of Ohio military officers and volunteers during the American Civil War. He was a member of the Franklin Literary Society and founded the chapter of Theta Delta Chi at Jefferson College. After graduation in 1859, he studied theology privately and in the Western Theological Seminary in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the 41st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a chaplain with the rank of first lieutenant, and helped tend the wounded. As a minister in Clinton, Illinois, St. Louis, and Steubenville, Ohio, McCook became known for his compassion and intellect, and for his leadership in the movement to create Sunday Schools. In 1869, he became pastor of the Seventh Presbyterian church of Philadelphia, where he lived for the rest of his life. He spent his summers studying the behavior of ants and spiders. He published his observations and discoveries in a number of journals and books, as well as in a series of well-received illustrated children's books that explained the insects characteristics and traits in language and drawings for young minds. Many of McCook's books used illustrations drawn by Daniel Carter Beard, the founder of the Boy Scouts of America. In the summer of 1877, he travelled to Texas to study agricultural ants. Two years later, McCook wrote The Natural History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas. In 1889-93, he published his most ambitious work, American Spiders and Their Spinning Work, in three illustrated volumes (offered here). He also wrote a book on his ancestors in the Whiskey Rebellion, and delivered a number of papers on Civil War history at meetings of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States veterans organization. McCook was Vice President of both the American Entomological Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences. He again served as an Army Chaplain during the Spanish-American War in 1898. PROVENANCE: JOHN DEXTER LOCKE donated his collection of microscope slides to Dartmouth College, and these volumes were presented to Dartmouth College Library in his memory (subsequently discarded by library)., McCook, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1889, 1890, 1893, 0<