Record Unit 7052 - Jean Louis Berlandier Papers, 1826-1851, and related papers to 1886

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Record Unit 7052
Jean Louis Berlandier Papers,
1826-1851, and related papers to 1886

By Gerald J. Rosenzweig

Introduction

Historical Note

Descriptive Entry

Series Descriptions

Series 1. CATALOGUE OF THE BERLANDIER MANUSCRIPTS, AND MATERIALS CONCERNING BERLANDIER'S MANUSCRIPTS.

Series 2. JEAN LOUIS BERLANDIER CORRESPONDENCE, 1843, 1848.

Series 3. ASTRONOMICAL, ATMOSPHERICAL, CYANOMETRICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION DATA TAKEN OR COLLECTED BY BERLANDIER, 1826-1851.

Series 4. BERLANDIER'S MANUSCRIPTS ON ANTHROPOLOGY, BOTANY, AND NATURAL HISTORY.

Series 5. BERLANDIER'S MANUSCRIPTS ON METEOROLOGY AND THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES.

Series 6. BERLANDIER'S CATALOGUES, INVENTORIES, AND LISTS OF COLLECTIONS AND SHIPMENTS.

Series 7. JEAN LOUIS BERLANDIER WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN OF THESE WORKS.

Series 8. HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTED BY BERLANDIER.

Series 9. PRINTED MATERIALS KEPT BY BERLANDIER.

Series 10. CLEVELAND ABBE AND WALTER L. NICHOLSON EXTRACTS AND TRANSLATIONS OF BERLANDIER'S MANUSCRIPTS.

Series 11. C. B. R. KENNERLY TRANSLATIONS OF BERLANDIER'S ZOOLOGICAL MANUSCRIPTS.

Series 12. WALTER L. NICHOLSON AND JAMES HENRY COFFIN CORRESPONDENCE, MAPS, DRAWINGS, METEOROLOGICAL ABSTRACTS, COMPUTATIONS, AND OTHER MATERIALS.

INTRODUCTION

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

HISTORICAL NOTE

Jean Louis Berlandier (circa 1805-1851), anthropologist, geographer, historian, meteorologist, and naturalist, was one of the earliest scientists to explore northeastern Mexico and southeastern Texas. A native of France, Berlandier studied pharmacy in Geneva, and later studied botany under Auguste-Pyrame de Candolle at the Academy of Geneva. In November 1826, Berlandier was assigned by de Candolle to collect natural history specimens in the northeastern part of Mexico including Texas. After arriving in Mexico, Berlandier was appointed botanist for the Comision de Limites, a scientific boundary survey financed by the Mexican government to survey the Mexican-United States border west of the Sabine River. Berlandier traveled with the Comision de Limites to southeastern Texas from November 1827 until May 1828 when he became ill with malaria. Berlandier then returned to Matamoros to recuperate. From the fall of 1828 until the end of 1829, Berlandier continued his excursions into Texas. After 1830, Berlandier resided permanently at Matamoros as a physician and pharmacist, but maintained his interest in natural history and the physical sciences. Berlandier maintained an extensive record of meteorological observations began when he left France in 1826. In May 1851, Berlandier drowned while crossing a river south of Matamoros.

These papers are only a segment of Berlandier's papers which were purchased from Berlandier's widow by Lt. Darius Nash Couch in 1853. The Smithsonian Institution received Berlandier's meteorological records, mineral collections, and natural history specimens and manuscripts. The remainder of the papers were sold by Couch.

Between 1855 and 1886, various persons connected with the Smithsonian used these papers, particularly Berlandier's zoological and meteorological data, for research and editing. Their notations, abstracts, and other materials are part of this record unit. Included are C. B. R. Kennerly, who translated portions of Berlandier's zoological manuscripts; James Henry Coffin, who reduced the meteorological observation data that Joseph Henry intended to publish; and Walter L. Nicholson and Cleveland Abbe, both of whom attempted to edit the works of Berlandier and Coffin, but were unable to complete the project.

These papers include Berlandier's correspondence; handwritten manuscripts on comparative anatomy, birds, botany, fishes, invertebrates, mammals, meteorology, reptiles and amphibians; four volumes on zoology; a geographical journal; astronomical, barometrical, cyanometrical, and meteorological data; air temperature, rainfall, and underground temperature data; sketches and watercolor paintings of birds, fishes, invertebrates, mammals, reptiles and amphibians; photographs of some of the watercolor paintings; a handwritten manuscript on Indian mummies; Memorias de la Comision de Limites a los ordenes del General Manuel Mier V Teran, co-authored by Berlandier and General Mier; handwritten manuscripts collected by Berlandier, including a Spanish-Latin dictionary on medicinal plants; and catalogs kept by Berlandier of his manuscripts and scientific collections sent to Europe or kept by him. Also included are Walter L. Nicholson correspondence; drawings of Berlandier's physician and pharmacy office at Matamoros; maps; lists of American medical officials stationed at Fort Brown, Texas, 1846-1851, and 1869; James Henry Coffin's abstracts of Berlandier's meteorological observation data as arranged by Nicholson; printed materials collected by Berlandier and Nicholson; translations of Berlandier's meteorological manuscripts by Cleveland Abbe, Coffin, and Nicholson; translations of portions of Berlandier zoological manuscripts by C. B. R. Kennerly; a catalog of Berlandier's manuscripts printed by the Smithsonian Institution in 1853; and notes concerning the Berlandier manuscripts at the Library of Congress and the United States National Museum Library.

Berlandier's manuscripts were written mostly in French, with some written in Spanish and Latin.

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES 1.
CATALOGUE OF THE BERLANDIER MANUSCRIPTS, AND MATERIALS CONCERNING BERLANDIER'S MANUSCRIPTS.

Box 1 of 16

Folder 1 Catalogue of the Berlandier Manuscripts Deposited in the Smithsonian Institution, 1853

Folder 2 Information concerning Berlandier's manuscripts

SERIES 2.
JEAN LOUIS BERLANDIER CORRESPONDENCE, 1843, 1848.

Box 1 of 16

Folder 3 Jean Louis Berlandier General Correspondence, 1843, 1848

SERIES 3.
ASTRONOMICAL, ATMOSPHERICAL, CYANOMETRICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION DATA TAKEN OR COLLECTED BY BERLANDIER, 1826-1851.

Box 1 of 16

Folder 4 Astronomical Calculations and Observations, Nos. 1-2, 1827-1832

Folder 5 Astronomical Calculations and Observations, No. 4, 1834-1835

Folder 6 Astronomical Calculations and Observations, No. 4, 1834-1838 (Addenda)

Folder 7 Astronomical Observations, 1830-1834, by Berlandier and Raphael Chowell

Folder 8 Atmospherical Observations, Nos. 1-2, 1832-1833, by Berlandier and Raphael Chowell

Folder 9 Barometer and Atmospheric Observations, June-August 1827

Folder 10 Barometer Readings, State of Tamaulipas, 1830-1831

Folder 11 Barometrical Observations taken by General Manuel Mier y Teran, City of Mexico, 1826-1827

Folder 12 Cyanometrical Observation Journal No. 1, 1827-1830

Folder 13 Geographical Astronomy, 1843-1850

Folder 14 Means of Meteorological Observations, Goliad, Texas, 1832-1833

Folder 15 Means of Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, 1843

Box 2 of 16

Folder 1 Means of Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, 1844

Folder 2 Means of Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, January-July 1845

Folder 3 Means of Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, August-December 1845

Folder 4 Means of Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, January-June 1846

Folder 5 Means of Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, July-November 1846

Box 3 of 16

Note: The original Means of Meteorological Observations for the year 1847, April, June-December 1848, and the year 1850 have been lost. Abstracts covering the above dates can be found in Box 15, Folders 16-18.

Folder	1	Means of Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, January-March, May 1848
Folder	2	Means of Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, 1849
Folder	3	Meteorological and Astronomical Observations taken by Jose Maria Sanchez y Tapia, Nacogdoches, Texas, 1828
Folder	4	Meteorological Observation Journals, 1842
Folder	5	Meteorological Observation Journals, 1843
Folder	6	Meteorological Observation Journals, 1844
Folder	7	Meteorological Observation Journals, 1845

Box 4 of 16

Folder 1 Meteorological Observation Journals, 1846

Folder 2 Meteorological Observation Journals, December 15, 1845-1847

Folder 3 Meteorological Observation Journals, 1848

Folder 4 Meteorological Observation Journals, 1849

Folder 5 Meteorological Observation Journals, 1850-1851

Folder 6 Meteorological Observation Journals, Nos. 1-10, 1827-1830

Folder 7 Meteorological Observations, Mexico City, 1827

Folder 8 Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, 1830

Folder 9 Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, 1831

Folder 10 Meteorological Observations, Goliad, Texas, 1832-1833

Box 5 of 16

Folder 1 Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, 1840

Folder 2 Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, March-September 1843

Folder 3 Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, October 1843-December 1844

Folder 4 Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, 1845

Folder 5 Meteorological Observations, States of Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi, 1846

Box 6 of 16

Folder 1 Meteorological Observations, States of Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi, December 1846-December 1847

Folder 2 Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, 1848

Folder 3 Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, 1849

Folder 4 Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, 1850

Box 7 of 16

Folder 1 Meteorology, Mexico City, 1839

Folder 2 Meteorology, Vol. 1, 1827-1829

Folder 3 Meteorology, Vol. 2, 1830-1831

Folder 4 Meteorology, Vol. 3, 1832-1841

Folder 5 Observations of the Arago's Sympiesometer, 1850

Folder 6 Oscillations of the Pendulum, September 1845-September 1850

Folder 7 Underground Temperature, 1847-1848

Folder 8 Underground Temperature, 1849-1850

Folder 9 Miscellaneous

SERIES 4.
BERLANDIER'S MANUSCRIPTS ON ANTHROPOLOGY, BOTANY, AND NATURAL HISTORY.

Box 8 of 16

Folder 1 Anatomie comparee, by Jean Louis Berlandier (Comparative Anatomy)

Folder 2 Animalia Nova-Hispania, by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1927 (Animals of New Spain)

Folder 3 Animalia Nova-Hispania vel Republica Mexicana (Animals of New Spain and the Mexican Republic)

Folder 4 Botanica (Botany)

Folder 5 Caverne avec momies d'Indigenes dans le desert de Malpimo discouverte en Juin de 1838 (Cavern with Native Mummies in the Malpimo Desert discovered in June 1838)

Folder 6 Invertebrates: Crustacea

Folder 7 Invertebrates: Mollusks

Folder 8 Notes on Natural History

Folder 9 Notas para la historia de los Animales de Mexico Nos. 1-3, by Jean Louis Berlandier (Notes on the History of the Animals of Mexico)

Folder 10 Notas para la Zoologia del Estado de Tamaulipas, by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1831 (Notes on Zoology of the State of Tamaulipas)

Folder 11 Notes sur la temperature animale, by Jean Louis Berlandier (Notes on Animal Temperature)

Folder 12 Physiologie, by Jean Louis Berlandier circa 1842 (Physiology)

Folder 13 Poissons (Fishes)

Box 9 of 16

Folder 1 Reptiles and Amphibians

Folder 2 Zoologie, Voyage de Ls. Berlandier, Mexique, Nos. 1-4, annees 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, by Jean Louis Berlandier (Zoology, Excursion by Berlandier, Mexico, Years 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829)

Folder 3 Zoologie - Vol. 1, Mammiferes (Mammals)

Box 10 of 16

Folder 1 Zoologie - Vol. 2, Oiseaux (Birds)

Folder 2 Zoologie - Vol. 3, Oiseaux

Box 11 of 16

Folder 1 Zoologie - Vol. 4, Insectes

SERIES 5.
BERLANDIER'S MANUSCRIPTS ON METEOROLOGY AND THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES.

Box 11 of 16

Folder 2 Aerolites dans le environ de Oaxaca (Meteorites in the Oaxaca Vicinity) [Empty folder]

Folder 3 Cahier de comparaisons d'instrumens et rectifications de ces memes instrumens, 1845-1847 (Notebook on Comparisons of Instruments and Corrections of these Same Instruments)

Folder 4 Courants du Golfe du Mexigue pres des cote du Texas (Currents of the Gulf of Mexico Close to the Coast of Texas)

Folder 5 Geographical Journal (Several pages missing)

Folder 6 Inondations du Rio Bravo del Norte (Floods on the Rio Grande)

Folder 7 Meteorologie et physique du globe, Nos. 1-2 (Meteorology and Physics of the Globe)

Folder 8 Meteorologie - Observations et calculs de moyennes (Meteorology - Means of Observations and Computations)

Folder 9 Notes on Meteorology

SERIES 6.
BERLANDIER'S CATALOGUES, INVENTORIES, AND LISTS OF COLLECTIONS AND SHIPMENTS.

Box 12 of 16

Folder 1 Catalogue de la collection zoologigue conservee en alcohool, Nos. 1-2 (Catalogue of Zoological Collection Conserved in Alcohol)

Folder 2 Catalogue de ma collection zoologigue et d'anatomie comparee faite au Mexique, by Jean Louis Berlandier. (Catalogue of My Zoological and Comparative Anatomy Collection Made in Mexico)

Folder 3 Catalog of Manuscripts kept by Jean Louis Berlandier

Folder 4 Catalogue de mes collections d'histoire naturalle (Catalogue of My Natural History Collections)

Folder 5 Catalogs of Geological Collections kept by Jean Louis Berlandier

Folder 6 Catalogs of Paintings and Drawings kept by Jean Louis Berlandier

Folder 7 Catalogs of Zoological Collections kept by Jean Louis Berlandier

Folder 8 Catalog, Miscellaneous

Folder 9 Expeditions, Nos. 1-184, 1827 Botanigue, Zoologigue et Mineralogigue (Shipments, Nos. 1-184, 1827, Botanical, Zoological and Mineralogical)

Folder 10 Inventories and Itinerary of the Boundary Commission, 1833-1835

Folder 11 Resumes des Environs, 1827 (Summary of Shipments)

SERIES 7.
JEAN LOUIS BERLANDIER WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN OF THESE WORKS.

Box 12 of 16

Folder 12 Invertebrates: Crustacea, Insects and Mollusks

Folder 13 Oiseaux (Birds)

Folder 14 Poissons (Fishes)

Folder 15 Reptiles and Amphibians

Folder 16 Photographs

Box 13 of 16

Folder 1 Slides

Folder 2 Frigate bird's head

Folder 3 Zoology

Folder 4 Fishes: Becune, Dorade

Folder 5 Comparative anatomy

Folders 6-7 Yoyage au Mexique: Zoologie and Anatomie comparie

Folders 8-15 Chelonia mydas (green sea turtle)

Folders 16-19 Felis paradalis (ocelot)

Folders 20-23 Procyon lotor (raccoon)

Folder 24 Dasypus octocinctus (armadillo)

Folder 25 Cricetus (hamster)

Folder 26 Felis brevicaudata; Didelphis virginiana (Virginia opossum)

Folder 27 Canis mixtus (coyote); Canis chihuahuaensis (Chihuahua)

Folder 28 Lepus americanus (snowshoe hare)

Folder 29 Dycotyles torquatus (peccary)

Folder 30 Antilope Mexicana (pronghorn)

Folder 31 Putorius mexicanus (weasel?)

Folder 32 Felis unicolor (cougar)

Folder 33 Meles tlalcayote (Eurasian badger)

Folder 34 Chiroptera (bat)

SERIES 8.
HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTED BY BERLANDIER.

Box 14 of 16

Folder 1 Extract: Anatomia piscum, by Antoine Gonan, 1770

Folder 2 Lists of North American Fishes (Authors unknown)

Folder 3 Notes on Zoology (Mostly extracts)

Folder 4 Vocabulario de las plantas medicinales Espanol-Latino (Spanish-Latin Vocabulary of Medical Plants)

SERIES 9.
PRINTED MATERIALS KEPT BY BERLANDIER.

Box 14 of 16

Folder 5 Article in Spanish concerning a great storm in Cida-de-doferro, Brazil, October 29, 1843

Folder 6 Electricite, Electrometre

Folder 7 Government Bulletin

Folder 8 Manifestacion del Ciudadano Manuel de Mier y Teran Al Publico, 1825

Folder 9 El Latigo de Tejas, October 31, 1844 and January 9, 1845 (Newspapers)

Folder 10 Revista Cientifica Y Literaria de Mexico, 1846 (Periodical)

Folder 11 La Patria, November 15, 1847 (Newspaper)

Folder 12 La Zesperia, 1841-1843 (Newspapers)

Folder 13 Memorias de la Comision de limites a las ordenes del General Manuel de Mier y Teran

SERIES 10.
CLEVELAND ABBE AND WALTER L. NICHOLSON EXTRACTS AND TRANSLATIONS OF BERLANDIER'S MANUSCRIPTS.

Box 14 of 16

Folder 14 Meteorologie - Observations et calculs de moyennes. Translated by Cleveland Abbe.

Folder 15 Walter L. Nicholson's copy of Berlandier's notes on instruments that he used during 1847. Copied in French. Collected by Cleveland Abbe.

SERIES 11.
C. B. R. KENNERLY TRANSLATIONS OF BERLANDIER'S ZOOLOGICAL MANUSCRIPTS.

Box 14 of 16

Folder 16 Birds

Folder 17 Mammalia

SERIES 12.
WALTER L. NICHOLSON AND JAMES HENRY COFFIN CORRESPONDENCE, MAPS, DRAWINGS, METEOROLOGICAL ABSTRACTS, COMPUTATIONS, AND OTHER MATERIALS.

Box 15 of 16

Folder 1 Abbreviations and Symbols of Meteorological Terminology

Folder 2 Appropriation proposal from the Secretary of War to the House of Representatives, 1874

Folder 3 Aurora Borealis Observed in Mexico in 1749, Aurora Borealis of 1788, and Phenomena of Atmospheric Electricity as Observed in Mexico, Notes by Jean Louis Berlandier. Translated by Walter L. Nicholson.

Folder 4 Jean Louis Berlandier's Journal, February 1842-August 1842. Translated by James Henry Coffin.

Folder 5 James Henry Coffin's Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier Meteorological Observations - Introduction, and an excerpt from Meteorologie - Observations et calculs de moyennes

Folder 6 James Henry Coffin's Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations at Various Places, 1826-1848

Folder 7 James Henry Coffin's Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations, 1826-1841

Folder 8 James Henry Coffin's Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations, 1842-1851

Folder 9 James Henry Coffin's General Summary of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations, 1830-1851

Folder 10 James Henry Coffin's Abstracts of Extraordinary Meteorological Observations by Jean Louis Berlandier

Folder 11 James Henry Coffin Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Magnetic Observations, 1843-1848

Folder 12 James Henry Coffin's Abstracts of Meteorological Observations taken by General Mier y Teran at Mexico City, 1826-1827, and by Raphael Chowell at Goliad, Texas, 1832-1833

Folder 13 Lists of Medical Officials who were stationed at Fort Brown, Texas, 1846-1851, and 1869

Folder 14 Lower Rio Bravo (Periodical Article)

Folder 15 Maps and Drawings of Matamoros and Brownsville, and the Rio Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande)

Folder 16 Means of Meteorological Observations, 1847

Folder 17 Means of Meteorological Observations, April, June-December 1848

Folder 18 Means of Meteorological Observations, 1850

Folder 19 Memoranda for inquiries as to facts connected with TORNADOES. Dictated by Joseph Henry for W. L. Nicholson.

Folder 20 Meteorologie - Observations et calculs de moyennes. Translated by Walter L. Nicholson.

Folder 21 Walter L. Nicholson Correspondence, Incoming and Outgoing, 1863-1884

Folder 22 Walter L. Nicholson's fact finding report of his trip to the Midwest in August 1860

Box 16 of 16

Folder 1 Walter L. Nicholson's Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations, 1843-1847

Folder 2 Walter L. Nicholson's Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations, 1848-1851

Folder 3 Walter L. Nicholson's Means Air Temperature Taken at Matamoros by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1843-1850

Folder 4 Walter L. Nicholson's Means Barometer Readings Taken at Matamoros by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1846-1850

Folder 5 Walter L. Nicholson's Means Rainfall at Matamoros Taken by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1843-1850

Folder 6 Walter L. Nicholson's Miscellaneous Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations

Folder 7 Walter L. Nicholson's Computations and Graphs

Folder 8 Walter L. Nicholson's Reductions of Barometer Readings Taken by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1844-1850

Folder 9 Walter L. Nicholson's Reductions of Temperature Readings Taken by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1844-1850

Folder 10 Walter L. Nicholson's Summary of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations

Folder 11 Notes on Meteorology and Physics of the Globe by Jean Louis Berlandier. Translated by Walter L. Nicholson.

Folder 12 Notes on the Meteorology of Matamoros, in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, by Jean Louis Berlandier, September 1829. Translated by Walter L. Nicholson.

Folder 13 On the Southeast Monsoon of Texas, The Northers of Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, and the Abnormal Atmospheric Movements of the North American Continent Generally, by Louis Blodgett (Extract)

Folder 14 Synopses of the History, Topography, Population and Climate of Matamoros, the State of Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas

Folder 15 Miscellaneous

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Folder	1		Catalogue of the Berlandier Manuscripts Deposited in the Smithsonian Institution, 1853
Folder	2		Information concerning Berlandier's manuscripts

Folder	4	Astronomical Calculations and Observations, Nos. 1-2, 1827-1832
Folder	5	Astronomical Calculations and Observations, No. 4, 1834-1835
Folder	6	Astronomical Calculations and Observations, No. 4, 1834-1838 (Addenda)
Folder	7	Astronomical Observations, 1830-1834, by Berlandier and Raphael Chowell
Folder	8	Atmospherical Observations, Nos. 1-2, 1832-1833, by Berlandier and Raphael Chowell
Folder	9	Barometer and Atmospheric Observations, June-August 1827
Folder	10	Barometer Readings, State of Tamaulipas, 1830-1831
Folder	11	Barometrical Observations taken by General Manuel Mier y Teran, City of Mexico, 1826-1827
Folder	12	Cyanometrical Observation Journal No. 1, 1827-1830
Folder	13	Geographical Astronomy, 1843-1850
Folder	14	Means of Meteorological Observations, Goliad, Texas, 1832-1833
Folder	15	Means of Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, 1843

Folder	1	Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, 1840
Folder	2	Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, March-September 1843
Folder	3	Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, October 1843-December 1844
Folder	4	Meteorological Observations, Matamoros, 1845
Folder	5	Meteorological Observations, States of Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi, 1846

Folder	1	Meteorology, Mexico City, 1839
Folder	2	Meteorology, Vol. 1, 1827-1829
Folder	3	Meteorology, Vol. 2, 1830-1831
Folder	4	Meteorology, Vol. 3, 1832-1841
Folder	5	Observations of the Arago's Sympiesometer, 1850
Folder	6	Oscillations of the Pendulum, September 1845-September 1850
Folder	7	Underground Temperature, 1847-1848
Folder	8	Underground Temperature, 1849-1850
Folder	9	Miscellaneous

Folder	1	Anatomie comparee, by Jean Louis Berlandier (Comparative Anatomy)
Folder	2	Animalia Nova-Hispania, by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1927 (Animals of New Spain)
Folder	3	Animalia Nova-Hispania vel Republica Mexicana (Animals of New Spain and the Mexican Republic)
Folder	4	Botanica (Botany)
Folder	5	Caverne avec momies d'Indigenes dans le desert de Malpimo discouverte en Juin de 1838 (Cavern with Native Mummies in the Malpimo Desert discovered in June 1838)
Folder	6	Invertebrates: Crustacea
Folder	7	Invertebrates: Mollusks
Folder	8	Notes on Natural History
Folder	9	Notas para la historia de los Animales de Mexico Nos. 1-3, by Jean Louis Berlandier (Notes on the History of the Animals of Mexico)
Folder	10	Notas para la Zoologia del Estado de Tamaulipas, by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1831 (Notes on Zoology of the State of Tamaulipas)
Folder	11	Notes sur la temperature animale, by Jean Louis Berlandier (Notes on Animal Temperature)
Folder	12	Physiologie, by Jean Louis Berlandier circa 1842 (Physiology)
Folder	13	Poissons (Fishes)

Folder	1	Reptiles and Amphibians
Folder	2	Zoologie, Voyage de Ls. Berlandier, Mexique, Nos. 1-4, annees 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, by Jean Louis Berlandier (Zoology, Excursion by Berlandier, Mexico, Years 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829)
Folder	3	Zoologie - Vol. 1, Mammiferes (Mammals)

Folder	1		Zoologie - Vol. 2, Oiseaux (Birds)
Folder	2		Zoologie - Vol. 3, Oiseaux

Folder	2	Aerolites dans le environ de Oaxaca (Meteorites in the Oaxaca Vicinity) [Empty folder]
Folder	3	Cahier de comparaisons d'instrumens et rectifications de ces memes instrumens, 1845-1847 (Notebook on Comparisons of Instruments and Corrections of these Same Instruments)
Folder	4	Courants du Golfe du Mexigue pres des cote du Texas (Currents of the Gulf of Mexico Close to the Coast of Texas)
Folder	5	Geographical Journal (Several pages missing)
Folder	6	Inondations du Rio Bravo del Norte (Floods on the Rio Grande)
Folder	7	Meteorologie et physique du globe, Nos. 1-2 (Meteorology and Physics of the Globe)
Folder	8	Meteorologie - Observations et calculs de moyennes (Meteorology - Means of Observations and Computations)
Folder	9	Notes on Meteorology

Folder	1	Catalogue de la collection zoologigue conservee en alcohool, Nos. 1-2 (Catalogue of Zoological Collection Conserved in Alcohol)
Folder	2	Catalogue de ma collection zoologigue et d'anatomie comparee faite au Mexique, by Jean Louis Berlandier. (Catalogue of My Zoological and Comparative Anatomy Collection Made in Mexico)
Folder	3	Catalog of Manuscripts kept by Jean Louis Berlandier
Folder	4	Catalogue de mes collections d'histoire naturalle (Catalogue of My Natural History Collections)
Folder	5	Catalogs of Geological Collections kept by Jean Louis Berlandier
Folder	6	Catalogs of Paintings and Drawings kept by Jean Louis Berlandier
Folder	7	Catalogs of Zoological Collections kept by Jean Louis Berlandier
Folder	8	Catalog, Miscellaneous
Folder	9	Expeditions, Nos. 1-184, 1827 Botanigue, Zoologigue et Mineralogigue (Shipments, Nos. 1-184, 1827, Botanical, Zoological and Mineralogical)
Folder	10	Inventories and Itinerary of the Boundary Commission, 1833-1835
Folder	11	Resumes des Environs, 1827 (Summary of Shipments)

Folder	12	Invertebrates: Crustacea, Insects and Mollusks
Folder	13	Oiseaux (Birds)
Folder	14	Poissons (Fishes)
Folder	15	Reptiles and Amphibians
Folder	16	Photographs

Folder	1	Slides
Folder	2	Frigate bird's head
Folder	3	Zoology
Folder	4	Fishes: Becune, Dorade
Folder	5	Comparative anatomy
Folders	6-7	Yoyage au Mexique: Zoologie and Anatomie comparie
Folders	8-15	Chelonia mydas (green sea turtle)
Folders	16-19	Felis paradalis (ocelot)
Folders	20-23	Procyon lotor (raccoon)
Folder	24	Dasypus octocinctus (armadillo)
Folder	25	Cricetus (hamster)
Folder	26	Felis brevicaudata; Didelphis virginiana (Virginia opossum)
Folder	27	Canis mixtus (coyote); Canis chihuahuaensis (Chihuahua)
Folder	28	Lepus americanus (snowshoe hare)
Folder	29	Dycotyles torquatus (peccary)
Folder	30	Antilope Mexicana (pronghorn)
Folder	31	Putorius mexicanus (weasel?)
Folder	32	Felis unicolor (cougar)
Folder	33	Meles tlalcayote (Eurasian badger)
Folder	34	Chiroptera (bat)

Folder	1	Extract: Anatomia piscum, by Antoine Gonan, 1770
Folder	2	Lists of North American Fishes (Authors unknown)
Folder	3	Notes on Zoology (Mostly extracts)
Folder	4	Vocabulario de las plantas medicinales Espanol-Latino (Spanish-Latin Vocabulary of Medical Plants)

Folder	5	Article in Spanish concerning a great storm in Cida-de-doferro, Brazil, October 29, 1843
Folder	6	Electricite, Electrometre
Folder	7	Government Bulletin
Folder	8	Manifestacion del Ciudadano Manuel de Mier y Teran Al Publico, 1825
Folder	9	El Latigo de Tejas, October 31, 1844 and January 9, 1845 (Newspapers)
Folder	10	Revista Cientifica Y Literaria de Mexico, 1846 (Periodical)
Folder	11	La Patria, November 15, 1847 (Newspaper)
Folder	12	La Zesperia, 1841-1843 (Newspapers)
Folder	13	Memorias de la Comision de limites a las ordenes del General Manuel de Mier y Teran

Folder	14		Meteorologie - Observations et calculs de moyennes. Translated by Cleveland Abbe.
Folder	15		Walter L. Nicholson's copy of Berlandier's notes on instruments that he used during 1847. Copied in French. Collected by Cleveland Abbe.

Folder	1	Abbreviations and Symbols of Meteorological Terminology
Folder	2	Appropriation proposal from the Secretary of War to the House of Representatives, 1874
Folder	3	Aurora Borealis Observed in Mexico in 1749, Aurora Borealis of 1788, and Phenomena of Atmospheric Electricity as Observed in Mexico, Notes by Jean Louis Berlandier. Translated by Walter L. Nicholson.
Folder	4	Jean Louis Berlandier's Journal, February 1842-August 1842. Translated by James Henry Coffin.
Folder	5	James Henry Coffin's Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier Meteorological Observations - Introduction, and an excerpt from Meteorologie - Observations et calculs de moyennes
Folder	6	James Henry Coffin's Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations at Various Places, 1826-1848
Folder	7	James Henry Coffin's Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations, 1826-1841
Folder	8	James Henry Coffin's Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations, 1842-1851
Folder	9	James Henry Coffin's General Summary of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations, 1830-1851
Folder	10	James Henry Coffin's Abstracts of Extraordinary Meteorological Observations by Jean Louis Berlandier
Folder	11	James Henry Coffin Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Magnetic Observations, 1843-1848
Folder	12	James Henry Coffin's Abstracts of Meteorological Observations taken by General Mier y Teran at Mexico City, 1826-1827, and by Raphael Chowell at Goliad, Texas, 1832-1833
Folder	13	Lists of Medical Officials who were stationed at Fort Brown, Texas, 1846-1851, and 1869
Folder	14	Lower Rio Bravo (Periodical Article)
Folder	15	Maps and Drawings of Matamoros and Brownsville, and the Rio Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande)
Folder	16	Means of Meteorological Observations, 1847
Folder	17	Means of Meteorological Observations, April, June-December 1848
Folder	18	Means of Meteorological Observations, 1850
Folder	19	Memoranda for inquiries as to facts connected with TORNADOES. Dictated by Joseph Henry for W. L. Nicholson.
Folder	20	Meteorologie - Observations et calculs de moyennes. Translated by Walter L. Nicholson.
Folder	21	Walter L. Nicholson Correspondence, Incoming and Outgoing, 1863-1884
Folder	22	Walter L. Nicholson's fact finding report of his trip to the Midwest in August 1860

Folder	1	Walter L. Nicholson's Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations, 1843-1847
Folder	2	Walter L. Nicholson's Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations, 1848-1851
Folder	3	Walter L. Nicholson's Means Air Temperature Taken at Matamoros by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1843-1850
Folder	4	Walter L. Nicholson's Means Barometer Readings Taken at Matamoros by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1846-1850
Folder	5	Walter L. Nicholson's Means Rainfall at Matamoros Taken by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1843-1850
Folder	6	Walter L. Nicholson's Miscellaneous Abstracts of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations
Folder	7	Walter L. Nicholson's Computations and Graphs
Folder	8	Walter L. Nicholson's Reductions of Barometer Readings Taken by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1844-1850
Folder	9	Walter L. Nicholson's Reductions of Temperature Readings Taken by Jean Louis Berlandier, 1844-1850
Folder	10	Walter L. Nicholson's Summary of Jean Louis Berlandier's Meteorological Observations
Folder	11	Notes on Meteorology and Physics of the Globe by Jean Louis Berlandier. Translated by Walter L. Nicholson.
Folder	12	Notes on the Meteorology of Matamoros, in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, by Jean Louis Berlandier, September 1829. Translated by Walter L. Nicholson.
Folder	13	On the Southeast Monsoon of Texas, The Northers of Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, and the Abnormal Atmospheric Movements of the North American Continent Generally, by Louis Blodgett (Extract)
Folder	14	Synopses of the History, Topography, Population and Climate of Matamoros, the State of Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas
Folder	15	Miscellaneous

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