Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Remarks 1
4. Acknowledgments 7
5. Biographical Sketch of Whitfield J . Bell, J r . with Selected Bibliography 9
6. Introduction 31
7. Contributors 35
8. Benjamin Franklin: "The Old England Man" 39
9. Frustration and Benjamin Franklin's Medical Books 57
10. William Byrd Reports on His Mission to the Cherokee in 1758 93
11. The Men of'68: Graduates of America's First Medical School 109
12. "That Awfull Stage" (The Search for the State House Yard Observatory) 155
13. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, "Learned Engineer," The American Philosophical Society, and the Promotion of Useful Knowledge and Works, 1798-1809 201
14. Consensus and Conflict About Imprisonment: The Philadelphia Society For Alleviating The Miseries OfPublic Prisons, 1787-1829 225
15. Cotton Textiles and Industrialism 251
16. The American Industrial Revolution Through Its Survivals 271
17. One Professor's Chief Joy: A Catalog of Books Belonging to Benjamin Smith Barton 311
18. Foreign Membership of Biological Scientists in the American Philosophical Society During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 345
19. Louis Agassiz as an Early Embryologist in America 393
20. Index 415