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WOODHOUSE, SAMUEL WASHINGTON, 1821-1904. Papers, 1849-89. 16 items. Collection 387

Naturalist and surgeon, he accompanied the U. S. topographical engineers, under Sitgreaves and Woodruff, on the Boundary Survey of the Creek and Cherokee Indian Nations, 1849-50, and again under Sitgreaves, on the Zuni River Expedition in 1851-2. The next year, he was a member of the private enterprise Inter-ocean Canal, Railroad and Mining Company's Expedition to Nicaragua and Honduras. In 1859-60 while surgeon on Cope's Line of Packets running between Philadelphia and Liverpool, he made a trip through Europe. For all these, he kept diaries, including notes on meteorology, topography and natural history, as well as day to day living conditions, foods eaten and Indians encountered. Register was kept of the illnesses treated of both Expedition personnel and Indians, including a detailed account of a rattlesnake bite he himself suffered. Elected a member of the Academy in 1845, he showed special interest in ornithology but collected all kinds of natural history objects while on his travels. These were all deposited in the Academy's museum.

Published in part as Report on the Natural History, by S. W. Woodhouse, p. 31-198, pls. (part in col.) In Report of an Expedition down the Zuni and Colorado rivers, by Capt. L. Sitgreaves, 1853.

Gift of the author, sometime between 1889 and 1904.

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Woodhouse, S. W. Papers

Twelve small notebooks; original diaries and memoranda: A. Creek and Cherokee Boundary Expedition under Capt. L. Sitgreaves & Lieut. I. C. Woodruff, Corps of Topographical Engineers, U. S. Army, 1849-50 (1) 1849. Private memorandum, no. 1., 222 [1] pages. Tan leather. 14½ cm. (Laid between pages 83 & 84 is a pencil sketch of Mr. Johnson's house). Illustrated. Notes on weather, travel conditions, topography and Indian customs, along with notes on the natural history of the regions covered. (2) 1850. Continuation of the above. No. 2, 128 p. Single illustration on p. 52 titled “Gypsum Hills near the Cross' Timbers” and another laid in, dated July 1850, picturing the site of Capt. Beaufort's Dragoon Camp, 1838. Signed S. [UNK]. W. (3) Hospital register of cases of sickness occuring while engaged in running the northern and western boundary of the Creek and Siminoles (?) during 1849-50. 14 p. tan leather. 14½ cm. (Partial roster of personnel) B. Expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers, by Capt. L. Sitgreaves, 1851. Same type of memoranda as in above, but more natural history included. (1) Jan. 1851 to May 20th., 119 p. Tan leather, 12½ cm. (2) May 21st to July 15th, 1851. No. 2, 122 p. 12½ cm. (3) Aug. 13th to Nov. 15th, 1851. No. 3, 253 p. 12½ cm. Dark reddish, wallet-type notebook. (4) Nov. 15, 1851 to Feb. 2, 1852. No. 4, 130 p. 15 cm. Tan leather. C. Central America Expedition (Inter-ocean Canal, Railroad and Mining Co. Expedition to Nicaragua and Honduras, 1853-4) (1) Diary. No. 1, 160 p. Feb. 19th to July 2, 1853. Party consisted of E. George Squier, late charge d'affaires to Nicaragua, Lieut. Jeffers, U. S. Navy, Mr. Hitchcock, artist, and Mr. Felton, acting associate and interpreter. an leather, 14½ cm. (2) Field book. Tan leather, 16 cm. 39, 41-71 p. A large section betweenn page 39 and 41 has no entries. Titlepage reads: Field Book in Honduras & Nicaragua, by S. W. Woodhouse, M. D., 1853. D. European trip, July 30, 1859 to Nov. 25. Dark red leather wallettype notebook. 159 p. In back pocket are 4 items, namely, folded slip with information about the ship Tonawanda, Slip giving progress of vessel from Cape Henlopen, admission card made out to Dr. Woodhouse and signed P.L.S. to the Zoological Gardens, London, another card with Mr. Sclater's name engraved, addressed to M. M. Jules Edouard Verreaux, [Paris] introducing Dr. Woodhouse.

While acting as surgeon on Cope's [UNK] of Packets,

E. Notebook containing various classes of notes. Many pages devoted to a doctor's prescriptions for illnesses. Another section of 27 pages, recording receipts for dues to the Academy, signed by Wm. C. Henszey, treasurer, Jan. 11, 1860 to Jan. 29, 1889. Small dark red leather wallet-type notebook. 11½ cm. F. Catalog of birds, possibly a copy of Dr. Gray's list as the entries often state “Add to Gray's list” or in other places “Wanting, no. 13, 16, etc.” The calligraphy is very neat, each letter meticulously formed and if written by Dr. Woodhouse shows a great variation from his informal hand as seen in his field notebooks. It may refer to the Academy's bird collection. 88 p. Black leather, 17½ cm. G. Letters and documents removed from various notebooks of this collection. 1. Heneszey, Wm. C. Receipt for dues to ANSP, 1889 2. Squier, E. George, letter to Julius Schmidt, 1854 3. Woodhouse, S. W. letter to E. G. Squier, 1854 4. Woodhouse, S. W. letter to Horatio G. Jones, 1854