Benjamin Kendall Emerson Papers ca. 1837-1928

Emerson Papers, Ca. 1837-1928

17 archives boxes (8.5 linear ft.)

Abstract:

The papers consist of personal and family correspondence; geological notebooks kept by Emerson during his geological survey of Massachusetts and other areas of New England; pamphlets and scientific papers relating to Emerson's Helix Chemica and his Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island; essays and compositions written by Emerson when he was a student; and notes and letters concerning family genealogy.

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Biographical Note

Benjamin Kendall Emerson was born on December 20, 1843, in Nashua, New Hampshire, the son of Benjamin F and Elizabeth (Kendall) Emerson. He prepared for college at Tilton Academy in Vermont. While there he heard of Edward Hitchcock and decided to study Geology under him at Amherst College. He went to Amherst but missed Hitchcock as he retired that year and Emerson heard only two of his lectures.

He graduated from Amherst in 1865 with honors and from there he went to Groton Academy to teach chemistry and zoology. In 1867 he went to Germany to study geology and received his Ph.D from Gottingen in 1870. He returned to Amherst where he stayed as Professor of Geology (later Professor Emeritus) for the remainder of his life. He died in Amherst on April 7, 1932.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

This collection is organized into seven series:

1. Correspondence
2. Genealogy
3. Miscellaneous
4. Geology Notebooks
5. Notebooks and Diaries
6. Pamphlets
7. Manuscript and Scientific Papers

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Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

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Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Language

English.

Contents List

Section 1: Correspondence
B. K. Emerson - Incoming Correspondence
A-B			Box 1: folder 1
C			Box 1: folder 2
D			Box 1: folder 3
E-BF Emerson			Box 1: folder 4
CE Emerson			Box 1: folder 5
"Caro" Emerson - Nellie Emerson			Box 1: folder 6
F-H			Box 1: folder 7
J-L			Box 1: folder 8
M-N			Box 1: folder 9
O-R			Box 1: folder 10
S			Box 1: folder 11
T-Weeden			Box 2: folder 1
Weeks-Z			Box 2: folder 2
Unknown			Box 2: folder 3
B. K. Emerson - Outgoing Correspondence [Please see also Emerson's Alumni Bio File for photocopies of letters to and from B. K. Emerson; originals at Field Records Library, US Geological Survey, Denver, Colo. - 08/01/00]
A - Annette Emerson (B. K. E.'s first wife) (Second wife was Anna Hawley Seelye Emerson)			Box 2: folder 4
Annette Emerson			Box 2: folder 5
"Ed" Emerson (brother)			Box 2: folder 6
Eliza Kendall Emerson (B. K. E.'s mother)			Box 2: folder 7
Eliza Kendall Emerson - letters as an undergraduate 1861-1865			Box 2: folder 8
Eliza Kendall Emerson - letters while in Germany 1867-1870			Box 2: folder 9
G - Z			Box 2: folder 10
Letters to Eliza Kendall (Emerson):
A - G			Box 2: folder 11
Kendall			Box 2: folder 12
Kittridge - Z, Unknown			Box 2: folder 13
Letters from Eliza Kendall Emerson:
A - Z			Box 3: folder 1
Letters to Benjamin Frothingham Emerson (B. K. E.'s father)
A - Z			Box 3: folder 2
To C Edward Emerson; to Eliza Kendall Emerson			Box 3: folder 3
Letters to Edward Emerson:
Samuel Emerson			Box 3: folder 4
Letters to Anna Seelye Emerson:
Frances Emerson (cousin) about Windsor chair			Box 3: folder 5
Albert Schweitzer			Box 3: folder 6
Henry S Emerson			Box 3: folder 6a
Miscellaneous letters to and from strangers:
Letters			Box 3: folder 7
Correspondence between H James Clark and Robert B Tolles, 1859-1871,concerning the construction and specifications for a petrographic microscope eventually purchased by Emerson for Amherst College			Box 3: folder 7a

Section 2: Genealogy
Letters to B. K. Emerson concerning genealogy
A - G		Box 3: folder 8
H - Z		Box 3: folder 9
Letters to Dr Pauline Emerson Canfield from members of the Emerson family
AJ Emerson -Isaac Emerson		Box 3: folder 10
James Emerson - Z		Box 3: folder 11
Letters from Dr Pauline Emerson Canfield
to B. K. Emerson		Box 3: folder 12
Genealogical material concerning Emersons
Newspaper clippings		Box 3: folder 13
A Criticism of 'The Ipswich Emersons' alias 'The Emersons in America' by PH Emerson (pamphlet)		Box 3: folder 14
The Ipswich Emersons (chart), The Haverhill Emersons (chart)		Box 3: folder 15
A Discourse at the Funeral of Rev Ralph Emerson, DD, May 22, 1863, by Prof Joseph Haven, DD	1863	Box 3: folder 16
2 notebooks of genealogical information		Box 3: folder 17
The Literary World , Boston Newspaper Issue devoted to Ralph Waldo Emerson	1880 May 22	Box 3: folder 18
Ralph Waldo Emerson, His Maternal Ancestors by David Greene Haskins, DD, Boston, Cupples, Upham and Co.	1886	Box 3: folder 19
Notes on John Emerson of Ipswich and others		Box 4: folder 1
Notes on Daniel Emerson and others Also: pictures of Daniel Emerson		Box 4: folder 2
Letters to Edward H Fletcher on Emerson genealogy		Box 4: folder 3
Gallery proofs of a few pages of B. K. Emerson's genealogy		Box 4: folder 4
Tribute to Hollis, NH where Daniel Emerson preached		Box 4: folder 5
Manuscript on Emerson genealogy		Box 4: folder 6
Wills of James, Luke, Thomas, and John Emerson Deed of James Emerson		Box 4: folder 7
Genealogy of John Emerson of Topsfield		Box 4: folder 8
"The Emerson Family", compiled by John M Emerson with additions by B. K. Emerson, Nov 1, 1871	1871	Box 4: folder 9
List of deeds, lists of births - Cambridge		Box 4: folder 10
Genealogical chart		Box 4: folder 11
Genealogy - Fifth generation		Box 4: folder 12
Genealogy - Sixth generation		Box 4: folder 13
Genealogy - Seventh Generation		Box 4: folder 14
James of Mendon		Box 4: folder 15
The Emerson's and their Name		Box 4: folder 16
The Emerson Coats-of-Arms		Box 4: folder 17
An account of Joseph of Mendon written in 1837 by Rev Joseph Emerson	1837	Box 4: folder 18
Genealogical data		Box 4: folder 19
3 miscellaneous letters of genealogical interest		Box 4: folder 20
Miscellaneous information		Box 4: folder 21

Section 3: Miscellaneous
Commencement and other programs	1861-1865	Box 5: folder 1
Eliza Kendall Emerson's account books and diaries		Box 5: folder 2
BF Emerson's inventory of his property with comment by B. K. E.		Box 5: folder 3
Account of train wreck on Lake Shore RR in which B. K. E. was injured		Box 5: folder 4
Programs-Junior Show, Dartmouth College, (CC Edward Emerson)	1869-1870	Box 5: folder 5
"The U P Mirror" B. K. E. editor; "Our Orator" (poem)	1860	Box 5: folder 6
Historical Sketch - first hundred years of Dunstable in Nashua Weekly Telegraph; Nov 1, 1873	1873	Box 5: folder 7
Eliza Kendall Emerson's penmanship book Phrenological analyses of Eliza Kendall (Emerson) and WPF Emerson		Box 5: folder 8
Phrenological analyses of Eliza Kendall (Emerson) and W P F Emerson		Box 5: folder 9
Spiritualist message from Kendall (Emerson?) to his wife Elizabeth		Box 5: folder 10
The Harriman Alaska Expedition - Notes, magazine articles, clippings	1899	Box 5: folder 11
Compositions of B. K. E.	1861	Box 5: folder 12
Essays and compositions of B. K. E. -Amherst College, including Valedictory Oration	1864-1865	Box 5: folder 13
Essays and composition of B. K. E. - Amherst College		Box 5: folder 14
Article on B. K. E. in McPhersons's Genealogical Record, Sept 1895	1895	Box 5: folder 15
Class of 1865 memorabilia		Box 5: folder 16
Class of 1865 memorabilia		Box 5: folder 17
Newspaper clippings - including B. K. E. obituaries		Box 5: folder 18
School catalogs		Box 5: folder 19
Material from student days in Germany	1867-1870	Box 5: folder 20
"Difference in Batholithic Granites According to Depth of Erosion" by B. K. Emerson (from Bull Geol Soc Am v10, 1898)	1898	Box 6: folder 1
Map re stages to Glacial Lake Hitchcock		Box 6: folder 2
Miscellaneous programs		Box 6: folder 3
Geological map of New York, with MS note by B. K. E.	1844	Box 6: folder 4
Railway maps	1892	Box 6: folder 5
US Geological Survey maps of Massachusetts		Box 6: folder 6
Mementoes of International Geological Congress in Russia	1897	Box 6: folder 7
Applications for annuity - US Dept of the Interior		Box 6: folder 8
Certificates (in Latin) announcing B. K. E.'s graduation in Göttingen Germany PhD	1870	Box 6: folder 9
"Expos Pedagogique", by Countess Olga de Rodzianko, written in memory of BKE	1953	Box 6: folder 10
Deeds Emerson family Nashua, NH		Box 6: folder 11
Diary of B. K. E. aged 16	1860	Box 6: folder 12
Davis' Catalogue of Apparatus and Experiments	1838	Box 6: folder 13
The Laws of Civilization, An Address by Rev Roswell D Hitchcock DD	1860	Box 6: folder 14
Catalogue of Tourmaline gems		Box 6: folder 15
Drawings by B. K. E.	1873	Box 6: folder 16
Compositions and diaries	1858	Box 6: folder 17
Account books	1858	Box 6: folder 18
Lecture notes in Philosophy		Box 6: folder 19
Notes on Phrenological diagnosis of B. K. E. by JH Seely		Box 6: folder 20
Materials from trip to Japan;		Box 6: folder 21
Case of gram weights		Box 6: folder 21
Revised typescript, Introduction to Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island 2pp		Box 6: folder 22
Draft of monograph on tonalite; some typescript , ms+ revised printed copy, 49 pp plus envelope		Box 6: folder 23
15 photographs and 2 reproductions of photographs of rocks and rock formations; some not labeled and possibly not Emerson's; tracings of fossil tracks		Box 6: folder 24

Section 4: Geological Notebooks [See Emerson's biographical file for photocopies of index cards that appear to relate to some of these volumes; original cards are located at the Fields Records Library, US Geological Survey, Denver, CO -- June 20, 2000]
Book 1 - Crystalline Rocks - Blandford, Goshen, Chesterfield, Williamsburg, Amherst, Hadley, Pelham		Box 7: folder 1
Book 2 (photocopy) - Connecticut, Western Crystallines, Granby, Meriden Located in Biographical file [Original located at the Fields Records Library, US Geological Survey, Denver, Colo - August 1, 2000]		Box 7: folder 1
Book 3 - Connecticut River Sandstone		Box 7: folder 1
Book 6 - Bernardston		Box 7: folder 2
Book 7 Geological Notes, 1877, No 1, Chesterfield, Worthington, Cummington, Williamsburg, Huntington, West-Hampton	1877	Box 7: folder 2
Book 8 Geological Notes, 1877, No 2 Chesterfield, Worthington, Goshen, Huntington, West Hampton, Williamsburg, Peru	1877	Box 7: folder 3
Book 9 Northampton, Hatfield, Whately, Deerfield	1878	Box 7: folder 3
Book 10 - Northampton, Easthampton, Hatfield, Amherst Post Tertiary	1878-1879	Box 7: folder 3
Book 11 - Pelham, Amherst, Hadley, Belchertown	1880	Box 7: folder 4
Book 12 - Greenfield, Gill, Bernardston, Whately, Deerfield, Post Tertiary	1880	Box 7: folder 4
Book 13 - Erving, Deerfield, Northfield, Bernardston, Sunderland, Montague, Post Tertiary	1880	Box 7: folder 4
Book 14 - South Hadley, Hadley, Shutesbury, Granby, Leverett, Pelham, Amherst, Post Tertiary	1880-1881	Box 7: folder 5
Book 17 - Pelham, Northfield, Gill, Bernardston, Montague, Whately, Leverett, Belchertown, Warwick, Granby, Mostly Crystalline rocks, little Post Tertiary	1882	Box 7: folder 5
Book 19- Bernardston Series, South Vernon, W Northfield, Bernardston	1882	Box 7: folder 6
Book 23 Shutesbury, Granby, South Hadley, Leverett, Amherst, Crystalline		Box 7: folder 6
Book 24 - Granby, South Hadley, Sunderland, Leverett	1885	Box 7: folder 6
Book 25 - Sunderland, Mt Toby		Box 7: folder 6
Book 26 - Chicopee, Holyoke, Longmeadow, W Springfield, Ludlow, Montague, Enfield, Deerfield, South Hadley, Sunderland, Leverett, Springfield, Wilbraham, Greenfield, Gill, Bernardston, Westfield		Box 7: folder 6
Book 28 - Amherst, Leverett, Shutesbury		Box 7: folder 7
Book 29 - Marlboro, Ware, Worcester		Box 7: folder 7
Book 30 - Bernardston, Leyden, Greenfield, Deerfield, Rowe, Shelburne Falls, Heath, Charlemont, Ashfield, Plainfield, Hatfield, Northampton, Westhampton, Williamsburg		Box 7: folder 7
Book 31 - Worcester, Winchendon, Fitchburg		Box 7: folder 8
Book 32 - Pelham, Wilbraham, Prescott, Enfield, Greenwich, Belchertown, New Salem, Shutesbury, Groton, Conn, Palmer, Leverett, Ware, Worcester Co Crystalline, little Post Tertiary	1884	Box 7: folder 8
Book 32 (2) - Webster, Marlboro, Worcester, and Blackstone		Box 7: folder 8
Book 33 - Worcester, Marlboro, Webster, Blackstone, Franklin		Box 7: folder 8
Book 35 - Ware, Brookfield, Palmer, Groton, Fitchburg		Box 7: folder 8
Book 3 - Winchendon		Box 8: folder 1
Book 37 - May 12, 1891		Box 8: folder 1
Book 38 - Berkshire, Sandisfield		Box 8: folder 1
Book 39 - Massachusetts & Rhode Island		Box 8: folder 1
Book 40 - Marlboro, Webster, Westboro, Crafton		Box 8: folder 2
Book 41 - Berkshire, Becket, Sandisfield, Pittsfield		Box 8: folder 2
Book 42 - Winchester, Nitt, Becket		Box 8: folder 2
Book 45 - Barre		Box 8: folder 3
Book 52 - Blackstone		Box 8: folder 3
Book 60 - Belchertown		Box 8: folder 4
Book 61 - Palmer		Box 8: folder 4
Book 62 - Winchendon		Box 8: folder 5
Book 65 - Marlboro		Box 8: folder 5
Book 68 - Groton		Box 8: folder 6
Book 70 - Warwick		Box 8: folder 6
Book 80 - Becket		Box 8: folder 7
Book 81 - Sandisfield		Box 8: folder 7
Book 82 - Northampton		Box 9: folder 1
Book 83 - Greenfield		Box 9: folder 1
Book 84 - Keene		Box 9: folder 2
Book 85 - Peterboro		Box 9: folder 2
Book 87 - Monadnock		Box 9: folder 3
Book 90 - Milford		Box 9: folder 3
Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Framingham, 1908; A Description of Microscopic Sections of Rocks and Minerals , 1878	1878-1908	Box 9: folder 4
Sketch book No 1; loose-leaf field notebook		Box 9: folder 5

Section 5:Miscellaneous Notebooks and Diaries
Cash Account book; Notes on lectures by Professor Snell		Box 9: folder 6
Diary, 1870; language study book - German into French; diary, 1875	1870-1902	Box 9: folder 7
Geological record of receipts and additions to the Amherst College collection, with a history of the collection from 1870	1877-1881	Box 9: folder 8
Geological exchange book		Box 9: folder 9
Diary, 1871 4 miscellaneous notebooks		Box 10: folder 1
3 miscellaneous notebooks		Box 10: folder 2

Section 6: Pamphlets
Pan-American Geologist , Vol XXXVII, No. 1, Feb 1922, "Emerson Geological Loving Cup" by Charles Keyes, p 41; Reprint of same	1922	Box 10: folder 3
Chemical Reviews , Vol 5, No 2, June 1928, "The Helix Chemica"	1928	Box 10: folder 4
Reprinted from Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol 54, No 6, Sept 1919 "William Bullock Clark (1860-1917)" (2 copies)	1919	Box 10: folder 5
Reprinted from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , Vol LVI, 1917, "Recurrent Tetrahedral Deformations and Intercontinental Torsions" 2 copies	1917	Box 10: folder 6
Reprinted from the American Journal of Science , Vol XLI, "Descriptions of Large Cylinders of Scoriaceous Diabase in the Normal Holyoke Diabase", 3 copies		Box 10: folder 7
Reprinted from the American Journal of Science , Vol XLIII, Sept 1916, Art XXIV, "Mineralogical Notes" (2 copies)	1916	Box 10: folder 8
American Journal of Science , Vol XL, No 236, Aug, 1915 Art XIX, "Northfieldite, Pegmatite, and Pegmatite Schist", p 212 (2 copies)	1915	Box 10: folder 9
Reprinted from Bulletin of the Geological Society of America , Vol 22, pp 681-686, pls 30-1, Dec 7, 1911, Cirques and Rock-Cut Terraces of Mt Toby	1911	Box 10: folder 10
Reprinted from Popular Science Monthly , Dec 1911, "Adamas: or the Symmetries of Isometric Crystals", 3 copies	1911	Box 10: folder 11
Reprinted from Science , NS, Vol XXXIV, No 880, Pp 640-52, Nov 10, 1911, "Concerning a New Arrangement of the Elements on a Helix, and the Relationships which may be Usefully Expressed Thereon"	1911	Box 10: folder 12
Reprinted from the American Chemical Journal , Vol XLV, No2, Feb 1911, "Helix Chemica"	1911	Box 10: folder 13
The Mineral Collector , Vol VII, No 5, July, 1900, "Mortised Rocks of Tyringham, Mass."	1900	Box 10: folder 14
Dept of the Interior, US Geological Survey, Bulletin 597, Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Washington, 1917, 2 copies	1917	Box 10: folder 15
Reprint from Bulletin of the Geological Society of America , Vol 44, pp 317-25, 1933, "Memorial of Benjamin Kendall Emerson" by Frederick B Loomis	1933	Box 10: folder 16
A Sketch of the Life and a Selection of the Writings of Mary Annette Hopkins Emerson , privately printed, 1899	1899	Box 10: folder 17
Bound volume of pamphlets (not boxed):
Die Liasmulde von Markoldendorf bei Einbeck . Inaugural Dissertation, Universitt Gttingen. Berlin, 1870 66 pages	1870	Box NB: folder 1
From Hampshire County (dated 1879 in pencil), Chapter III "Topography-Geological features - Crystalline Rocks - Gneiss - Feldspather Mica Schist - Hornblende Schist - Hydro-Mica Schist - Calciferous Mica Schist - Fibrolite Gneiss and Schist - Eruptive Rocks of the Older Series - Granite Syenite - Mineral Veins -The Trias - Glacial Period - Flood Period - The Connecticut Lake (pp 10-21)	1879	Box NB: folder 2
Appendix III (dated in 1879 pencil), "On the Geology of Frobisher Bay and Field Bay: A description of the Geological Collections Made by CF Hall on His First Voyage, 1860-62"	1879	Box NB: folder 3
Article (source ?) Article XXXII, "On a Great Dyke of Foyaite or Eleolite-syenite, Cutting the Hudson River Shale in Northwestern New Jersey" (pp 376-80)		Box NB: folder 4
AAAS XXIII, Art XLI - "On the Dykes of Micaceous Diabase Penetrating the Bed of Zinc Ore at Franklin Furnace, Sussex County, New Jersey" (pp 376-80)		Box NB: folder 5
Brief notices of papers read before the Geological Section of the American Association Pp 319-24 of "Geology and Natural History" (?) BKE on "Holyoke Trap Range" and "Bernardston Devonian, in the Connecticut Valley"		Box NB: folder 6
Paper on B. K. E. in Bulletin of the Geological Society , Vol I, 1890: "Porphyritic and Gneisold Granites (pp 559-61)	1890	Box NB: folder 7
American Journal of Science , Vol XL, October 1890: "Art XXV: A Description of the 'Bernardston Series' of Metamorphic Upper Devonian Rocks" (pp 263-275)	1890	Box NB: folder 8
American Journal of Science , Vol XL, Nov 1890: "A Description of the 'Bernardston Series' of Metamorphic Upper Devonian Rocks" (pp 362-374)	1890	Box NB: folder 9
American Journal of Science , Vol XXIV, Nov 1882: "The Deerfield Dyke and Its Mineral" (pp 195-202)	1882	Box NB: folder 10
American Journal of Science , Vol XXIV, Oct 1882: "Art XXX - "The Deerfield Dyke and Its Minerals" (pp 270-278)	1882	Box NB: folder 11
American Journal of Science , Vol XXIV, Nov 1882: "Art XXXIX - "The Deerfield Dyke and Its Mineral" (pp 349-359) (This article serves as a conclusion of the previous article)	1882	Box NB: folder 12
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America , Vol 7, 1895: "Geology of Old Hampshire County, in Massachusetts Abstracts on the 'The Scystalline Rocks', 'The Trias' and 'The Quaternary Deposits' (pp 5-6)	1895	Box NB: folder 13
Science , Nov 13, 1896: BKE with others in "Honors to James Hall of Buffalo" (pp 697-717)	1896	Box NB: folder 14
Science , Nov 13, 1896: BKE with others in "Honors to James Hall of Buffalo" (pp 697-717) Vol XLV, 1896)	1896	Box NB: folder 15
Bulletin of the United States Department of the Interior , Geological Survey No 126, 1895: "A Mineralogical Lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire and Hamden Counties, Massachusetts (180 pp)	1895	Box NB: folder 16
The Outlook , Vol 57, No 11, Nov 13, 1897: "Personal Impressions of Fridtjof Nensen" (pp 658-61)	1897	Box NB: folder 17
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Americ a, Vol 10, 1898: "Difference in Batholithic Granites According to Depth of Erosion" (abstract, 1pg)	1898	Box NB: folder 18
Bulletin of the United States Department of the Interior , Geological Survey" No 159, 1899: "The Geology of Eastern Berkshire County, Massachusetts" (139 pp)	1899	Box NB: folder 19
American Journal of Science , Vol X, July 1900: "Carboniferous Boulders from India" (pp 57-8) Also includes brief paragraph on "New Bivalve from the Connecticut River Trials"	1900	Box NB: folder 20
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America , Vol 11, March 1900: Annual address by President (BKE) at meeting Dec 27, 1899 (pp 61-96) - "Tetrahedral Earth and the Zone of the Continental Seas"	1900	Box NB: folder 21
The American Geologist , Vol XXVI, Nov 1900: "Some Curious Matters Illustrative of Geological Phenomena" (pp 312-315)	1900	Box NB: folder 22
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America , Vol2, April 1891: "On the Triassic of Massachusetts" (pp 451-456)	1891	Box NB: folder 23
The American Journal of Science , Vol XLIII, Feb 1892: "Proofs that the Holyoke and Deerfield Trap Sheets are Contemporaneous Flows and Not Later Intrusions" (pp 146-148)	1892	Box NB: folder 24
The American Journal of Science , Vol XIV, Sept 1902: "Art XXVIII - Note on Corundum and a Graphitic Essonite from Berkamsted, Connecticut" (pp 234-237)	1902	Box NB: folder 25
The Journal of Geology , Vol X, No 5, July - August 1902: "Holyokeite, a Purely Feldspathic Diabase from the Trias of Massachusetts" (pp 508-512)	1902	Box NB: folder 26
The American Geologist , Vol XXX, August 1902: "Two Cases of Metamorphosis Without Crushing" (pp 73-76)	1902	Box NB: folder 27
Extract for the Twelfth Annual Report of the State geologist for 1892, printed by James B Lyon in Albany 1893: "Notes upon Two Boulders of a Very Basic Eruptive Rock from the West Shore of Canandaigua Lake; and their Contact Phenomena upon the Trenton Limestone" (7 pp)	1892	Box NB: folder 28
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America , Vol 8, Feb 1897: "Diabase Pitchstone and Mud Enclosures of the Triassic Trap of New England" (pp 59-86, pls 3-9)	1897	Box NB: folder 29
From Vol IV of "Alaska" - The Results of the Harriman Alaska Expedition: "General Geology - Notes on the Stratigraphy and Igneous Rocks" (56 pp)		Box NB: folder 30
The American Journal of Science , Vol XVII, May 1904: "On Stegomus Longipes, A New Reptile from the Triassic Sandstones of the Connecticut Valley" (with FB Loomis - pp372-382 pls plate)	1904	Box NB: folder 31
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America , Vol 16, pp 91-130, plates 24-32: "Plumose Diabase and Palagonite from "The Holyoke Trap Sheet"	1905 March	Box NB: folder 32
Galley of Science article, stamped "Revised Proof New era Printing Nov. 8, 1905: "Structural and Field Geology for Students in Pure and Applied Science; by James Geikie and others. (book review by BKE)	1905	Box NB: folder 33
American Geologist , Feb 1905: "Notes on Some Rocks and Minerals form North Greenland and Frobisher Bay" (pp 94-104, Vol XXXV)	1905	Box NB: folder 34
Bulletin of the United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey " No 311, 1907: "The Green Schists and Associated Granites and Porphyries of Rhode Island" (71 pp done with Joseph H Perry)	1907	Box NB: folder 35
Letter to the editor of Science , November 21, 1907	1907	Box NB: folder 36
Popular Science Monthly , Dec 1909: "Medieval Creation Myths" (pp 610-613)	1909	Box NB: folder 37
Single 17 x 20" sheet on "Outlines of Geology of the Green Mountain Region in Massachusetts"		Box NB: folder 38
Single 17 x 20" sheet entitled "The Hawley Sheet - Descriptive Text" (possibly page 2 of previous item)		Box NB: folder 39

Section 7:Manuscript and Scientific Papers
Mostly notes and manuscripts of Helix Chemica and Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island			Box 11-17

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Amherst College--Faculty.
Emerson, Benjamin Kendall, b. 1843.
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Amherst College. Class of 1865. Emerson.

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