James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) declares his intention to resign his position as Assistant State Surveyor to devote his time to chemistry.

James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) is elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) is appointed as an assistant of Henry Darwin Rogers (1808-1866), an American geologist. Rogers provides Booth with expectations for his assistantship.

James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) writes to his mother, Ann Booth née Bolton (1772-1855), mentioning an afternoon spent with James Bolton and a bottle of Duff Gordon’s Conversation-Wine. Then Booth discusses his upbringing.

James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) is elected a member of the Wetterauische Gesellschaft für der Naturkunde zu Hanau, one of the oldest natural history societies in Germany and Hesse's oldest registered association.…

Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882) was the mentor of James Curtis Booth (1810-1888). Booth studied with Wöhler for two years in his private laboratory in the German state of Hesse-Kassel.

Corresponding Secretary of the Phrenakosmian Society of Pennsylvania College confirms James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) as an elected honorary member of the Society.

Note to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) from William Ewing Du Bois (1810-1881), Assistant Assayer of the United States Mint, thanking Booth for his specimens.

Certificate acknowledging the receipt of the Memoir of the Geological Survey of the State of Delaware donated and written by James Curtis Booth (1810-1888).

James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) is appointed as the Commissioner of the United States Mint.

A collection of letters written by James Curtis Booth (1810-1888). Includes material related to a gold-refining patent.

An introduction to Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist known for his regimen of observational data gathering and analysis.

James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) comments on the subject of silver containing selenium. Letter relates to a set of correspondence from the New York Assay Office.

Description of operating procedures at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.

Description of operating procedures in the Melting and Refining Office of the United States Mint. Digitized content does not include page seven because it is not held by the repository.

Notes providing instructions on how to melt silver.

Tabulation of data on the fineness of copper (i.e. weight of copper in proportion to the total weight of the metal including impurities and alloy base metals.)

Tabulation of data reporting the number of ounces of pure silver in disks of different diameters and of one inch thickness.

Letter marked "confidential" discussing business of the United States Mint. Richard S. McCulloh (1818-1894) studied chemistry in Philadelphia with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) from 1838 to 1839. From 1846 to 1849 he…

Letterhead for the Laboratory for Practical and Analytical Chemistry and envelope for Booth, Garrett & Blair, Analytical and Consulting Chemists.

In 1836, James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) started a student laboratory in…

A notebook containing handwritten references to various recipes and uses for ingredients. The first page includes an advertisement for The Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Practical and Theoretical: Embracing Its Application…

Pages 944 through 974, title pages, and preface of The Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Practical and Theoretical: Embracing Its Application to the Arts, Metallurgy, Mineralogy, Geology, Medicine, and Pharmacy (1850) by James…

Campbell Morfit (1820-1897), a distinguished chemist and co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850), writes to Booth with mention of articles he previously shared.