Carter & Scattergood, a Philadelphia chemical manufacturing firm founded in 1834, request information on agricultural fertilizers from James Curtis Booth (1810-1888).

Letter from Aaron Clement, recording secretary of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, informing James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) that he has been unanimously elected a member of the society.

Thomas Potts James, recording secretary of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, writes to inform James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) that he has been appointed a member of the Committee on Horticultural Chemistry of the…

Concerns a gold-refining patent.

Comments and suggestions from Joseph Henry (1797–1878), the first Smithsonian Secretary and renowned physicist, for an article written by James Curtis Booth (1810-1888).

James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) asked for advice concerning the production of Prussian Blue.

J. W. Baird of the Smithsonian Institution provides instructions to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) for the printing of a report.

Discussion of a "McCulloh" process for refining of gold, named for Richard Sears McCulloh (1818 – 1894) an American civil engineer and pupil of James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) from 1838 to 1839.

Evan Pugh (1828-1864) wishes to study with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888). In shorthand, Pugh discusses some experiments in gaseous precipitation that he has carried out. Pugh became the first president of the…

Charles C. Post, a cousin of James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) writes to Booth with news of the death of his son.

The terms of James Curtis Booth's (1810-1888) faculty appointment as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania are outlined.

James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) elected to faculty as Professor of Chemistry as Applied to the Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.

T. Roberts Baker wishes to study chemistry under the tutelage of James Curtis Booth (1810-1888).

Eben Norton Horsford (1818-1893) requests information concerning a muffle furnace from James Curtis Booth (1810-1888). Horsford was an American scientist who taught agricultural chemistry in the Lawrence Scientific…

A report on analysis of a mineral sample.

John Jay Smith (1798-1881), a librarian at the Library Company of Philadelphia, requests information concerning cobalt from James Curtis Booth (1810-1888).

Concerns interest in the purchase of a mine.

Request for analysis of a sample of ore.

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

An invitation to “Caledonia Springs.”

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…

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

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.