Transylvania Treasures
The Special Collections and Moosnick Medical and Science Museum house unique and exciting collections that are part of Transylvania’s remarkable history as the first college west of the Allegheny Mountains. Transylvania Treasures highlights some of these items, as well as people who helped make Transylvania the flourishing, vibrant liberal arts college that it is today.
Volume 1, No. 1
- The Collected Works of Hippocrates and Galen
- Le Jardin de Santé
- Robert Peter’s Daguerreotype Camera
- Monroe Moosnick
- Medical Symposium
- Horace Holley
Volume 1, No. 2
- Audubon’s The Birds of America
- Transylvania’s Natural History Collections
- Borelli’s De Moto Animalium
- John Wright
- Mary Phelps Austin Holley
Volume 1, No. 3
- The Tournament Book of William IV of Bavaria
- Tulp’s Observationes Medicae
- Medical Venus
- Preservation of Special Collections
- Lucy Shropshire Crump
- Robert Peter
Volume 2, No. 1
- Rafinesque: Transylvania's Famous Naturalist
- Rafinesque Comes to Transylvania
- Charles Darwin: Biologist and Geologist
- Charles Wilkins Short's Herbarium
- J. Hill Hamon: A Transylvania Treasure
- Transylvania Endures as Place of Creative Reflection
Volume 2, No. 2
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon: The French Rival of Linnaeus
- Carolus Linnaeus: The Swede Who Named Almost Everything
- Charles Wilkins Short: Immortalized Through Plants Bearing His Name
- The ‘Magic’ of Selenite Slides
- Joseph Buchanan: American Psychologist
- Leland Arthur Brown: Collector and Organizer of Transylvania’s Medical Collection
Volume 2, No. 3
- Transylvania’s Skull with a Hole in It
- The Incomparable Benjamin Winslow Dudley
- Benjamin Dudley’s Surgical Set
- The Anatomical and Surgical Works of John and Charles Bell
- Byron Young: The Treasure of a Transylvania Education
- Our Vision for Transylvania’s Treasures
Volume 3, No. 1
- The Clara Peck Collection
- Rosa Bonheur’s Sketch Book
- Black Beauty: A Timeless Novel
- Henry Clay’s Ashland Stud
- Edward Troye’s Painting of the Thoroughbred Lexington
- Ted Bassett: A Living Treasure
Volume 3, No. 2
- Rafinesque and Transylvania’s First Botanic Garden
- Community Garden Thriving on Transylvania Campus
- Five Early American Botanists’ Works and Opinions of Rafinesque
- Les Fleurs animees
- Antoine Chazal Drawings
- Charles Wilkins Short’s Botanical Cabinet
Volume 4, No. 1
- John Marshall Harlan, the Great Dissenter
- Samuel Woodson Price’s Portrait of General George Henry Thomas
- Francis Preston Blair Sr. and the Hampton Roads Conference
- Transylvania Medical Alumni Served Both Sides During Civil War
- Reuben Searcy Sr. Searches for His Sons After a Civil War Battle
- Frances Dallam Peter’s View of the Civil War
Volume 4, No. 2
- The Historical Importance of Transylvania University’s Medical Department (1799-1859) and the Secret Kappa Lambda Society of Hippocrates
Volume 5, No. 1
- Alfred Wallace: Collaborator and Friend of Charles Darwin
- Transylvania's 1,760 Early Nineteenth Century Medical Theses–11 on Yellow Fever
- Victor Hammer: Typeface Designer, Publisher, Portraitist
- Horace Holley: Transylvania President Wrote Letters To and About Five U.S. Presidents
- The Exceptional Frank Rose: Transylvania President 1951-57
- Barlow's Amazing Planetarium
Volume 5, No. 2
- Transylvania's Anatomical Illustrations
- John Latham's A General Synopsis of Birds
- Scale of Chemical Equivalents
- Emmet Horine and Transylvania's Special Collections
- The Presidency of Raymond F. McLain
Volume 6, No. 1
- Grave Robbing for Anatomical Study
- The 1818 Medical Faculty Shoot-out
- Happy Effects of the Tobacco Smoke Glyster
- Reading Rafinesque’s Drawings
- Meat Rain
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