In the Case of The Bank of the United States Versus the Auditor and Treasurer of the State of Ohio, and Others in the Supreme Court of the United States. Supreme Court case of Ralph Osborn and others, Ads. Bank of the the United States. Upon an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the District of Ohio
Historically, the Mercantile Library had several bound volumes of "Baptist Pamphlets" which were initially part of John Mason Peck's library but catalogued together under one call number. These volumes have been disbound and each pamphlet put in a separate, non-acidic enclosure. A number has been added to an alphabetical arrangement. The list is roughly arranged alphabetically by the first important word of the Church, benevolent Society, or other organization's title or name concerned.
In the time of the flatboats and the coming of the first steamboats documented so well through the early American navigational river guides, maps clearly indicated a future problem for St. Louis and its highly praised river harbor—the city was essentially on a peninsula which could become a remote island due to floods and other naturally occurring circumstances over time. The many islands and sand bars in the river were alarming testament in early maps.
Critic of Clark's scientific work as well as a claim for the initial invention of the gas blowpipe by Robert Hare, M.D., who invented the Hydro-oxygen blowpipe.