United States. Bureau of Fisheries
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Horace G. Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0976
Overview
Horace G. Richards (1906-1984) was a geologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia and an authority on the geologic formations of the Atlantic coastal plain. His research specialty focused on geology and paleontology of the Quaternary Period (approximately the past 1.8 million years), but his research interests also included Cenozoic mollusca, and marine Pleistocene geology and paleontology of the Atlantic coastal plain. Additionally, he studied climate change and coastal...
Dates:
1928-1984
J. Percy Moore papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0505
Overview
John Percy Moore (1869-1965) was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1912 to 1939, an Assistant Curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences from 1902 to 1938, and held several positions between 1920 and 1956 at the Ludwick Institute, which offered free lectures and courses in the natural sciences. He was also a world recognized authority on leeches. During his career, Moore named six genera, 229 species, five subspecies and four varieties of polychaetous annelids, or...
Dates:
1847 - 1963
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Annelids 1
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Project 1
- Audiovisual materials 1
- Biographies 1
- Bylaws (administrative records) 1
- Cape May (N.J.) 1
- Clippings 1
- Coastal plains 1
- Crustaceans 1
- Diaries 1
- Dredging 1
- Evolution 1
- Field notes 1
- Financial records 1
- Fishes 1
- Geology 1
- Heredity 1
- India 1
- Interviews 1
- Lecture notes 1
- Lectures 1
- Leeches 1
- Libraries 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Minutes 1
- Mollusks 1
- Mosquitoes 1
- Oil wells 1
- Paleontology 1
- Pamphlets 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Photograph albums 1
- Publications 1
- Radio scripts 1
- Reports 1
- Scientific expeditions 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Slides (photographs) 1 ∧ less
∨ more