Sun Oil Company
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Division of Environmental Research Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0999
Overview
The Division of Environmental Research (DER) was established as a department of the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1947 by botanist and limnologist, Dr. Ruth Patrick. Originally called the Department of Limnology, the department was envisioned by Patrick as a multidisciplinary team of scientists devoted to helping protect the quality of the environment. Not only was environmental research a novel idea for the time, but the multidisciplinary nature of the research was also innovative. The...
Dates:
1952 - 1995
Chalmers G. Kirkbride, Vice President, Sun Oil Company, September 1961
Item
Scope and contents note
From the Collection:
The records in this collection document the administrational activities of Drexel University between 1934 and 1994, but mostly encompass William W. Hagerty’s tenure as president between 1963 and 1984. The collection consists primarily of two sets of subject files. An earlier set includes mostly papers that Dr. Hagerty inherited from the previous president, James Creese; these papers document the transition from the Creese to the Hagerty administration. A later set of subject files was...
Dates:
September 1961
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
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- Clippings 2
- Correspondence 2
- Financial records 2
- Reports 2
- Administrative records 1
- Annual reports 1
- Articles 1
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Project 1
- Cape May (N.J.) 1
- Chalk Point Generating Station (Md) 1
- Coastal plains 1
- Crustaceans 1
- Data 1
- Diatoms 1
- Dredging 1
- Ecology 1
- Estuarine ecology 1
- Field notes 1
- Geology 1
- Interviews 1
- Lectures 1
- Limnology 1
- Manuals (Instructional materials) 1
- Minutes 1
- Mollusks 1
- Natural history museums 1
- Oil wells 1
- Paleontology 1
- Personnel records 1
- Photograph albums 1
- Photographs 1
- Pollution 1
- Project files 1
- Publications 1
- Radio scripts 1
- Research notes 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Slides (photographs) 1 ∧ less
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