University of Pennsylvania

Accessions to the Herbarium of the University of Pennsylvania

Collection — Box: small accessions 1

Identifier: ANSP-2010-036

Dates: 1940s-1970

Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / Accessions to the Herbarium of the University of Pennsylvania

correspondence with George A. Munger, Director of the Department of Physical Education, University of Pennsylvania, September 22, 1966

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Scope and content note From the File:

manual, correspondence, memoranda, United Fund 1962 breakdown, report

Dates: September 22, 1966

Found in: Drexel University Archives / UR-01-008, W. W. Hagerty administration records / Alphabetical Correspondence Files / "U"

Documents on Proposed ANSP move to University of Pennsylvania Campus

Collection — Container: Box Small Collections 11

Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0543

Scope and Contents In April, 1889 the Provost of the University, William Pepper sent to the officers of the Academy an invitation to move their institution to the campus of the University. The Academy's Council considered the proposal, disapproved it, and reported its reasons in detail to the Academy's membership. The members, agreeing with the council, voted against the move. The papers include the original proposition, resolutions of both the Council and the Academy, and a statement by the Academy's...

Dates: 1889, 1892

Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / Documents on Proposed ANSP move to University of Pennsylvania Campus

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

Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / Horace G. Richards Papers

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

Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / J. Percy Moore papers

John W. Harshberger's North American Vegetation Illustrations

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: ANSP-2010-031

Scope and Contents This collection includes a twelve volume scrapbook group entitled "Illustrations of North American Vegetation" organized by region and compiled of John W. Harshberger. The collection also includes a scrapbook of "Foreign Vegetation" and a copy of "The Vegetation of South Florida," the latter printed by the Wagner Free Institute of Science. The scrapbooks are a combination of photographs taken by Harshberger, Henry Troth, etc., postcards, and illustrations cut from books or periodicals. ...

Dates: 1911-1916

Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / John W. Harshberger's North American Vegetation Illustrations