Scope and Contents

Papers, letters, documents and memoranda of historical interest. Botanical Section, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Book started January 22, 1901, by John W. Harshberger, Ph.D., Recorder. More than half of the items consist of program or meeting announcements of the many local botanical groups.

Gift of the Section.

Scope and Contents These holdings do not include all of Jones's correspondence in the field of biology, since he believed that collections, papers and letters about material from a given region should be deposited and preserved in that area. Other letters have been distributed among various individual correspondents, Boston Museum of Natural History, Society of Natural History of Wilmington, Delaware, and the U. S. National Museum. The Academy's collection contains letters from 166 authors who wrote a total of...

Scope and Contents Journals, diaries, fieldbooks of collecting dataIncluded are three items about the Philadelphia area, (1) dates for flowering of plants (2) first appearance of flowers and (3) weather conditions and bird records of 1888. The diaries refer to collecting in the Orinoco River region in northwestern Alberta, in Bermuda, Jamaica and Venezuela.All but one in the hand of Stewardson Brown, that of the Orinoco trip being queried. We know he was a member of the party, and...