Scope and Contents An entomologist, working mostly in the northeastern part of the U. S., centered in Maine. Refers to collecting and identifying Lepidoptera which was a project of Frank Morton Jones, during summers at Martha's Vineyard. Of the letters included, 173 were signed by Brower and 150 are carbons of Jones' side of the correspondence. Only a few are in holograph, most of them being typewritten. Some other authors appear and an autobiographical account of Brower may be found in the 1944 folder....

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...