Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1823 - 1887
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
ANSP writings of early members
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0247
Scope and Contents
Although most of these treatises appeared in the Academy's early serials, some predated that time. A list of the articles by some 81 naturalists has been prepared and is available for reference. The papers themselves deal with all sorts of natural history subjects, some of the more prolific authors being: Spencer F. Baird, John Cassin, Charles Girard, Gerard Troost, Lardner Vanuxem, and S. W. Woodhouse. These writings are preserved with the intention of providing research workers with...
Dates:
1814-1862
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1842-1842
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of 704 letters addressed to Haldeman, Constantine Rafinesque and Thomas Say, with a letterbook of 22 letters written by Haldeman. In subject, the letters refer to paleontology, conchology, entomology, ichthyology, to Indian relics and to spelling reform. A letter from Leidy is illustrated and several of those written by Haldeman bear pencil sketches. In his letterbook is information about a proposed U. S. Naval Expedition to South America with J.
G. Strain, and...
Dates:
1842-1842
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1844-1848
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of 704 letters addressed to Haldeman, Constantine Rafinesque and Thomas Say, with a letterbook of 22 letters written by Haldeman. In subject, the letters refer to paleontology, conchology, entomology, ichthyology, to Indian relics and to spelling reform. A letter from Leidy is illustrated and several of those written by Haldeman bear pencil sketches. In his letterbook is information about a proposed U. S. Naval Expedition to South America with J.
G. Strain, and...
Dates:
1844-1848
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1849-1881
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of 704 letters addressed to Haldeman, Constantine Rafinesque and Thomas Say, with a letterbook of 22 letters written by Haldeman. In subject, the letters refer to paleontology, conchology, entomology, ichthyology, to Indian relics and to spelling reform. A letter from Leidy is illustrated and several of those written by Haldeman bear pencil sketches. In his letterbook is information about a proposed U. S. Naval Expedition to South America with J.
G. Strain, and...
Dates:
1849-1881
Charles Eastwick Smith letters from botanists
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0132
Overview
Charles Eastwick Smith (1820-1900) was an engineer and inventor involved in railroad, ironworks and steel. His interest in botany led him to membership at the Academy of Natural Sciences where he held several positions from 1851 until his death. Over the years Smith compiled an herbarium of specimens found within 15 miles of Philadelphia, which he bequeathed to the Academy. The collection contains letters from botanists, a number of booksellers, and other correspondents. In addition to the...
Dates:
n.d., 1862-1899
Euguen Abraham Rau Correspondence
Collection — Box: Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0906
Scope and Contents
A pharmacist and botanist of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Rau became an authority on mosses and fungi, assembling large collections which mostly went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Elected a correspondent of this Academy in 1883, he bequeathed a collection of books to it (mostly from L. D. von Schweinitz library) and an herbarium of flowering plants. He published jointly with A. B. Hervey, a Catalogue of North American Musci, 1880. Formerly in the keeping of...
Dates:
1876-1887
John Lawrence LeConte Correspondence
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0913
Scope and Contents
These letters written to John Lawrence LeConte by 101 authors are for the most part taken from the files of the American Entomological Society, but include also 18 written by T. W. Harris to John LeConte. The collection was archived from the Entomological Department and here preserved under LeConte's name.
Dates:
1849-1883
Joseph Leidy Correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0001
Overview
Joseph Mellick Leidy (1823-1891), one of the great American scientists of the 19th century, possessed a vast knowledge of the natural world. Best known as the Father of American vertebrate paleontology, he also pioneered the fields of parasitology and protozoology, and was the preeminent anatomist of his time. He was also an influential teacher of natural history and an expert in areas as diverse as entomology, geology and pathology. The Joseph Leidy Correspondence collection contains...
Dates:
1845-1913, undated
Joseph Leidy Correspondence (Photocopies)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0001-B
Overview
Joseph Leidy (1823-1891), one of the great American scientists of the 19th century, possessed a vast knowledge of the natural world. Best known as the Father of American vertebrate paleontology, he also pioneered the fields of parasitology and protozoology, and was the preeminent anatomist of his time. He was also an influential teacher of natural history and an expert in areas as diverse as entomology, geology and pathology. The Joseph Leidy Photocopied Correspondence represent the letters...
Dates:
from originals of 1850-1890
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- Articles 1
- Botanists 1
- Botany 1
- Correspondence 1
- Medicine 1