Scope and Contents A medical attendant during the Spanish-American War, Bales followed his interests in natural history and became an explorer and malacologist. He amassed a fine collection of mollusks through collecting and exchange with other conchologists. He died some years before his wife and after the latter's death, Jeanne Schwengel contacted the son and bought the entire collection which she in turn presented to the Department of Mollusks at the Academy of Natural Sciences. He also had a fine...

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...

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Philadelphia botanist, biographer, historian and professor, Harshberger's correspondence is chiefly with 86 other botanists. His book "Botanists of Philadelphia and Their Works," protrays a history of American botany along with the biographies.

Gift of Zoo-Botany Department, University of Pennsylvania through Dr. John Fogg and Mrs. Ida Langman, Dec. 21, 1959