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Letters are mostly addressed to P.P. Calvert, as editor, and refer to various aspects of editorial business. Manuscripts are offered for publication, reviews and criticisms made of papers which have appeared in the "Entomological News," discussion of deposition of the type specimens described in the journal and of the matter of exchange fo specimens and reprints.

Archived from the Society's holdings, March 13, 1959

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 Catalog of h i s Coleoptera collection in a bound copy of Samuel Henshaw's List of the Coleoptera of America...1885. Copy as Laurent's bookplate and a sheet of typed notes pasted to the inside front cover beginning "Species marked thus √ are in the collection of Philip Laurent." Tipped in on front flyleaf is a container labelled "List of Families of North American Coleoptera according to Henshaw's List of 1885./Number of box or boxes containing the family/Pages 1-2 Larger families 3-5...

Scope and Contents Industrialist and amateur naturalist, Laurent early specialized on insects, but amassing an extensive collection in various sciences. Through the years he sold all his museum but insects, his collection of birds being presently the property of the Reading, Pa. Museum. His insects, a collection of 40,000 pinned specimens from the local area, Florida and western United States came to the Academy of Natural Sciences. It is concerned chiefly with North American Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. The...