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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...

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Trained as a medical man, Skinner devoted much of his later life to entomology, his research interests being in Lepidoptera. He edited Entomological News from 1890-1910. This collection contains correspondence, a bibliography of his writings, a notebook on Lepidoptera, scientific articles and annotations. The latter appear in his Catalogue of North American Rhopalocera, and in Dyar's Catalogue of North American Lepidoptera.

Archived from the Department of Insects, 1960.

Scope and Contents Entomologist, municipal and church official, but professionally the librarian of the Silas Bronson public library of Waterbury, Conn. These papers consist of letterbooks with drafts of entomological articles and letters. The subject matter includes family and personal, church and municipal affairs, some library correspondence, but mostly the scientific aspects of his study of cynipid insects and galls. His personal cabinet was donated to the American Entomological Society, when he was still...