Foulke, William Parker (1816-1854)
Dates
- Existence: 1816 - 1854
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
ANSP Reception Committees Papers
Collection of material containing records of various reception committees, especially those dealing with a founder's day anniversary dinner in 1854, and the reception and dinner for the Peary Exploring Party in 1892. There are lists of subscribers, bills, receipts, 'letters and miscellaneous data.
Signers of letters, all dated 1854:
John A. Guex Papers Including Catalogs
Joseph Leidy Correspondence
William Parker Foulke Diary
Foulke, an attorney and philanthropist of Philadelphia, was a man of wide interests. He concerned himself vary seriously and prison reform, was instrumental in launching in Artic expedition, and discovered, excavated, and gave to the Academy the skeleton of a Hadrosaurus.
In this collection is a typescript of sections of his diary which relate to Joseph Leidy, and a letter of presentation from E.A. Andrews, 1942.
William Parker Foulke's Shirt Studs & Pieces of Hadrosaurus Foulkii
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