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 Helen Winchester was a scientific artist who worked for the Academy for many years during the first half of this century. She made illustrations for several departments, but her most extended work was for the shell department. This collection contains a single original watercolor plate of Liguus shells which was published as the frontispiece of vol. 2, part 1 of the Academy's Monographs, 1946. Another plate with shell illustrations has been added to the collection, as well as some...