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

Official correspondence of the Society for the years mentioned and lists of members, with addresses, years for which dues were paid, and reasons for leaving the Society. Some news clippings and obituary notices are included. The list of members is contained in three notebooks (1) 1891-1922, Arthur N. Leeds, Treasurer (2) 1922 ( ?) - 1938 (3) Former members, 1891-1937.

Gift of the Society under the authority of Benner and Long, September 18, 1959.