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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The collection consists of illustations inlcuding watercolor paintings and line drawings of plants, the bulk of which are reproduced in the The Plants of Southern New Jersey ; with Especial Reference to the Flora of the Pine Barrens and the Geographic Distribution of the Species (1911) and A Flora of Chester County Pennsylvania (1945). Also included is correspondence with the Academy of Natural Sciences concerning the publication of Flora of Chester County.