Scope and Contents In the infancy of the Academy, curators appointed a member to act as unpaid librarian who had very little authority to make plans and policies. In general the library was administered thru the members as a whole. A list of the various librarians with their tenure of office is included with the list of officers of the Academy prepared by Maurice E. Phillips. Soon after Edward J. Nolan became librarian in 1863, the position of librarian was established and he was included with other officers...

Scope and Contents These petitions and resolutions are close pieces, possibly written by the person proposing the action, as a note for the secretary when copying his minutes. Most of them are transcribed into the Minutes of the Academy but oftentimes changed in wording or intent. The petitions number only four and were made mostly to the legislature of Pennsylvania, or to some branch of the Federal Government, their inclusive dates being 1837-1876. The resolutions have been arranged in two groups, first those...

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The documents included here were usually transcribed into the minutes after they were accepted by the members, altho not always fully recorded. Reports are as follows: 1824 Keating); 1829 (Morton); 1836 (Carson); 1938 (Stewardson); 1840-41 (Chaloner); 1842-44 (Zantzinger); 1846-47 (Lambert ); 1848-49 (Leidy); 1850 (Powel); 1851-55, 1864 (Rand); 1866 (Wood); 1923-30 (Rehn). The rough minutes of the secretary are scattered entries from 1850-70, written by Powel, Rand, Moss and Howell.

Scope and Contents Robert Bridges, president of the Academy in 1864 and 1865, was a botanist. He was chairman of the Botanical Committee for 21 years and worked extensively with the Academy's plant collections, for which he prepared indexes. This collection contains three reports which he prepared indexes. This collection contains three reports of committees on papers submitted for publication. One of 24 pages, a paper dealing with meteors, by Jacob Ennis, defends the committee's decision not to publish. The...