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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Two pencil drawings of fish named Brevoortia tyrannus, 1892, made on stationery headed "University of Pennsylvania/Laboratory of Marine Biology/Sea Isle City, N. J." Drawings are 7 1/2"x11" and 8"x11".

Archived from desk of Academy's John Percy Moore, Dec. 22, 1965.