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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Trained as a medical man, Skinner devoted much of his later life to entomology, his research interests being in Lepidoptera. He edited Entomological News from 1890-1910. This collection contains correspondence, a bibliography of his writings, a notebook on Lepidoptera, scientific articles and annotations. The latter appear in his Catalogue of North American Rhopalocera, and in Dyar's Catalogue of North American Lepidoptera.

Archived from the Department of Insects, 1960.

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Williams's correspondence, 1929-1946, with V. Nabokov and others, the itinerary of the Forbes Expedition to the Guianas, 1927, and other items.

Archived from the Entomology Department on Sept. 8, 1966,