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

This collection contains scrapbooks relating to field trips, photographs, reports, accounts of expeditions, historical notes on the Society, programs, biographical information about members, and correspondence. See Coll. 88 for historical sketch of the Society.

Deposited by the Philadelphia Botanical Society, 1959.