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Collection of material containing records of various reception committees, especially those dealing with a founder's day anniversary dinner in 1854, and the reception and dinner for the Peary Exploring Party in 1892. There are lists of subscribers, bills, receipts, 'letters and miscellaneous data.

Signers of letters, all dated 1854:

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Notes and memoranda in two volumes of Say's works, namely (1) "Conchology," the proof sheets for an article in Nicholson's Cyclopedia and (2) "Descriptions of some new Terrestrial and Fluviatile shells of North America, July 29, 1829."

Gift of L.T. Chamberlain, June 25, 1894

Scope and Contents Penciled memoranda on the Unionidae; descriptions, illustrations, ecology, contents of his cabinet and geographical localities of this group of shells. Includes some opinions of other scholars, some listings from cabinets of others and some specimens collected by conchologists in various scattered parts of the world.Name of donor not known, but notebooks were in the Conchology Department of the Academy for some tiem before being archived. H.A. Pilsbry's note is inserted in...

Scope and Contents Amateur naturalist and collector of Coleoptera, he passed the latter part of his life in New York City. He was a member of the Academy, and a note in the Minutes announces his death and speaks with enthusiasm of Guex' interest in entomology. At that time his donations to the Entomological Collections were mentioned and over a period of years he had added materially to them. In 1854 he gave 1500 Lepidoptera and later in the same year 17,000 Coleoptera; in 1855 another 1500 specimens from...

Overview Joseph Mellick Leidy (1823-1891), one of the great American scientists of the 19th century, possessed a vast knowledge of the natural world. Best known as the Father of American vertebrate paleontology, he also pioneered the fields of parasitology and protozoology, and was the preeminent anatomist of his time. He was also an influential teacher of natural history and an expert in areas as diverse as entomology, geology and pathology. The Joseph Leidy Correspondence collection contains...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of 704 letters addressed to Haldeman, Constantine Rafinesque and Thomas Say, with a letterbook of 22 letters written by Haldeman. In subject, the letters refer to paleontology, conchology, entomology, ichthyology, to Indian relics and to spelling reform. A letter from Leidy is illustrated and several of those written by Haldeman bear pencil sketches. In his letterbook is information about a proposed U. S. Naval Expedition to South America with J. G. Strain, and...

Scope and Contents Historian, minister of the gospel and amateur naturalist, Chamberlain assembled a collection of Eocene fossils which he bequeathed tot he Academy in memory of Isaac Lea, his father-in-law, and Frances Lea Chamberlain, his wife. The papers here refer to both the "Isaac Lea Collection" and the fund for its maintainence which is called the "Frances Lea Chamberlain Fund." A series of ten letters written during Chamberlain's lifetime about the collection is dated, 1894-1897 and written by...

Scope and Contents Lewis David von Schweinitz Correspondence consists of letters written to von Schweinitz by American and European botanists.List of correspondents: B Beck, John B. 1829; Beck, Lewis Caleb (10) 1829-33; Beitel, Christian, 1833; Bentham, George (3) 1828-31; Bischoff, Gerh. G. n. d.; Brace, John P. 1822; Braunsburg, M. V. von, 1833; Brongniart, Adolphe Theodore, 1829; Buniningk, Mr. von, 1809; Bute, George H. (4) 1829-30; C Carey, William, 1829; Collins, Zaccheus (6)...

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The papers consist largely of memoranda and documents pertaining to Academy affairs. The reports of special committees are signed by Collins as a co-signer.

Archived partly from the editor's copy of the first series of the Academy's Journal and partly from its "Official correspondence."