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This mimeographed document is entitled: "List of Members, Botanical Society of Pennsylvania from opening meeting held at University of Pennsylvania, October, 1897 to closing meeting of the Society's third decade at Penhurst, 4th June, 1927." This lists 407 names on five pages.

Scope and Contents The Francis Whittier Pennell papers includes itineraries, field notebooks, manuscripts and research, and correspondence spanning Pennell’s 40 years in botany. It is divided into five series: field work, Scrophulariaceae work, scientific writing, biographies of botanists, and correspondence. Series I. Field Work, contains three subseries. A. Itineraries, which contains itineraries for Pennell’s collecting expeditions to Colombia, Peru, and Chile as well as expeditions to the...

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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Contains miscellaneous papers relating to the joint botanical and conchological expedition of the Academy, to Mexico in 1934. Cyril H. Harvey accompanied the group as amateur photographer. Included are memoranda, certificates, accounts, application for grant, agreements and correspondence.

Scope and Contents Between 1934 and 1935, Academy members Henry A. Pilsbry, Curator of Mollusks (1862-1957) and Francis W. Pennell, Curator of Botany (1886-1952) led an expedition to Chihuahua and Durango, Mexico. Slide 178 contains a Map of Mexico with the route taken by Pilsbry and Pennell during the summers of 1934 and 1935. Along the route black and white photographs (by Cyril Harvey) were taken of landscapes, people, cities, flora, fauna, and other areas of interest. Many of the slides are hand-colored....

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Official correspondence of the Society for the years mentioned and lists of members, with addresses, years for which dues were paid, and reasons for leaving the Society. Some news clippings and obituary notices are included. The list of members is contained in three notebooks (1) 1891-1922, Arthur N. Leeds, Treasurer (2) 1922 ( ?) - 1938 (3) Former members, 1891-1937.

Gift of the Society under the authority of Benner and Long, September 18, 1959.