Scope and Contents

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:

Scope and Contents A pharmacist and botanist of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Rau became an authority on mosses and fungi, assembling large collections which mostly went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Elected a correspondent of this Academy in 1883, he bequeathed a collection of books to it (mostly from L. D. von Schweinitz library) and an herbarium of flowering plants. He published jointly with A. B. Hervey, a Catalogue of North American Musci, 1880. Formerly in the keeping of...

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

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.