Torrey, John
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Euguen Abraham Rau Correspondence
Collection — Box: Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0906
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...
Dates:
1876-1887
John Torrey Collection of Letters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0364
Scope and Contents
Originally assembled by Torrey as an autograph collection from which a series was chosen for the Academy, perhaps purchased by John Redfield who combined it with the Elias Durand collection of 109 letters and enlarged it to the present proportions. Most of the letters are dated 1809-1859, with six earlier and two later ones. A typescript index and a microfilm copy of the originals are on file, Analyzed from A through J only.
Dates:
1765-1894; Majority of material found within 1809-1859
Joseph Leidy Correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0001
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...
Dates:
1845-1913, undated
Lewis David von Schweinitz Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0438
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)...
Dates:
1805-1833
Torrey, John, August 8, 1838
File — Box: 3, Folder: 145
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...
Dates:
August 8, 1838
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