Gill, Frank B.
Person
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Bond Correspondence with Frank Gill, ANSP et.al., 1982-1984
File — Box: 2, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The James Bond Collection contains correspondence, publications, photographs and objects related to the ornithology work of Bond. The collection is divided into three series: Series I. Correspondence; Series II. Publications; and Series III. Objects. Series I. Correspondence contains letters dealing with Bond’s work as an ornithologist at the Academy including information on research, collecting trips, and publications with a few personal letters. In addition to original...
Dates:
1982-1984
Letters to Frank Gill and Dr Ruth Patrick pertaining to the Leidy Award/Caribbean Symposium, 1975
File — Box: 2, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The James Bond Collection contains correspondence, publications, photographs and objects related to the ornithology work of Bond. The collection is divided into three series: Series I. Correspondence; Series II. Publications; and Series III. Objects. Series I. Correspondence contains letters dealing with Bond’s work as an ornithologist at the Academy including information on research, collecting trips, and publications with a few personal letters. In addition to original...
Dates:
1975
Ornithology Department Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0054
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of catalogs, information about special collections within our holdings, lists of birds offered for sale, donated, exchanged or discarded, various working notes of the curators, personnel of the department,
and general notes. The persons most concerned in this material are John Cassin, Elliott Coues, William A. Kite, Spencer Trotter, Mr. Hill and Wharton Huber, with Witmer Stone adding the later personal touches to the material describing our bird collection. Not only...
Dates:
1863-2010
President's Office and Administrative Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0990
Overview
The oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP) was founded in 1812 "for the encouragement and cultivation of the sciences, and the advancement of useful learning." Since the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, there have been twenty-eight presidents and five acting presidents. From 1937 to 1995, there were four presidents and one acting president who left their administrations well...
Dates:
1907-2003; Majority of material found within 1939-1993
Travel Journals of Minturn Wright III, 1974-1997
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2009-018
Scope and Contents
Photocopied typescript of Academy's former trustee Minturn Wright III's travelogues. The ANSP offered high-end educational travel "expeditions" in the 1980s and 1990s, and Mr. Wright participated in at least the nine excursions represented here, across South and Central America, Eastern Canada, Mongolia, and the Antarctic between 1974 and 1997. The Academy's Senior Fellow Robert M. Peck travelled with Wright on the excursion to Mongolia in 1997, and Antarctica, 1994. It is through Peck that...
Dates:
1974-1997
VIREO Department papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1000
Scope and Contents
The VIREO Department papers document the early history of the VIREO Department from its inception in 1979. This collection contains accession books, planning documents, reports, agreements, inventories, procedures, grant proposals, job applications, ledgers, royalty documents, correspondence, and negatives.
Dates:
1956 - 2011; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1996
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- Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1
- Amazon River 1
- American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 1
- Antarctica 1
- Catalogues 1
- Chickadees 1
- Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica 1
- Corcovado, Parque Nacional (Costa Rica) 1
- Correspondence 1
- Costa Rica 1
- Cuzco Amazónico, Reserva (Peru) 1
- Ecuador 1
- Educational fund raising 1
- Estate records 1
- Exhibition records 1
- Field notes 1
- Financial records 1
- Hummingbirds 1
- Machu Picchu Site (Peru) 1
- Marañón River (Peru) ` 1
- Minutes 1
- Mongolia 1
- Natural history museums 1
- Newfoundland 1
- Ornithologists 1
- Paracas National Reserve (Peru) 1
- Peru 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Philadelphia International Airport 1
- Photographs 1
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- Pitechia Field Station, Peru 1
- Reports 1
- Samiria River (Peru) 1
- Scientific expeditions 1
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