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The bylaws adopted in 1924, which were implemented the following year, placed the administration under a Board of Trustees. The two volumes of minutes since then are in the hands of the secretary of the Board and housed in the vault in the administrative office. The personnel of the Board, with portraits, short biographies and terms of office since 1955 is outlined in a special publication. Informational documents, letters, etc. are assembled in this collection.

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The documents included here were usually transcribed into the minutes after they were accepted by the members, altho not always fully recorded. Reports are as follows: 1824 Keating); 1829 (Morton); 1836 (Carson); 1938 (Stewardson); 1840-41 (Chaloner); 1842-44 (Zantzinger); 1846-47 (Lambert ); 1848-49 (Leidy); 1850 (Powel); 1851-55, 1864 (Rand); 1866 (Wood); 1923-30 (Rehn). The rough minutes of the secretary are scattered entries from 1850-70, written by Powel, Rand, Moss and Howell.

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Entomological correspondence with Academy's J.A.G. Rehn.

Archived from Dr. Rehn's papers, 1965.

Scope and Contents This is a collection of correspondence and other records of the Entomology Department of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The records date from the 1940s to 1995, and include the correspondence of Harold J. Grant, David C. Rentz, Michael Emsley, and H. Radclyffe Roberts, among others. The correspondence discusses identification and exchange of specimens, taxonomy, Academy business, and publications. Other records in the departmental files include department reports, specimen...

Scope and Contents Researchers will find handwritten field notes from Rehn, Hodge, Hebbard, and Roberts, dating from 1904-1957. Notes include localities and specimen lists from expeditions throughout the United States and Mexico, as well as Jamaica and Africa. Several notebooks from J.A.G. Rehn pertain to the 1934 Academy expedition to Africa with George Vanderbilt, and contain lists of wet specimens (not exclusively insects) collected. Some papers have been typed, possibly by Morgan Hebbard. This...

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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Frank Mason was an entomologist who willed his collection of Coleoptera to the Academy. These papers consist of correspondence between J.A.G. Rehn of the Entomology Department and Mason's colleagues concerning his death in 1927, and 3 blueprints of storage cases and a floor plan, apparently for Mason's collection but not so identified.

Transferred to the Academy archives from the Entomology Department, 1961

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Trained as a medical man, Skinner devoted much of his later life to entomology, his research interests being in Lepidoptera. He edited Entomological News from 1890-1910. This collection contains correspondence, a bibliography of his writings, a notebook on Lepidoptera, scientific articles and annotations. The latter appear in his Catalogue of North American Rhopalocera, and in Dyar's Catalogue of North American Lepidoptera.

Archived from the Department of Insects, 1960.

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Dr. Rehn's correspondence for the Academy's Entomology Department, with carbon copies of his responses interfiled with incoming originals.

Archived from the office files in the Entomology Department and subsequently from his home files by his son, John Rehn, in 1965.