Thomson, Keith Stewart
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Academy of Natural Sciences stamp collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0994
Scope and Contents
The Academy of Natural Sciences stamp collection is a collection of natural science themed stamps from various sources. These materials were initially added to other preexisting stamp collections, most likely in an attempt to create one comprehensive collection of the subject. This amalgam did not benefit those other stamp collections, and in fact obscured the context of their original collectors' efforts, so those collections have been separated. The materials which remain are found in this...
Dates:
1987, 2000s, undated
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
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- Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1
- Amazon River 1
- American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 1
- Antarctica 1
- Birds 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
- Financial records 1
- Hummingbirds 1
- Machu Picchu Site (Peru) 1
- Marañón River (Peru) ` 1
- Minutes 1
- Mongolia 1
- Natural history museums 1
- Newfoundland 1
- Paracas National Reserve (Peru) 1
- Peru 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Philadelphia International Airport 1
- Photographs 1
- Pitechia Field Station, Peru 1
- Postage stamps 1
- Reports 1
- Samiria River (Peru) 1
- Scientific expeditions 1
- Speeches 1 ∧ less
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