Wright, Minturn T., 1925-
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1925-
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia Board of Trustees records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-1990-013
Overview
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP) is a natural history museum which was founded in 1812, “for the encouragement and cultivation of the sciences, and the advancement of useful learning.” The ANSP Board of Trustees, was established in 1925, as one of the institution’s primary administrative bodies. The Board of Trustees was charged with establishing financial policies, selecting the Academy President, assisting with fund raising and community relations, and serving as a...
Dates:
1925 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1976 - 1989
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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- Amazon River 1
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- Birds 1
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- Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica 1
- Corcovado, Parque Nacional (Costa Rica) 1
- Correspondence 1
- Costa Rica 1
- Cuzco Amazónico, Reserva (Peru) 1
- Ecuador 1
- Financial records 1
- Hummingbirds 1
- Machu Picchu Site (Peru) 1
- Marañón River (Peru) ` 1
- Minutes 1
- Mongolia 1
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- Paracas National Reserve (Peru) 1
- Peru 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Philadelphia International Airport 1
- Pitechia Field Station, Peru 1
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