Scope and Contents The ANSP Special Committee Reports collection is a supplementary indexed volume to the minutes for the years covered, with various documents and letters inserted. The materails were compiled for the most part by the secretary, Edward J. Nolan. Many subjects which were handled by committees for the general membership of the Academy are condensed in the minutes and records kept of the dates and personnel of the committees. A large folder of 42 items, of the committee on lower rates of...

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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George H. Horn, practicing physician, army surgeon and distinguished Coleopterist was closely associated with both the Academy and the Entomological Society. He became president of the latter and made important bequests to it of study collections and funds.

This collection contains a biography of Horn, biographical notes, a copy of part of his will, a 144-page paper on Coleoptera, correspondence, and 12 certificates of memberships and honors in various societies.

Scope and Contents This scrapbook was prepared from photographs by various Costa Ricans and presented to P. P. Calvert, November 1918 by José M. Tristan, whose presentation letter is included. News clippings from Costa Rican newspapers and a few American papers have been pasted in. Photographs are by J. Fidel Tristan. who made a speciality of volcanic photography. His pictures, published in Pittier's account of the Cartaga eruption in National Geographic, 1910. José M. Tristan and Ricardo Fernandez Peralta....

Scope and Contents While a few of the entries date back to 1895, it appears that this bibliography was begun in earnest at the time of the Calverts' trip to Costa Rica, 1909-10 and continued through his life. The projected paper on this subject was never published and remains the one big project left unfinished by this scientist. Three divisions were arranged (1) by author (2) uncoded and (3) classified. A great deal of his general correspondence is concerned with this study, including outlines and suggestions...

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Even at the age of 14, this author was keeping notebooks of his field observations and with other enthusiasts, i.e. friends at the Central High School, and in the local Agassiz Club, preparing information for catalogs of various groups of animals. Notebooks and illustrated records, as well as correspondence with his colleagues are found in this collection.

Scope and Contents Philip Powell Calvert and Amelia Smith Calvert's Costa Rica Expedition Papers include notebooks, diaries, photographs and maps. The Calverts, Philip and Amelia, spent more than a year in Costa Rica studying natural history. The itinerary and field notes were preserved in 10 small notebooks, photographs were taken (31 included here) and a diary written, the latter occupying 2 volumes. From this mateiral, their book was later published, Mrs. Calvert's manuscript volumes on the plants...

Scope and Contents As a result of his stay in Europe, where he became acquainted with many of the principals in this great publication Biologia Centrali Americana, Calvert was invited to write the Odonata volume of the division of insects. He arranged to take specimens in lieu of other payment for his writing and thus greatly enlarged his personal cabinet, which was later bequeathed to the Academy of Natural Sciences. The correspondence about the conditions, is interfiled by author in Coll. 939. The notes are...

Scope and Contents Soon after its publication in 1890, the author began additions and corrections to W. F. Kirby's Synonymic Catalogue of Neuroptera Odonata, or Dragonflies . . . interleaving it at will. Through the years, he compiled an elaborate revision, occupying six small bound volumes. The latest record noted was made in 1943. In 1935 he was approached by John Cowley of London with the suggestion that a new world catalog of the Odonata be published, through the cooperation of the more prominent students...