Euguen Abraham Rau Correspondence
Collection — Box: Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0906
Scope and Contents
A pharmacist and botanist of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Rau became an authority on mosses and fungi, assembling large collections which mostly went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Elected a correspondent of this Academy in 1883, he bequeathed a collection of books to it (mostly from L. D. von Schweinitz library) and an herbarium of flowering plants. He published jointly with A. B. Hervey, a Catalogue of North American Musci, 1880.
Formerly in the keeping of Botany Department and archived February 5, 1952.
Dates
- 1876-1887
Creator
- Rau, Eugene Abraham (1848-1932) (Person)
Extent
108 item(s)
Language of Materials
English
- Allen, O. D.
- Allen, T. F.
- Austin, Coe Finch
- Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
- Barber, Edwin A.
- Barnes, Charles Reid, 1858-1910
- Beals, A. Tennyson
- Berkeley, M. J.
- Biddlesome, J. H.
- Blackham, George E.
- Boott, William
- Braithwaite, R.
- Canby, William W.
- Cooke, M. C.
- Coulter, John Merle, 1851-1928
- Cragin, F. W.
- Curtiss, A. H.
- Day, David F.
- Dreer, Henry A.
- Eckfeldt, John W.
- Evans, Alexander W.
- Farlow, W. G. (William Gilson), 1844-1919
- Ferguson, John
- Frese, Paul F.
- Gorman, W. C.
- Gray, Asa
- Hackness, W. W.
- Hodges, T. D.
- Holsinger, John M.
- Jessup, H. G.
- Kalchbrenner, Carl
- Kelleman, W. A.
- Killicott, D. S.
- Kindberg, N. Conrad
- Kummer, John G.
- LeConte, John Lawrence (May 13, 1825 - November 15, 1883)
- Leggett, W. W.
- Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891
- Lesquereux, Leo
- Lindberg, S. O.
- Lockwood, Samuel
- Marvin, John
- Meehan, Thomas
- Mohr, Charles
- Morgan, A. P.
- Parker, C. F.
- Peck, Charles H.
- Porter, Thomas C.
- Pringle, C. G.
- Rusby, H. H.
- Saccardo, P. A.
- Schrader, A.
- Seaman, William H.
- Stephani, F.
- Storer, Frank A.
- Torrey, John
- Underwood, L. M.
- Vasey, George
- Ward, R. H.
- Watson, Sereno
- Willey, H.
- Williamson, J.
- Wingate, Harold
- Wolle, Francis
- Zeiss, C.
Creator
- Rau, Eugene Abraham (1848-1932) (Person)
- Author
- Venia T. Phillips and Maurice E. Phillips
- Date
- 1963
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Repository
Contact:
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia PA 19103 USA
215-299-1075
215-299-1144 (Fax)
archives@ansp.org
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia PA 19103 USA
215-299-1075
215-299-1144 (Fax)
archives@ansp.org