Collection of handwritten and typescript autobiographical sketches on approximately 182 corresponding Academy members active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The biographies were acquired at the request of the Academy's corresponding secretary, John Percy Moore.

List of corresponding member names incldued in the collection: Adams, Frank Dawson; Andrews, Charles William; Arthur, J. C.; Baltzer, A,; Bedel, L.; Boettger, Oskar; Bouvier, Louis Eugene; Boveri, Theodor; Bowers, Stephen; Brady, George Stewardson; Brewster, Wm.; Brigham, William Tufts; BrBgger, Waldemar Christofer; Brooks, William Keith; Brown, Robert; Brunton, Lauder; Buckton, George Bowdler; Calmette, Albert Leon Charles; Capellini, Giovanni; Carruthers, William; Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder; Clark, Henry James; Clark, William Bullock: Clarke, John Mason; Cockerell, Theodore Dru Allison; Collett, Robert; Comstock, John Henry; Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt;

Dautzenberg, P.; Dawkins, Wm. Boyd; Deane, Walter; DeVries, Hugo; Dewalque, G.; Gresser, Henry; Duns, John D.; East, Edward Murray; Ellis, Job Bicknell; Engler, Adolf; Fairchild, Herman LeRoy; Farlow, William Gilson; Fayrer, Sir Joseph; Friele, Herman; Fritsch, F.; Furbringer, Max;

Gaudry, Albert; Geike, Archibald; Geike, James; Gliddon, George Robins; Gluck, Hugo; Goldschmidt, Victor; Gorgas, William Crawford; Gosselet, Jules; Grabau, Amadeus W.; Graff, Ludwig von; Grant, James Alexander; Grassi, Battista; Gregorio, Marquis Antonio de; Grehant, Louis Francois Nestar; Grenacher, Hermann; Grinnell, Joseph; Grote, Augustus Radcliffe; Groth, Paul Heinrich; Giinther, Albert; Guppy, Robert John Lechmere; Guyer, Michael Frederic;

Haas, Fritz; Haeckel, Ernst; Hartert, Ernst J. 0.; Heller, Edmund; Hellmayr, Charles E.; Hertwig, Richard; Hidalgo, Joaquin Gonzalez; Hirase, Yoichiro; Hitchcock, A. S.; Hochstetter, Ferdinand; Hoernes, Moriz; Hoernes, Rudolf; Holmes, William Henry; Hooker, Joseph Dalton; Hubrecht, Ambrosius Arnold Wollem; Hull, Arthur Francis Bassett; Hutton, Frederick Wollaston; Ihering, Hermann von; Ishikawa, Chiyomatsu; Jones, Lewis Ralph; Jones, Thomas Rupert; Jones, William H.; Jordan, David Starr; Jordan, H. E. Karl; Judd, John W.;

Karpinsky, Alexander; Keith, Sir Arthur; Kellogg, Vernon S.; Kingsley, John Sterling; Koellicker, A.; Kufoid, Charles Atwood; Koto, Bundjiro; Lang, Arnold; LeFort, G. de Loriol; Lillie, Frank Rattray; Locard, Arnould; McMurrich, James Playfair; MacOwan, P.; Martens, Edward Karl von; Martin, K.; Maskelyne, Nevi1 Story; Mast, S. 0.; Maury, Carlotta Joaquin; Mayer, Alfred Marshall; Mayr, Gustav; Merrill, Elmer Drew Merrill, George Perkins; Minot, Charles Sedgwick; Mitchell, Peter Chalmers; Mojsisovics, Edmund von; Moore, George Thomas; Monterosato, Tomasso Allery di Marquess; Morgan, C. Lloyd; Nelson, Aven; Newton, Alfred; Ochsenius, Charles Chr.; Osten Sacken, C. R.; Preudhomme de Borre, Alfred; Punnett, Reginald Crundall; Putnam, Freder ic Ward; Rau, Eugene; Raulin, F. Victor; Reichenow, Anton; Renevier, Eugene; Retzius, Gustaf; Ritter, William Emerson; Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln; Rothschild, Nathaniel Charles; Roux, Wilhelm; Rovirosa, Jose N.;

Sarasin, Paul Benedict; Sars, G. O.; Saussure, Henri Louis Frederic de; Scharff, R. F.; Seeley, Harry Govier; Seward, Albert Charles; Shufeldt, Robert Wilson; SjBstedt, Yngve; Smith, Edgar Albert; Stanley, Henry M.; Stejneger, Leonhard; Sternberg, George Miller; Stevenson, John James; Stiles, Charles Wardell; Stone, Witmer; Strassen, Otto Ladislaus; Tanamelli, Torquiato; Toula, Franz; Townsend, Charles; Thackara, Jose M. Serrano; Thistleton-Dyer, Wm. Turner; Trelease, William; Ulrich, Edward Oscar; Vejdovzky, Frantisch; Walcott, Charles Doolittle; Ward, Henry Augustus; Weberbauer, August; Wenz, Wilhelm; Werner, Alfred; Wetmore, Alexander; Whitfield, Robert Parr; Whitman, Charles Otis; Wiedersheim, Robert Ernst Eduard; Wijhe, J. W. van; Wilder, Burt Green; Zacharias, Otto.