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Samuel Nicholson Rhoads, Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0421

Scope and Contents

Naturalist, ornithologist, mammalogist, book dealer and businessman, Samuel Rhoads wrote particularily on the local fauna of birds and mammals. The journals of his various expeditions contain mostly natural history data. Those written from Ecuador and Guatemala include also information about the countries. He was a founder of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, its Secretary and later its President.

Dates

  • 1890-1934

Creator

Extent

215 item(s)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Witmer Stone or archived from the Department of Vertebrate Zoology.

Related Materials

ANSP.Coll.072 Witmer Stone papers

ANSP.Coll.074 Delaware Valley Ornithological Club records

General

Signer: Rhoads, Mary Cawley.

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Repository

Contact:
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Philadelphia PA 19103 USA
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