Showing Collections: 1 - 2 of 2
Horace G. Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0976
Overview
Horace G. Richards (1906-1984) was a geologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia and an authority on the geologic formations of the Atlantic coastal plain. His research specialty focused on geology and paleontology of the Quaternary Period (approximately the past 1.8 million years), but his research interests also included Cenozoic mollusca, and marine Pleistocene geology and paleontology of the Atlantic coastal plain. Additionally, he studied climate change and coastal...
Dates:
1928-1984
President's Office and Administrative Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0990
Overview
The oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP) was founded in 1812 "for the encouragement and cultivation of the sciences, and the advancement of useful learning." Since the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, there have been twenty-eight presidents and five acting presidents. From 1937 to 1995, there were four presidents and one acting president who left their administrations well...
Dates:
1907-2003; Majority of material found within 1939-1993
Filtered By
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 1
- Articles 1
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Project 1
- Cape May (N.J.) 1
- Clippings 1
- Coastal plains 1
- Crustaceans 1
- Dredging 1
- Educational fund raising 1
- Estate records 1
- Exhibition records 1
- Geology 1
- Interviews 1
- Lectures 1
- Minutes 1
- Mollusks 1
- Natural history museums 1
- Oil wells 1
- Paleontology 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Photograph albums 1
- Radio scripts 1
- Research notes 1
- Scientific expeditions 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Slides (photographs) 1
- Speeches 1 ∧ less
- Names
- American Association of Museums 1
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists 1
- American Geological Institute 1
- American Museum of Natural History 1
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Geological Association 1
- Bennett, Thomas Peter (1937-) 1
- Brakeley, John Price Jones Inc. 1
- Cadwalader, C. M. B (Charles Meigs Biddle) (June 3,1885-1959) 1
- Davis, George M. (1938-) 1
- Geological Society of America 1
- Geological Society of New Jersey 1
- Gill, Frank B. 1
- Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance 1
- International Union for Quaternary Research 1
- Marvel, William [ADDED from ATLAS dataset] 1
- Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 1
- Newbold, Arthur E. 1
- Philadelphia Geological Society 1
- Rehn, James A.G. (James Abram Garfield) (b. 1881) 1
- Shorelines Commission of INQUA 1
- Sun Oil Company 1
- The Associated Natural Science Institutions (TANSI) 1
- Thomson, Keith Stewart 1
- United States. Bureau of Fisheries 1
- United States. Office of Naval Research. Geography Branch 1
- University of Pennsylvania 1
- Vaux, George (December 18, 1863-1927) 1
- Wagner Free Institute of Science 1
- Wahl, Milton H. 1
- Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more