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ANSP Petitions and Resolutions Papers

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 13
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0602
Scope and Contents These petitions and resolutions are close pieces, possibly written by the person proposing the action, as a note for the secretary when copying his minutes. Most of them are transcribed into the Minutes of the Academy but oftentimes changed in wording or intent. The petitions number only four and were made mostly to the legislature of Pennsylvania, or to some branch of the Federal Government, their inclusive dates being 1837-1876. The resolutions have been arranged in two groups, first those...
Dates: 1826-1895

Spackman Family, Ornithological workbook

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0428
Scope and Contents This volume represents a series of numbered sheets, continuing to no. 385, but with a great many gaps. Each sheet was repaired and the full gathering bound by a former librarian. Each carries a watercolor of a bird, the drawings seemingly copied from Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology. The volume was originally labeled: "Wilson's original drawings" but this note lightly crossed out and in the hand of E. J. Nolan another note "Not Wilson's drawings" inserted. Again below the original...
Dates: 1842?