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James R. Ridings collection of photographs and artifacts
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2013-044
Dates:
10/11/2013
James Ridings Insect Collecting Journal
Collection — Container: Box Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0956
Scope and Contents
American naturalist, founder-member of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia and active in it until his death. Curator of the Society's Cabinet, but gave his personal collections to younger workers. The journal gives localities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey with ecological notes. Most of the collecting was done in 1849. A few pages devoted to addresses and expenses, with six medical prescriptions at end. A bound volume of 120 pages.Presented to E. T. Cresson, Jr., 1948 by...
Dates:
1849-1862
The American Entomological Society's Library Accession Ledgers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2010-108
Scope and Contents
The accession ledgers for the American Entomological Society's library comprise this small collection. The pages of each ledger have printed columns with handwritten contents. The entries of the first volume were entered well after the books were collected: a note on page 2 states, "Began giving accession numbers and entering 1/20 1909." The first book obtained by the AES -- Melsheimer's (1853)Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of the United...
Dates:
1859-1959
William Henry Edwards Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 17
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0964
Scope and Contents
Traveler, lawyer and naturalist, Edwards became a correspondent of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia in August, 1859, only six months after it was founded. His address at that time was given as Coalburgh, West Virginia and apparently he lived there until he died. 'He published a record of a voyage up the river Amazon in 1847, and in 1900 the results of an inquiry into the correct spelling of the word Shakespeare. His monumental
work, however, was a three volume quarto edition of The...
Dates:
1866-1874
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