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Earth Week Activities Records

 Collection — Box: small accessions 2
Identifier: ANSP-2010-006
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of records of the participation of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in the observance of Earth Week in 1971. Materials include: schedules of events; newspaper articles (copies and clippings); flyers, programs, and brochures; photographs of the installation of exhibitions; press releases and memos; a newsletter from the Franklin Institute; an Earth Week button; and receipts for advertising. The collection also includes a brochure for Earth Day, 1970.

Dates: 1970-1971

Edward James Nolan, Commemorative volumes of the Centenary celebration of the Academy

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0431
Scope and Contents

This collection represents a specially prepared copy of Volume 15 of the Journal of the Academy, second series, 1912. The original letterpress copy is used as a base with interleaving and manuscript material inserted by the Recording Secretary, E. J. Nolan and presented to the Academy. The inserts consist of portraits, photographs, letters, reports, reminiscences, news clippings and many miscellaneous items. A total of 43 photographs, 53 letters, and 31 other items complete the volume.

Dates: 1912

Crawford H. Greenewalt papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0997
Overview Crawford Hallock Greenewalt (1902-1993) was a chemical engineer and the President of the DuPont Company from 1948 to 1962. He had a passion for the natural sciences, and combined his love of ornithology with photography. He was especially known for his high speed photographs of hummingbirds. His ornithological interests included bird songs, the radiance of hummingbird feathers and the evolution of shapes and sizes of birds in relation to their flight abilities. The Crawford H. Greenewalt...
Dates: 1951 - 1993

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

Lucy Way Say, Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0433
Overview The first woman to be elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Lucy Say was an accomplished nature artist and scientific collaborator with her famous husband Thomas Say. She made 66 of the 68 delicate and accurate drawings of North American mollusks for Thomas Say's American Conchology, at New Harmony, and did most of the painstaking coloring of the plates. This collection consists of 25 drawings (pencil and watercolor), seven hand colored plates of North American...
Dates: 1822-85

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