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Irazu, Costa Rica, volcanic eruptions scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0967
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook was prepared from photographs by various Costa Ricans and presented to P. P. Calvert, November 1918 by José M. Tristan, whose presentation letter is included. News clippings from Costa Rican newspapers and a few American papers have been pasted in. Photographs are by J. Fidel Tristan. who made a speciality of volcanic photography. His pictures, published in Pittier's account of the Cartaga eruption in National Geographic, 1910. José M. Tristan and Ricardo Fernandez Peralta....
Dates:
1917-1918
Johann Gundlach, Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0439
Scope and Contents
German zoologist and collaborator of F. Poey in the natural history of
Cuba and Puerto Rico. Established his personal cabinet of types in 1846;
cooperated fully with other scientists by giving them his notes and descriptions
of new species. After 1888 he moved his specimens to the Havana
Museum, where he became the curator of their general collection. Shortly
before his death, the Museum bought his specimens. His papers consist of
lists and catalogues of Cuban Coleoptera and Hymenoptera...
Dates:
1865-1914
Philip Powell Calvert and Amelia Smith Calvert's Costa Rica Expedition Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0633
Scope and Contents
Philip Powell Calvert and Amelia Smith Calvert's Costa Rica Expedition Papers include notebooks, diaries, photographs and maps. The Calverts, Philip and Amelia, spent more than a year in Costa Rica studying natural history. The itinerary and field notes were preserved in 10 small notebooks, photographs were taken (31 included here) and a diary written, the latter occupying 2 volumes. From this mateiral, their book was later published, Mrs. Calvert's manuscript volumes on the plants...
Dates:
1909-1910
Travel Journals of Minturn Wright III, 1974-1997
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2009-018
Scope and Contents
Photocopied typescript of Academy's former trustee Minturn Wright III's travelogues. The ANSP offered high-end educational travel "expeditions" in the 1980s and 1990s, and Mr. Wright participated in at least the nine excursions represented here, across South and Central America, Eastern Canada, Mongolia, and the Antarctic between 1974 and 1997. The Academy's Senior Fellow Robert M. Peck travelled with Wright on the excursion to Mongolia in 1997, and Antarctica, 1994. It is through Peck that...
Dates:
1974-1997
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