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Francis Whittier Pennell Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0118
Scope and Contents
The Francis Whittier Pennell papers includes itineraries, field notebooks, manuscripts and research, and correspondence spanning Pennell’s 40 years in botany. It is divided into five series: field work, Scrophulariaceae work, scientific writing, biographies of botanists, and correspondence. Series I. Field Work, contains three subseries. A. Itineraries, which contains itineraries for Pennell’s collecting expeditions to Colombia, Peru, and Chile as well as expeditions to the...
Dates:
1874-1982; Majority of material found within 1908-1952
J. Percy Moore papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0505
Overview
John Percy Moore (1869-1965) was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1912 to 1939, an Assistant Curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences from 1902 to 1938, and held several positions between 1920 and 1956 at the Ludwick Institute, which offered free lectures and courses in the natural sciences. He was also a world recognized authority on leeches. During his career, Moore named six genera, 229 species, five subspecies and four varieties of polychaetous annelids, or...
Dates:
1847 - 1963
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque papers
Collection — Container: Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0418
Abstract
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783-1840) was a naturalist who is best known for his contributions to scientific classification and nomenclature and giving Latin names to approximately 6,700 plants. While in the United States, he toured west of the Alleghenies and made important botanical discoveries in Kentucky and Illinois. This collection dates from 1818 to 1977 and consists of copies of Rafinesque's professional letters, family material, and research by F. W. Pennell regarding...
Dates:
1818 - 1977
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- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2
- Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel) (1783-1840) 2
- American Philosophical Society 1
- Ashmead, Samuel (1839-1864) 1
- Austin, Coe Finch 1
- Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 1
- Bartram, John, 1699-1777 1
- Bartram, William, 1739-1823 1
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- Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 1
- Ludwick Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Maclure, William, 1763-1840 1
- Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) 1
- Martius, Carl Frederick P. von 1
- Moore, J. Percy (1869-1965) 1
- Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 1
- Pennell, Francis W. ((Francis Whittier) ) (1886-1952) 1
- Philadelphia Metropolitan Library Council 1
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