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Helen Winchester illustrations
Collection — Box: Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0394
Scope and Contents
Helen Winchester was a scientific artist who worked for the Academy for many years during the first half of this century. She made illustrations for several departments, but her most extended work was for the shell department. This collection contains a single original watercolor plate of Liguus shells which was published as the frontispiece of vol. 2, part 1 of the Academy's Monographs, 1946. Another plate with shell illustrations has been added to the collection, as well as some...
Dates:
1907, 1910, 1946, undated
Malacology Department Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0804
Overview
Scientists have been studying shells from the very beginning of the Academy of Natural Science’s long history. Thomas Say, Isaac Lea, and Timothy Abbott Conrad are just a few examples of Academy scientists who made important contributions to the field of conchology before there was an official department at the Academy. On December 26, 1866, the Conchological Section was formally established at the Academy, creating a departmental unity under curator George Washington Tryon, who led...
Dates:
1848-2012