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Andrew Garrett Illustrations
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0403
Overview
Andrew Garrett, 1823-1887, was an American explorer, self taught naturalist and artist specializing in malacology and ichthyology. Many of his works are considered classics, including his multi-volumed catalog Fische der Sundsee, and particularly his "Terrestrial Mollusca Inhabiting the Society Islands" (JANSP 9: 17-114), which formed the basis for the important work of Hartman and Crampton. This collection includes 20 watercolors of slugs, collected and drawn from life by Andrew Garrett....
Dates:
ca. 1873
ANSP museum specimen collection donation records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0195
Scope and Contents
The early daily records in book form, as 'Curator's books," the weekly sheets, 'Additions to the Museum," and the Wurtz' card file "Donations to the Museum" are preserved in this collection.
Dates:
1847-1930
ANSP Publications, Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0412
Scope and Contents
The ANSP Publications Papers collection includes record books, subscription lists, prospectuses, financial documents and policies regarding the publications produced by the Academy of Natural Sciences. The collection is divided into four series. Series I. Subscription Record Books and Documents contains account books with the names and payments of subscribers. The books are arranged chronologically according to the earliest date of each book. Many of the account books overlap in terms of...
Dates:
1817-1961
Charles Alexander Lesueur Copper and Zinc plates, 1817-1824
Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0938
Overview
Charles Alexandre Lesueur, 1778-1846, artist and naturalist, participated in Napoleon's expedition to Australia (1800-1804), and joined William Maclure in his geologic survey of Europe, the West Indies and the Eastern United States (1815-1817). Upon returning to Philadelphia, Lesueur and Maclure wrote out the results of their travels, publishing many scientific papers in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with Lesueur also publishing findings from his Australian...
Dates:
1817-1824
Joseph Leidy Illustrations
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0003
Overview
Most popularly known as the Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology, Joseph Leidy was also the Founder of American Parasitology, a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, a pioneering protozoologist, an influential teacher of Natural History, a passionate microscopist, an accomplished scientific illustrator, and an expert on a variety of subjects. He published scientific papers on more than a thousand extinct and living protozoa, fungi and animals as well as an assortment...
Dates:
1833 - 1880
Yoichiro Hirase collection
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0411
Scope and Contents
Typescript biography of eminent Japanese conchologist, Yoichiro Hirase, b. 1858 (9 pages). Illustrated with 4 mounted photographs of Hirase at work in his study and of his collections.
No information on provenance, but probably from the papers of H.A. Pilsbry
Dates:
c. 1910-1914
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