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William Parker Foulke's Shirt Studs & Pieces of Hadrosaurus Foulkii

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2012-029-Artifact

William Paul Crillon Barton letter to F. A. Michaux

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 3
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0126
Scope and Contents

This letter transmits through a common friend, Mr. Vaughan, a copy of Barton's Vegetable Materia Medica (publ. 1817-18) with 50 uncolored plates and apologies for them being uncolored because the coloring was not up to the quality of Michaux's plates, and promises colored ones in the spring.

Dates: 1825

William Rasmussen diary

 Collection — Box: SA1
Identifier: MC-00-027
Scope and content note Contains a photocopy of William Rasmussen's personal diary, detailing a three-year world cruise of J.R. Drexel's steam yacht, the Sultana, from 1890 to 1892. The diary describes the ports and cities they visited during the voyage. They set sail from New York City and stopped first in Bermuda, from where they crossed the Atlantic via Madeira and then on to Europe, where they sailed along the coast into the Mediterranean. Also included are photocopies of several photogaphs (including the...
Dates: 1890-1905; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1892

William Roy Overlease, Typescript of "Check List of Rare and Extinct Native Plants of Wissahickon Valley"

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0451
Scope and Contents

Education director and student botanist, prepared this list from an annotated unpublished file by John M. Fogg, Jr., and with the help of E. G. Wherry and Bayard Long, using the Academy's herbarium. Four copies were made and distributed to Fogg, Wherry, Bayard Long and the Comstock Society of Philadelphia.

Dates: 1959

William S. Gaither administration records

 Collection — Box: 2
Identifier: UR-01-009
Overview This collection consists chiefly of a set of subject files on organizations, university offices and departments, special projects, and administrative topics compiled by Drexel's ninth president, William S. Gaither. The collection also contains a record of Dr. Gaither's outgoing correspondence from June 1984 to December 1986 and a box of certificates presented to him at his inauguration held in 1985. The collection contains correspondence, memorandum, speeches, reports, memos, drafts,...
Dates: 1981-1987

William S. Wilson business records

 Collection — Volume: 1-7
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0091
Scope and Contents This collection consists of one letterbook, 1821-22, which contains 52 letters copied and signed by William S. Wilson, which are mostly written to his uncle Francis Thompson with some accounts and records enclosed in the letters; four day books from Dec. 24, 1821 to April 6, 1829; and two cash books and ledgers of accounts dating Jan. 1, 1828 to Dec., 1829. The material is all dated from Philadelphia and mention is made in the letters to a brother Edward, a co-signer in certain situations....
Dates: 1821-1829

William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger correspondence

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0207
Scope and Contents Included are letters from 107 well-known scientists, and biographical notes and reminiscences about others. Highlighted are R. M. Holbrook's reminiscences of Leidy, Ruschenberger's biographical sketches of Prof. Gabb, William Hembel, Mr. Schwann and H. A. Pilsbry and Wistar's deed of trust.Signers:Baird, Spencer F. 1880; Barber, E. A. (2) 1877-79; Beamer, Ferd. M. (5) 1892-93; Blanchard, Anna, n. d.; Bovie, C. L. (2) 1876; Boyd, John C. 1877; Buffon, Nadault de, 1883;...
Dates: 1868-1894

William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger, Memorial volumes

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0435
Scope and Contents Ruschenberger, a native of New Jersey and a graduate in medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, was commissioned as a surgeon in the Navy in 1831, holding that position until his retirement in 1869. He wrote several books about his travels over the world during those years; thereafter settled in Philadelphia and became actively associated with several institutions. He was at different times president of the Academy, president of the College of Physicians, and vice-president of the...
Dates: 1831-90

William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger papers

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 3
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0097
Scope and Contents

The material consists of various documents compiled by Ruschenberger (1) A request that collections from the second geological survey of Pennsylvania be deposited at the Academy (2) notes and general information about the Academy's affairs dated in the 1860's (3) other notes by Ruschenberger pertaining to Camillus McMahon Mann (4) a set of rules for janitor's duties in the Academy ( 5) a typescript copy taken from the minutebook pertaining to the Hays Arctic Expedition.

Dates: 1879-1893

William Starling Sullivant annotated "Mosses and Liverworts of the United States"

 Collection — Container: Box Small Collections 11
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0545
Scope and Contents Sullivant, a native of the Northwest Territory, was a graduate of Yale. A wealthy man, he was able to effectively indulge a broad interest in natural history. Leaning first toward ornithology, then conchology, he finally focused his whole attention on botany. He then specialized further, and became the world's authority of his time on the mosses and liverworts. He was a corresponding member of the Academy.This collection consists of interleaved additions, corrections, and...
Dates: 1857-1872

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Vaux, William Sansom, 1811-1882 11
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Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker) (1840-1897) 10
Drexel Institute of Technology. College of Engineering 10
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Hering, Constantine (1800-1880) 10
Pilsbry, Henry Augustus, 1862-1957 10
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Creese, James 8
LeConte, John Lawrence (May 13, 1825 - November 15, 1883) 8
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Ord, George, 1781-1866 8
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Haldemann, Samuel Stehman (August 12, 1812 – September 10, 1880) 7
Hebard, Morgan (1887-1946) 7
Schweinitz, Lewis David von, 1780-1834 7
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Bradford, Thomas Lindsley, M.D. 6
Dixon, Samuel Gibson, 1851-1918 6
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry. Library School 6
Drexel University. Board of Trustees 6
Drexel University. College of Engineering 6
Hawkins, Benjamin Waterhouse (1807-1889) 6
Horn, George H. (George Henry) (April 7, 1840 – November 24, 189) 6
Matheson, Kenneth G., Jr. 6
Meehan, Thomas 6
Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 6
Pennell, Francis W. ((Francis Whittier) ) (1886-1952) 6
Redfield, John H. 6
Tryon, George W. (George Washington), 1838-1888 6
University of Pennsylvania 6
Vaux, George (December 18, 1863-1927) 6
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Childs, George William, 1829-1895 5
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 5
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Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry. Department of Athletics 5
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Drexel family 5
Durand, Elias (1794-1873) 5
Foulke, William Parker (1816-1854) 5
Fowler, Henry Weed (Henry Weed Fowler) (1878-1965) 5
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 5
Harshberger, John W. (John William), 1869-1929 5
Huber, Wharton 5
Leidy, Joseph, II (1866-1932) 5
Palmer, T. Chalkley (1860-1934) 5
Peck, Robert McCracken, 1952- 5
Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel) (1783-1840) 5
Roberts, H. Radclyffe 5
University City Science Center 5
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Worrell, Harriet E. 5
Allen, Harrison 4
American Medical Women's Association 4
Browne, Peter A. (Peter Arrell), 1782-1860 4
Cadwalader, John, 1843-1925 4
Carson, Joseph (1808-1876) 4
Cassin, John 4
Chapman, Henry C. 4
Davis, George M. (1938-) 4
Drexel Institute of Technology. Evening College 4
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