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ANSP Library Reports of Librarians

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0578
Scope and Contents In the infancy of the Academy, curators appointed a member to act as unpaid librarian who had very little authority to make plans and policies. In general the library was administered thru the members as a whole. A list of the various librarians with their tenure of office is included with the list of officers of the Academy prepared by Maurice E. Phillips. Soon after Edward J. Nolan became librarian in 1863, the position of librarian was established and he was included with other officers...
Dates: 1824-1868, 1952-1958

ANSP Reception Committees Papers

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0585
Scope and Contents

Collection of material containing records of various reception committees, especially those dealing with a founder's day anniversary dinner in 1854, and the reception and dinner for the Peary Exploring Party in 1892. There are lists of subscribers, bills, receipts, 'letters and miscellaneous data.

Signers of letters, all dated 1854:

Dates: 1854-1901

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  • Names: Nolan, Edward J. (Edward James), 1846-1921 X
  • Names: Elwyn, Alfred Langden X

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Bancker, C. N. 1
Beck, T. Romeyne 1
Betton, Thomas F. 1
Biddle, J. B. 1
Browne, Peter A. (Peter Arrell), 1782-1860 1