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Joseph Leidy Correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0001
Overview
Joseph Mellick Leidy (1823-1891), one of the great American scientists of the 19th century, possessed a vast knowledge of the natural world. Best known as the Father of American vertebrate paleontology, he also pioneered the fields of parasitology and protozoology, and was the preeminent anatomist of his time. He was also an influential teacher of natural history and an expert in areas as diverse as entomology, geology and pathology. The Joseph Leidy Correspondence collection contains...
Dates:
1845-1913, undated
Leander Trowbridge Chamberlain Papers for the Isaac Lea Collection and the Frances Lea Chamberlain Fund
Collection — Box: Small Collections 11
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0540
Scope and Contents
Historian, minister of the gospel and amateur naturalist, Chamberlain assembled a collection of Eocene fossils which he bequeathed tot he Academy in memory of Isaac Lea, his father-in-law, and Frances Lea Chamberlain, his wife. The papers here refer to both the "Isaac Lea Collection" and the fund for its maintainence which is called the "Frances Lea Chamberlain Fund." A series of ten letters written during Chamberlain's lifetime about the collection is dated, 1894-1897 and written by...
Dates:
1894-1924
Official Correspondence File
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0567
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of more than 18,000 incoming letters receieved by the Academy betwen 1812 and 1920 and assembled by corresponding secretaries, Edward J. Nolan and James A. G. Rehn. A separate card index file assembled circa 1963 and arranged by last name of correspondent provides summary details about most letters.
Dates:
1812-1920
Pennsylvania University and Academy Proposed Merger Papers
Collection — Container: Box Small Collections 11
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0543
Scope and Contents
In April, 1889 the Provost of the University, William Pepper sent to the officers of the Academy an invitation to move their institution to the campus of the University. The Academy's Council considered the proposal, disapproved it, and reported its reasons in detail to the Academy's membership. The members, agreeing with the council, voted against the move. The papers include the original proposition, resolutions of both the Council and the Academy, and a statement by the Academy's...
Dates:
1889
Samuel Murray Statues of Edward Nolan
Collection — no container: 1-2
Identifier: ANSP-2010-085-Artifact
Scope and Contents
Two nearly identical statues of Edward Nolan sculpted in 1909 by Samuel Murray. Nolan is wearing a suit and tie, carry a book in his right hand and his left hand is resting in his trouser pocket. Nolans eye glasses are hanging from his jacket pocket.
Dates:
1909
Spackman Family, Ornithological workbook
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0428
Scope and Contents
This volume represents a series of numbered sheets, continuing to no.
385, but with a great many gaps. Each sheet was repaired and the full gathering
bound by a former librarian. Each carries a watercolor of a bird, the
drawings seemingly copied from Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology.
The volume was originally labeled: "Wilson's original drawings" but this
note lightly crossed out and in the hand of E. J. Nolan another note "Not
Wilson's drawings" inserted. Again below the original...
Dates:
1842?
William Keesey Hewitt Painting of Edward James Nolan
Item — no container: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2011-066
Dates:
Circa 1800
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
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