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Benjamin Sharp Papers and Glass Lantern Slides
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0349
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials primarily related to Academy of Natural Sciences sponsored expeditions to collect specimens and study the natural world in the West Indies in 1888, Greenland in 1891, and Hawai’i in 1893.
Dates:
1844 - 1952; Majority of material found within 1888 - 1894
Francis Whittier Pennell Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0118
Scope and Contents
The Francis Whittier Pennell papers includes itineraries, field notebooks, manuscripts and research, and correspondence spanning Pennell’s 40 years in botany. It is divided into five series: field work, Scrophulariaceae work, scientific writing, biographies of botanists, and correspondence. Series I. Field Work, contains three subseries. A. Itineraries, which contains itineraries for Pennell’s collecting expeditions to Colombia, Peru, and Chile as well as expeditions to the...
Dates:
1874-1982; Majority of material found within 1908-1952
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
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- Abbott, R. Tucker (Robert Tucker), 1919-1995 1
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1
- Ashmead, Samuel (1839-1864) 1
- Austin, Coe Finch 1
- Baker, Horace Burrington (1889-1971) 1
- Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 1
- Bartram, John, 1699-1777 1
- Bartram, William, 1739-1823 1
- Baxter, Samuel Newman 1
- Benett, Etheldred, 1776-1845 1
- Brown, Amos P. 1
- Burk, Isaac 1
- Darlington, William (1782-1863) 1
- Davis, George M. (1938-) 1
- Fernald, Merritt Lyndon 1
- Hirase, Yoichirō, 1859-1925 1
- Hoagland, K. E. (K. Elaine) 1
- Keeley, Frank J. 1
- Knieskern, P. D. 1
- Martius, Carl Frederick P. von 1
- Peary, Robert Edwin (Robert Edwin Peary) (1856-1920) 1
- Pennell, Francis W. ((Francis Whittier) ) (1886-1952) 1
- Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel) (1783-1840) 1
- Redfield, John H. 1
- Richardson, Leonard, 1911- 1
- Robertson, Robert, 1934- 1
- Scribner, F. Lamson 1
- Sharp, Benjamin, 1858-1915 1
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