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ANSP Agreements Documents and Papers Pertaining to Legal Matters

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0575
Scope and Contents

This collection contains leases, contracts and disclaimers. They are concerned with building operations.

Assembled from various archival nooks in the Academy in 1960.

Dates: 1815-1875

ANSP Petitions and Resolutions Papers

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 13
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0602
Scope and Contents These petitions and resolutions are close pieces, possibly written by the person proposing the action, as a note for the secretary when copying his minutes. Most of them are transcribed into the Minutes of the Academy but oftentimes changed in wording or intent. The petitions number only four and were made mostly to the legislature of Pennsylvania, or to some branch of the Federal Government, their inclusive dates being 1837-1876. The resolutions have been arranged in two groups, first those...
Dates: 1826-1895

Charles Lennig Chrome Ore Land Donation Papers

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0549
Scope and Contents Philadelphia businessman and president of the Tacomy Chemical Works, he joined the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1847. In 1867, when the trustees of the building fund were making a concerted effort to get money for the new building, Charles Lennig donated to the Academy some chrome ore lands in Chester County. These were sold, but a royalty clause retained some income for the Academy besides the principle gift. These papers have one letter from Lennig advising the sale of the property to...
Dates: 1867-1868

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