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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

John A. Guex Papers Including Catalogs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0927
Scope and Contents Amateur naturalist and collector of Coleoptera, he passed the latter part of his life in New York City. He was a member of the Academy, and a note in the Minutes announces his death and speaks with enthusiasm of Guex' interest in entomology. At that time his donations to the Entomological Collections were mentioned and over a period of years he had added materially to them. In 1854 he gave 1500 Lepidoptera and later in the same year 17,000 Coleoptera; in 1855 another 1500 specimens from...
Dates: 1846-1857