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Euguen Abraham Rau Correspondence
Collection — Box: Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0906
Scope and Contents
A pharmacist and botanist of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Rau became an authority on mosses and fungi, assembling large collections which mostly went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Elected a correspondent of this Academy in 1883, he bequeathed a collection of books to it (mostly from L. D. von Schweinitz library) and an herbarium of flowering plants. He published jointly with A. B. Hervey, a Catalogue of North American Musci, 1880. Formerly in the keeping of...
Dates:
1876-1887
Homer Franklin Bassett Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0923
Scope and Contents
Entomologist, municipal and church official, but professionally the librarian of the Silas Bronson public library of Waterbury, Conn. These papers consist of letterbooks with drafts of entomological articles and letters. The subject matter includes family and personal, church and municipal affairs, some library correspondence, but mostly the scientific aspects of his study of cynipid insects and galls. His personal cabinet was donated to the American Entomological Society, when he was still...
Dates:
1864-1901
John William Harshberger Correspondence
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0444
Scope and Contents
Philadelphia botanist, biographer, historian and professor, Harshberger's correspondence is chiefly with 86 other botanists. His book "Botanists of Philadelphia and Their Works," protrays a history of American botany along with the biographies.
Gift of Zoo-Botany Department, University of Pennsylvania through Dr. John Fogg and Mrs. Ida Langman, Dec. 21, 1959
Dates:
1890-1913
William Gilson Farlow Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 11
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0524
Scope and Contents
American fungologist, Farlow did most of his work at Harvard. Whens studying the Academy's collection of type species of fungi which were collected, named and donated by L.D. von Schweinitz, he left the various pages of notes laid in the catalog of Schweinitz herbarium. The typed memorandum is entitled: "Notes on Certain Species [49] of Fungi in the Schweinitz Herbarium at Philadelphia." The second item is a letter signed W.G. Farlow
Gift of the author.
Dates:
1908-1911
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