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Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Division of Environmental Research Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0999
Overview
The Division of Environmental Research (DER) was established as a department of the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1947 by botanist and limnologist, Dr. Ruth Patrick. Originally called the Department of Limnology, the department was envisioned by Patrick as a multidisciplinary team of scientists devoted to helping protect the quality of the environment. Not only was environmental research a novel idea for the time, but the multidisciplinary nature of the research was also innovative. The...
Dates:
1952 - 1995
Earth Week Activities Records
Collection — Box: small accessions 2
Identifier: ANSP-2010-006
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of records of the participation of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in the observance of Earth Week in 1971. Materials include: schedules of events; newspaper articles (copies and clippings); flyers, programs, and brochures; photographs of the installation of exhibitions; press releases and memos; a newsletter from the Franklin Institute; an Earth Week button; and receipts for advertising. The collection also includes a brochure for Earth Day, 1970.
Dates:
1970-1971
Edward James Nolan, Commemorative volumes of the Centenary celebration of the Academy
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0431
Scope and Contents
This collection represents a specially prepared copy of Volume 15 of the Journal of the Academy, second series, 1912. The original letterpress copy is used as a base with interleaving and manuscript material inserted by the Recording Secretary, E. J. Nolan and presented to the Academy. The inserts consist of portraits, photographs, letters, reports, reminiscences, news clippings and many miscellaneous items. A total of 43 photographs, 53 letters, and 31 other items complete the volume.
Dates:
1912
Edwin Costley Jellett, "A Flora of Germantown" and news clippings
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0432
Scope and Contents
Engineer and amateur botanist, gardener and local historian, Jellett is
known for his various books about Germantown, its environment, gardens, old
homes and residents of the area. He was very active in the Germantown
Horticultural Society and in the Site and Relic Society of Germantown. This
Flora, with letterpress titlepage and running title contains news clippings of
35 articles written as a series, appearing every Friday from March 27 to
December 11, 1903, in the Germantown Independent...
Dates:
1916
Ethnological Collections Records
Collection — Box: Small accessions 1
Identifier: ANSP-2009-025
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of information on mummies owned and exhibited by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Materials include typed descriptions and sketches of exhibits; exhibit construction records, including a budget and a description of the process of assembling the exhibit; reports on cleaning and conservation; documents related to the loan of items from the University Museum to the Academy, including insurance records, loan agreements, and correspondence; newspaper...
Dates:
1976-1994
Crawford H. Greenewalt papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0997
Overview
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt (1902-1993) was a chemical engineer and the President of the DuPont Company from 1948 to 1962. He had a passion for the natural sciences, and combined his love of ornithology with photography. He was especially known for his high speed photographs of hummingbirds. His ornithological interests included bird songs, the radiance of hummingbird feathers and the evolution of shapes and sizes of birds in relation to their flight abilities. The Crawford H. Greenewalt...
Dates:
1951 - 1993
Horace G. Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0976
Overview
Horace G. Richards (1906-1984) was a geologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia and an authority on the geologic formations of the Atlantic coastal plain. His research specialty focused on geology and paleontology of the Quaternary Period (approximately the past 1.8 million years), but his research interests also included Cenozoic mollusca, and marine Pleistocene geology and paleontology of the Atlantic coastal plain. Additionally, he studied climate change and coastal...
Dates:
1928-1984
London Illustrated News issue featuring Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins dinosaurs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2012-061
Dates:
1880s
Lucy Way Say, Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0433
Overview
The first woman to be elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Lucy Say was an accomplished nature artist and scientific collaborator with her famous husband Thomas Say. She made 66 of the 68 delicate and accurate drawings of North American mollusks for Thomas Say's American Conchology, at New Harmony, and did most of the painstaking coloring of the plates. This collection consists of 25 drawings (pencil and watercolor), seven hand colored plates of North American...
Dates:
1822-85
Patricia Tyson Stroud Papers
Collection — Box: 1-3
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1014
Content Description
Collection contains three groupings of material: newsletters, fliers, meeting minutes, correspondence and other records Stroud received as Chair of the Friends of the Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1986-1992; research files for the 2012 monograph, A Glorious Enterprise on the history of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, co-authored with Academy Curator of Art and Artifacts, Robert McCraken Peck, 2009-2011; and correspondence and related records regarding research...
Dates:
1983-2011
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