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Botany Department Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2010-282
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of records related to the Academy's Botany department. Materials include general files and departmental correspondence dating from the 1970s and 1980s from the offices of James Mears, Alfred E. Schuyler, Joan Apfelbaum, Helen Greenwood, and others. The collection includes earlier correspondence of Alexander MacElwee, Walter Benner, C.D. Fretz, and others, related to the acquisition and identification of specimens (1877-1920). Notebooks and catalogs of the Botany...
Dates:
1877-1997
Henry Muhlenberg Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0419
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of the manuscript volumes Observationes Botanicae de Plantis Americae Septentrionalis and Fungi Lancastriensis. Observationes Botanicae de Plantis Americae Septentrionalis previously cataloged in the library, QK110 M95, describes North American plants including documentation for herbarium specimens, Muhlenberg's notes about specimens collected at Philadelphia gardens and on plants cultivated from Meriwether Lewis’s seed collections. The collection also...
Dates:
1802-circa 1952
Lewis David von Schweinitz Drawings
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0437
Scope and Contents
The Lewis David von Schweinitz Drawings collection contains original illustrations of fungi and higher plants in four bound volumes and a number of loose plates. The bound works, volumes 1, 2, 3, and 5 of Fungorum Nieskiensium are organized by volume number and illustrate various fungi. The loose plates include fungi of Salem, North Carolina, but mainly illustrations of specimens identified as 'higher plants.'
Dates:
1805-1816
Lewis David von Schweinitz herbarium catalogs and indexes
Collection — Box: 1-3
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0137
Dates:
1817-1832
Zaccheus Collins Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0129
Abstract
Zaccheus Collins (1764-1831) was a plant collector and herbarium owner from Philadelphia. Collins was an esteemed botanist and was often consulted by a majority of botanical writers, though he never published anything himself. He was also an avid collector and his herbarium contained a nearly complete collection of the plants from the vicinity of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. His correspondents also sent him various specimens from their research in the southern states, particularly South...
Dates:
1805-1827
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- Elliott, Stephen 2
- Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815 2
- Schweinitz, Lewis David von, 1780-1834 2
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- Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 1
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