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ANSP museum specimen collection donation records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0195
Scope and Contents
The early daily records in book form, as 'Curator's books," the weekly sheets, 'Additions to the Museum," and the Wurtz' card file "Donations to the Museum" are preserved in this collection.
Dates:
1847-1930
Edward Drinker Cope Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0328
Abstract
Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897) was one of the most distinguished American scientists of the 19th century. The bulk of his work was in the fields of paleontology, zoology, geology and anatomy. During his lifetime, he discovered and described over 600 new species and contributed over 1300 papers to scientific literature. The collection contains certificates and honors, medals, manuscripts of scientific papers, drawings, scientific photographs, biographical material, news clippings, account...
Dates:
1859-1907
David K. Wetherbee Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0983
Scope note
The David K. Wetherbee papers contain draft versions of his writings which were later xeroxed for publication. This collection, which dates from 1958 to 1989, with bulk dates from 1984 to 1989, is arranged alphabetically by publication. Wetherbee’s writings would prove interesting to researchers interested in zoology of the Caribbean, and in particular entomology, botany, ichthyology, ornithology, and herpetology of Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Virgin Islands,...
Dates:
1958 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1984 - 1989
Index polyglossus, avium et piscium, magis communium
Collection — Box: small accessions 4
Identifier: ANSP-2012-045
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one bound volume of a polyglot zoological dictionary from 1836: Latin, Russian, English, French, German in parallel columns.
Dates:
1836
Joshua Spencer Commonplace Book
Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0426
Scope and Contents
This commonplace book, consisting of approximately 430 pages of entries on natural history subjects, is attributed to Joshua Spencer of Essex, England. Although the bulk of the manuscript is written in the same hand, various pages throughout are signed by others indicating there may be multiple authors. The manuscript is assembled in two sections with two separate indexes and bound in vellum.Large portions of the manuscript are excerpted transcriptions of texts and illustrations...
Dates:
1692-1729
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