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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 herbarium catalogs and indexes

 Collection — Box: 1-3
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0137

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