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Merida Gray Worth, Botanical collection catalog
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0405
Scope and Contents
This catalog was apparently a field book made on a collecting trip to Mexico, chiefly the Veracruz River and State, Feb. 24 to April 9, 1942. Worth made his collections in two types of surroundings, either in open country or in the Cerros (forested hills between 50 and 500 feet high). One hundred and forty entries are given with the type of plant, date, location and unnamed description.
Dates:
1942
Mineralogy Department Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0141
Scope and Contents
The Mineralogy Department records house the administrative records of the department and its custodians. This collection dates from 1817 to 1993 and contains catalogues, inventories, correspondence, memoranda, financial records, historical notes, invoices, exhibition planning and loan documentation, reports, photographs, and negatives. These records document various stages in the administration of the department, as it changed throughout the years.This collection is arranged into...
Dates:
1817 - 1993
Ornithology Department Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0054
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of catalogs, information about special collections within our holdings, lists of birds offered for sale, donated, exchanged or discarded, various working notes of the curators, personnel of the department,
and general notes. The persons most concerned in this material are John Cassin, Elliott Coues, William A. Kite, Spencer Trotter, Mr. Hill and Wharton Huber, with Witmer Stone adding the later personal touches to the material describing our bird collection. Not only...
Dates:
1863-2010
SEE Coll 190 Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, "History of Bird Collections typescript
Collection — Box: Coll. 444-447, 449
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0446
Scope and Contents
A 29-page record of the collections in the Academy of Natural Sciences arranged chronologically from 1815 to 1953, with a 16-page index prepared by Venia T. Phillips.
Dates:
1957
William Stimpson, Catalogue of Reptiles
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0408
Scope and Contents
American conchologist, friend of Louis Agassiz, member of the National
Museum staff, accompanying the personnel on the North Pacific Exploring
Expedition, 1853-56, under the command of Capts. Ringgold and Rodgers.
Later moved to Chicago where he planned a monumental work on mollusks,
for which he borrowed material from a great many institutions. While engaged
in that project, Mrs. Leary's cow set fire to the city and destroyed all
Stimpson's specimens and work. He died soon after, perhaps...
Dates:
1853-56
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