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Ruth Patrick Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0974
Overview
Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1907, Dr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick spent most of her childhood in Kansas City, Missouri. Her interest in the natural sciences was shaped by her father's passion for the natural world. Her long association with the Academy of Natural Sciences began in 1933 as a volunteer. By 1937 she was curator of the Academy's Leidy Microscopical Collection and involved in the consolidation and expansion of the Academy’s diatom herbarium, but not on the Academy payroll until the early...
Dates:
1908 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990
Samuel Gibson Dixon papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0241
Scope and Contents
The Samuel Gibson Dixon Papers include correspondence from, to, or copied to Samuel Gibson Dixon, who was President of the Academy of Natural Sciences from 1891-1918. A large chunk of this correspondence pertains to the discussion of renovations being made to the Academy building, most particularly building a new library, and the collection includes continuous conversation between Dixon, The Snead & Co. Iron Works, the Otis Elevator Company, Wilson, Harris & Richards (architects),...
Dates:
1892-1918
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