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Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Exhibits Department Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0998
Overview
Prior to the 1930s, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia had neither an education department nor an exhibits department. However, the museum clearly stated that “to see that our scientific work is shared with the public in ways that instruct and entertain is one of our direct responsibilities, for knowledge of Nature not only widens the mental horizon, but helps to ease the common burdens of life.” In 1920, Harold T. Green came to work at the Academy. At first, he was in charge...
Dates:
1852-2001
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Papers on Expeditions
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0113
Scope and Contents
This collection was assembled by Library and Archives staff from various accessions of records transferred from Academy departments and offices. The collection documents the Academy of Natural Sciences sponsored expeditions from 1819 to 1977. The collection is rich in material, particularly regarding the Academy's expedition to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia in 1969. There is some general information regarding expeditions, especially in regard to the Committee on Names, which is...
Dates:
1819-1969
Augustus Edward Jessup, Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0375
Scope and Contents
Geologist, mineralogist and paper manufacturer. Attended Dr. Thomas Cooper's Scientific School in Philadelphia, beginning about 1816. Elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and became very
active in its affairs. Made a trip to Mexico in 1817 or 1818, and returned with valuable mineral collections. In 1819 joined Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains as its official geologist. He bequeathed extensive mineralogical and geological collections to the...
Dates:
1822-1913
Benjamin Sharp Papers and Glass Lantern Slides
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0349
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials primarily related to Academy of Natural Sciences sponsored expeditions to collect specimens and study the natural world in the West Indies in 1888, Greenland in 1891, and Hawai’i in 1893.
Dates:
1844 - 1952; Majority of material found within 1888 - 1894
Brooke Dolan (1908-1945) papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0064
Scope and Contents
Phillilps and Phillips (1963) stated, "These papers consist of records and documents of the Asiatic Expeditions, correspondence in 1941 showing his various pre-war activities, and papers about his Memorial Meeting at the Academy in December, 1945."
Dates:
1931-1935
Carriker South American Expeditions, 1929-1935. Papers.
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0900
Overview
These papers are concerned with five separate expeditions for collecting vertebrates in South America. The first three, in 1929-1932 were made to Peru, while the second two, 1933-1935 were to Bolivia. Melbourne A. Carriker was a Philadelphian interested in becoming a collector and through the sponsorship of the Academy and financial aid of Clement B. Newbold, he went to Peru where he collected birds and mammals. Later, on his Bolivian expeditions he was accompanied by his son M.R. Carriker...
Dates:
1929-1935
Edgar B. Howard Clovis, N. M. Field trips, Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0331
Scope and Contents
Between 1932 and 1935 Howard made summer expeditions to the gravel pit near Clovis, excavating for evidences of early man in America. These trips were sponsored by the University Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences both of Philadelphia, the Carnegie Institution and California Institute of Technology. Names appearing in our records of the trips are John C. Merriam, Chester Stock, F. D. Bode, R. W. Wilson, Childs Antevs and D.
Curry, with Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, Lady Woodward and V....
Dates:
1932-1935
Ichthyology Department Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0704
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the activities of the Ichthyology Department primarily from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s. The collection includes annual reports, written histories about the department and its operation, specimen collection lists, and notes on various fish collections; financial records related to endowments and general and special funds supporting the work of the department, and curatorial grant proposals and reports for National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects; field...
Dates:
1849-2000; Majority of material found within 1957-1995
J. Percy Moore papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0505
Overview
John Percy Moore (1869-1965) was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1912 to 1939, an Assistant Curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences from 1902 to 1938, and held several positions between 1920 and 1956 at the Ludwick Institute, which offered free lectures and courses in the natural sciences. He was also a world recognized authority on leeches. During his career, Moore named six genera, 229 species, five subspecies and four varieties of polychaetous annelids, or...
Dates:
1847 - 1963
John Kirk Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0404
Scope and Contents
Ornithologist and explorer. The papers in this collection all refer to his experiences when accompanying Captain Wyeth across the Rocky Mountains. Captain Wyeth undertook the journey for the Columbia River Fishing and
Trading Company to establish trading posts beyond the Rockies. Townsend's trip, in the company of Thomas Nuttall was extended to the Sandwich Islands. He returned to the Columbia River, collecting birds there, returning to the
Islands, and eventually back to Philadelphia by way...
Dates:
1834-1839
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- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6
- Cadwalader, C. M. B (Charles Meigs Biddle) (June 3,1885-1959) 2
- Dolan, Brooke, II (1908-August 19, 1945) 2
- Rehn, James A.G. (James Abram Garfield) (b. 1881) 2
- Stone, Witmer, 1866-1939 2
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Department of Ichthyology 1
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- Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 1
- Bennett, Thomas Peter (1937-) 1
- Benson, R. Dale, Jr. 1
- Bettle, Griscom 1
- Böhlke, Eugenia B. (unknown - February 14, 2001) 1
- Böhlke, James E. (1930-1982) 1
- Brakeley, John Price Jones Inc. 1
- Carpenter, R. R. M. (Robert Ruliph Morgan), 1915-1990 1
- Carriker, Melbourne Armstrong, 1879-1965 1
- Carriker, Melbourne R. (Melbourne Romaine), 1915-2007 1
- Cook, James, 1728-1779 1
- Davis, George M. (1938-) 1
- Dillin, John G. W. 1
- Doman, Kenneth 1
- Duncan, Marian 1
- Duncan, Marion 1
- Duran, Sean 1
- Dury, Ralph 1
- Endeavor (Ship) 1
- Frederick, Carl T. 1
- Fuges, Mary H. 1
- Gill, Frank B. 1
- Gordon, Seth 1
- Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance 1
- Green, Harold T. (Harold Tichenor) (b. 1896) 1
- Griffiths, D. W. 1
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
- Hill, John Eric 1
- Howard, Edgar 1
- Huber, Wharton 1
- Jessup, Augustus Edward (1797-1859) 1
- Jonas Brothers 1
- Kartchner, K. C. 1
- Knowlton, Hollister 1
- Learn, M. M. 1
- Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 1
- Leigh, W. Colston 1
- Leonard, Edgar W. 1
- Ludwick Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Maclure, William, 1763-1840 1
- Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) 1
- Marvel, William [ADDED from ATLAS dataset] 1
- Moore, J. Percy (1869-1965) 1
- Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 1
- Newbold, Arthur E. 1
- Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 1
- Ogilvy, David 1
- Peary, Robert Edwin (Robert Edwin Peary) (1856-1920) 1
- Perkins, Maxwell E. 1
- Philadelphia Metropolitan Library Council 1
- Pilsbry, Henry Augustus, 1862-1957 1
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- Russell, Keith 1
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- Savage, C. G. 1
- Schafer, Ernst 1
- Sharp, Benjamin, 1858-1915 1
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- Townsend, John Kirk, 1809-1851 1
- Ulmer, Fred 1
- United States National Museum 1
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- University of Pennsylvania 1
- Vaux, George (December 18, 1863-1927) 1
- Wagner Free Institute of Science 1
- Wahl, Milton H. 1
- Welsh, Ralph W. 1
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