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American Entomological Society correspondence

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0150
Scope and Contents The American Entomogical Society Correspondence collection contains letters from approximately 946 individuals to leaders of the Society discussing entomology, the Society and the Entomological section of the Academy. Specific topics include: society affairs, working funds, publications and scientific courtesies, and exchanges with other museums and entomologists. The recipients appear to be primarily the secretaries and recorders of the Society and the Entomological section. The...
Dates: 1867-1951

American Entomological Society Records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2013-024
Scope and Contents

Transferred to Academy Archives by Jon K. Gelhaus, Curator, Department of Entomology, Academy of Natural Sciences. Gelhaus is also a member and past officer of the AES. This collection contains meeting speaker lists, sign in sheets, and minutes; correspondence; write ups, flyers, and announcements; and investments reports.

Dates: 1950-2000s

Felipe Poey, Papers

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0366
Scope and Contents

Ichthyologist, malacologist and entomologist, founder-director of the Museum at Havana, and professor at the University there. With two others he supported the field work of J. Gundlach. He was a corresponding member of the Academy, to which a part of his collections were given. His papers consist of lists and notes on Hymenoptera, Coleoptera and Lepidoptera of Cuba, four letters to A. Guex and some notes and lists of J. Gundlach.

Dates: 1851-69

Frank R. Mason Papers

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 7
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0325
Scope and Contents

Frank Mason was an entomologist who willed his collection of Coleoptera to the Academy. These papers consist of correspondence between J.A.G. Rehn of the Entomology Department and Mason's colleagues concerning his death in 1927, and 3 blueprints of storage cases and a floor plan, apparently for Mason's collection but not so identified.

Transferred to the Academy archives from the Entomology Department, 1961

Dates: 1927

John Lawrence LeConte, Papers

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0382
Scope and Contents Trained as a physician, LeConte made his name in the world thru his collecting and studying of Coleoptera. He has been referred to as the greatest Coleopterist of the country and one of the finest systematists. Not only did he make many collecting expeditions in this country but went to Central America, to Europe, Egypt and Algeria. He was enlisted in the army medical corps during the Civil War and later returned to Philadelphia as Assistant Inspector of the Mint in that city. His extensive...
Dates: 1843-83

Eleanor Slifer Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1006
Overview Dr. Eleanor Slifer (1900-1986) was a faculty member in the Department of Zoology, University of Iowa and a member of the Entomology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Dr. Slifer’s groundbreaking work with insect chemoreceptors lead to over 100 published papers in professional journals. This collection dates from 1928 to 1980 and contains handwritten notes, illustrations, manuscripts and galley proofs relating to a number of Dr. Slifer's published papers....
Dates: 1928-1980

The Milliron Megabombus Journal

 Collection — Box: small accessions 4
Identifier: ANSP-2011-018

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