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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
Charles Pickering Journal of U. S. Exploring Expedition
Collection — Volume: 1-2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0308
Scope and Contents
This unpublished two volume journal kept by Charles Pickering covers the portion of the U.S. Exploring Expedition from Madeira to the Hawaiian Islands. It contains approximately 1000 pages of Pickering's commentary about various aspects of the localities visited including topography and geological structures, coral reel formations, climate, mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, mollusks, insects, crustacea, and plants as well as accounts describing indigenous peoples. Lists of specimens seen and...
Dates:
September 1838-November 1841
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- Peary, Robert Edwin (Robert Edwin Peary) (1856-1920) 1
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- Pilsbry, Henry Augustus, 1862-1957 1
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