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Joseph Leidy, Diaries and field notebooks
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0482
Scope and Contents
Daily records made on trips to Europe, 1848 and 1875; local trips, in four books, for the dates 1873-82, 1877; 1880-83, 1885-87; notes on the mineralogical exhibits in the British Museum and in the Louvre, Paris; field notebook labeled "Notes on Myxomycetes" 1884-86; and Luray Cavern notebook and letter.
Dates:
1848-87
Malacology Department Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0804
Overview
Scientists have been studying shells from the very beginning of the Academy of Natural Science’s long history. Thomas Say, Isaac Lea, and Timothy Abbott Conrad are just a few examples of Academy scientists who made important contributions to the field of conchology before there was an official department at the Academy. On December 26, 1866, the Conchological Section was formally established at the Academy, creating a departmental unity under curator George Washington Tryon, who led...
Dates:
1848-2012
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
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
Philip Powell Calvert, 1871-1961. Early observations and field notes, 1885-88.
Collection — Box: Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0933
Overview
Even at the age of 14, this author was keeping notebooks of his field observations and with other enthusiasts, i.e. friends at the Central High School, and in the local Agassiz Club, preparing information for catalogs of various groups of animals. Notebooks and illustrated records, as well as correspondence with his colleagues are found in this collection.
Dates:
1885-88
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque papers
Collection — Container: Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0418
Abstract
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783-1840) was a naturalist who is best known for his contributions to scientific classification and nomenclature and giving Latin names to approximately 6,700 plants. While in the United States, he toured west of the Alleghenies and made important botanical discoveries in Kentucky and Illinois. This collection dates from 1818 to 1977 and consists of copies of Rafinesque's professional letters, family material, and research by F. W. Pennell regarding...
Dates:
1818 - 1977
Samuel Washington Woodhouse, Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0387
Scope and Contents
Naturalist and surgeon, he accompanied the U. S. topographical engineers, under Sitgreaves and Woodruff, on the Boundary Survey of the Creek and Cherokee Indian Nations, 1849-50, and again under Sitgreaves, on the Zuni
River Expedition in 1851-2. The next year, he was a member of the private enterprise Inter-ocean Canal, Railroad and Mining Company's Expedition to Nicaragua and Honduras. In 1859-60 while surgeon on Cope's Line of Packets running between Philadelphia and Liverpool, he made a...
Dates:
1849-89
Thomas Dolan IV Collections
Collection — Box: small accessions 5
Identifier: ANSP-2013-026
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Dolan's corresponding field notes and slides from ANSP "Elsie Fennimore" Oceanographic Expedition February 1950 - April 1950. It also contains three manuscripts from three separate research projects.
Dates:
1947-1951
Tony Marich Field Journals on Duck Hunting
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1015
Content Description
Collection of eight handwritten field journals compiled by Anthony Marich Jr. between 1989 and 2020 detailing his observations and activities related to hunting and banding waterfowl, primarily in Somerset County, PA. Some of these activities were done in conjunction with the PA Game Commission and Ducks Unlimited. The following is on the title page of each volume: "Diary of a Duck Hunter Anthony J. Marich Jr. 'Tony Marich.'" Some volumes, namely vol. 1, vol. 4, and vol. 5 contain lists of...
Dates:
1989-2020
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