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Henry E. Crampton Papers on the Genus Partula
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0755
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, field notes, maps, charts, and original data, all unprocessed save for oversize drawings.Includes much original data and manuscripts relating to land snails of Tahiti. Original records for collections and research on South Pacific land snails, many of them now extinct, including field notes. Biographical and personal information included. Much of the original data are morphometric measurments and statistical analyses.Original box 12 of 12 contained...
Dates:
1879, 1892-1893, 1904-1955, undated; Majority of material found within 1904 - 1955
Joseph Leidy Illustrations
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0003
Overview
Most popularly known as the Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology, Joseph Leidy was also the Founder of American Parasitology, a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, a pioneering protozoologist, an influential teacher of Natural History, a passionate microscopist, an accomplished scientific illustrator, and an expert on a variety of subjects. He published scientific papers on more than a thousand extinct and living protozoa, fungi and animals as well as an assortment...
Dates:
1833 - 1880
Virginia Orr Maes papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0979
Scope and Contents
The Virginia Orr Maes papers houses the records of Virginia Orr Maes. This collection, which dates from 1950 to 1987, consists of notes, writings, negatives, illustrations, subject files, correspondence, ephemera, biographies, and photographs, and evinces the research of Virginia Orr Maes while she was associated with the Academy until her death in 1986.This collection is arranged into three series: “Series I. Research, 1950-1983,” “Series II. Correspondence, 1956-1986,” and...
Dates:
1950 - 1987
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
Henry Augustus Pilsbry papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0200
Scope and Contents
The Henry Augustus Pilsbry papers houses the papers of Henry Augustus Pilsbry. This collection, which dates from 1878 to 1986, with bulk dates from 1878 to 1957, consists of correspondence, notes, index cards, manuscript and typescript drafts, proofs, illustrated and photographic publication plates, photographs, negatives, glass plate negatives, ephemera, and wooden printing blocks.This collection is arranged into six series: “I. Correspondence, 1882-1977,“ “II. Writings,...
Dates:
1878 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1878 - 1957
Sam Fuller papers
Collection — Container: Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0987
Scope and Contents
The Sam Fuller papers hold Fuller’s field notes, subject files, and writings from his time at the Academy. These records date from 1970 to 1979, and are arranged alphabetically. This collection would be useful for researchers interested in the provenance of specimens collected by Fuller, or his work on the Upper Mississippi River. For his collaborative work with George Davis, there may be materials of interest in ANSP.Coll.804 Malacology Department records, Series IV.
Dates:
1970 - 1979
Samuel Powel, Photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0370
Scope and Contents
Primarily a business man with one home in Newport, Rhode Island, another in Philadelphia, Samuel Powel was once a member of the Board of Trustees at the University of Pennsylvania and a great friend of Joseph Leidy. As an amateur naturalist he was interested in optics and the invention of a machine for showing microscopic slides directly on a screen. He was elected to the Academy in 1847 and for a short period was its corresponding
secretary. The photographs in this collection include 67...
Dates:
1849-65
Samuel Stehman Haldeman Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0073
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 704 letters addressed to Haldeman, Constantine Rafinesque and Thomas Say, with a letterbook of 22 letters written by Haldeman. In subject, the letters refer to paleontology, conchology, entomology, ichthyology, to Indian relics and to spelling reform. A letter from Leidy is illustrated and several of those written by Haldeman bear pencil sketches. In his letterbook is information about a proposed U. S. Naval Expedition to South America with J.
G. Strain, and...
Dates:
1830-1880
Yoichiro Hirase collection
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0411
Scope and Contents
Typescript biography of eminent Japanese conchologist, Yoichiro Hirase, b. 1858 (9 pages). Illustrated with 4 mounted photographs of Hirase at work in his study and of his collections.
No information on provenance, but probably from the papers of H.A. Pilsbry
Dates:
c. 1910-1914
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