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ANSP Corresponding Member Autobiographies

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0239
Scope and Contents Collection of handwritten and typescript autobiographical sketches on approximately 182 corresponding Academy members active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The biographies were acquired at the request of the Academy's corresponding secretary, John Percy Moore.List of corresponding member names incldued in the collection: Adams, Frank Dawson; Andrews, Charles William; Arthur, J. C.; Baltzer, A,; Bedel, L.; Boettger, Oskar; Bouvier, Louis Eugene; Boveri, Theodor;...
Dates: 1902-1929

Edward Drinker Cope Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0328
Abstract Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897) was one of the most distinguished American scientists of the 19th century. The bulk of his work was in the fields of paleontology, zoology, geology and anatomy. During his lifetime, he discovered and described over 600 new species and contributed over 1300 papers to scientific literature. The collection contains certificates and honors, medals, manuscripts of scientific papers, drawings, scientific photographs, biographical material, news clippings, account...
Dates: 1859-1907

Edward James Nolan Documents and Correspondence on the History of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

 Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0464
Abstract

Edward James Nolan (1846-1921) served as the librarian at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia from 1869 until his death. During his tenure as librarian, he performed research on and wrote the history of the Academy which was completed in 1909. This collection contains material collected by Nolan for his history, including transcriptions of early minutes, deeds, biographies, news clipppings, letters and reminiscences of colleagues.

Dates: 1846-1915

Francis Whittier Pennell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0118
Scope and Contents The Francis Whittier Pennell papers includes itineraries, field notebooks, manuscripts and research, and correspondence spanning Pennell’s 40 years in botany. It is divided into five series: field work, Scrophulariaceae work, scientific writing, biographies of botanists, and correspondence. Series I. Field Work, contains three subseries. A. Itineraries, which contains itineraries for Pennell’s collecting expeditions to Colombia, Peru, and Chile as well as expeditions to the...
Dates: 1874-1982; Majority of material found within 1908-1952

Crawford H. Greenewalt papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0997
Overview Crawford Hallock Greenewalt (1902-1993) was a chemical engineer and the President of the DuPont Company from 1948 to 1962. He had a passion for the natural sciences, and combined his love of ornithology with photography. He was especially known for his high speed photographs of hummingbirds. His ornithological interests included bird songs, the radiance of hummingbird feathers and the evolution of shapes and sizes of birds in relation to their flight abilities. The Crawford H. Greenewalt...
Dates: 1951 - 1993

Henry Muhlenberg Papers

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Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0419
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of the manuscript volumes Observationes Botanicae de Plantis Americae Septentrionalis and Fungi Lancastriensis. Observationes Botanicae de Plantis Americae Septentrionalis previously cataloged in the library, QK110 M95, describes North American plants including documentation for herbarium specimens, Muhlenberg's notes about specimens collected at Philadelphia gardens and on plants cultivated from Meriwether Lewis’s seed collections. The collection also...
Dates: 1802-circa 1952

Constantine Hering and Calvin B. Knerr family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HU-100
Overview Dr. Constantine Hering (1800-1880), born and educated in Germany, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1833 and devoted his life to the study, practice and education of homeopathic medicine in the United States. As such, he is considered the father of homeopathy in America. Hering founded several schools and organizations devoted to teaching homeopathy, especially the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Arts, aka the Allentown Academy, in 1836, and the Hahnemann Medical College of...
Dates: 1820 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1820 - 1940

Hollis Godfrey administration records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-002
Overview Hollis Godfrey (1987-1936) served as president of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry from 1913 to 1921. He was educated as an engineer at Tufts, Harvard, and MIT, where he also taught. While living in Boston he was an administrator at the School of Practical Arts in Boston. He came to Drexel in 1913 and was the President until 1921. This collection contains correspondence, speeches, and research done on Godfrey in 1959. There is also a functionalization chart on the...
Dates: 1913-1961; Majority of material found within 1914 - 1922

Hollis Godfrey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-00-011
Overview Hollis Godfrey (1874-1936) served as president of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry from 1913 to 1921. He was educated as an engineer at Tufts, Harvard, and MIT, and he later taught at MIT and served as an administrator at the School of Practical Arts in Boston. The collection contains correspondence, including a series of letters between Godfrey and the poet Vachel Lindsay; Dr. Godfrey's publications, manuscripts, and speeches; administrative records from the Engineering...
Dates: 1915-1936

Ichthyology Department Records

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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

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