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Alexander MacElwee Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0036
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of three diaries containing field notes taken on MacElwee's "botanical rambles" between 1893 and 1900; two records books listing plant specimens MacElwee collected between 1899 and 1920 and subsequently donated to the herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences; a catalog of plants in the botanic garden at the University of Pennsylvania, composed by MacElwee in collaboration with botany professor, John MacFarlane; writings on the woods of Brazil and other areas; lists of...
Dates:
1893-1899
J. Percy Moore papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0505
Overview
John Percy Moore (1869-1965) was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1912 to 1939, an Assistant Curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences from 1902 to 1938, and held several positions between 1920 and 1956 at the Ludwick Institute, which offered free lectures and courses in the natural sciences. He was also a world recognized authority on leeches. During his career, Moore named six genera, 229 species, five subspecies and four varieties of polychaetous annelids, or...
Dates:
1847 - 1963
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