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Edgar B. Howard Clovis, N. M. Field trips, Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0331
Scope and Contents
Between 1932 and 1935 Howard made summer expeditions to the gravel pit near Clovis, excavating for evidences of early man in America. These trips were sponsored by the University Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences both of Philadelphia, the Carnegie Institution and California Institute of Technology. Names appearing in our records of the trips are John C. Merriam, Chester Stock, F. D. Bode, R. W. Wilson, Childs Antevs and D.
Curry, with Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, Lady Woodward and V....
Dates:
1932-1935
Film "Exploring the Top of the World: The Second Brooke Dolan Asiatic Expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [1934-1936]"
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2012-080
Dates:
1934-1936; Digitized: 2013
Ichthyology Department Records
Collection
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
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
James Abram Garfield Rehn Field Journals
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0739
Overview
James Abram Garfield Rehn (1881-1965) was the Curator of Insects at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from 1933 to 1965. He specialized in the study of Orthoptera and was the author of approximately three hundred forty papers on that group between 1905 and 1965. Rehn’s field research includes over thirty seasons of collecting in various locations throughout the United States, Central America and Africa.This collection contains twenty-eight volumes of Rehn's field...
Dates:
1889-1963
John Kirk Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0404
Scope and Contents
Ornithologist and explorer. The papers in this collection all refer to his experiences when accompanying Captain Wyeth across the Rocky Mountains. Captain Wyeth undertook the journey for the Columbia River Fishing and
Trading Company to establish trading posts beyond the Rockies. Townsend's trip, in the company of Thomas Nuttall was extended to the Sandwich Islands. He returned to the Columbia River, collecting birds there, returning to the
Islands, and eventually back to Philadelphia by way...
Dates:
1834-1839
Peary Greenland Expeditions papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0145
Scope and Contents
The collection includes letters, reports, both administrative and scientific, lists of specimens taken and observed, photographs of the staff, equipment and area traversed. Original outline map of expedition routes drawn by R. E. Peary. Much information about the part played by the Academy of Natural Sciences, is preserved in its Publicity Scrapbooks. Peary flag, previously on display in the Museum, has been added to this collection.
Dates:
1891-1894
President's Office and Administrative Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0990
Overview
The oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP) was founded in 1812 "for the encouragement and cultivation of the sciences, and the advancement of useful learning." Since the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, there have been twenty-eight presidents and five acting presidents. From 1937 to 1995, there were four presidents and one acting president who left their administrations well...
Dates:
1907-2003; Majority of material found within 1939-1993
Records of Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Managing Directors
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1010
Scope and Contents
Natural Science, history, geology, religion, anthropology, government reports, maps, advertising ephemera, letterhead art,
This is a collection of incoming and outgoing correspondence of Charles M.B. Cadwalader, dating from 1933 to 1939. Much of the correspondence relates to the acquisition of specimens, donations, estates and annuities, publications, and other Academy business. There is also a significant amount of correspondence with scientists on Academy expeditions,...
Dates:
1929-1959
Virginia Orr's Ostheimer Expedition Trunk
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2013-006
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an Academy expedition trunk used by Virginia Orr Ostheimer in a 1967 expedition.
Dates:
1967
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