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John Clarkson Jay Catalogue of Shells
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0374
Scope and Contents
Physician and conchologist, elected corresponding member of the Academy in 1835. A catalog of the author's cabinet of shells in the form of annotations interleaved in his "A catalogue of the shells arranged according to the Lamarckian system . . . contained in the collection of John C. Jay . . ." 4th ed. New York, R. Craighead, 1850
Dates:
1850
John Gould Anthony, Conchological annotations
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0460
Scope and Contents
Signature, with place [Cincinnati] and some annotations written in Say's Descriptions of some new terrestrial and fluviatile shells of North America, 1829, 1830, 1831, edited by Lucy Say, 1840.
Dates:
1840
Philip Pearsall Carpenter, Chiton manuscript, Book 2
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0409
Scope and Contents
This unpublished writing occupies 163 pages, the small-sized leaves on
which it is written being pasted in a scrapbook. It is sparsely illustrated
with pencil text figures. It presumably describes a collection given to the
Smithsonian Institution. At the Smithsonian are various proofs of pages entitled,
"Contributions toward a Monograph of the Chitonidae". We have 27
pages which were given to H. A. Pilsbry by W. H. Dall. Carpenter in early
life was an English minister, educator,...
Dates:
[1875]