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Helen E. Lawson, Illustrations, 1842-1857
Collection — Box: Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0912
Overview
Helen Elizabeth Lawson, the second daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth De Scaife Lawson, was born in Philadelphia sometime in or about the year 1808. An accomplished scientific illustrator, her contemporaries described her work to be "so perfect as certainly leave nothing to be desired", and H.A. Pilsbry stated that he considered her illustrations for Amos Binney's The Terrestrial Air-breathing Mollusks of the United States, to be the finest shell illustrations ever made. This collection...
Dates:
1842-1857
William Dell Hartman, Writings
Collection — Box: Small Collections 8
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0362
Scope and Contents
Physician, botanist, conchologist, entomologist and mineralogist, Hartman was curator of the Chester County, Pa. Cabinet of Natural Sciences, in 1842. Several of his publications on shells were issued by the Academy during the time he was a correspondent. The papers consist of (a) 'A Bibliographic and Synonymic Catalogue of the genus Helecina Lam." and (b) Annotations about mollusks of Chester County.
Dates:
1890