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C.S. Rafinesque Membership Certificate
Collection — Box: small accessions 5
Identifier: ANSP-2013-040
Dates:
1820
Glass Models of Marine Invertebrates by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2012-027-Artifact
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 48 glass models of various cephalopods, nudibranchs, sea slugs, and invertebrates crafted by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, along with their associated back boards and labels. The back boards are the original boards created for the models when acquired by the Academy, and the armatures and bases of the jellyfish models are confirmed to be the original pieces by Miranda Lowe of the Natural History Museum, London.
The models are in various states of disrepair and are...
Dates:
1879-1938
Henri Joseph Pierre Nyst Annotations
Collection — Box: Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0367
Scope and Contents
Annotated copy of his "Catalogue raisonnee des Animaux Mollusques" n.d. (originally in Academy Library's bound Geological Tracts, vol. 70 #4). Accompanied by the title-page to a paper by Nyst and a wrapper inscribed with a presentation to Mr. Conrad
No information on provenance
Dates:
n.d
Henry Muhlenberg Papers
Collection
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
Index polyglossus, avium et piscium, magis communium
Collection — Box: small accessions 4
Identifier: ANSP-2012-045
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one bound volume of a polyglot zoological dictionary from 1836: Latin, Russian, English, French, German in parallel columns.
Dates:
1836
John James Audubon Sciurus Mollipilosus (Soft-Haired Squirrel) Print
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2010-242
Scope and Contents
First edition print of plate XIX Sciurus mollipilosus soft-haired squirrel from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America by John James Audubon and John Bachman, New York: 1845-1848. Printed by John R. Bowen, Philadelphia.
Dates:
1845-1848
Lewis David von Schweinitz Botanical Synopses
Collection — Container: Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0130
Overview
Lewis David von Schweinitz was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on February 13, 1780 to Hans Christian Alexander von Schweinitz and Dorthea Elizabeth de Watteville both from prominent German families involved in the development of the Moravian community. Schweinitz became a Moravian preacher working in Silesia, Saxony, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. In addition to preaching, Schweinitz pursued botany. He examined and described plants collected by Thomas Say, published articles,...
Dates:
1817-1834
Lewis David von Schweinitz Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0438
Scope and Contents
Lewis David von Schweinitz Correspondence consists of letters written to von Schweinitz by American and European botanists.List of correspondents:
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Beck, John B. 1829; Beck, Lewis Caleb (10) 1829-33; Beitel, Christian, 1833; Bentham, George (3) 1828-31; Bischoff, Gerh. G. n. d.; Brace, John P. 1822; Braunsburg, M. V. von, 1833; Brongniart, Adolphe Theodore, 1829; Buniningk, Mr. von, 1809; Bute, George H. (4) 1829-30; C
Carey, William, 1829; Collins, Zaccheus (6)...
Dates:
1805-1833
Lewis David von Schweinitz Floras of various areas in Europe and America
Collection — Container: Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0557
Scope and Contents
In Schweinitz' time, the first responsibility of a botanist was to compile a flora of his geographic environment. As Schweinitz moved around a great deal in his work with the Moravian Church, unusual opportunities arose. A
scanning of his titles gives a summary of his travels around Europe and in America.There is mention in print that Lewis David von Schweinitz worked on a flora of Nazareth when he was in attendance at the Moravian school in that town in Pennsylvania. In his...
Dates:
1806-1833
Oil Painting of Edward Nolan, Librarian of the Academy of Natural Sciences by Charles Marquedent Burns
Item — no container: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2011-102
Dates:
circa 1900
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