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ANSP Reception Committees Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0585
Scope and Contents
Collection of material containing records of various reception committees, especially those dealing with a founder's day anniversary dinner in 1854, and the reception and dinner for the Peary Exploring Party in 1892. There are lists of subscribers, bills, receipts, 'letters and miscellaneous data.
Signers of letters, all dated 1854:
Dates:
1854-1901
Peter A. Browne "Catalogue of plants, woods, seeds, etc., Collected in the West India Islands and presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences" . . . 1842 and plant descriptions
Collection — Box: Small Collections 7
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0319
Scope and Contents
Three botanical papers, namely (1) "Catalogue of plants, woods, seeds, etc., Collected in the West India Islands and presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences" . . . 1842 (2) "Description of a monstrous rose," collected by Prof. Walter R. Johnson, and preserved and described by P. A. Browne, 1842 (3) "A description of the Carica papaya, or papaw . . ." 1843.
Dates:
1842-1943
Peter Arrell Browne Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0756
Dates:
Before 1860
Robert Bridges Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0905
Scope and Contents
Robert Bridges, president of the Academy in 1864 and 1865, was a botanist. He was chairman of the Botanical Committee for 21 years and worked extensively with the Academy's plant collections, for which he prepared indexes. This collection contains three reports which he prepared indexes. This collection contains three reports of committees on papers submitted for publication. One of 24 pages, a paper dealing with meteors, by Jacob
Ennis, defends the committee's decision not to publish. The...
Dates:
1842-1869
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