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ANSP Physics and Chemistry Section Papers

 Collection — Box: Small Collections 12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0573
Scope and Contents

A petition signed by eleven members of the Academy was presented, requesting permission to set np a physics and chemistry section. This request was granted by the Council, Feb. 13, 1877. One meeting was held on March 2nd and a memo sent to the Academy signed by H. C. Lewis as temporary recorder, announcing the second Thrusday for monthly meetings. There is no evidence that any other meeting was held, nor that the group was formally organized.

Archived.

Dates: 1877

Henry Skinner Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0920
Scope and Contents

Trained as a medical man, Skinner devoted much of his later life to entomology, his research interests being in Lepidoptera. He edited Entomological News from 1890-1910. This collection contains correspondence, a bibliography of his writings, a notebook on Lepidoptera, scientific articles and annotations. The latter appear in his Catalogue of North American Rhopalocera, and in Dyar's Catalogue of North American Lepidoptera.

Archived from the Department of Insects, 1960.

Dates: 1879-1925

Joseph Leidy Correspondence

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0001
Overview Joseph Mellick Leidy (1823-1891), one of the great American scientists of the 19th century, possessed a vast knowledge of the natural world. Best known as the Father of American vertebrate paleontology, he also pioneered the fields of parasitology and protozoology, and was the preeminent anatomist of his time. He was also an influential teacher of natural history and an expert in areas as diverse as entomology, geology and pathology. The Joseph Leidy Correspondence collection contains...
Dates: 1845-1913, undated

Philadelphia Botanical Society Activities

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0937
Scope and Contents

This collection contains scrapbooks relating to field trips, photographs, reports, accounts of expeditions, historical notes on the Society, programs, biographical information about members, and correspondence. See Coll. 88 for historical sketch of the Society.

Deposited by the Philadelphia Botanical Society, 1959.

Dates: 1850-1853

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Cresson, E. T. (Ezra Townsend), 1838-1926 2
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