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American Entomological Society Printing Blocks, Original Sketch, and Certificate Copy
Collection — drawer: 84
Identifier: ANSP-2010-077-Artifact
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two printing blocks from the American Entomological Society. The large printing block was made from a sketch of the same design. The large printing block is to create certificates for members of the society. A metal printing plate is attached to a wooden block for support. The printing plate reads: The American Entomological Society Philadelphia. There are twelve names that make up the border of the printing block. The names are: Cresson, Uhler, Fitch, Edwards,...
Dates:
Circa 19th Century
Charles Eastwick Smith letters from botanists
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0132
Overview
Charles Eastwick Smith (1820-1900) was an engineer and inventor involved in railroad, ironworks and steel. His interest in botany led him to membership at the Academy of Natural Sciences where he held several positions from 1851 until his death. Over the years Smith compiled an herbarium of specimens found within 15 miles of Philadelphia, which he bequeathed to the Academy. The collection contains letters from botanists, a number of booksellers, and other correspondents. In addition to the...
Dates:
n.d., 1862-1899
Eugene Murray Aaron Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0637
Scope and Contents
A local entomologist, Aaron wrote up a Record of captures, 'pinnumbers" and field notes of his collection, 1882-89, covering the nearby New Jersey and Philadelphia locale. Isaac C. Martindale obtained specimens from Aaron, borrowed the "Record" and made the present transcript for his own use. Aaron was an early editor of Entomological News and much of the included correspondence pertains to matters of editorial interest. In later life this Aaron changed his name to the hyphenated form...
Dates:
1882-1901
Ezra Townsend Cresson Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0916
Scope and Contents
Synoptic 'Tables of the Cicindelidae," 1901 ?, in the handwritings of E. T. Cresson, George M. Green and others. Also a 'Classification of the Coleoptera of North America," n. d. There is a certificate of honorary membership and one of thanks from the American Entomological Society.
Archived from American Entomological Society in 1951.
Dates:
1870-1925
George Henry Horn Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0948
Scope and Contents
George H. Horn, practicing physician, army surgeon and distinguished Coleopterist was closely associated with both the Academy and the Entomological Society. He became president of the latter and made important bequests
to it of study collections and funds.
This collection contains a biography of Horn, biographical notes, a copy of part of his will, a 144-page paper on Coleoptera, correspondence, and 12 certificates of memberships and honors in various societies.
Dates:
1881-1898
Gustaf Wilhelm Belfrage Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0908
Scope and Contents
Belfrage, a Swede by birth came to America, living first on the East Coast, stopping for a year or so in Chicago and eventually arriving in Texas in 1867, He published little himself but was a famous collector of insects and at one time advertised an exchange collection of 25,000 specimens. Many of these were sent home to Sweden but the estate of Belfrage sold the collection in Texas after his death and it was purchased by the U. So National Museum.
Because of his exchange of material and...
Dates:
1867-1916
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
Homer Franklin Bassett Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0923
Scope and Contents
Entomologist, municipal and church official, but professionally the librarian of the Silas Bronson public library of Waterbury, Conn. These papers consist of letterbooks with drafts of entomological articles and letters. The subject matter includes family and personal, church and municipal affairs, some library correspondence, but mostly the scientific aspects of his study of cynipid insects and galls. His personal cabinet was donated to the American Entomological Society, when he was still...
Dates:
1864-1901
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
Lawrence Bruner orthoptera tract
Collection — Box: Small Collections 11
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0539
Scope and Contents
Bruner's name is connected with Nebraska in the field of entomology, for in that state he took his education and later became its state entomologist. His special interest lay in the field of economic entomology and his studies of grasshoppers of the region are important. He did much collecting in western United States and Mexico. The one letter of this early date was written from West Point, Nebraska and addressed to Ezra T. Cresson, Sr., beign concerned with his knowledge of the early...
Dates:
1886
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