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Glass-topped insect storage box. This particular drawer was likely ordered and paid for by Morgan Hebard. These models were the standard from 1904 through 2012.

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Wooden Schmitt insect storage box with latch closure. The dimensions of this box were doubled to create the Hebard box.

Scope and Contents Researchers will find handwritten field notes from Rehn, Hodge, Hebbard, and Roberts, dating from 1904-1957. Notes include localities and specimen lists from expeditions throughout the United States and Mexico, as well as Jamaica and Africa. Several notebooks from J.A.G. Rehn pertain to the 1934 Academy expedition to Africa with George Vanderbilt, and contain lists of wet specimens (not exclusively insects) collected. Some papers have been typed, possibly by Morgan Hebbard. This...

Scope and Contents Records of butterfly collecting in two volumes, each of 300 pages. Volume 1 is labelled: The Butterfly Book Number One - Map of East Thomasville, Georgia; a list of the butterflies found North of the Rio Grande; the tabulation of the Subfamily Lycaeminae; the diary from October 6th 1898 to April 9, 1899 and from February 1st 1898 to April 9th 1898; short description of one hundred of the butterflies I have caught and sketches of the transformations of the Milkweed Butterfly. 1898-1899....

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Checklists and notebooks on Orthoptera, 1932-1937.

Archived from papers of J.A.G. Rehn, Curator of Entomology, Jan. 20, 1965.

Scope and Contents Philadelphia orthopterist, field worker and collector, Hebard spent his active life in close association with the Dept. of Insects of the Academy. Here he was a devoted curator and benefactor, leaving his extensive collection to the department. His collecting, often with J. A. G. Rehn covered a great deal of the New World and Europe, while his exchanges and purchases throughout the world increased the numbers of the Orthoptera collection tremendously. His financial backing resulted in...

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The Morgan Hebard Manuscripts and bills collection consists of a collection of bills related to entomological studies and various manuscripts, notes and work files of Morgan Hebard. Of particular note is the manuscript of the firs paper written by Hebard and submitted to the American Entomological Society, which and discusses a new genus, Cyrtophyllicus.