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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
ANSP Petitions and Resolutions Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 13
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0602
Scope and Contents
These petitions and resolutions are close pieces, possibly written by the person proposing the action, as a note for the secretary when copying his minutes. Most of them are transcribed into the Minutes of the Academy but
oftentimes changed in wording or intent. The petitions number only four and were made mostly to the legislature of Pennsylvania, or to some branch of the Federal Government, their inclusive dates being 1837-1876. The resolutions have been arranged in two groups, first those...
Dates:
1826-1895
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
Euguen Abraham Rau Correspondence
Collection — Box: Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0906
Scope and Contents
A pharmacist and botanist of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Rau became an authority on mosses and fungi, assembling large collections which mostly went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Elected a correspondent of this Academy in 1883, he bequeathed a collection of books to it (mostly from L. D. von Schweinitz library) and an herbarium of flowering plants. He published jointly with A. B. Hervey, a Catalogue of North American Musci, 1880. Formerly in the keeping of...
Dates:
1876-1887
John A. Guex Papers Including Catalogs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0927
Scope and Contents
Amateur naturalist and collector of Coleoptera, he passed the latter part of his life in New York City. He was a member of the Academy, and a note in the Minutes announces his death and speaks with enthusiasm of Guex' interest in entomology. At that time his donations to the Entomological Collections were mentioned and over a period of years he had added materially to them. In 1854 he gave 1500 Lepidoptera and later in the same year 17,000 Coleoptera; in 1855 another 1500 specimens from...
Dates:
1846-1857
John Lawrence LeConte Correspondence
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0913
Scope and Contents
These letters written to John Lawrence LeConte by 101 authors are for the most part taken from the files of the American Entomological Society, but include also 18 written by T. W. Harris to John LeConte. The collection was archived from the Entomological Department and here preserved under LeConte's name.
Dates:
1849-1883
John Lawrence LeConte, Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0382
Scope and Contents
Trained as a physician, LeConte made his name in the world thru his collecting
and studying of Coleoptera. He has been referred to as the greatest
Coleopterist of the country and one of the finest systematists. Not only did
he make many collecting expeditions in this country but went to Central
America, to Europe, Egypt and Algeria. He was enlisted in the army medical
corps during the Civil War and later returned to Philadelphia as Assistant
Inspector of the Mint in that city. His extensive...
Dates:
1843-83
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
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