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ANSP Botanical Section Scrapbooks
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0507
Scope and Contents
Papers, letters, documents and memoranda of historical interest. Botanical Section, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Book started January 22, 1901, by John W. Harshberger, Ph.D., Recorder. More than half of the items consist of program or meeting announcements of the many local botanical groups.
Gift of the Section.
Dates:
1885-1902
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
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
Thomas Meehan Botanical Section Plans
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0576
Scope and Contents
After being appointed Vice-director of the section, a long letter dated July 1, 1876 was prepared by Meehan and directed to John Redfield, the Conservator, with recommendations for the Section's administration. A signed
note by John Redfield at the end gives his agreement and comments. Filed with Coll. 82.
Gift of the Academy's Botanical Section.
Dates:
1876
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