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ANSP Agreements Documents and Papers Pertaining to Legal Matters
Collection — Box: Small Collections 12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0575
Scope and Contents
This collection contains leases, contracts and disclaimers. They are concerned with building operations.
Assembled from various archival nooks in the Academy in 1960.
Dates:
1815-1875
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 Recording Secretary Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0579
Scope and Contents
The documents included here were usually transcribed into the minutes after they were accepted by the members, altho not always fully recorded. Reports are as follows: 1824 Keating); 1829 (Morton); 1836 (Carson); 1938 (Stewardson); 1840-41 (Chaloner); 1842-44 (Zantzinger); 1846-47 (Lambert ); 1848-49 (Leidy); 1850 (Powel); 1851-55, 1864 (Rand); 1866 (Wood); 1923-30 (Rehn). The rough minutes of the secretary are scattered entries from 1850-70, written by Powel, Rand, Moss and Howell.
Dates:
1824-1930
"Fossil Remains" pg. 1-8
Collection — Box: small accessions 4
Identifier: ANSP-2012-047
Dates:
1839-1965
J. Percy Moore papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0505
Overview
John Percy Moore (1869-1965) was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1912 to 1939, an Assistant Curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences from 1902 to 1938, and held several positions between 1920 and 1956 at the Ludwick Institute, which offered free lectures and courses in the natural sciences. He was also a world recognized authority on leeches. During his career, Moore named six genera, 229 species, five subspecies and four varieties of polychaetous annelids, or...
Dates:
1847 - 1963
James Aitkin Meigs, Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0389
Scope and Contents
Physician, physiologist, ethnologist and teacher, Meigs was associated with the Jefferson Medical School, the University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of Natural Sciences. His interest in craniography resulted in his
compilation of a 'Catalogue of Human Crania, in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1857." He became a member of the Academy in 1852, was elected to the Standing Committee on Ethnology in 1854, becoming its chairman three years later, which...
Dates:
1852-77
James Coggswell Fisher Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 11
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0489
Scope and Contents
Naturalist, philosopher and student of the Bible, J.C. Fisher wrote on a variety of subjects. Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, he turned in two reports of the Committee on the desirability of publishing papers in the "Journal," which had been communicated at the meetings, both in 1851. One was by Dr. Berlandier, the other by Dr. Woodhouse. A verbal communication ont he real meaning of Genesis was later published with the notion, "The substance of the following paper was...
Dates:
1850-1854
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
Lewis David von Schweinitz Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0438
Scope and Contents
Lewis David von Schweinitz Correspondence consists of letters written to von Schweinitz by American and European botanists.List of correspondents:
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Beck, John B. 1829; Beck, Lewis Caleb (10) 1829-33; Beitel, Christian, 1833; Bentham, George (3) 1828-31; Bischoff, Gerh. G. n. d.; Brace, John P. 1822; Braunsburg, M. V. von, 1833; Brongniart, Adolphe Theodore, 1829; Buniningk, Mr. von, 1809; Bute, George H. (4) 1829-30; C
Carey, William, 1829; Collins, Zaccheus (6)...
Dates:
1805-1833
Paul Weber Painting of Samuel George Morton
Item — no container: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2011-058
Dates:
Circa 1850
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