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Academy of Natural Sciences stamp collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0994
Scope and Contents
The Academy of Natural Sciences stamp collection is a collection of natural science themed stamps from various sources. These materials were initially added to other preexisting stamp collections, most likely in an attempt to create one comprehensive collection of the subject. This amalgam did not benefit those other stamp collections, and in fact obscured the context of their original collectors' efforts, so those collections have been separated. The materials which remain are found in this...
Dates:
1987, 2000s, undated
ANSP Expeditions - Cutucu, Ecuador - Papers and Photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0801
Scope and Contents
An ornithological expedition to Ecuador led by Ornithology Curator Frank Gill and staffed by Robert Ridgely, Mark Robbins, George S. Glenn and Robert M. Peck. The collection includes photographs by R.M. Peck, newspaper clippings, a published report and other information on the expedition.
Transferred to Academy archives by Robert M. Peck on October 10, 1984
Dates:
1984
ANSP Expeditions - Lake Tilicho, Nepal, Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 15
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0800
Scope and Contents
the Lake Tilicho Expedition was undertaken by the Academy in cooperation with the Alpine Zone Research Project of the Explorers Club. Academy participants were Robert M. Peck, Clyde Goulden and Richard Horwitz, The collection consists of 19 photoprints, black-and-white 8x10, taken by R.M. Peck.
Transferred t o the Academy archives by R.M. Peck in 1988.
Dates:
1983
London Illustrated News issue featuring Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins dinosaurs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2012-061
Dates:
1880s
Travel Journals of Minturn Wright III, 1974-1997
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2009-018
Scope and Contents
Photocopied typescript of Academy's former trustee Minturn Wright III's travelogues. The ANSP offered high-end educational travel "expeditions" in the 1980s and 1990s, and Mr. Wright participated in at least the nine excursions represented here, across South and Central America, Eastern Canada, Mongolia, and the Antarctic between 1974 and 1997. The Academy's Senior Fellow Robert M. Peck travelled with Wright on the excursion to Mongolia in 1997, and Antarctica, 1994. It is through Peck that...
Dates:
1974-1997
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