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American Conchology copper plates
Collection — Box: 1-3
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0441
Scope and Contents
Approximately 70 copper plates used to produce the illustrations by Lucy Say for Thomas Say's American Conchology : or, Descriptions of the Shells of North America, 1830.
Dates:
circa 1830
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 Memberships, Signatures of those accepting membership
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0423
Scope and Contents
Introductory statement: "In becoming a member of the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia, I promise to conform myself to its constitution,
laws and regulations, and in testimony of this declaraction, I do hereunto
subscribe my name." The first page is signed by Wm. Maclure, Zaccheus
Collins, George Ord, Reuben Haines, Edward Barton, John Barnes, Thomas
Say, LeSueur, Isaiah Lukens, T. Peale, Jacob Peirce, J. Gilliams, and
Benjamin Say. The first 51 pages have no dates or code...
Dates:
1831-1924
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
Charles Willson Peale Painting of Thomas Say
Item — no container: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2011-046
Scope and Contents
When the Portrait was first processed its origin was unknown. However an email from ANS Curatorial Assistant of the Department of Entomology to the ANS Library and Archive Director gives some clue into the possible insight into its history. The following quote is from this email, "My thinking, all circumstantial at this juncture, is that:
1. Rembrant Peale had just died in 1860, and seems a timely gesture of remembrance of both R. Peale and Say to the Society. 2. AES moved to the Academy...
Dates:
1819
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:
B
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
Lewis David von Schweinitz "Miscellanea"
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0004
Overview
Lewis David von Schweinitz was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on February 13, 1780 to Hans Christian Alexander von Schweinitz and Dorthea Elizabeth de Watteville both from prominent German families involved in the development of the Moravian community. Schweinitz became a Moravian preacher working in Silesia, Saxony, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. In addition to preaching, Schweinitz pursued botany. He examined and described plants collected by Thomas Say, published articles,...
Dates:
1802-1833
Lucy Way Say, Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0433
Overview
The first woman to be elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Lucy Say was an accomplished nature artist and scientific collaborator with her famous husband Thomas Say. She made 66 of the 68 delicate and accurate drawings of North American mollusks for Thomas Say's American Conchology, at New Harmony, and did most of the painstaking coloring of the plates. This collection consists of 25 drawings (pencil and watercolor), seven hand colored plates of North American...
Dates:
1822-85
Patricia Tyson Stroud Papers
Collection — Box: 1-3
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1014
Content Description
Collection contains three groupings of material: newsletters, fliers, meeting minutes, correspondence and other records Stroud received as Chair of the Friends of the Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1986-1992; research files for the 2012 monograph, A Glorious Enterprise on the history of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, co-authored with Academy Curator of Art and Artifacts, Robert McCraken Peck, 2009-2011; and correspondence and related records regarding research...
Dates:
1983-2011
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