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Annie Graff 19th Century Feather Scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2009-015
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook is comprised of 90 pages each decorated with bird feathers arranged artisticly, and pasted to the paper. Most species represented are local and common or domesticated, with some exceptions including the macaws from Brazil, and the prairie hens. The title page features the creator's name in feathers.
Dates:
Before 1896
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 Publication Committee papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0292
Scope and Contents
The ANSP Publication Committee Papers consists of reports, minutes, stock books, subscribers lists, correspondents, and financial documents related to the functions of the Academy's Publication Committee. The papers record approval of articles for Academy publications, costs of the publications, and distribution of publications.Most of the documents not bound into books have a number written in pencil in an upper corner. The papers are not in numerical order according to those...
Dates:
1822-1960
ANSP Special Committee Reports
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0443
Scope and Contents
The ANSP Special Committee Reports collection is a supplementary indexed volume to the minutes for the years covered, with various documents and letters inserted. The materails were compiled for the most part by the secretary, Edward J. Nolan. Many subjects which were handled by committees for the general membership of the Academy are condensed in the minutes and records kept of the dates and personnel of the committees. A large folder of 42 items, of the committee on lower rates of...
Dates:
1875-1911
Charles Lennig Chrome Ore Land Donation Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0549
Scope and Contents
Philadelphia businessman and president of the Tacomy Chemical Works, he joined the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1847. In 1867, when the trustees of the building fund were making a concerted effort to get money for the
new building, Charles Lennig donated to the Academy some chrome ore lands in Chester County. These were sold, but a royalty clause retained some income for the Academy besides the principle gift. These papers have one letter
from Lennig advising the sale of the property to...
Dates:
1867-1868
Charles Willson Peale Painting of Gerard Troost
Item — no container: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2011-042
Dates:
1824
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
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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