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Accessions to the Herbarium of the University of Pennsylvania

 Collection — Box: small accessions 1
Identifier: ANSP-2010-036

A.H. Clark Mayfly Data

 Collection — Box: small accessions 5
Identifier: ANSP-2012-094
Scope and Contents

This collection contains lab research notes from A.H. Clark, dating 1977-2005, that were being stored in the LMSE.

Dates: 1977-2005

Alfred E. Schuyler Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-2011-008
Dates: 1960s- ongoing

ANSP museum specimen collection donation records

 Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0195
Scope and Contents

The early daily records in book form, as 'Curator's books," the weekly sheets, 'Additions to the Museum," and the Wurtz' card file "Donations to the Museum" are preserved in this collection.

Dates: 1847-1930

Mildred Appel drawings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0659
Scope and Contents

Pen-and-ink drawings of plants in family Scrophulariaceae, from West Indies, Central and South America. Unsigned but ascribed to Appel on basis of known work and employment by Academy.

Transferred to Academy Archives by A.E. Schuyler of the Botany Department on Dec. 12, 1962.

Dates: undated

Botany Department Records

 Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2010-282
Scope and Contents This is a collection of records related to the Academy's Botany department. Materials include general files and departmental correspondence dating from the 1970s and 1980s from the offices of James Mears, Alfred E. Schuyler, Joan Apfelbaum, Helen Greenwood, and others. The collection includes earlier correspondence of Alexander MacElwee, Walter Benner, C.D. Fretz, and others, related to the acquisition and identification of specimens (1877-1920). Notebooks and catalogs of the Botany...
Dates: 1877-1997

Charles Alexander Lesueur Copper and Zinc plates, 1817-1824

 Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0938
Overview Charles Alexandre Lesueur, 1778-1846, artist and naturalist, participated in Napoleon's expedition to Australia (1800-1804), and joined William Maclure in his geologic survey of Europe, the West Indies and the Eastern United States (1815-1817). Upon returning to Philadelphia, Lesueur and Maclure wrote out the results of their travels, publishing many scientific papers in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with Lesueur also publishing findings from his Australian...
Dates: 1817-1824

Charles Eastwick Smith letterbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0131
Overview Charles Eastwick Smith (1820-1900) was an engineer and inventor involved in railroad, ironworks and steel. His interest in botany led him to membership at the Academy of Natural Sciences where he held several positions from 1851 until his death. Over the years Smith compiled an herbarium of specimens found within 15 miles of Philadelphia, which he bequeathed to the Academy. The Charles Eastwick Smith letterbooks collection consists of 10 bound letterbooks The letters in these books are...
Dates: 1867-1899

Charles Eastwick Smith letters from botanists

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0132
Overview Charles Eastwick Smith (1820-1900) was an engineer and inventor involved in railroad, ironworks and steel. His interest in botany led him to membership at the Academy of Natural Sciences where he held several positions from 1851 until his death. Over the years Smith compiled an herbarium of specimens found within 15 miles of Philadelphia, which he bequeathed to the Academy. The collection contains letters from botanists, a number of booksellers, and other correspondents. In addition to the...
Dates: n.d., 1862-1899

Charles L. Lochman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0791
Scope and Contents

Lochman. a doctor in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, created this album of 220 cyanotypes of live plants, indigenous and introduced, growing without protection in the United States. Album has a manuscript title-page, Preface, index and captions.

Given to the Academy by Lochman on Dec. 21, 1896.

Collection contains materials related to botany, photography, printing, advertising, and patent law.

Dates: 1851-1899

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