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Accessions to the Herbarium of the University of Pennsylvania
Collection — Box: small accessions 1
Identifier: ANSP-2010-036
Dates:
1940s-1970
ANSP Library, Catalogs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0376
Scope and Contents
The first catalog was published in the 1st series of the Journal, v. 4, 1817-1824, The next was made by Isaac Hays, 1824-1834, followed by one published with the Act of Incorporation and By-Laws, 1836. Additions through 1850 are interleaved in a special library copy of the 1837 catalog. From 1850-1915, the catalogs were made by librarians J. D. Sergeant and Edw. J. Nolan. In 1915, when they were copied on the typewriter, they were then called shelf lists, duplicating the card catalog in a...
Dates:
1824-1943
Diatom Herbarium Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-2010-247
Scope and Contents
This collection relates to the Academy's original Diatom Herbarium database created by consultant Hayden Rochester, and includes printouts of the keys to the codes, abbreviations, geographic headings, collection name headings, and other "database dictionaries" used in the database; printouts of duplicate records and other data irregularities; a copy of a proposal for renewal of the grant to fund the project; and tape backups of the database and SEM images relating to NSF-funded research of...
Dates:
1987-1996
Geology and Paleontology Department Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0235
Overview
Although from its inception the Academy of Natural Sciences played a significant role in the field of geological paleontological research, this role was not organized within a specific department until 1936, when the Department of Geology and Paleontology was reactivated through the efforts of Edgar Howard. The Geology and Paleontology Department records document the history and activities of this department throughout the mid-20th century. This collection, which dates from 1838 to 1992,...
Dates:
circa 1978, circa 1980, 1992, 1994
George Engelmann, Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0413
Scope and Contents
A German physician and botanist, Engelmann came to America as agent
for his relatives who had purchased land in the Mississippi Valley. Shortly
after arriving he started a medical practice in St. Louis, 1835. Botany was
his avocation, as seen in his monographic studies of various special groups,
which he collected during his frequent trips throughout America. Preserved
here are two writings of Engelmann: (a) 'Catalog of species and synonyms
of the genus Aster in Torrey and Gray's Flora, vol....
Dates:
1843
Gerard Troost, Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0372
Scope and Contents
A native of Holland, Troost was educated in the universities of Leyden and Amsterdam and studied mineralogy with the Abbe Hauy of Paris. After coming to Philadelphia he was a founder and first president of the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Later he moved to New Harmony, Indiana, with Maclure, Say and Lesueur, then became professor at the University of Nashville and subsequently the State Geologist of Tennessee. This collection consists of a letter, a daguerreotype of Troost,...
Dates:
1810-1847
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
Johann Gundlach, Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0439
Scope and Contents
German zoologist and collaborator of F. Poey in the natural history of
Cuba and Puerto Rico. Established his personal cabinet of types in 1846;
cooperated fully with other scientists by giving them his notes and descriptions
of new species. After 1888 he moved his specimens to the Havana
Museum, where he became the curator of their general collection. Shortly
before his death, the Museum bought his specimens. His papers consist of
lists and catalogues of Cuban Coleoptera and Hymenoptera...
Dates:
1865-1914
John Clarkson Jay Catalogue of Shells
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0374
Scope and Contents
Physician and conchologist, elected corresponding member of the Academy in 1835. A catalog of the author's cabinet of shells in the form of annotations interleaved in his "A catalogue of the shells arranged according to the Lamarckian system . . . contained in the collection of John C. Jay . . ." 4th ed. New York, R. Craighead, 1850
Dates:
1850
Malacology Department Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0804
Overview
Scientists have been studying shells from the very beginning of the Academy of Natural Science’s long history. Thomas Say, Isaac Lea, and Timothy Abbott Conrad are just a few examples of Academy scientists who made important contributions to the field of conchology before there was an official department at the Academy. On December 26, 1866, the Conchological Section was formally established at the Academy, creating a departmental unity under curator George Washington Tryon, who led...
Dates:
1848-2012
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