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Alexander MacElwee Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0036
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of three diaries containing field notes taken on MacElwee's "botanical rambles" between 1893 and 1900; two records books listing plant specimens MacElwee collected between 1899 and 1920 and subsequently donated to the herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences; a catalog of plants in the botanic garden at the University of Pennsylvania, composed by MacElwee in collaboration with botany professor, John MacFarlane; writings on the woods of Brazil and other areas; lists of...
Dates:
1893-1899
Andrew Garrett Illustrations
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0403
Overview
Andrew Garrett, 1823-1887, was an American explorer, self taught naturalist and artist specializing in malacology and ichthyology. Many of his works are considered classics, including his multi-volumed catalog Fische der Sundsee, and particularly his "Terrestrial Mollusca Inhabiting the Society Islands" (JANSP 9: 17-114), which formed the basis for the important work of Hartman and Crampton. This collection includes 20 watercolors of slugs, collected and drawn from life by Andrew Garrett....
Dates:
ca. 1873
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
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Album
Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0803
Overview
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, author, sculptor and naturalist, began this album in 1872, and continued to add to it intermittently, the last datable entry being of 1878. In its entirety, the album contains 56 items, including manuscripts, clippings, and images. This finding aid contains only the images found within the album. These images consist of 37 items: 16 photographic sepia prints, 10 prints, 3 b&w photographic prints, 3 wash drawings, 2 ink drawings, 2 watercolor drawings, and 1...
Dates:
circa 1853-1875
David A. Johnson collection
Collection
Identifier: 2019-035
Overview
Collections includes homeopathy materials such as books and other publications, bottles and boxes of remedies, two kits, an illustration, and certificates.
Dates:
1855-1999; Majority of material found in 1855-1915
Edward Dodd Illustrations
Collection — drawer: 34
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0750
Overview
Edward Benton Dodd, 1904-1991, studied technology in Georgia and at the Art Students League in New York. In 1946, Ed Dodd launched his ecological comic strip Mark Trail, where he could express his love for wide landscapes. The comic strip is about a nature writer, Mark Trail, who lives in the forest, combatting poachers and drug smugglers, while giving lessons about various wild creatures. The collection contains twelve Mark Trail comic strips of by Ed Dodd. The strips cover such natural...
Dates:
1960
Eugene Abraham Rau Lepidoptera Notes and Watercolors
Collection — Box: Small Collections 14
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0702
Overview
Eugene A. Rau (1848-1932), a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania pharmacist, is best known for his development of the pharmaceutical and botanical sciences. This collection includes sixteen pages of notes (numbered 1-16) followed by twenty-seven illustrations of lepidoptera (numbered 17-44). The lepidoptera are done in pencil and watercolor and in most cases include notes. Judging from Rau's notes, the drawings are of lepidoptera from the Academy's collections during Rau's time.
Dates:
c. 1874
Francois Andre Michaux collection
Collection — Box: Small Collections 5
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0260
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of 31 "Proof Prints of Michaw's Arbres Forestiers de l'Amerique," 1810-13, an original drawing of the Norway Maple and a specimen packet cover which accompanied Michaux' herbarium specimens, of 1785-87.
Dates:
1785-1813
Glass Models of Marine Invertebrates by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2012-027-Artifact
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 48 glass models of various cephalopods, nudibranchs, sea slugs, and invertebrates crafted by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, along with their associated back boards and labels. The back boards are the original boards created for the models when acquired by the Academy, and the armatures and bases of the jellyfish models are confirmed to be the original pieces by Miranda Lowe of the Natural History Museum, London.
The models are in various states of disrepair and are...
Dates:
1879-1938
Hans Troschel Woodcuts
Collection — drawer: 34
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0749
Overview
Hans Troschel, 1899-1979, received his schooling at the Bauhaus School in Germany. Before World War 2, he was a teacher of self-expression in the arts. During the war he was taken captive and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. In 1954 he regained his freedom and returned to Germany where he continued to work and teach. The collection contains six woodcuts of birds and mammals, including a buzzard, osprey, wild geese, doe, a squirrel and a cat. Troschel made the prints in 1960, after his...
Dates:
1960
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