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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
Annotated Map Collection
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2012-074
Scope and Contents
This collection contains various maps with annotations that were transferred from the ANSP Malacology Department to the ANSP Archives.
Dates:
1900-2000
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
ANSP Publications, Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0412
Scope and Contents
The ANSP Publications Papers collection includes record books, subscription lists, prospectuses, financial documents and policies regarding the publications produced by the Academy of Natural Sciences. The collection is divided into four series. Series I. Subscription Record Books and Documents contains account books with the names and payments of subscribers. The books are arranged chronologically according to the earliest date of each book. Many of the account books overlap in terms of...
Dates:
1817-1961
Antique Desk Key
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2010-102-Artifact
Scope and Contents
The key in this collection is located inside of a file folder. The key is to an antique desk and has a note attached by string that reads: Lower Right Drawer of my desk, Philadelphia. The key was gifted to the Archives by Gary Rosenberg, a curator in the Malacology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Dates:
20th Century
Antique Stoppered Glass Vials
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2010-103-Artifact
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of antique viles from the Malacology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences. The viles were used for invertebrate paleontology wet collection. The viles were transfered to the archives by John Sime. There are currently sixty-three glass vials and fifty-two glass lids.
Dates:
2010
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
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
Helen Winchester illustrations
Collection — Box: Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0394
Scope and Contents
Helen Winchester was a scientific artist who worked for the Academy for many years during the first half of this century. She made illustrations for several departments, but her most extended work was for the shell department. This collection contains a single original watercolor plate of Liguus shells which was published as the frontispiece of vol. 2, part 1 of the Academy's Monographs, 1946. Another plate with shell illustrations has been added to the collection, as well as some...
Dates:
1907, 1910, 1946, undated
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