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Charles Moore Wheatley, Photographs
Collection — drawer: 19
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0379
Scope and Contents
Engineer and naturalist, Wheatley's chief interest was in conchology, where he specialized in freshwater shells. His cabinet was bequeathed to Union College, later transferred to Schenectady museum and in 1959 was obtained
by the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Another collection was divided into similar lots and sold at auction by Tydner of Philadelphia, one to E. D. Cope the other to the University of Pennsylvania. Both of the sales
collections are now in the Academy. His discoveries in...
Dates:
1860
Christian Ludwig Nitzsch, "Zoologie"
Collection — Box: Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0397
Scope and Contents
German zoologist, whose main intereste lay in entomology and ornithology. This volume of 320 pages deals mainly with classification and general information about vertebrates, shells and insects, including fossil forms.
Dates:
1828
George Humphrey, Essay "Collecting and preserving natural curiosities"
Collection — Box: Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0371
Scope and Contents
George Humphrey, dealer in natural curiosities, No. 70 St. Martin's Lane,
London, addressed this essay to collectors on board whalers coursing the
Atlantic Ocean, from the Str. of Magellan to Boston. These collectors were
under the direction of Mr. Stanesby, who decided whether to accept goods or
cash in return for the specimens. A postscript bears the date 25 Mar. 1776
and is initialed G. H. Full title, "Directions for Collecting and preserving all
kinds of natural curiosities, particularly...
Dates:
1776
Helen E. Lawson, Illustrations, 1842-1857
Collection — Box: Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0912
Overview
Helen Elizabeth Lawson, the second daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth De Scaife Lawson, was born in Philadelphia sometime in or about the year 1808. An accomplished scientific illustrator, her contemporaries described her work to be "so perfect as certainly leave nothing to be desired", and H.A. Pilsbry stated that he considered her illustrations for Amos Binney's The Terrestrial Air-breathing Mollusks of the United States, to be the finest shell illustrations ever made. This collection...
Dates:
1842-1857
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
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
John Gould Anthony, Conchological annotations
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0460
Scope and Contents
Signature, with place [Cincinnati] and some annotations written in Say's Descriptions of some new terrestrial and fluviatile shells of North America, 1829, 1830, 1831, edited by Lucy Say, 1840.
Dates:
1840
Lucy Way Say, Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0433
Overview
The first woman to be elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Lucy Say was an accomplished nature artist and scientific collaborator with her famous husband Thomas Say. She made 66 of the 68 delicate and accurate drawings of North American mollusks for Thomas Say's American Conchology, at New Harmony, and did most of the painstaking coloring of the plates. This collection consists of 25 drawings (pencil and watercolor), seven hand colored plates of North American...
Dates:
1822-85
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
Philip Pearsall Carpenter, Chiton manuscript, Book 2
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0409
Scope and Contents
This unpublished writing occupies 163 pages, the small-sized leaves on
which it is written being pasted in a scrapbook. It is sparsely illustrated
with pencil text figures. It presumably describes a collection given to the
Smithsonian Institution. At the Smithsonian are various proofs of pages entitled,
"Contributions toward a Monograph of the Chitonidae". We have 27
pages which were given to H. A. Pilsbry by W. H. Dall. Carpenter in early
life was an English minister, educator,...
Dates:
[1875]
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