Crustaceans
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
George A. Coventry, Writings on Crustacea
Collection — Box Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0377
Scope and Contents
Once a research worker at the Academy, his special interests centered in
this Zoological group. Of the three papers, two are concerned with Jeanne S.
Schwengel's collection made in Florida in 1940. There are three pages of
introductory material stating the condition under which the Crustacea were
collected, the total number of species and specimens and the locale of each,
followed by a paper minutely describing the species, 12 pages. Another
article of 40 pages is entitled, "Family...
Dates:
1940-42
Horace G. Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0976
Overview
Horace G. Richards (1906-1984) was a geologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia and an authority on the geologic formations of the Atlantic coastal plain. His research specialty focused on geology and paleontology of the Quaternary Period (approximately the past 1.8 million years), but his research interests also included Cenozoic mollusca, and marine Pleistocene geology and paleontology of the Atlantic coastal plain. Additionally, he studied climate change and coastal...
Dates:
1928-1984
E.R. Fenimore Johnson photographs
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0995
Overview
Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson (1899-1986) was a pioneer in the development of underwater photography and was also an explorer, yachtsman and researcher. His interests in underwater photography developed during World War II when he enlisted in Naval Research and worked with underwater demolition and photography. He created his own company, Fenjohn Underwater Equipment Company and patented equipment inventions. The E.R. Fenimore Johnson photographs, 1929-1970, is a rich collection of...
Dates:
1929 - 1970
Joseph Leidy Teacher Charts
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0532
Overview
Joseph Leidy, 1823-1891, one of the great American scientists of the 19th century, possessed a vast knowledge of the natural world. Best known as the father of American vertebrate paleontology, he also pioneered the fields of parasitology and protozoology, and was the preeminent anatomist of his time. He brought much of his knowledge together as an influential teacher of natural history. While teaching zoology at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Medical Department, Leidy constructed...
Dates:
1860-1889