Scope and Contents This is a collection of records related to the Academy's Bicentennial Symposium. Materials include: correspondence between Goulden and the symposium speakers; brief biographical sketches of the speakers; symposium programs, brochures, invitations, and tickets; manuscripts and galley proofs of papers given at the symposium; a published symposium volume, edited by Goulden, entitled The Changing Scenes in the Natural Sciences 1776-1976; and six audio tapes of speakers at the symposium. The...

Scope and Contents This is a collection of administrative files from the Biodiversity Research Group of the Academy of Natural Sciences. The papers cover the period from 1966 to 1994. Materials include: annual reports for the division (1974-1988, some years missing) and reports and memos of departments within the division; administrative staff council minutes and library committee memos; Academy monthly activity reports (1987 and 1988); records related to division goals and research strategies; documentation...

Scope and Contents This is a collection of records related to the Academy's Botany department. Materials include general files and departmental correspondence dating from the 1970s and 1980s from the offices of James Mears, Alfred E. Schuyler, Joan Apfelbaum, Helen Greenwood, and others. The collection includes earlier correspondence of Alexander MacElwee, Walter Benner, C.D. Fretz, and others, related to the acquisition and identification of specimens (1877-1920). Notebooks and catalogs of the Botany...

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...

Scope and Contents This is a collection of correspondence and other records of the Entomology Department of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The records date from the 1940s to 1995, and include the correspondence of Harold J. Grant, David C. Rentz, Michael Emsley, and H. Radclyffe Roberts, among others. The correspondence discusses identification and exchange of specimens, taxonomy, Academy business, and publications. Other records in the departmental files include department reports, specimen...

Scope and Contents This is a collection of papers of H. Radclyffe Roberts. Materials include: professional correspondence (incoming and outgoing) with colleagues in the United States, Mexico, and South America. Many of the letters discuss the study and exchange of specimens of orthoptera. Other correspondence is related to an atlas of mosquitoes, and other publications. There are a small number of typescript and manuscript notes on collecting and funding policies for the Academy (from circa 1946). The...