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...

Overview James Abram Garfield Rehn (1881-1965) was the Curator of Insects at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from 1933 to 1965. He specialized in the study of Orthoptera and was the author of approximately three hundred forty papers on that group between 1905 and 1965. Rehn’s field research includes over thirty seasons of collecting in various locations throughout the United States, Central America and Africa.This collection contains twenty-eight volumes of Rehn's field...

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The Morgan Hebard Manuscripts and bills collection consists of a collection of bills related to entomological studies and various manuscripts, notes and work files of Morgan Hebard. Of particular note is the manuscript of the firs paper written by Hebard and submitted to the American Entomological Society, which and discusses a new genus, Cyrtophyllicus.