Botanists
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Eastwick Smith letterbooks
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0131
Overview
Charles Eastwick Smith (1820-1900) was an engineer and inventor involved in railroad, ironworks and steel. His interest in botany led him to membership at the Academy of Natural Sciences where he held several positions from 1851 until his death. Over the years Smith compiled an herbarium of specimens found within 15 miles of Philadelphia, which he bequeathed to the Academy. The Charles Eastwick Smith letterbooks collection consists of 10 bound letterbooks The letters in these books are...
Dates:
1867-1899
Charles Eastwick Smith letters from botanists
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0132
Overview
Charles Eastwick Smith (1820-1900) was an engineer and inventor involved in railroad, ironworks and steel. His interest in botany led him to membership at the Academy of Natural Sciences where he held several positions from 1851 until his death. Over the years Smith compiled an herbarium of specimens found within 15 miles of Philadelphia, which he bequeathed to the Academy. The collection contains letters from botanists, a number of booksellers, and other correspondents. In addition to the...
Dates:
n.d., 1862-1899
Eugene Abraham Rau, 1848-1932. Botanists' Portraits.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0508
Dates:
1848-1932
Francis Whittier Pennell Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0118
Scope and Contents
The Francis Whittier Pennell papers includes itineraries, field notebooks, manuscripts and research, and correspondence spanning Pennell’s 40 years in botany. It is divided into five series: field work, Scrophulariaceae work, scientific writing, biographies of botanists, and correspondence. Series I. Field Work, contains three subseries. A. Itineraries, which contains itineraries for Pennell’s collecting expeditions to Colombia, Peru, and Chile as well as expeditions to the...
Dates:
1874-1982; Majority of material found within 1908-1952
Lewis David von Schweinitz Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0438
Scope and Contents
Lewis David von Schweinitz Correspondence consists of letters written to von Schweinitz by American and European botanists.List of correspondents:
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Beck, John B. 1829; Beck, Lewis Caleb (10) 1829-33; Beitel, Christian, 1833; Bentham, George (3) 1828-31; Bischoff, Gerh. G. n. d.; Brace, John P. 1822; Braunsburg, M. V. von, 1833; Brongniart, Adolphe Theodore, 1829; Buniningk, Mr. von, 1809; Bute, George H. (4) 1829-30; C
Carey, William, 1829; Collins, Zaccheus (6)...
Dates:
1805-1833
Portrait Collection
Collection — Box Oversize Small Collections 6
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0457
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of single and group portraits of scientists (professional and amatuer), many affiliated with the Academy. When known, Academy affiliation and scientific field of interest is noted (botany, entomology, geology, paleontology, zoology, ichthyology, ornithology, diatoms, etc.). Portraits show scientists in the field and at work as well as posed portraits. Thus far, the collection includes 1680 persons or groups. Formats include photographic prints, cartes de visite,...
Dates:
c. 1835-1983, undated
Zaccheus Collins Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0129
Abstract
Zaccheus Collins (1764-1831) was a plant collector and herbarium owner from Philadelphia. Collins was an esteemed botanist and was often consulted by a majority of botanical writers, though he never published anything himself. He was also an avid collector and his herbarium contained a nearly complete collection of the plants from the vicinity of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. His correspondents also sent him various specimens from their research in the southern states, particularly South...
Dates:
1805-1827