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China

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Brooke Dolan (1908-1945) papers

 Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0064
Scope and Contents

Phillilps and Phillips (1963) stated, "These papers consist of records and documents of the Asiatic Expeditions, correspondence in 1941 showing his various pre-war activities, and papers about his Memorial Meeting at the Academy in December, 1945."

Dates: 1931-1935
Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / Brooke Dolan (1908-1945) papers

Chinese Swallow Stone Artifact (fossil invertebrate)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: ANSP-2013-012-Artifact
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a Chinese Swallow Stone (a fossil invertebrate), on a stand, in a presentation case.

Dates: 1930-1950
Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / Chinese Swallow Stone Artifact (fossil invertebrate)

Exhibit Sign for the Sze-Chwan Takin

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1,2,3
Identifier: ANSP-2010-092-Artifact
Scope and Contents This exhibition sign was displayed for the Sze-Chwan Takin. Scientific name: budorcas tibetana milne-edwards. The exhibition sign reads: A rare animal of the almost inaccessible mountains of Western China. While cattle-like in appearance, it is a mountain antelope probably related to the Rocky Mountain Goat of Western North America. It lives at an altitude of 7,000 to 16,000 feet, mostly in the thick rhododendron forests. Group collected and presented by Brooke Dolan,II. The glass label is...
Dates: 6/21/2010
Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / Exhibit Sign for the Sze-Chwan Takin

Film "Exploring the Top of the World: The Second Brooke Dolan Asiatic Expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [1934-1936]"

 Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2012-080
Dates: 1934-1936; Digitized: 2013
Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / Film "Exploring the Top of the World: The Second Brooke Dolan Asiatic Expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [1934-1936]"

Volume II, 1906-1914

 Item — Volume 2
Content Description From the Collection: Livingston Biddle, Sr. (1877-1959), a nephew of George W. Childs Drexel (1868-1944), compiled the three albums in this collection, which document international voyages the family took from 1905 to 1914 on George Drexel’s yacht, Alcedo. The albums record at least two separate journeys. The photographs depict landscapes from the deck of the Alcedo, cities, rural areas, and religious sites, and the activities of the travel party. These activities include sightseeing, hunting, and meeting people...
Dates: 1906-1914
Found in: Drexel University Archives / MC-00-098, Livingston Biddle photograph albums

William Warder Cadbury papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0732
Scope and Contents

William Warder Cadbury was a Philadelphia Quaker doctor who spent his professional life as a medical missionary in China, where he established a garden of orchids and other plants. The paintings in this collection were commissioned by Dr. Warder from a Filipino painter known only as "Gomez." The collection includes the paintings, correspondence, writings, notes on plants, lists of species, photographs, maps, and biographical information.

Dates: 1892 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1949
Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / William Warder Cadbury papers

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