Overview The first woman to be elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Lucy Say was an accomplished nature artist and scientific collaborator with her famous husband Thomas Say. She made 66 of the 68 delicate and accurate drawings of North American mollusks for Thomas Say's American Conchology, at New Harmony, and did most of the painstaking coloring of the plates. This collection consists of 25 drawings (pencil and watercolor), seven hand colored plates of North American...

Content Description Collection contains three groupings of material: newsletters, fliers, meeting minutes, correspondence and other records Stroud received as Chair of the Friends of the Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1986-1992; research files for the 2012 monograph, A Glorious Enterprise on the history of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, co-authored with Academy Curator of Art and Artifacts, Robert McCraken Peck, 2009-2011; and correspondence and related records regarding research...