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Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
ANSP Bicentennial 2012
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-2012-054
Scope and Contents
This collections contains materials relating to ANSP's Bicentennial Year, which was celebrated between March 2012 and March 2013. It also contains materials pertaining to events that happened during that year, but were not directly tied to the Bicentennial.
Dates:
2011-2013
ANSP writings of early members
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0247
Scope and Contents
Although most of these treatises appeared in the Academy's early serials, some predated that time. A list of the articles by some 81 naturalists has been prepared and is available for reference. The papers themselves deal with all sorts of natural history subjects, some of the more prolific authors being: Spencer F. Baird, John Cassin, Charles Girard, Gerard Troost, Lardner Vanuxem, and S. W. Woodhouse. These writings are preserved with the intention of providing research workers with...
Dates:
1814-1862
Edward Drinker Cope Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0328
Abstract
Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897) was one of the most distinguished American scientists of the 19th century. The bulk of his work was in the fields of paleontology, zoology, geology and anatomy. During his lifetime, he discovered and described over 600 new species and contributed over 1300 papers to scientific literature. The collection contains certificates and honors, medals, manuscripts of scientific papers, drawings, scientific photographs, biographical material, news clippings, account...
Dates:
1859-1907
"Dinosaurs Invade Philadelphia" Program, with article written by Earle Spamer
Collection — Box small accessions 5
Identifier: ANSP-2013-017
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a program for the Academy event "Dinosaurs Invade Philadelphia". The program contains an article written by Academy Archivist Earle Spamer entitled "Birthplace of Paleontology".
Dates:
1998
George A. Coventry, Writings on Crustacea
Collection — Box Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0377
Scope and Contents
Once a research worker at the Academy, his special interests centered in
this Zoological group. Of the three papers, two are concerned with Jeanne S.
Schwengel's collection made in Florida in 1940. There are three pages of
introductory material stating the condition under which the Crustacea were
collected, the total number of species and specimens and the locale of each,
followed by a paper minutely describing the species, 12 pages. Another
article of 40 pages is entitled, "Family...
Dates:
1940-42
Horace G. Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0976
Overview
Horace G. Richards (1906-1984) was a geologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia and an authority on the geologic formations of the Atlantic coastal plain. His research specialty focused on geology and paleontology of the Quaternary Period (approximately the past 1.8 million years), but his research interests also included Cenozoic mollusca, and marine Pleistocene geology and paleontology of the Atlantic coastal plain. Additionally, he studied climate change and coastal...
Dates:
1928-1984
J. Percy Moore papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0505
Overview
John Percy Moore (1869-1965) was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1912 to 1939, an Assistant Curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences from 1902 to 1938, and held several positions between 1920 and 1956 at the Ludwick Institute, which offered free lectures and courses in the natural sciences. He was also a world recognized authority on leeches. During his career, Moore named six genera, 229 species, five subspecies and four varieties of polychaetous annelids, or...
Dates:
1847 - 1963
Julia Hall papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-00-102
Content Description
Professor Hall's papers consist of teaching, research, and administrative files spanning four decades. They include reports, correspondence, clippings, articles, syllabi, overhead transparencies quiz questions and answers, academic review records, grant records, training materials, awards, writings by prisoners, and other items. There are a few papers documenting Professor Hall's involvement in prison and criminal justice reform initiatives, through the Pennsylvania Prison Society and other...
Dates:
circa 1973-2016
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Julia Hall papers
Eleanor Slifer Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1006
Overview
Dr. Eleanor Slifer (1900-1986) was a faculty member in the Department of Zoology, University of Iowa and a member of the Entomology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Dr. Slifer’s groundbreaking work with insect chemoreceptors lead to over 100 published papers in professional journals. This collection dates from 1928 to 1980 and contains handwritten notes, illustrations, manuscripts and galley proofs relating to a number of Dr. Slifer's published papers....
Dates:
1928-1980
Bertha Van Hoosen papers
Collection
Identifier: WM-145
Overview
Bertha Van Hoosen (1863-1952), a doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology in Chicago, IL, founded the American Medical Women's Association. Her collection includes correspondence, journal articles, plans for a Medical Women's Library at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, teaching material, images, and bibliographic material regarding women in medicine. A large part of the collection concerns Van Hoosen's interests in the National Medical Women's Association, later the American...
Dates:
1913 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1950