Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
"Fossil Remains" pg. 1-8
Collection — Box small accessions 4
Identifier: ANSP-2012-047
Dates:
1839-1965
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
Joseph Leidy Correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0001
Overview
Joseph Mellick Leidy (1823-1891), one of the great American scientists of the 19th century, possessed a vast knowledge of the natural world. Best known as the Father of American vertebrate paleontology, he also pioneered the fields of parasitology and protozoology, and was the preeminent anatomist of his time. He was also an influential teacher of natural history and an expert in areas as diverse as entomology, geology and pathology. The Joseph Leidy Correspondence collection contains...
Dates:
1845-1913, undated
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