Expeditions
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Angelo Heilprin Papers: Expedition to Yucatan and Mexico
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0007
Scope and Contents
This expedition, the first official one of the Academy, included J. E. Ives, Roberts LeBoutillier, Witmer Stone and Frank C. Baker in the party. Arriving on the 22nd of February, they covered the territory of the northwestern part of Yucatan and the Mexican highlands in the vicinity of Orizaba. Natural history specimens were gathered and photographic records of the ecological conditions and the contours of the country through which they travelled, were taken. The short time spent in the...
Dates:
1890
ANSP Archives Film Inventory
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1012
Dates:
1900-1970; Majority of material found within Bulk 1930-1950
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
Carriker South American Expeditions, 1929-1935. Papers.
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0900
Overview
These papers are concerned with five separate expeditions for collecting vertebrates in South America. The first three, in 1929-1932 were made to Peru, while the second two, 1933-1935 were to Bolivia. Melbourne A. Carriker was a Philadelphian interested in becoming a collector and through the sponsorship of the Academy and financial aid of Clement B. Newbold, he went to Peru where he collected birds and mammals. Later, on his Bolivian expeditions he was accompanied by his son M.R. Carriker...
Dates:
1929-1935
Edward Harris papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0360
Scope and Contents
Harris, a native of New Jersey, became a close friend and patron of John James Audubon. He supported some of his expeditions financially and joined him in two western trips, one in 1837 to Texas and the other in 1843 up the
Missouri River. The two copies of the original journal in this collection give Harris' day by day account of this second trip. One is accompanied by a foreword by J. Fletcher Street. The original journal, and Harris' diary are
in the Department of Archives and History of...
Dates:
1843-47
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
Film: "To Africa for a Habitat Group, Desert of Borkou," the 1955 Carpenter Expedition
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-2012-001
Scope and Contents
In October 2017 the original lead part for the "To Africa for a Habitat Group" was found and added to the 2012.001 accesion.
Dates:
1955
Peary Greenland Expeditions papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0145
Scope and Contents
The collection includes letters, reports, both administrative and scientific, lists of specimens taken and observed, photographs of the staff, equipment and area traversed. Original outline map of expedition routes drawn by R. E. Peary. Much information about the part played by the Academy of Natural Sciences, is preserved in its Publicity Scrapbooks. Peary flag, previously on display in the Museum, has been added to this collection.
Dates:
1891-1894
Philip Powell Calvert and Amelia Smith Calvert's Costa Rica Expedition Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0633
Scope and Contents
Philip Powell Calvert and Amelia Smith Calvert's Costa Rica Expedition Papers include notebooks, diaries, photographs and maps. The Calverts, Philip and Amelia, spent more than a year in Costa Rica studying natural history. The itinerary and field notes were preserved in 10 small notebooks, photographs were taken (31 included here) and a diary written, the latter occupying 2 volumes. From this mateiral, their book was later published, Mrs. Calvert's manuscript volumes on the plants...
Dates:
1909-1910