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These so-called librarian's books record the day to day accessions for the dates covered. In 1885 the card catalog was started by E. J. Nolan, replacing the ledger form of catalog. On the title-page of the 1856-65 volume is a list of librarians and dates of service, signed by Nolan. Edward J. Nolan himself became librarian in 1862 and was for years the only paid member of the staff of the Academy. The Journals cover the years 1845-50, 1850-56; 1856-65, 1865-73, 1873-76, 1876-85.

Scope and Contents Amateur naturalist of Lancaster, Pa., though E. D. Cope referred to him as 'my friend Jacob Stauffer, Secretary of the Linnaean Society of Lancaster, an ardent explorer of the Zoology and Botany of southern Pennsylvania . . .". So far as known, he published but three papers, two on the natural history of insects and the other on botany. His interests, however, were much more widespread. During his life he made several large notebooks, consisting essentially of illustrations of species of...

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Daily records made on trips to Europe, 1848 and 1875; local trips, in four books, for the dates 1873-82, 1877; 1880-83, 1885-87; notes on the mineralogical exhibits in the British Museum and in the Louvre, Paris; field notebook labeled "Notes on Myxomycetes" 1884-86; and Luray Cavern notebook and letter.

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Naturalist, ornithologist, mammalogist, book dealer and businessman, Samuel Rhoads wrote particularily on the local fauna of birds and mammals. The journals of his various expeditions contain mostly natural history data. Those written from Ecuador and Guatemala include also information about the countries. He was a founder of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, its Secretary and later its President.

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John Hubley Schall earned his medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College in 1893. Materials represent the life and work of Dr. Schall, his wife, Nina Schall, M.D. (Cornell Medical School, 1906) and probably their son, John Schall, also a physician, who likely owned some of the journals in the collection. Materials in the collection include photographs, illustrations, correspondence, notes, lectures and speeches, and publications.