Scope and Contents Collection consists of three diaries containing field notes taken on MacElwee's "botanical rambles" between 1893 and 1900; two records books listing plant specimens MacElwee collected between 1899 and 1920 and subsequently donated to the herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences; a catalog of plants in the botanic garden at the University of Pennsylvania, composed by MacElwee in collaboration with botany professor, John MacFarlane; writings on the woods of Brazil and other areas; lists of...

Scope and Contents The collection documents the activities of the Ichthyology Department primarily from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s. The collection includes annual reports, written histories about the department and its operation, specimen collection lists, and notes on various fish collections; financial records related to endowments and general and special funds supporting the work of the department, and curatorial grant proposals and reports for National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects; field...

Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of original illustrations on scraperboard (scratchboard) and clayboard of the golden eagle, common raptors and other birds of prey created by Jim Lish beginning in 1978. Also included are experimental and test drawings; prints of illustrations; publications featuring Lish's illustrations; correspondence; and an annotated unpublished manuscript "The World of The Golden Eagle: An Illustrated Life History" by Lish. The collection also includes 4 USB drives...

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Illustration engraved by R. Havell. Printed and coloured by R. Havell, London 1829.

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First edition print of plate XIX Sciurus mollipilosus soft-haired squirrel from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America by John James Audubon and John Bachman, New York: 1845-1848. Printed by John R. Bowen, Philadelphia.

Scope and Contents This commonplace book, consisting of approximately 430 pages of entries on natural history subjects, is attributed to Joshua Spencer of Essex, England. Although the bulk of the manuscript is written in the same hand, various pages throughout are signed by others indicating there may be multiple authors. The manuscript is assembled in two sections with two separate indexes and bound in vellum.Large portions of the manuscript are excerpted transcriptions of texts and illustrations...

Scope and Contents The collection includes 33 paintings featuring 47 species of shorebirds from North America, 32 of which were published in The Shorebirds of North America (1967). Sandpipers, plovers, stilts and oyster catchers are the four families of birds in North America represented. In addition to the paintings are 10 pencil drawings, also included in the book; 2 sketchbooks of preliminary works for shorebirds; and a scrapbook kept by Mr. and Mrs. Prentice Stout containing reviews, newspaper clippings,...