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Ornithology

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

Alexander Wilson, Copper plates

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0427
Scope and Contents

Engraved copper plates from which 10 of the illustrations of Wilson's American Ornithology were printed, namely pls. 1-5, 7-9 of vol. 1 and pls. 10-11 of v. 2. 26 x 33 cm. These were engraved by Alexander Lawson and are accompanied by a carbon of the letter of appreciation of the Academy to the donor.

Dates: 1808-1810

ANSP Archives Film Inventory

 Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1012
Dates: 1900-1970; Majority of material found within Bulk 1930-1950

Arthur Cleveland Bent Correspondence to Witmer Stone

 Collection — Box Small Collections 12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0550
Scope and Contents

Collection of letters written from Bent to Witmer Stone, concerning ornithological topics.

Dates: 1903-1937

Calcified Bird Nest

 Item — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-2013-030

Christian Ludwig Nitzsch, "Zoologie"

 Collection — Box Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0397
Scope and Contents

German zoologist, whose main intereste lay in entomology and ornithology. This volume of 320 pages deals mainly with classification and general information about vertebrates, shells and insects, including fossil forms.

Dates: 1828

Copper plate for printing from John James Audubon's Birds of America (London, 1824-1838): Plate 196 "Labrador Falcon" or Gyrfalcon

 Item — No container Flat File
Identifier: ANSP-2012-042
Scope and Contents According to appraiser Donald Cresswell on 24 April 2006:Copper plate used for printing plate number 196 for The Birds of America "Labrador Falcon" (known as Gyrfalcon) by John James Audubon and printed in London by Rovert Havell. This is one of the larger plates bacause the image almost fills the elephant folio sheets measuring approxiamtely 38 inches by 25 inches comprising the finished prints. The plate is in fine condition with the exception of a very few spots and finger...
Dates: 1824-1838

Delaware Valley Ornithological Club records

 Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0074
Scope and Contents Includes constitution, minutes, lists and photographs of members, treasurer's reports, programs, scrapbook of activities, 1890-99, and general historical papers and correspondence.Signers of letters and documents: Baily, William L. (14) 1890-1900; Baker, Charles H. 1900; Batchelder, C. F. 1892; Bendix, Charles E. 1892; Bicknell, Eugene P. 1895; Bishop, Louis B. 1898; Bissegger, John B. 1896; Buller, W. H. (2) 1895-98; Bush, Walter D. 1898; Chapman, Frank M. 1894; Cope, Francis...
Dates: 1884 - 2003

Dinosaurs

 File
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains files transferred from the Communications Department pertaining to each scientific department, including reprints and press releases. Folder 2 contains reprints of various accounts of the Academy's history.

Dates: 1950-2012

John S. Dunning papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1005
Dates: 1930 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1951 - 1989