Conchologists
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
George Washington Tryon, Jr., Papers
Isaac Lea, Correspondence
John Clarkson Jay Catalogue of Shells
Physician and conchologist, elected corresponding member of the Academy in 1835. A catalog of the author's cabinet of shells in the form of annotations interleaved in his "A catalogue of the shells arranged according to the Lamarckian system . . . contained in the collection of John C. Jay . . ." 4th ed. New York, R. Craighead, 1850
John Gould Anthony, Conchological annotations
Signature, with place [Cincinnati] and some annotations written in Say's Descriptions of some new terrestrial and fluviatile shells of North America, 1829, 1830, 1831, edited by Lucy Say, 1840.
Letters from Emperor Hirohito of Japan to Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry
Philip Pearsall Carpenter, Chiton manuscript, Book 2
Thomas Say, Papers
The Thomas Say papers collection includes biographical information and family documents, scientific correspondence, annotations to various published books, study notes and bibliographical insect references, as well as papers concerning Say's connection with the Academy.
William Stimpson, Catalogue of Reptiles
Yoichiro Hirase collection
Typescript biography of eminent Japanese conchologist, Yoichiro Hirase, b. 1858 (9 pages). Illustrated with 4 mounted photographs of Hirase at work in his study and of his collections.
No information on provenance, but probably from the papers of H.A. Pilsbry