Peru
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
Francis Whittier Pennell Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0118
Scope and Contents
The Francis Whittier Pennell papers includes itineraries, field notebooks, manuscripts and research, and correspondence spanning Pennell’s 40 years in botany. It is divided into five series: field work, Scrophulariaceae work, scientific writing, biographies of botanists, and correspondence. Series I. Field Work, contains three subseries. A. Itineraries, which contains itineraries for Pennell’s collecting expeditions to Colombia, Peru, and Chile as well as expeditions to the...
Dates:
1874-1982; Majority of material found within 1908-1952
Travel Journals of Minturn Wright III, 1974-1997
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-2009-018
Scope and Contents
Photocopied typescript of Academy's former trustee Minturn Wright III's travelogues. The ANSP offered high-end educational travel "expeditions" in the 1980s and 1990s, and Mr. Wright participated in at least the nine excursions represented here, across South and Central America, Eastern Canada, Mongolia, and the Antarctic between 1974 and 1997. The Academy's Senior Fellow Robert M. Peck travelled with Wright on the excursion to Mongolia in 1997, and Antarctica, 1994. It is through Peck that...
Dates:
1974-1997