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Botany

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

A.H. Clark Mayfly Data

 Collection — Box small accessions 5
Identifier: ANSP-2012-094
Scope and Contents

This collection contains lab research notes from A.H. Clark, dating 1977-2005, that were being stored in the LMSE.

Dates: 1977-2005

Alfred E. Schuyler Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-2011-008

ANSP museum specimen collection donation records

 Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0195
Scope and Contents

The early daily records in book form, as 'Curator's books," the weekly sheets, 'Additions to the Museum," and the Wurtz' card file "Donations to the Museum" are preserved in this collection.

Dates: 1847-1930

Mildred Appel drawings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0659
Scope and Contents

Pen-and-ink drawings of plants in family Scrophulariaceae, from West Indies, Central and South America. Unsigned but ascribed to Appel on basis of known work and employment by Academy.

Transferred to Academy Archives by A.E. Schuyler of the Botany Department on Dec. 12, 1962.

Dates: undated

Botanical Pictures Album 1911: Excursions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1911-1912

 File — Box 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Mabelle Campbell photograph collection includes six photo albums, thirty-nine loose photos, two Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company Hiking Club Lists, and nine pamphlets from the Leidy Microscopical Club. The albums, photos, and papers document excursions of the Delaware Valley Naturalists Union from 1894-1939. According to a conversation with Mrs. Campbell in 1980, most of the photographs were taken by Harold Palmer

This collection is arranged chronologically.

Dates: 1911-1912

Botanical Trips Photo Album, 1915-1933

 File — Box 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Mabelle Campbell photograph collection includes six photo albums, thirty-nine loose photos, two Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company Hiking Club Lists, and nine pamphlets from the Leidy Microscopical Club. The albums, photos, and papers document excursions of the Delaware Valley Naturalists Union from 1894-1939. According to a conversation with Mrs. Campbell in 1980, most of the photographs were taken by Harold Palmer

This collection is arranged chronologically.

Dates: 1915-1933

Botanical Trips Photo Album, 1934-1937

 File — Box 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Mabelle Campbell photograph collection includes six photo albums, thirty-nine loose photos, two Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company Hiking Club Lists, and nine pamphlets from the Leidy Microscopical Club. The albums, photos, and papers document excursions of the Delaware Valley Naturalists Union from 1894-1939. According to a conversation with Mrs. Campbell in 1980, most of the photographs were taken by Harold Palmer

This collection is arranged chronologically.

Dates: 1934-1937

Botany Department Records

 Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2010-282
Scope and Contents This is a collection of records related to the Academy's Botany department. Materials include general files and departmental correspondence dating from the 1970s and 1980s from the offices of James Mears, Alfred E. Schuyler, Joan Apfelbaum, Helen Greenwood, and others. The collection includes earlier correspondence of Alexander MacElwee, Walter Benner, C.D. Fretz, and others, related to the acquisition and identification of specimens (1877-1920). Notebooks and catalogs of the Botany...
Dates: 1877-1997

Charles Alexander Lesueur Copper and Zinc plates, 1817-1824

 Collection — Box 1-2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0938
Overview Charles Alexandre Lesueur, 1778-1846, artist and naturalist, participated in Napoleon's expedition to Australia (1800-1804), and joined William Maclure in his geologic survey of Europe, the West Indies and the Eastern United States (1815-1817). Upon returning to Philadelphia, Lesueur and Maclure wrote out the results of their travels, publishing many scientific papers in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with Lesueur also publishing findings from his Australian...
Dates: 1817-1824