Natural History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Academy of Natural Sciences Gold Medal for Distinction in Natural History Art Plaster Cast
Collection — Object 1
Identifier: ANSP-2010-089-Artifact
Scope and Contents
This plaster cast is the original plaster model for the obverse of the Academy of Natural Sciences Gold Medal for Distinction in Natural History Art. The medal was originally designed by David Bonner and Donald Patterson of the Franklin Mint. The original plaster for the reverse of the medal was never returned to the Academy by the Franklin Mint. The award was to be given to a person whose artistic endeavors and life's work have contributed to mankind's better understanding and appreciation...
Dates:
1980
Charles Willson Peale Lectures on Natural History, 1800-1802
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0040
Scope and Contents
As a device for attracting visitors to his early Philadelphia museum, C. W. Peale gave various courses of lectures. The outlines for those delivered during 1801 to 1802 were devoted to the subject of natural objects. The series consists of 39 numbers and various introductory sections, making in all 42 parts. These were donated to the Academy where they remained until 1948 when they were deposited, on call, with the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. [Recalled to the ANSP July...
Dates:
1800-1802
Joseph Leidy Correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0001
Overview
Joseph Mellick Leidy (1823-1891), one of the great American scientists of the 19th century, possessed a vast knowledge of the natural world. Best known as the Father of American vertebrate paleontology, he also pioneered the fields of parasitology and protozoology, and was the preeminent anatomist of his time. He was also an influential teacher of natural history and an expert in areas as diverse as entomology, geology and pathology. The Joseph Leidy Correspondence collection contains...
Dates:
1845-1913, undated
"Ward's Museum of Mineralogy, Geology and Zoology" Pamphlet
Item
Identifier: ANSP-2012-060
Scope and Contents
Eight-page pamphlet found folded inside back cover of Academy Library's copy of "Catalogue of Casts of Fossils, from the Principal Museums of Europe and America, with Short Descriptions and Illustrations" by Henry A. Ward (1866), ANSP Call Number QE716.W25.
Dates:
1 June 1879