Found 4 collections related to Naturalists

American naturalist and artist. Collection includes 2 letters from John James Audubon, 1838 and 1841; letters mostly to him in London, from American and British scientists and subscribers to his works; also a few letters addressed to his son, Victor, and his wife. less

Alfred Marshall Mayer was a noted American physicist born in Baltimore in 1836. His son, Alfred Goldsborough Mayor (1868-1922) was a noted marine zoologist and entomologist who changed the spelling of his last name to Mayor during World War I. Alfred Marshall Mayer's papers include correspondence, notes on physics and astronomy maintained as a student in Paris and as a teacher at Lehigh University and Stevens Institute of Technology. Material from Alfred Goldsborough Mayor includes academic papers, and notes on his studies at Harvard and on his expeditions to the Fiji Islands and the West Indies. Also included are drafts and colored illustrations for reports on zoology as director of the Totugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, Tortugas, Florida less

Pierre Eugène Du Simitière (1737-1784) was a Swiss-born artist, engraver, naturalist, and supporter of the American revolutionary cause. The petition, delivered to the Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, asked that as a citizen of Geneva and only part-time resident of Philadelphia, he be exempted from the fine levied for not providing a substitute in the Pennsylvania Militia less