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<titleproper>ANSP. Mineralogical and Geological Section, 1877-1924. Papers, 1876-1922.</titleproper>
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<titleproper>ANSP. Mineralogical and Geological Section, 1877-1924. Papers, 1876-1922.</titleproper>
<author>Phillips</author>
<publisher>Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia</publisher>
<date>1963</date>
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Archives of the Academy of Natural Sciences
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<addressline>1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway</addressline>
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<addressline>Email: archives@ansp.org</addressline>
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<p>Established in 1877, the section was active until dissolved by the Council in 1924. The papers include a book of minutes, 1892-1922, presented by the recorders, Charles Schaffer, Mary S. Holmes, S. L. Shumo, Edgar T. Wherry, Samuel G. Gordon, and the pro temp secretaries Lewis Woolman, E. Chalkley Palmer, Frank J. Keeley, Wm. B. Davis, C. S. Boyer, B. S. Lyman, David White and Thomas S. Stewart. Contains also lists of members and original petition for the formation of the section, with accompanying correspondence. News clippings, announcements, photographs and treatises, one by B. S. Lyman, another by F. J. Keeley, complete the file.</p>
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