%eadnotat; ]> Rau, Eugene Abraham, 1848-1932. Correspondence, 1876-1887. Phillips Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, March 2001. ENG Rau, Eugene Abraham, 1848-1932. Correspondence, 1876-1887. Phillips Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Descriptive Summary Collection 906 Archives of the Academy of Natural Sciences

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RAU, EUGENE ABRAHAM, 1848-1932. Correspondence, 1876-87. 108 items. Collection 906

A pharmacist and botanist of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Rau became an authority on mosses and fungi, assembling large collections which mostly went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Elected a correspondent of this Academy in 1883, he bequeathed a collection of books to it (mostly from L. D. von Schweinitz library) and an herbarium of flowering plants. He published jointly with A. B. Hervey, a Catalogue of North American Music, 1880.

Formerly in the keeping of Botany Department and archived February 5, 1952.

Coll. 906-908