Frederick W. Kobbé and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers 1817-1944

Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Peale's Museum was established by Charles Willson Peale in 1784. It was public rather than private in character and was governed initially by a Society of Visitors. The museum was moved to the Hall of the American Philosophical Society in 1794 and in 1802 by act of the Pennsylvania Assembly it ws granted the free use of the State House (Independence Hall) recently vacated by the legislature. It was subsequently incorporated as the Philadelphia Museum Company under the direction of a board of tru...

Say, Thomas, 1787-1834

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Thomas Say (1787-1834) was a naturalist, entomologist, conchologist and explorer. The son of physician-apothecary Bejamin Say and his wife Ann Bonsall, granddaughter of the botanist John Bartram (1699-1777), Say was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 27, 1787. His mother died when he was six. Say’s connections with his great-uncle naturalist William Bartram (1739-1823), Bartram’s friend and neighbor the ornithologist Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) and Charles Wilson Peale (17...

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

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The oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was founded in 1812 "for the encouragement and cultivation of the sciences, and the advancement of useful learning." Since the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, there have been twenty-eight presidents and five acting presidents (please see additional note for a complete list of Academy presidents). From 1937 to 1995, there were four pre...

American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

Kobbe family

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Say, Lucy

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Entomological Society of Philadelphia

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Kobbé, Frederick William

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Frederick William Kobbé (1887-1946) was an attorney and an amateur genealogist. From the guide to the Frederick W. Kobbé and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers, 1817-1944, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Linnean society of London

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The Linnean Society of London was founded in 1788. From the description of Correspondence of American scientists, 1738-1865. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122488801 From the guide to the Linnean Society of London correspondence of American scientists, 1738-1865, 1738-1865, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh

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New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection

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