Portland Society of Natural History records, 1850-1946 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:General correspondence, including letters of Elizabeth Akers Allen, Sylvester B. Beckett, Admiral George Henry Preble, and others; membership lists, treasurers' reports and bills and receipts; correspondence and journals of Herbert M.W. Haven, confectioner and amateur mineralogist and naturalist of Portland, Me.; a catalogue of the personal collection of Arthur H. Norton, curator of the Portland Society of Natural History; and newspaper clippings and scrapbooks relating to the activities of the society and containing biographical data on James Phinney Baxter, Percival Proctor Baxter, Charles Lewis Fox, Fred A. Gilbert, Charles C. Harmon, Aurelius Stone Hinds, Thomas Hamlin Hubbard, Charles Wyman Morese, George Frederick Morse, Augustus Freedom Moulton, John Neal, Sarah Payson Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), William Willis and others; also contains photographs