Strickland, Hugh Edwin, 1811-1853 (geologist and ornithologist)

Person

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Dates

Existence: 1811 - 1853

Biography

Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-1853), geologist,ornithologist, deputy Reader in Geology, Oxford, 1850-53, corrected, enlarged and edited, for the Ray Society, Agassiz's MS for Bibliographia Zoologiae et Geologie, which was published in 4 vols., 1848-54. Strickland was son-in-law of Sir William Jardine, and there are letters to Jardine, 1855, about his proposed Supplement to Agassiz

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Fonds

Hugh Strickland: Oxford lectures in volcanic geology

Fonds

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9903

Dates: 1850-1853

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library

Series

Papers for revision of Agassiz's Bibliographia, 1848-1854

Series

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9839/23

Scope and Contents [1-51] Bibliographical lists, notes [5] JOHN LE CONTE (Professor, Georgia). Letter to Sir William Jardine (1854) [6] C. GIRARD (Smithsonian Institution). Letter to [?] (n.d.) [36,52] EDWARD NEWMAN. Letters to Hugh Strickland (1853) [44] T. RUPERT JONES (Assistant Secretary, Geological Society). Letter to Sir William Jardine (1853) [53] CHURCHILL BABINGTON (1821-89) (clergyman, Disney Professor of Archaeology, 1865-80; writer, editor). Letter to Sir William Jardine (1855) [54] JAMES HARDY...

Dates: 1848-1854

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Alfred Newton Papers

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