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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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A series of lectures by Alfred Newton on the following subjects: Protozoa, Polypi, Acalephae, Echinodermata, Vermes, Crustacea, Arachnida, Mollusca, and Mammalia (115 folios). There is an accompanying note by Charles M. Newton, 11 July 1907.

Scope and Contents [1-12] Notes on the dodo. [13] Statement respecting certain sales of birds' eggs, 29 NOV 1864. [14] AN[?], humorous writing The seal saga: done into dasent English by an ancient mariner, n.d. [15] AN, MS copy of George R. Gray's The genera of birds. [16] AN, MS copy of part of T.T. Kaup, Monograph of the falconidae, systematically arranged, 1854, with notes from J.H. Gurney's copy of the book [17] Copy of Schlegel's description of the Norway falcon, Falco gyrfalco. [18] 'The Iceland or jer...

Scope and Contents [1-4] Reviews [1-2] 'The charm of natural history'; 'Bell's Selborne', Spectator, 13 JUL 1878. [3] 'Gilbert White's Selborne', Saturday Review, 10 SEP 1887. [4] 'Gilbert White as a naturalist', Saturday Review, 24 SEP 1887. [5] Richard Hooper, 'Gilbert White of Selborne', first proof of article for Temple Bar, subsequently cut down and published in LV, pp. 524-42 (APR 1879). [6-7] Newton's article on White in DNB, 1900. Drafts of opening and bibliography. [8-26] Notes probably for DNB...

Scope and Contents 6/1/1 Vol. 1 of Yarrell's 3rd edn, 1856. [6/1/2] AN, list of species from Gould's Birds of Europe. [6/1/3] Newscutting, review of A history of British birds. By the late W. Yarrell. Fourth edition, revised to the end of the Picidae by …Newton … continued by Howard Saunders, Part XV (London, 1882). [6/1/4] Prospectus for 4th edn. [6/1/5] Rules for zoological nomenclature drawn up by the late H.E. Strickland … at the instance of the British Association (London, 1878). 6/2/1 Vol. 2 of...

Scope and Contents [1] SIR HENRY WENTWORTH ACLAND (1815-1900) (physician, Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, 1858-94, Radcliffe Librarian 1851-1900). Letter (1872) [2-12] ANDREW LEITH ADAMS (1827-82) (Professor of Zoology, Dublin, 1873-78, Professor of Natural History, Cork, 1878-82). Letters (1870-76) [13] WILLIAM ADAMSON (builder, Dumfries). Letter (1879) [14] JAMES ADLAND (Engraving Printing & Lithographic Offices, Queen Street). Letter to John Van Voorst (1869) [15-16] GEORGE ADRIAN (dealer in...

Scope and Contents [1-21] CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON (1808-95) (archaeologist, writer; Professor of Botany 1861-95). Letters (1857-82) [22-61] CHURCHILL BABINGTON (1821-89) (clergyman, Disney Professor of Archaeology 1865-80; writer, editor). Letters (1875-87) [62] ANNA BABINGTON (wife of Churchill Babington). Letter (1886) [63-64] F.W. BACKHOUSE (Mercier, Strettell & Backhouse, London). Letters (1876) [65-85] JAMES BACKHOUSE (1825-90) (geologist, botanist). Letters (1882-86) [86-97] JAMES BACKHOUSE...

Scope and Contents [1-2] WILLIAM HAY CALDWELL (1859-1941) (embryologist, writer). Letters (1882-86) [3-6] EDWARD CAMBRIDGE-PHILLIPS, transferred to Phillips [7-11] JOHN M. CAMPBELL (Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow). Letters (1881-85) [12] RALPH CANN (Resident Medical Officer, Infirmary, Plymouth). Letter (1887) [13] JAMES M. CAREY (Alten Mining Association). Letter to Edward Newton (1857) [14] PHILIP HERBERT CARPENTER(1852-91) (palaeontologist, zoologist). Letter (1882) [15] EDWARD B. CARTER (Royal Zoological...

Scope and Contents [1-18] JOHN JAMES DALGLEISH (1836-1916) (landowner). Letters (1875-86) [19-37] WILLIAM SWEETLAND DALLAS (1824-90) (entomologist, translator). Letters (1865-71) [38-39] ROBERT DAMON (1814-89) (palaeontologist, geologist, writer). Letters to and from Alfred Newton (1886-88) [40-41] ROBERT FERRIS DAMON (1845-1929) (son of Robert Damon; natural history dealer). Letters (1887) [42-52] CHARLES GEORGE DANFORD (1843-1928) (barrister, naturalist, collector). Letters (1867-79) [53-64] CHARLES ROBERT...

Scope and Contents [1] JOHN PARSONS EARWAKER (1847-95) (antiquary). Letter (1870) [2-24] ALFRED EDWIN EATON (1844-1929) (clergyman). Letters (1868-79) [25-26] JOHN EDWIN EDDISON (1842-1929) (Professor of Medicine, Leeds University). Letters (1875) [27-31] JAMES THOMAS EDGE (Strelley Hall, Nottingham). Letters (1853-64) [32] WILLIAM EDKINS (Bristol). Letter (1884) [33-34] THOMAS EDWARD (1814-86) (naturalist, writer). Letters (1872-79) [35] LEWIS EDWARDES. Letter (1875) [36] CHARLES JOHN ELLICOTT (1819-1905)...

Scope and Contents [1] J. AUSTIN FABB (Reader, Cambridge Chronicle). Letter (1877) [2] CHARLES AKEN FAIRBRIDGE (1824-93) (South African lawyer, bibliophile). Letter (1867) [3-10] JOHN FARR (1819-67) (clergyman). Letters (1853-66) [11-12] W. FARRER (Cambridge: natural history dealer?). Letters (1860) [13-14] BENJAMIN FAWCETT (1808-93). (bookseller, printer; invented colour printing technique, illustrated and printed F.O. Morris's British birds, 1851-57). Letters (1854-55) [15] HENRY FAWCETT (1833-84) (Professor...

Scope and Contents [1-2] ROBERT J. GABBETT (Kilkee, Co. Clare, clergyman). Letters (1881) [3-16] HANS FRIEDRICH GADOW (1855-1928) (Strickland Curator, Museum of Zoology, 1884-1928; Reader in morphology of vertebrates). Letters (1882-89) [17-20] W[ILLIAM?] GALLOWAY (Edinburgh). Letters (1884) [21-23] SIR FRANCIS GALTON (1822-1911) (scientist). Letters (1864-75) [24-25] 6TH VISCOUNT GALWAY (GEORGE EDWARD ARUNDELL MONCKTON-ARUNDELL) (1805-76). Letters (1872) [26] 7TH VISCOUNT GALWAY (GEORGE EDMUND MILNES...

Scope and Contents [1-3] SIR JOHN FRANCIS JULIUS VON HAAST (1824-87) (Geologist, explorer; Governor, Canterbury Province, New Zealand, 1861- ; Commissioner to Indian and Colonial Exhibition, 1885). Letters (1886) [4-22] ALFRED CORT HADDON (1855-1940) (anthropologist; Professor of Zoology, Royal College of Science, Dublin 1880-1901; University Lecturer in Ethnology, Cambridge, 1900, Reader 1909-25). Letters (1881-86) [23-28] HENRY HADFIELD (Ventnor, Isle of Wight). Letters (1859-72) [29] JOHN PLEYDELL WILTON...

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[1-3] GEORGE GREEN IANSON (1842-95) (solicitor, Wakefield). Letters (1877) [4-9] LEONARD HOWARD LOYD IRBY (1836-1905) (lieutenant-colonel, ornithologist). Letters (1875-85) [10] JAMES ISAACSON (1817- ) (clergyman). Letter to Edward Newton (1857)

Scope and Contents [1-2] HENRY JACKSON (1839-1921) (Fellow of Trinity 1864-1921, Regius Professor of Greek 1906-21). Letter (1871) [3-9] HARRY BERKELEY JAMES (1846-92) (merchant, ornithologist). Letters (1886) [10-11] EDWARD W. JANSON (natural history dealer and bookseller, London). Letters (1871-82) [12] SIR WILLIAM JARDINE (1800-74) (7th Baronet, naturalist). Letter (1862) [13-14] J.W. JEANS (Grantham). Letters (1879) [15-16] SIR RICHARD CLAVERHOUSE JEBB (1841-1905) (Professor of Greek, Glasgow, 1875-89;...

Scope and Contents [1-2] ARTHUR R. KELL (Bramham, Tadcaster, Yorks). Letters (1867) [3-25] SIR JOHN SCOTT KELTIE (1840-1927) (geographer; sub-editor of Nature 1873- ; librarian, Royal Geographical Society, 1885). Letters (1874-86) [26-31] ALEXANDER CLARK-KENNEDY (Guards officer). Letters (1867-80) [32-49] ROBERT KENT (natural history dealer, St. Leonard's on Sea). Letters to Edward Newton (1852-59) [50-60] WILLIAM SAVILLE KENT (1845-1908) (marine biologist, curator, writer). Letters (1868-82) [61-71] PHILIP...

Scope and Contents [1-3] BEEBEE BOWMAN LABREY (1817-82) (natural history dealer, Manchester; entomologist). Letters (1871) [4] HENRY LAMB (Maidstone). Letter (1882) [5] JOHN J. LAMONT (Knockdow, Argyllshire). Letter (1872) [6] HERBERT LANGTON (Medical Officer, Brighton & Hove Dispensary). Letter (1881) [7-24] SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER (1847-1929) (Jodrell Professor of Zoology, University College London, 1874-91; Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford 1891-98; Keeper of Zoology, British Museum,...

Scope and Contents [1] ALEXANDER MacALISTER (1844-1919) (Professor of Anatomy, 1883-1919). Letter (1884) [2-3] SIR DONALD McALISTER (1854-1934) (Fellow of St. John's, 1877-1934; President, General Medical Council, 1904-31; Vice-Chancellor, Glasgow University, 1907-29). Letters (1879) [4-5] W. EDWARD MacANDREW (London). Letters (1873) [6-7] ANGUS MacARTHUR (Glasgow). Letters (1862) [8-190] GEORGE McARTHUR (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Edinburgh. Church of Scotland minister?). Letters to Alfred Newton (1875-86);...

Scope and Contents [1] NATURE, EDITOR OF. Letter (1893) [2-11] EDWARD NEALE (1833-1904) (bird artist, illustrator). Letters (1870-87) [12-14] WILLIAM HENRY NEALE (1857- ) (surgeon). Letters (1882) [15] A.E. NEATE (Stratford, Essex). Letter (1877) [16-17] JOHN GUDGEON NELSON (1818-82) (clergyman). Letters (1877) [18-21] THOMAS HUDSON NELSON (1856-1916) (ornithologist, writer). Letters, paper 'Pallas's sand in N. Yorkshire' (1888) [22-29] SAMUEL TARRATT NEVILL (1837-1921) (Bishop of Dunedin, New Zealand,...

Scope and Contents [1] EDWARD F. O'BRIEN (Leadenhall Street, London). Letter (1865) [2-5] M.R. O'MALY. Letters (1868) [6-8] JAMES DOUGLAS OGILBY (1853-1925) (ichthyologist, taxonomist). Letters (1876-81) [9-10] FERGUS MENTEITH OGILVIE (1862-1918) (ophthalmic surgeon). Letters (1888-91) [11] THOMAS OLDHAM (1816-78) (Professor of Geology, Trinity College Dublin, 1845-50; Superintendant, Geological Survey of India, 1850-76). Letter (1874) [12] OLE THEODOR OLSEN (1838-1925) (writer, publisher; secretary, Marine...

Scope and Contents [1] CHARLES A. PAGE (brother-in-law of S.F. Coues). Letter (1871) [2] BARON JOHAN AXEL PALMéN (1845-1919) (Finnish zoologist, professor). Letter (1888) [3-6] J.E. PALMER (Lucan, Dublin). Letters (1877) [7-14] JAMES A. PANTON (Wareham, Dorset). Letters to Alfred Newton (1875-81), letters to him, from Alex Luckham (1875), Edward Hart (1876) [15-17] JANE ELLEN PANTON (1848-1923) (poet, Fellow of Zoological Society; wife of James A. Panton). Letters (1881-83) [18] WILLIAM R. PAPE(Gun & Rifle...

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[1-3] JOHN THOMAS QUEKETT (1815-61) (histologist; Demonstrator, then Professor of Histology, Royal College of Surgeons 1844-61). Letter (1859) [4-6] WILLIAM QUEKETT (1802-88) (clergyman, philanthropist). Letters (1877)

Scope and Contents [1-5] JOHN RAE (1813-93) (Arctic explorer). Letters (1879) [6-12] BEAVEN RAKE (surgeon, Fordingbridge, Salisbury). Letters (1865-71) [13] EDWARD PIERSON RAMSAY (1842-1916) (Australian ornithologist). Telegram (1883) [14-15] HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY (1851-1917) (clergyman). Letters to and from Alfred Newton (1889) [16] HERBERT EDWARD RAWSON (1852-1924) (Colonel, Royal Engineers). Letter (1879) [17-67] HENRY REEKS (1838-82) (botanist). Letters (1863-80) [68-75] JAMES REEVE (1833-1920)...