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Box MS Add.9839/19-22: Box 47

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Contains 4 Results:

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Iceland journals, 1833, 1837, 1833-1837

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9839/19
Scope and Contents 2 vols., MS 'Jurney (sic) to Iceland 10 May 1833', 'Iceland Journal Book', 1837. Pencil annotation by Alfred Newton in each, 'I gave Proctor a sovereign for this and his other Journal book'. Bequeathed by Newton to Museum of Zoology. With [2] loose notes, 'Ornithology of Iceland', two dated 1837 and 1839, in a paper cover addressed to Amos Johnson 'To be left at Mr. Hawkses Foundry Gatshead'. Also [3] 'A breaf account of a ornithological tower to Iceland in the spring 1833 and 1837 by W...
Dates: 1833-1837
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).
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Guatemalan papers, 1862-1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9839/20
Scope and Contents [1] 1 vol., carbon copies of letters to various from Guatemala, 1873-74, including P.L. SCLATER, ELLIOTT COUES, SIR JOSEPH HOOKER. Note by Alfred Newton: 'This letter book and the papers in Osbert Salvin's handwriting were received by me from Freder- ick D. Gorham in or about October 1898 – so far as I remember. AN. 20 Novr. 1905'. [2] MS account of a voyage along the coast of Belize, 1862, pp. 1-3, 9-10; 'Chapter II. Yzabel, the Mico Mountains & Quirigua'; rough draft. [3] Copy letter,...
Dates: 1862-1874
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).
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Correspondence and papers, 1810-1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9839/21
Scope and Contents [1-54] Letters to him and Robert Scales (father) [1-9] CHARLES ALFRED BURY (1808-83) (clergyman, ornithologist). Letters to John Scales (one to Borrer) (n.d.) [10] JOHN COOPER (Bungay, egg collector). Letter to John Scales (1821) [11] B. CORBETT (Piccadilly, natural history dealer?). Letter toJohn Scales (1821) [12-16] ROBERT HAMOND (1785-1831) (clergyman). Letters to John Scales (1821- 31) [17] ADRIAN HARDY HAWORTH (1767-1833) (entomologist, botanist). Letter to John Scales (1826) [18-19]...
Dates: 1810-1885
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).
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Naturalist's calendar, 1798-1810

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9839/22
Scope and Contents [1] 1 vol., Naturalists Calendar. Notes of birds, insects, plants observed at Wrabness, Essex, with dates and locations, 23 MAR 1798 – 23 JUN 1802, with occasional pressed leaves and flowers, and a pieces of snake and lizard skin, birch bark; with, at fo. 42v, species and numbers of birds shot, 1791-94, and at fo. 124v, pen sketch of ancient entrenchments on the banks of the Trent near Newark; later notes to c.1817. Offer for sale of book to John A. Harvie-Browne, by William Wesley &...
Dates: 1798-1810
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).