Guide to the Natural History Museum: Autograph Letters and Collections of the General Library (as filmed by the AJCP), 1809-1946

Summary

Collection number:

M2709-M2713

Creator:

British Museum of Natural History. General Library

Extent:

143 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Autograph letters or fragments of handwriting of biologists and geologists, including W.B. Clarke, Sir Edgeworth David, John B. Brazier, Robert Etheridge, Richard Daintree, Henry B. Guppy, Charles Hedley, Sir William MacGregor and Bernard Woodward.

Letters to and from malacologists 1882-1959, including Joyce Allan, Edwin Ashby, C.E. Beddome, Bernard Cotton and A.W. Powell.

Papers 1824-1898 of naturalist on HMS Blonde, Andrew Bloxam, including diary, notes and other papers relating to the voyage.

Papers of Charles Darwin, specimens collected during voyage of HMS Beagle.

Letter-book 1880-1881 of F.D. Godman concerning butterflies and other specimens from New Guinea. The recipients are A. Goldie and W.M. Macleay.

Diaries 1835-1839 and 1836-1840 of naturalist Richard B. Hinds on the voyages of HMS Sulphur with Captain E. Belcher. Subjects include sugar cane, local languages and population, flora, birds and shells.

Australian landscapes 1860-1861 by Conrad Martens.

Sowerby Family Papers 1865-1907, including letters of James E. Bryant and his wife Ellen F. Bryant to his parents, James and Charlotte Bryant, and other family members concerning voyage to Australia on the Countess of Elgin, economic conditions and specimens sent.

Letters 1856-1858 of Alfred R. Wallace to Samuel Stevens, discussing a new bird of paradise, butterflies, monkeys, and cultivation of Bali and Lombok islands.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn8065351] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

General Library, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London.

For further information see the Autograph letters and collections at the Natural History Museum.

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Contact:

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