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Total number of records: 4861

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	3859
Archives	1002

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
paleontology	107
botany	94
geology	79
birds	72
learned institutions and societies	71
zoology	52
fishes	49
lepidoptera	40
natural history	37
numismatics	34

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Great Britain	53
Egypt	21
Yorkshire (England)	15
Sweden	14
Denmark	13
Rome	11
Greece	10
England	9
Finland	9
United States	9

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society	99
British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology	89
British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology	85
Gray, John Edward (1800-1875)	75
Hey, William (1736-1819)	75
Gray, John Edward	75
Hey, William (1772-1844)	70
Walker, Francis (1809-1874)	65
Walker, Francis	65
Herschel, Sir John F W (1792-1871)	60

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1600	13
From 1700	148
From 1800	2447
From 1900	2189
From 2000	64

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1699	9
Up to 1799	113
Up to 1899	2306
Up to 1999	2321
Up to latest	112

Archive Collection

Louis Le Prince Collection

Le Prince, Louis Aime Augustin (1841-); Le Prince, Elizabeth (1846-); Le Prince, Adolphe (1872-1901)

26 Oct 1880-1 Apr 1900

The collection comprises papers relating to Louis Le Prince and his invention of a camera which took the first moving pictures on paper film. The papers include technical drawings and notes made by L...

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Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Archive

Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society

1774-2005

The archive holds many of the Society's business records including its bye-laws, Council minute books and correspondence. The business papers are not comprehensive, but contain papers dating from the...

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