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Total number of records: 778

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Books and printed items749
Archives28
Art items1

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Brotherton Collection169
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society37
English Literature35
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections20
Herbert Read Collection10
Ripon Cathedral8
Leeds Russian Archive5
Quaker Collection2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Incunabula2

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natural history778
botany56
mineralogy39
science36
zoology22
geology22
chemistry19
natural theology17
world politics15
manners and customs15

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Ethiopia12
Egypt12
Nile River12
South America9
Selborne (England)9
Russia9
Soviet Central Asia9
Iceland8
Middle East7
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Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De (1707-1788)166
Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie81
Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie (1716-1799)81
Gueneau De Montbeillard, Philibert (1720-1785)72
Lacepede, Bernard Germaine Etienne De La Ville Sur Illon72
Gueneau De Montbeillard, Philibert72
Lacepede, Bernard Germaine Etienne De La Ville Sur Illon Comte De (1756-1825)72
Smellie, William (1740-1795)44
Smellie, William44
Gaius Plinius Secundus38

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Archive Collection

School Natural Science Society Archive

c.1903-1995

Comprises: (1) Administrative correspondence of the Society; (2) Annual and conference reports; (3) Executive Committee meetings minute books, expenses book, and receipt book; (4) Many publications of...

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James Dalton, correspondence

Dalton, James

c.1795-1824

Comprises 35 letters from James Dalton to James Sowerby, the naturalist; also, letters from W. Brunton, John Larcom, Peter Murray, and Robert Teesdale to Sowerby, and one letter from J. Wood to Dr Smi...

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Edmund Gosse Archive

Gosse family

c.1823-1954

The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...

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Yorkshire Naturalists' Union Archive

Yorkshire Naturalists' Union

1876-1904

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Notes of botanical observations, compiled by Edward Armitage

Armitage, Edward (1822-1906)

1878-1904

The volumes also contain many loose papers and documents, often addressed to the "Rev. E. Armitage"

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Notes from various authors on the Desmidiaceae; compiled by William Barwell Turner

Turner, William Barwell (1845-1917)

c.1870-1880

Contains very detailed autograph manuscript botanical and bibliographical notes on the desmidiaceae, partly listed in columns, and chiefly written in Latin, compiled by W.B. Turner between 1870 and 18...

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Four papers on microscopic Algae, by August Carl Joseph Corda, copied from Almanach de Carlsbad

Corda, August Carl Joseph

1835-1840

Comprises transcription and illustrations

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Original drawings from the microscope, (of the natural order, Acarina) by the late Tuffen West, F.L.S.

West, Tuffen (1823-1891)

c.1840-1890

Comprises above 124 coloured drawings and a large number of outline and detail drawings of the general

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Proof copies of plates for a proposed Ray Society monograph on British Desmidiaceae and a draft of a work by G.C. Wallich on Indian Desmidieae, drawn and written by William Barwell Turner

Turner, William Barwell (1845-1917)

1884-1894

The Wallich volume includes a list of his books and papers on scientific subjects written between 1858 and 1883 dated 29 December 1884. The envelope contains correspondence between Turner and Thomas W...

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Bibliography of the Desmidieae, compiled by William Barwell Turner

Turner, William Barwell (1845-1917)

1887

Covers works published between ca.1811-1893

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Memoirs and memoranda on the Desmidieae; compiled by William Barwell Turner

Turner, William Barwell (1845-1917)

1886-1887

Contains an index to the volume, followed by autograph manuscript notes written in 1886-1887 on various aspects of different species of the Desmidieae illustrated by many hand-drawn plates, some of wh...

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Classification of the Desmidieae, by William Barwell Turner and others

Turner, William Barwell (1845-1917)

c.1828-1883

Includes an extract from G.C. Wallich's "Are the desmids and diatoms simple cells" and Archer's arrangement of the Desmidieae

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