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Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Dalton
James Dalton, correspondence
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...
Archive File:
MS 186
Notes from various authors on the Desmidiaceae; compiled by William Barwell Turner
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...
Archive File:
MS 187
Four papers on microscopic Algae, by August Carl Joseph Corda, copied from Almanach de Carlsbad
1835-1840
Comprises transcription and illustrations
Archive Art File:
MS 196
Original drawings from the microscope, (of the natural order, Acarina) by the late Tuffen West, F.L.S.
c.1840-1890
Comprises above 124 coloured drawings and a large number of outline and detail drawings of the general
Archive File:
MS 205
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
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...
Archive File:
MS 206
Bibliography of the Desmidieae, compiled by William Barwell Turner
1887
Covers works published between ca.1811-1893
Archive File:
MS 207
Memoirs and memoranda on the Desmidieae; compiled by William Barwell Turner
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...
Archive File:
MS 208
Classification of the Desmidieae, by William Barwell Turner and others
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
Archive File:
MS 209
Index to the microscopic cabinet of W.B. Turner
1876
Contains an index to the volume, followed by many autograph manuscript lists of species or types of 'Animalia', 'Vegetabilia', 'Minerals, & c.', and 'Economic products', written in March 1876, accordi...
Archive File:
MS 210
Three separate works on the Desmidiaceae, compiled by William Barwell Turner
1885
Contains: (1) Paul Friedrich Reinsch: Contributiones ad algologiam et fungologiam, Vol.I: Desmideacearum notae; manuscript copy by W. Barwell Turner, with O. Nordstedt's "Einige Bemerkungen über die ...
Archive File:
MS 211
Notes on algal memoirs by various authors, including some illustrations, compiled by William Barwell Turner
c.1888
A letter from Mr Greenhow to Mr Turner, dated Nov. 29 [1905] is inserted at the end in a pocket
Archive File:
MS 212
Micro-notes, made in 1872-82 by A.W. Wills [and] Original sketches of Desmidieae by A.W. Wills, from various sources, 1869-82
1869-1882
Includes an obituary for Mr A.W. Wills at the end of the volume extracted from the Birmingham Daily Post for Monday, 7th December, 1903