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Total number of records: 778

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Books and printed items749
Archives28
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
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
Italy6

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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From 1700340
From 1800247
From 1900132

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Up to 1899285
Up to 1999140
Archive Collection:
MS 1329
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...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Dalton
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 Collection:
BC MS 19c Gosse
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...
Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1982/2
1876-1904
Archive Sub-collection:
MS 235
1878-1904
The volumes also contain many loose papers and documents, often addressed to the "Rev. E. Armitage"
Archive File:
MS 186
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
1835-1840
Comprises transcription and illustrations
Archive Art File:
MS 196
c.1840-1890
Comprises above 124 coloured drawings and a large number of outline and detail drawings of the general
Archive File:
MS 205
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
1887
Covers works published between ca.1811-1893
Archive File:
MS 207
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
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