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Sources Guides list
Sources Guide: Animals: general and miscellaneous
Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue
In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk
Ars divinandi: includes drawings of birds and a bat, mid-C15th MS.79
Brunorus Petreus: [? of Milan], fragmentary notes on zoology, etc, 1566-82 MS.5426/13/1-15
Lectures on Natural Philosophy: Biology: animal life, mid C17th MS.MSL/44/4
A Spinney: Medical compendium includes pen-drawings of animals, C17th MS.757
W Cole: A minute book of heads of promiscuous notions on observations of things vegetable animall and minerall, 1692-5 MS.1708
Monro's Lectures on Comparative Anatomy: Dissection of dog, calf (fœtus in utero), cock, kestrel, fishes, c. 1735 MS.MSL/27/3, 39/1
Herbal: including illustrations of animals, some mythical, mid-C18th MS.2828
Actions of Animals: C18th MS.MSL/40/5
M Folkes: reports to Royal Society, including observations of fauna, 1745-8, MSS 1302, 2391-2, 5403
R E F de Réamur: Divers means for preserving dead birds [and other fauna], 1748 MS.2392
W F Shrapnell: A dissertation on animal digestion, 1787 MS.4565
G Buffon: 'Histoire naturelle des animaux terrestres, aquatiques et volatiles', with water-colour drawings of animals, late C18th MS.1416
A-J-A Bonpland: student notes from Montpellier on zoology MS.Amer 103
J Velázquez Cardenas y León: natural history observations of the Valley of Mexico, including fauna, 1790 MS.Amer 114
Ornithology: Twelve water-colour drawings of exotic birds, with short descriptions, 1793 MS.3721
Viscount Nelson: 2 letters concerning live animal supplies for the Victory, 1794, 1804, MS.7362/1-2
A Brongniart: Cours élémentaire d'Histoire naturelle (Zoologie), 1796 MS.1362
G Paterson: Certificates of honorary membership of the Board of Agriculture, illustrated with farm animals, 1798, 1810 MS.5405
Common-Place Books: extracts and notes, including on agriculture, zoology, c. 1805 MSS 1746-7
W Prout: notes for lectures on animal chemistry, extracts on animal physiology and heat, 1813-5 MS.4016-7
Mr Bartram: on American Birds, 1813 MS.Amer 109
Sir E Sabine: observations of birds, on the Niagara frontier of Canada and in the Arctic during Parry's 1819-20 expedition, 1813-20 MS.Amer 110-1
A E R A Serres: correspondence with naturalists and zoologists, 1815-64 MS.7615/1-22
E V Mainwaring: commonplace book includes illustrations of birds, 1820-35 MS.7740
J B Vitalis: Cours d'Histoire naturelle ... 2e Cahier: Zoologie, Mammifères, 1814-5 MS.4947
G Smith: manuscript on his collections, illustrated with coloured drawings of insects and animals, 1828 MS.4634
P Savi: professor of zoology; 13 letters (in Italian), 1829-61 MS.7560/7-20
Rev W D Fox: photocopies of letters to and about him, mainly re ornithology, c.1830-1935 MS.8964
Lord Lister: sketchbook with drawings of birds and animals, 1831-4 MS.3298
T Yarrell: letters, principally on matters of natural history, 1832-52, n.d. MS.8007/74
A Ricord: note on a Martinique bird, 1837 MS.7469/81A
Sir R Quain: Notes from R E Grant's lectures on zoology and comparative anatomy, 1838 MS.6168
F Martorell y Peña: notes on Zoology, etc, in Spanish, c. 1840-70 MS.3489
J Gould: letters on Australian natural history, especially birds, 1840-56 MS.7830/15-20
C G Ehrenberg: 'On numerous Animals of the Chalk Formation which are still to be found in the living state', with notes, etc, by G C Wallich, 1842-65 MS.4970a
E Adams: notebook includes ink sketches of Arctic birds, 1850-1 MS.Amer 108
H M Morgan: coloured crayon drawings of microscope slides illustrating the respiration and circulation in animals, 1859-60 MS.1717/7
G Rolleston: correspondence, 1860-1885, n.d, reflects his interest in zoology MSS 6119, 7494
A B Farn: notes on birds [?of Jamaica] among notes on anatomy and practice of medicine, c. 1860s MS.2337
William Job Collins: scrapbook relating to his campaign against smallpox vaccination, 1860s-70s, includes numerous cuttings on fox-hunting and horse-racing MS.7626
T H Huxley: correspondence with naturalists, 1861-94 MS.7975
J T Gray: notebook kept as P&O ship's surgeon includes observations on natural history, sketches of birds, snakes, etc, 1862-88 MS.5875
A R Wallace: letters on natural history (Asia, Pacific, Australia), 1863-1910 MS.7830/54-9
A Moquin-Tandon: summary of his work in comparative anatomy and zoology, C 19th MS.7346/15
F D Roulin: sketches of dogs and horses, 1865 MS.7548/99-100
Histology: drawings and descriptions of the microscopical examination of pathological specimens from animal subjects, c. 1875 MS.2841
H H Hoffert: sketchbooks, 'Vertebrated Animals. Biology and Natural History. Aves and Mammalia', 1876-7 MSS 2851-2
A Wilson: notes on Prof T H Huxley's zoology lectures, Edinburgh, 1876 MS.5017
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: papers of Sir David and Lady Bruce include a volume of drawings of `Mediterranean surface animals tow-netted round Malta', 1884-9 WTI/RST
L B Aldrich-Blake: Notes and illustrations on basic plant and animal histology, 1886-1925 MS.5793
Lady Lister: diary includes birds seen during visit to Wiesbaden, sketch of gull, 1892-3 MS.3297
Sir T Lewis: diary of hunting trip to Norway, 1892, photos and article relating to interest in ornithology, 1939, n.d. PP/LEW
Sir Frederick Treves: correspondence, 1898–1913, includes letter discussing nestboxes available from the RSPB MS.7714/11
Wellcome Archive: personal papers of Sir Henry Wellcome include correspondence with the Zoological Society, 1889-1903 WA/HSW; some material among the archives of the Historical Medical Museum, 1899-1985, on zoological specimens WA/HMM
Polar exploration: poems, C W Hill, To a Sea-Bird lying in a case in the Bird Museum, University of Texas, A J Cleator, The Eskimo Dogs, C19th or C20th, MS.7487/13, 15
E M Holmes: 'Economic Botany', list of plants used as food for domestic animals, c. 1880; 'Insects of the British Isles', c. 1905-15; 'Injurious insects' (includes some injurious animals), 1905-27 MS.2871, 2882, 2885
D G Lillie: notebooks on zoology, Birmingham University and Cambridge, 1903-10; biological notebook and whale log as marine zoologist on Antarctic expeditions, 1910-13; one of his geology notebooks includes zoology notes of T N Winning, 1903 MSS 3259-67, 3281-3, 3275
Sir E A Sharpey Schafer: Papers, notes and correspondence re birds and migration, 1904-7 PP/ESS
W P Turner: 'Curious creatures in zoology', c. 1905 MS.4879
Sir Raymond Priestley: Notes on animal, bird, plant, and insect life in the Antarctic, 1908-12 MS.3996
Eskimo Dogs: article describing breeding Eskimo dogs in Grove Park, 1912 MS.7487/9
C M Donovan: List of birds in Dunduan Compound (Madras), [1913] MS.2208
E T Booth: 12 British birds: illustrations with notes, 1917 MS.1326
C P Blacker: papers reflect his interest in ornithology and nature conservation, 1920s-1974 PP/CPB
J R Hutchinson and W H Bradley: Papers relating to slaughterhouses, knackers yards, meat inspection, 1920s-30s PP/JRH
George Cuthbert Mura M'Gonigle: file on goat-keeping and goat breeding, c.1930s PP/GMG/B.27
K Harman: diary while on British Medical Association Round the World Tour includes natural history observations, 1935 MS.7394
Prof J M Robson: Draft history of the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh [post 1945] GC/43
Sir A S Parkes: Papers relating to poultry science and the British Egg Marketing Board, 1960-70, papers relating to the International Symposium on Comparative Biology of Reproduction in Mammals, 1963-7, correspondence and reports from the Nuffield Unit of Tropical Animal Ecology (Uganda), 1968-82 PP/ASP
Sir John Ridley Pattison: papers relating to his work with the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC), 1994-c.2009, PP/JPN
See also leaflets 'Veterinary Medicine, Animal Diseases, Zoonoses' ( pre-1800 and post-1800) and Animals: Medical And Scientific Use of
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