Geologists, Mineralogists and Palaeontologists, chiefly 19th century English and French

Figures represented include: Sir W. Boyd Dawkins F.R.S. (1837-1929) (nos.13-14); Jacques le Brigant (1720-1804) (no.15); Otto Buchner (fl.1868) (no.16); Lowry Egerton Cole, 4th Earl of Enniskillen (1845-1924) (no.17); J.S. Ersch (1766-1828) (nos.29-30); Hans Bruno Geinitz (1814-1900) (nos.40-41); Robert Godwin-Austen (1808-1884) (no.43); George B. Greenough (1778-1855) (no.46); Thomas Hawkins (1810-1889) (nos.49-51; no.49 is addressed to William Clift and no.50 to Richard Owen); Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829-1884) (nos.54-56; no.55 addressed to Sir Charles Lyell); Thomas McKenny Hughes (d.1917) (nos.57-58); Joseph Beete Jukes (1811-1869) (no.61); A. Kirchhoff (1838- ) (no.63); Hugh Miller (1802-1856) (no.74); E.T. Newton (1840-1930) (no.79); James Nicol (1810-1879) (nos.80-81); John Percy (1817-1889) (no.84); Sir Joseph Prestwich (1812-1896) (nos.87-90); Mercel de Serres (1780-1862) (no.100); H.E. Strickland (1811-1853) (no.103); William S. Symonds (1818-1887) (nos.104-105); William Topley (1841-1894) (no.123); Thomas Webster (1773-1844) (nos.115-116); William Whitaker (1836-1925) (no.117); and Samuel Pickworth Woodward (1821-1865) (no.122).

1753-1906

122 items

Material held in alphabetical order of author.

Described in typescript supplements to the Library's published manuscript catalogues, the descriptions being compiled by Richard Palmer, Keith Moore, Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton.