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

Correspondence and papers of various geologists, mineralogists and palaeontologists, formerly held in a subject file in the Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1753-1906

125 items

Purchased from Hodgson's, London, November 1905 (acc.92289); from Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700) and at an unknown date before 1936 (acc.69220); from Stevens, London, January 1929 (acc.74959), July 1930 (acc.56545), March 1931 (acc.56474 and 56483); from an unknown vendor in Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); from Duhem, Montpellier, August 1930 (acc.63928); from Desgranges, Paris, May 1931 (acc.64704), September 1931 (acc.64714), November 1932 (acc.65667), October 1935 (acc.69099) and ; from Sotheby's, London, November 1931 (acc.75332), December 1931 (acc.75871), July 1932 (acc.65271), April 1933 (acc.67465) and November 1933 (acc.67468, 67469, 67472 and 67474); from Gonelli, Florence, 1934 (acc.67092); from Glendining's, London, January 1935 (acc.67974), May 1935 (acc.68608 and 68609) and August 1935 (acc.67880); either from Desgranges, Paris, January 1936 or Glendining, London, circa 1932 (acc.69294); from Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection. Accession details of nos.71-72, 100, 108-110 and 124 not recorded.

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.