Bullock, William (fl. c. 1825)

Manuscript notebook entitled 'Bullock's method of preserving objects of Natural History'. The text includes sketches of a fish, butterfly and bird in the process of being preserved. The inside front cover and pages 25-end contain scribblings, recipes, poems, and rough sketches of plants, animals, buildings, people, etc. Among these the dates 1821 and 1822 are found. The B.M. Catalogue has an entry for the second edition of this work, dated 1818. The first edition presumably appeared in 1817, as this is the year mentioned in the D.N.B.

c. 1820

1 volume 40 pp. 8vo. 18 x 111/2 cm. Original paper covers.

Purchased 1929.

The author was a goldsmith, antiquary, and naturalist, and exhibited a 'Museum of Curiosities' in Liverpool in 1808 and in London 1812 to 1819, when it was sold. He went to Mexico in 1822 and 1826-27, and made a similar collection. [See the Dictionary of National Biography].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).