Milne-Edwards, Henri, (1800-1885) and his son Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), French zoologists

Miscellaneous material formerly held in the Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1829-1897

47 items

Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700) and October 1931 (acc.64700); an unknown vendor in Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Desgranges, Paris, October 1930 (acc.63459), February 1931 (acc.64689), May 1931 (acc.64702), September 1932 (acc.65659), November 1932 (acc.65667) and January 1933 (acc.66034); Sotheby's, London, February 1931 (acc.56317); probably purchased from Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); either from Desgranges, Paris, January 1936 or Glendining, London, circa 1932 (acc.69292); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection. Nos.42 and 45 from the French Collection of books and manuscripts transferred from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum to the Library in 1964, whose earlier provenance is not recorded (acc.311223); accession details of nos.31-32 not recorded.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.