Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de (1810-1892), French physician, anthropologist and zoologist

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1843-1886

61 items.

Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), September 1930 (acc.63925) and August 1932 (acc.65656); Desgranges, Paris, June 1929, October 1930 (acc.63459), February 1931 (acc.64689), May 1931 (acc.64702), September 1932 (acc.65659) and November 1932 (acc.65667); Stevens, London, March 1930 (acc.56583); an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); either Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932 (acc.69292). No.25 transferred to the Library from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1964 as part of the French Collection of books and manuscripts, whose earlier provenance is not recorded (acc.311223). No acquisition details noted for nos.32 and 58.

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