Naturalists

Collection of autograph letters by naturalists which are almost entirely 19th century and mainly French. Previously held in a subject file in the Autograph Letters collection.

Individuals represented include Joshua Alder (1792-1867), J.B. Audebert (1759-1802), John Blackwall (1790-1881), Merlet de la Boulaye (1736-1802), John Burroughs (1837-1921), Edward Donovan (1768-1837), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850), K.E. Eichwald (1795-1876), Edward Forbes (1815-1854), John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809-1885), Leonard Jenyns (later Leonard Blomefield) (1800-1893), Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardiere (1755-1834), J.-T. Lacordaire (1801-1870), C.A. Lesueur (1778-1846), J.-B. Lestiboudois (1797-1876), F. Levaillant (1773-1824), J.A.H. Lucas fils (1780-1829), Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893), Jean Nadault (1701-1779), Edward Newman (1801-1876), Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814-1865), Antoine Risso (1778-1849), Joseph Sabine (1770-1837), Auguste de St. Hilaire (1799-1858), Jaume St. Hilaire (1772-1849), and William Swainson (1789-1855).