- CA RBD BWMSS-151
- File
- Between approximately 1800 and 1900
A collection of manuscripts on a variety of topics, including geology, animal husbandry, falconry, taxidermy, etc.
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A collection of manuscripts on a variety of topics, including geology, animal husbandry, falconry, taxidermy, etc.
Blacker-Wood Manuscripts Collection
The collection consists primarily of manuscripts and typescripts of papers written on natural history topics, such as insects, birds, marine life, plants, and reptiles. Most of the documents concern the collection and cataloguing of specimens, and the identification of new species. Also included are research notes, notebooks, field notes, lecture notes, correspondence, off-prints, proofs, and galley proofs, as well as drawings and mock-ups of illustrations for printing.
The Philippines are the most heavily-represented country in the subject material of the collection, followed by other areas of South-East Asia and the South Pacific, including Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Singapore, Taiwan, the Soloman Islands, and Hawaii. There is also material representing North and Central America, including Mexico, the United States of America (especially California and Alaska), El Salvador, the Galapagos, and Canada (especially Quebec and Newfoundland). Some works also relate to China, the British Isles, Russia, Japan, New Zealand, and Socotra (Yemen).
Significant figures represented in the collection include: Richard Crittenden McGregor, A.E. Wileman, Edward Charles Stuart Baker, Frank Spaeth, Casey Albert Wood, Averil Lysaght, Harry S. Swarth, Henry Seebohm, Henry George Vennor, Roy E. Dickerson, J. Muir, and Charles Fuller Baker.
Highlights from the collection include: a manuscript copy of Joseph Banks’ journal from his 1768-1771 voyage on the Endeavour, likely made by Maria Dawson Turner; a manuscript, and several annotated typescript versions of Volume 5 of E.C. Stuart Baker’s “Fauna of British India birds”; an assortment of Casey A. Wood’s research notes; annotated proofs, galley proofs, and a mock-up of Richard C. McGregor and Elizabeth J. Marshall’s “Philippine birds for boys and girls;” and a binder of ornithological notes recorded by G.G. Ommanney and others in the Whitlock Bird Sanctuary and surrounding district near Hudson, Quebec.
Many of the manuscripts in the collection were published by the Philippine Journal of Science; also included is correspondence related to publication in the journal, especially related to editing and corrections.
The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks
MS copy of journal made by Joseph Banks during the journey of the HMS Endeavor in the South Pacific Ocean (1768–1771)
Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
Catalogue of minerals arranged according to the system of Phillips
Manuscript tables of minerals, probably lists of specimens
Banks, E. G.
Envelope addressed to Sir John Stanley of Alderley Park
Envelope with addressed to Sir John Stanley of Alderley Park, Cheshire
A collection of published papers related to various zoological topics, including birds, bats, snakes, whales
Lichtenstein, H.
Group of off-prints
Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857
Ornithological extracts from "Revue zoologique," 1833-1840
Collected issues of the "Revue Zoologique par la société cuvierienne"
Ornithological tracts: De Selys-Longchamps
A collection of published papers about birds, especially of Europe
Sélys-Longchamps, Michel-Edmond, baron de, 1813-1900
A collection of published papers related to zoological nomenclature
Strickland, H. E. (Hugh Edwin), 1811-1853