'Catalogus Insectorum' manuscript list of insect specimens in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks ref...
'Catalogus Insectorum' manuscript list of insect specimens in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks referenced in Johann C. Fabricius' 'Species Insectorum' 1781, in the hand of Daniel Solander
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ca. 1781
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MLMSS 8034
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0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder)
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Copyright status : In copyright
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1. The list (Catalogus Insectorum), in black and red ink, comprises 18 pages, and is a register arranged in columns of insect specimens referenced in Fabricius's 'Species Insectorium' marked off with a tick or red underline against the hundreds of insect specimens in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks. Written on laid paper with an eighteenth centu...
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'Catalogus Insectorum' manuscript list of insect specimens in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks referenced in Johann C. Fabricius' 'Species Insectorum' 1781, in the hand of Daniel Solander
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Purchased from Hordern House, November 2010
Collection history
'Catalogus Insectorum' was offered for sale by bibliographer Rolf Du Rietz of Swedish antiquarian bookseller Thulins Antikvariat to Docent Bengt-Olof Landin, Zoological Institute, Lund in September 1962. He states that the catalogue previously belonged to the Swedish scientist Gabriel Marklin (1777-1857).
Administrative / Biographical history
Daniel Solander (1733-1782), Swedish naturalist, was invited by Joseph Banks to join the scientific staff of the Endeavour in 1768. Later he became Banks' secretary and librarian making further expeditions with him to the Isle of Wight, Scotland and Iceland. Later Solander was appointed Keeper of Natural History at the British Museum.
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MLMSS 8034
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YK5QLMxn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK5QLMxn
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930154
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