Joan Webb - transcripts of the letters of George Caley, 1795-1825 (transcribed ca. 1990-ca. 1995)
Joan Webb - transcripts of the letters of George Caley, 1795-1825 (transcribed ca. 1990-ca. 1995)
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ca. 1990-ca. 1995
Call Numbers
MLMSS 6361
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Physical Description
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1 box - 0.18 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
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Letters of George Caley transcribed by Dr Joan Webb and her assistants. Correspondents include Sir Joseph Banks, Robert Brown, Philip Gidley King and George Suttor.
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Full title
Joan Webb - transcripts of the letters of George Caley, 1795-1825 (transcribed ca. 1990-ca. 1995)
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Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Joan Webb in 1997
Administrative / Biographical history
George Caley was born in England in 1770. He developed an interest in botany and after working in Kew Gardens he was appointed by Sir Joseph Banks in 1798 to go to New South Wales as a collector. He arrived in Sydney in 1800 and spent the next ten years collecting natural history specimens and exploring. He journeyed as far afield as Van Diemen's...
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MLMSS 6361
Record Identifier
YolEeP29
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YolEeP29
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Reference code
152298
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