British Museum (Natural History) - Dept. of Zoology - Arachnida Section correspondence, 1882-1940, a...
British Museum (Natural History) - Dept. of Zoology - Arachnida Section correspondence, 1882-1940, and R.I. Pocock correspondence, 1882-1903
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Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, 1992
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M 2708
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a. 300 p.
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Microfilm : M 2708. See contents list (10pp.) at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/277, vol. 18.
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Contents
Correspondence of successive heads of the Arachnida Section (and earlier correspondence of R.I. Pocock of the old Invertebrate Section) covering the acquisition, loan and exchange of specimens, enquiries from amateur and professional zoologists, medical personnel, furnuture dealers and others, and arachnid research. Selected correspondence filmed h...
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British Museum (Natural History) - Dept. of Zoology - Arachnida Section correspondence, 1882-1940, and R.I. Pocock correspondence, 1882-1903
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Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
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Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M2708
Microfilm. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 1992. 1...
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The Arachnida Section of the British Museum (Natural History) Department of Zoology was formally set up in 1913 when the former Invertebrate Section was split up. However correspondence in this class dates from 1904, just before the appointment of Arthur Stanley Hirst, who succeeded R.I. Pocock. Hirst was followed by Susan Finegan (1927-1936) and R...
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M 2708
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nQR2KwQ1
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432936
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