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Peskett, Geoffrey Louis (fl 1906-1922)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.3836-3839

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Peskett, Geoffrey Louis (fl 1906-1922)

Date(s): 1906-1922

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4 volumes

Name of creator(s): Peskett | Geoffrey Louis | fl 1906-1922

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Not given.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Catalogue of 616 varieties of British Lepidoptera: with a separate Index-volume. Compiler, Geoffrey Peskett's holograph manuscript. This Catalogue seems to have been begun in 1906, the latest date in Vol. III is 1922.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

4 vols. 8vo. 18 × 111/2 cm., 171/2 × 10 cm. Vols. I, II, calf bound: Vols. III, IV, half-calf. Headings in red.

Finding aids:

Described in: S A J Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1929.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Lepidoptera | Insects | Animals | Zoology
Arthropods

Personal names
Peskett | Geoffrey Louis | fl 1906-1922

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