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Lee, Henry (1826-1888)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5376-5401

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Lee, Henry (1826-1888)

Date(s): 1866-1887

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 739 items

Name of creator(s): Lee | Henry | 1826-1888 | naturalist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Henry Lee was naturalist to the Brighton Aquarium and a Fellow of the Linnean, Geological and Zoological Societies.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters received by Henry Lee, naturalist, 1866-1887.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged by correspondent.

Conditions governing access:

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.

Finding aids:

Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Glendining's 22-25 Aug. 1932, lot 86 and 26-27 Sept. 1932, lot 408. A further 284 items were acquired separately.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Anatomy, comparative | Anatomy | Biology
Engineers | Scientists | Scientific personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Forensic medicine | Medical sciences
Geologists | Scientists | Scientific personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Histology | Biology
Meteorologists | Scientists | Scientific personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Microscopes | Laboratory equipment | Scientific equipment | Equipment
Naturalists | Scientists | Scientific personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Playwrights | Writers | Authors
Societies | Associations | Organizations
Zoologists | Scientists | Scientific personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Microscopy x Microscopes
Engineering
Engineering personnel
Geology
Legal theory
Meteorology

Personal names
Lee | Henry | 1826-1888 | naturalist

Corporate names

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