IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0814 ZCAB
Held at: Zoological Society of London
Title: Buckland family papers
Date(s): 1824-1933
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Buckland | William | 1784-1856 | geologist and Dean of Westminster
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1984; educated: Blundell's School, Tiverton, 1797; Winchester College, 1798-1801; Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1801-1804; fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1808; ordained as a priest, 1808; reader in mineralogy, 1813; reader in geology, 1818; Royal Society's Copley medal, 1822; canonry of Christ Church, Oxford, 1825; dean of Westminster and rector of Islip, 1845; died 1856.
Publications: Geology and Mineralogy (1836)
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Buckland family, 1824-1933, including letters from William Buckland; letters to William Buckland from various correspondents, including A Sedgwick, G Stephenson, Mary Anning, WJ Broderip; invitation card from Sir Robert Peel to invite William Buckland to a dinner with the King of Saxony; press cuttings; photographs of William, Mary, and Frank Buckland; portrait of Elizabeth Buckland; invitation to an 'At Home' with Lady Peel; letter from CW Gordon about article in 'Sunday Companion', 1933; letters to Mary Ann Buckland from Bompas; letters to WB from Mary Morland (before her marriage to WB); letters to Frank Buckland, including G von Bunsen about the International Fishery Exhibition in Berlin, 1880.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Available. Please make an appointment in advance of your visit.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donation.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry transcribed by Sarah Drewery, April 2011.
Date(s) of descriptions: April 2011