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Forbes, James (1749-1819)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0814 ZAAG

Held at: Zoological Society of London

Title: Forbes, James (1749-1819)

Date(s): 1818

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Forbes | James | 1749-1819 | artist, author and traveller

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 8 May 1749, sailed in March 1765 for Bombay as an East India Company writer; appointed member of council at Anjengo, 1772; officiated as chaplain, 1775, later secretary, attached to British forces sent to assist Raghunath Rao in the Maratha civil wars; embarked for England, 1 December 1775; returned to India, 1777; returned to England, 1784; elected to the Society of Antiquaries, 1801; fellow of the Royal Society, 1803; died, 1819.
Publications: Oriental Memoirs Reflections on the Character of the Hindoos (1810)
Letters from France (2 vols., 1806)

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Bound manuscript by James Forbes entitled "Bills, Feathers, Eggs, etc., of various Birds in the Torrid Zones", 1818.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 volume

Conditions governing access:

Available. Please make an appointment in advance of your visit.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry transcribed by Sarah Drewery, April 2011. Sources: Oxford DNB.

Rules or conventions: 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: April 2011


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