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Baird, William (1803-1872)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0814 ZAAB

Held at: Zoological Society of London

Title: Baird, William (1803-1872)

Date(s): 1823-1833

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 vols

Name of creator(s): Baird | William | 1803-1872 | zoologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 8 January 1803; educated at the high school, Edinburgh, and studied medicine at Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris; surgeon with the East India Company, 1823; visited India and China five times, availing himself of every possibility to pursue his interest in natural history; returned to Britain, 1829; helped to establish the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club; private medical practice; appointment in the zoological department of the British Museum, 1841; FRS, 1867; died, 1872.
Publications: Cyclopaedia of the Natural Sciences (1858)

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Journals of William Baird, 1823-1833, comprising journal of voyages to the West Indies, South America, East Indies and China, Cape of Good Hope and St Helena, from 1823 to 1831, in the Barque Charles and H C Ship Berwickshire and voyage to and from China, in H C Ship Berwickshire, in 1832 and 1833.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

In two volumes as outlined in the scope and content.

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:

ALLIED MATERIALS

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Scientific expeditions | Field work | Research work
Travel abroad | Travel
Zoology

Personal names
Baird | William | 1803-1872 | zoologist

Corporate names

Places
Cape of Good Hope | Province of the Western Cape | South Africa | Southern Africa
China | East Asia
East Indies | South East Asia
Saint Helena | Southern Africa
Caribbean
South America