IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MS.8131
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: French Naturalists: correspondence, 1816-1846
Date(s): 1816-1846
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 126 files
Name of creator(s): Various
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Unknown
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence between French naturalists and entomologists, 1816-1846.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, French, German
System of arrangement:
Each set of correspondence is in an individual paper folder, with the name of the author of the letters, and the title of their occupation. Arranged alphabetically, by surname of the author of the letter.
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:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased from Desgranges, Paris, June 1931.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
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: Jul 2008