Papers, 1850-1864.

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Papers, 1850-1864.

Collection includes manuscript documents used in the preparation of the fourth edition of "A History of Infusoria." Includes the holograph manuscript; 250 letters signed by John Thomas Arlidge, William Archer, Fred Kitton, John Ralfs, and William Crawford Williamson; and detailed information about diatoms, desmids and rotatoria. Also includes an index to correspondence, 1856-1862.

0.8 c.f. (7 volumes).

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Arlidge, J. T. (John Thomas), 1822-1899

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Ralfs, John

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Williamson, William Crawford, 1816-1895

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Epithet: naturalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x0000f3 Epithet: of Leeds British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x0000f7 ...

Pritchard, Andrew, 1804-1882

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Andrew Pritchard, a microsopist, was born in London on December 14,1804. After an apprenticeship he began a business as an optician. In 1826 Pritchard successfully made a single lens out of a diamond, and later from a sapphire and a ruby. Pritchard was widely published as a microbiologist and on works related to use of the microscope: Natural History of Animalcules (1834), "Micrographia:Essays on Microscopes" (1837), and "History of Infusoria," "Living and Fo...

Archer, W. Andrew (William Andrew), 1894-

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William Andrew Archer (1894-1973) was a botanist and plant collector. After serving in France during World War I, Archer earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1926. Most of his professional career was spent in various positions with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), including Curator of the National Arboretum Herbarium from 1938 to 1964. After his retirement from the USDA, Archer was appointed Research Associate in the Department of Botany, National Museum of Natu...

Kitton, Frederic George, 1856-1904

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English writer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : St. Albans, Herts., to Egan Mew, 1898 Feb. 26 and Mar. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270491986 ...