Papers. 1843.

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Papers. 1843.

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Playing cards illustrated with pen and ink to incorporate the card designations into pictures. Photocopies of 2 letters dated 1843 from Cotton to his c̀€ousin' Robert describing his voyage to Australia and describing the country. Proofs of sketches of birds.

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Cotton, John, 1801-1849

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He was born in Balham Hill, Clapham Common, London in 1802 and died on 15th December, 1849. Educated University of Oxford (law), he arrived in Australia in 1843. He had published books on song birds in Great Britain and continued his ornithological studies in Victoria, publishing his results as a list of Victorian birds in the Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science in 1848. He was made a Fellow, Royal Zoological Society for his work on birds. His planned book on the birds of Port Phillip, illustra...