Autograph letter signed from William Lutley Sclater, London, to James Edmund Harting [manuscript], 1916 October 29.

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Autograph letter signed from William Lutley Sclater, London, to James Edmund Harting [manuscript], 1916 October 29.

Sclater asks Harting to write a short notice of Geikie's Birds of Shakespeare. Letter addressed "Dear Harting" and signed W.L. Sclater. On letterhead of the British Ornithologists' Union c/o the Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, N.W., but with the address "10 Sloane Court SW" written below.

1 leaf ; 20 x 13 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7332263

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Sclater, William Lutley

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Epithet: zoologist; son of Philip Lutley Sclater British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000618.0x000372 ...

Geikie, Archibald, 1835-1924

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Archibald Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835. He was educated at Edinburgh High School and the University of Edinburgh. In 1855, he joined the Geological Survey of Scotland, becoming its director in 1867. Between 1871 and 1882, he was professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh, and from 1882 until his retirement in 1901, served as director general of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Geikie did much to further the study of glacial deposits in Scotland...

Harting, James Edmund, 1841-1928

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