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Total number of records: 324

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Archives224
Books and printed items62
Indexes36
Coins2

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Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society203
Brotherton Collection38
Letters Database35
English Literature34
Quaker Collection5
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse3
University Archive3
Coin Collection2
Medical Collections2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2

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english poetry3
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english literature2
marriage2
political satire, english2
quaker church buildings2
textile industry2
aquatic insects1
aquatic invertebrates1
aquatic plants1

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United States1
Warwickshire (England)1

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Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society9
Louis Compton Miall8
Miall, L C (1842-1921)8
[Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society]7
Hey, William (1736-1819)7
Husband, William Foot5
[Various]3
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3
Cooper, Thomas3
Cooper, Thomas (1743)3

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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 319-320

Issuer/creator: Licinius I (310-24)

Place: Sisak

Material: copper alloy

Title: Psalm 114

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: Spectator; [Bible]

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem on the acknowledgement of God's power by the River Jordan and

Mount Sinai when the Israelites returned from Egypt; paraphrasing Psalm 114.

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Research notes

Miall, L C (1842-1921)

1889-1894

Comprises a small leather-bound notebook entitle 'Biological Notes 1889-' The notebook is full of closely packed manuscript notes, illustrations and newspaper cuttings. The first page is inscribed L...

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Letter from Charles Darwin

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)

23 Jan 1860

Letter from Charles Darwin, probably written to R. H. Meade. It is dated 23 January. Miall's daughter Winifred has added the date 1860 in pencil. Includes a typescript with an explanation of how th...

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Dunkeld Cathedral, view from road
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Dunkeld Cathedral, view from road

Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)

08/Aug/1891

Photograph taken near Dunkeld, Perth & Kinross

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The flora of the West Riding : a list of plants observed in the West Riding of Yorkshire, (exclusive of the Ainsty) with the localities in which they have been observed. Accompanied by two maps, notes, and an appendix

Miall, L C (1842-1921); Carrington, Benjamin (1827-1893)

1862

Indexed in: Whitaker, Harold (ed.). A descriptive list of the printed maps of Yorkshire and its ridings, 1577-1900. The Yorkshire Archaeological Society record series Vol.LXXXVI for the year 1933. Lee...

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A Yorkshire moor

Miall, L C (1842-1921)

[1898]

Paper delivered at the weekly evening meeting of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on Friday, February 18, 1898.

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The surface-film of water, and its relation to the life of plants and animals

Miall, L C (1842-1921)

[1892]

Read before the weekly evening meeting of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Friday, March 4, 1892.

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Some difficulties in the life of aquatic insects

Miall, L C (1842-1921)

1893

"From the Smithsonian report for 1891."

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