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Total number of records: 556

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items443
Archives113

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
learned institutions and societies70
lepidoptera35
birds15
zoology15
fishes13
sculpture, greek11
sculpture, roman11
hemiptera10
hymenoptera10
molluscs10

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Cumberland Cave (Md)1
England1
Great Britain1
Greece1
Iran1
Pacific Ocean1
Parthia1
Syria1
Tell Sukas (Syria)1
Vietnam1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology84
British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology74
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society71
Hey, William (1736-1819)70
Hey, William (1772-1844)70
Gray, John Edward69
Gray, John Edward (1800-1875)69
Walker, Francis65
Walker, Francis (1809-1874)65
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge32

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 170012
From 1800390
From 1900148
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17997
Up to 1899350
Up to 1999177
Up to latest17

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Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society

1824-1927

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Short guide to the collections

National Museum of Science and Art (Dublin)

[ca. 1880?]

At head of title: Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Privy Council and Education.

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Smithsonian miscellaneous collections

Smithsonian Institution

v.1-151; 152, no.7. 1862-1968 Wanting: v.34, no.2 (publication no.630); 59, no.19 (2138); 60, no.20 (2251); 65, no.12 (2376); 71, no.4-6 (2545, 2578-9); 72, no.11 (2653); 76, no.12 (2786); 77, no.8-...

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The national watercraft collection

Chapelle, Howard Irving

1960

Bibliography: p. 305-310.

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A guide to the collection of minerals

Maskelyne, Nevil Story (1823-1911); British Museum (Natural History). Department of Mineralogy

1878

By N. Story Maskelyne.

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A guide to the collection of minerals

Maskelyne, Nevil Story (1823-1911); British Museum (Natural History). Department of Mineralogy

1870

By N. Story Maskelyne.

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A guide to the collection of minerals

Maskelyne, Nevil Story (1823-1911); British Museum (Natural History). Department of Mineralogy

1862

By N. Story Maskelyne.

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Louis Le Prince Collection

Le Prince, Louis Aime Augustin (1841-); Le Prince, Elizabeth (1846-); Le Prince, Adolphe (1872-1901)

26 Oct 1880-1 Apr 1900

The collection comprises papers relating to Louis Le Prince and his invention of a camera which took the first moving pictures on paper film. The papers include technical drawings and notes made by L...

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Directions for collecting and preserving insects

Banks, Nathan (1868-1953)

1909

Bibliography: p.129-131.

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The Morse collection of Japanese pottery

Baxter, Sylvester (1850-1927)

1887

Text written by Sylvester Baxter.

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The collection of ancient marbles at Leeds

Hicks, E L (1843-1919)

1890

Reprinted from the Journal of Hellenic studies, 1890.

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