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Norfolk Natural History (1812-1821)
Catalogue reference: L MSS TUR
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- L MSS TUR
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Title (The name of the record)
- Norfolk Natural History (1812-1821)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1815-1821
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<p>Information on Arnold and his interest in fossils is to be found in Bastin,J, 1973, Jl Soc Bib Nat Hist, 6:305-372, esp. p.313.</p>
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- Natural History Museum Library and Archives
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <persname>Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858, botanist and antiquary</persname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- One Volume
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This volume was lot 341 in the 1859 sale. It was purchased by Warren R Dawson from Bernard Halliday of Leicester in 1934, and presented by him to the Museum in 1958. The flyleaf bears the signatures' Dawson Turner' and 'Edward Arnold, Norwich'.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Dawson Turner was born in Norfolk and educated at North Walsham and the University of Cambridge. He succeeded his father as head of the family bank in 1777, and remained a banker all his life. He was interested in all branches of natural history, but was principally a botanist, specialising in lichens, fungi and other cryptogams. He was a collector of books, manuscripts and prints, and build up a magnificent library, which was sold by auction in 1853 and after his death.
Dawson was in regular correspondence with the Sowerbys from 1794 to 1830, and became friendly with the naval surgeon Joseph Arnold (1782-1818) during his stay in England from 1816 to 1817.
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Norfolk Natural History (1812-1821)