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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: Correspondence and Papers...
Catalogue reference: DF 420
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This record is about the British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: Correspondence and Papers... dating from 1880-1950.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- DF 420
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: Correspondence and Papers of Antony Gepp
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1880-1950
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of the large collection of papers of all sorts of Antony Gepp (1862-1955), removed from his room after his death. It includes correspondence, papers, offprints, artwork for publication, notes, notebooks and printed ephemera of all sorts.
Series held at The Natural History Museum are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue . Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, see DF 420.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The series has not been arranged or listed in detail.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Further Gepp correspondence is held in the Marine Algae Section.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The Natural History Museum Archives, London
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- The series was transferred to the archives from the Botany Library in 1989.
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Originally housed in the Cryptogamic Herbarium.
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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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Antony Gepp was born in Essex and educated at Felsted School and St John's College, Cambridge. He took the B A in 1885, and obtained an Assistant post in the Museum in January 1885. He and George Murray were between them responsible for the cryptogams, Gepp taking on the mosses and liverworts and later the marine algae. On the retirement of William Carruthers in 1895, Gepp took on the ferns as well. His official career lasted until 1927, when he retired at the age of 65. He continued to come to the Department regularly to work on ferns and other cryptogamic groups until his death in 1955, following a fall on the Museum staircase.
About 1900 Gepp married Ethel Sarel Barton (1864-1922), an algologist who was a voluntary worker in the Department.
Gepp was not a prolific writer. He contributed lists and descriptions of cryptogamic groups to a number of catalogues and expedition reports published by the Museum and elsewhere, as well as short papers and notes on fossil plants, hepatics, mosses, fungi, marine algae and ferns.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- 'Mr Antony Gepp', A B Rendle. Natural History Magazine, 1: 95-96 (1927)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15511/
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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: Correspondence and Papers of Antony Gepp