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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Zoology: Invertebrate Section: Correspondence...

Catalogue reference: DF 250

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This record is about the British Museum (Natural History): Department of Zoology: Invertebrate Section: Correspondence... dating from c.1845-1940.

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Reference
DF 250
Title
British Museum (Natural History): Department of Zoology: Invertebrate Section: Correspondence and Papers
Date
c.1845-1940
Description

This series consists of the correspondence, notes, research papers and catalogues compiled by members of the Invertebrate Section of the Zoology Department. The largest collection consists of the correspondence of Francis Jeffrey Bell (1855-1924), and contains about 2000 in-coming and 1500 out-going letters. Smaller correspondence collections of Edward John Miers (1851-1930) and Reginald Innes Pocock (1863-1947) are also included. The series also contains an important series of catalogues of invertebrate groups started by F J Bell and Randolph Kirkpatrick in the early 1890s, and added to over the years thereafter.

F J Bell's out-letter volumes each has an index.

Series held at The Natural History Museum are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference DF ZOO/250). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, see DF 250.

Held by
The Natural History Museum Archives, London
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
50 boxes, bundles and volumes
Access conditions
Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition
DF 250/1-18 were transferred to the archives in 1982; DF 250/19 and DF 250/25-31 in 1990; DF 250/20-24 and DF 250/32-34 in 1991; DF 250/35-39 in 1992.
Subjects
Topics
Museums and galleries
Unpublished finding aids
There is an index to DF 250/20-24.
Administrative / biographical background

Edgar Albert Smith (1847-1916) was head of the Invertebrate Section from 1867, when he joined the Museum, until he retired in 1913. Other members of the Section included F J Bell, worms, echinoderms and Crustacea, 1878-1919; S O Ridley, sponges, 1878-1886; E J Miers, Crustacea, 1872-1886 and R I Pocock, Arachnida and Myriapoda, 1886-1904.

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16004/

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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Zoology: Invertebrate Section: Correspondence and Papers