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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 (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- DF 250
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Museum (Natural History): Department of Zoology: Invertebrate Section: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- c.1845-1940
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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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)
- 50 boxes, bundles and volumes
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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)
- 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.
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- Topics
- Museums and galleries
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- There is an index to DF 250/20-24.
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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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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16004/
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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Zoology: Invertebrate Section: Correspondence and Papers