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Autograph letters of Concologists and Malacologists addressed to Nora McMillan and...
Catalogue reference: MACMIL
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This record is about the Autograph letters of Concologists and Malacologists addressed to Nora McMillan and... dating from 1883-1974.
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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)
- MACMIL
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Title (The name of the record)
- Autograph letters of Concologists and Malacologists addressed to Nora McMillan and Others
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1883-1974
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Description (What the record is about)
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Autograph Letters of Conchologists and Malacologists addressed to Nora McMillan and Others
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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<p>A similar but later collection is held in the General Library at press mark L MSS MCM.</p>
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- 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>McMillan, Nora Fisher, 1908-, naturalist</persname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 18 folders
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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She presented this collection to the Zoology Library in 1980.
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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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Born in Belfast, Miss Nora Fisher worked in Belfast Municipal Museum (1929-1933), Liverpool Museum (1933-1937), and part time in the Geology Department of Liverpool University (1940-1956). She married in 1937 and became Mrs Nora Fisher McMillan. Mrs McMillan returned to Liverpool Museum in 1954, and continued to work there after her retirement. She is an authority on recent and Quaternary molluscs, as well as being an amateur botanist and naturalist.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/e0b22cc1-c5d7-4617-bf5d-b7b293250f5b/
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Autograph letters of Concologists and Malacologists addressed to Nora McMillan and Others