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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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Reference

MACMIL

Title

Autograph letters of Concologists and Malacologists addressed to Nora McMillan and Others

Date

1883-1974

Description

Autograph Letters of Conchologists and Malacologists addressed to Nora McMillan and Others

Related material

<p>A similar but later collection is held in the General Library at press mark L MSS MCM.</p>

Held by
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
Language

English

Creator(s)
<persname>McMillan, Nora Fisher, 1908-, naturalist</persname>
Physical description

18 folders

Immediate source of acquisition

She presented this collection to the Zoology Library in 1980.

Administrative / biographical background

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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Autograph letters of Concologists and Malacologists addressed to Nora McMillan and Others