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Aquatic Animals

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and Papers concerning Sea Serpents, 1820-1848

 Series — Box Lyell Box 1.17 (Formerly Gen 116): Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); Series Coll-203/4 (Lyell 4); Series Coll-203/5 (Lyell 5); Series Coll-203/6 (Lyell 6)
Identifier: Coll-203/5 (Lyell 5)
Scope and Contents

Letters and Papers Concerning Sea Serpents consists of:


  1. Notes and clippings regarding sightings of sea serpents, 1820-1848
  2. Letters from Sir John William Dawson, John Fleming, William McGillivray, Alexander Gordon Melville, Patrick Neill, Colonel Parkins and George Robert Waterhouse regarding sea serpents, 1845-1848
Dates: 1820-1848
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Descriptions of land and aquatic animal species, including insects, 1770

 Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/4 (Dc.2.32)
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of new and extant species of land and aquatic animals, including insects (approximately 204 handwritten pages).

Dates: 1770
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Dr. John Walker / Notes and Memoranda on Natural History (7 vols Dc.2.29-35)