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Biology, Classification

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

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

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

Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1770

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Identifier: Coll-205/3/3 (Dc.2.31)
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of plants, including trees and lichen, animals, and fish.

Dates: 1770

Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1772

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Identifier: Coll-205/3/5 (Dc.2.33)
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of plant and animal species observed mostly around Edinburgh (approximately 198 handwritten pages).

Dates: 1772

Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1773

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Identifier: Coll-205/3/6 (Dc.2.34)
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of plant and insect species (approximately 212 handwritten pages).

Dates: 1773

Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1774

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Identifier: Coll-205/3/7 (Dc.2.35)
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of plant and insect species (approximately 202 handwritten pages).

Dates: 1774

Descriptions of plant species, 1769

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Identifier: Coll-205/3/2 (Dc.2.30)
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of new and extant species of plants, with notes about other people's collections (approximately 192 handwritten pages).

Dates: 1769

Descriptions of plants, insects, and minerals, 1766

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Identifier: Coll-205/3/1 (Dc.2.29)
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of new and extant species of plants, mostly, with a few insects and minerals as well (approximately 176 handwritten pages).

Dates: 1766

Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. 1, c1741

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Identifier: Coll-205/5/1 (Dc.2.39/1)
Scope and Contents Scots plants of the Linnaean class Cryptogamea; History of the mines at Wanloch Head; Elevatio Plantarum; Epistola ad Linnaeum; Letter to Sr James Nasmyth; Hortulan experiments; The old Gardens at Bargaly; Note on the Battle of the Bree; Some fruits at Munches in Galloway; Scots insects; the Loch Fyne shark; Two fossils; 8 species of Tremella; 2 species of Clavaria; Description of Agaricus Annulata; and of Lichen Punctatus; agricultural benefits of the Nile's overflow and Vesuvius' eruption;...
Dates: c1741

Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. 2, c1726-c1802

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Identifier: Coll-205/5/2 (Dc.2.39/2)
Scope and Contents

Essay on cultivating with marle; Description of a whale cast ashore in Fife; Novum Organicum Botanicum; extensive correspondence between John Clark and 'Mr Gale' (approximately 200 handwritten pages, with some drawings).

Dates: c1726-c1802

Occasional Remarks by the Revd. Dr. Walker, Prof. of Natural History at Edinburgh, c1779

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Identifier: Coll-205/6 (Dc.2.40)
Scope and Contents

Short essays by John Walker on human emotions and conduct, on Scottish antiquities, on a particular green caterpillar known to Linnaeus, and on the theory of the earth. Short commentary on these essays in the handwriting of a Lord Woodhouse, 'to whom the remarks seem to have been submitted'. Original contents page is at the back, possibly in Walker's hand (approximately 134 handwritten pages, with some drawings).

Dates: c1779