British Museum (Natural History) - Dept. of Zoology - Arachnida Section correspondence, 1882-1940, and R.I. Pocock correspondence, 1882-1903

M 2708

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, 1992

432936

Microfilm : M 2708. See contents list (10pp.) at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/277, vol. 18.

a. 300 p.

The Arachnida Section of the British Museum (Natural History) Department of Zoology was formally set up in 1913 when the former Invertebrate Section was split up. However correspondence in this class dates from 1904, just before the appointment of Arthur Stanley Hirst, who succeeded R.I. Pocock. Hirst was followed by Susan Finegan (1927-1936) and Richard James Whittick (1936-1940). The section was renamed Arachnida and Myriapoda Section in 1932

Correspondence of successive heads of the Arachnida Section (and earlier correspondence of R.I. Pocock of the old Invertebrate Section) covering the acquisition, loan and exchange of specimens, enquiries from amateur and professional zoologists, medical personnel, furnuture dealers and others, and arachnid research. Selected correspondence filmed here consists mainly of letters from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific regarding spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M2708
Microfilm. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 1992. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm
Microfilm copy of originals held by Archives Section, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD
Descriptive list available (10 p.)
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