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Works on botanical classification [by Nathaniel Matthew Wolf]


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/13

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Works on botanical classification [by Nathaniel Matthew Wolf]

Date(s): 1770-1771

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 128pp

Name of creator(s): Wolf | Nathanael Mattheus | von | 1724-1784 | physician and astronomer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Nathanael Mattheus von Wolf was born in Danzig (Gdansk), Poland on 24 January 1724; elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1777; died, 15 December 1784.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Works on botanical classification [by Nathaniel Matthew Wolf] in two parts comprising 1. 'Tentamen botanicae characteristicae sistens genera plantarum perfectiorum' , pp.1-117 and 2. 'Article d'une leavee de l'auteur, addressee a JHM, au sujet de sa botanique characteristique, pp.119-128.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin and French

System of arrangement:

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Brown cloth binding, 198x125mm.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


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Botany

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Wolf | Nathanael Mattheus | von | 1724-1784 | physician and astronomer

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