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Chambers, Mary Grace


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.8213-8214

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Chambers, Mary Grace

Date(s): 1829

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 vols

Name of creator(s): Chambers | Mary Grace

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript and watercolour copy of text and illustrations from English Botany by Sir James Edward Smith and James Sowerby (1790-1814), volumes VIII-XI. chiefly manuscript plus watercolour illustrations (a few entries in original form of printed text and engraved plate).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

By volume.

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Hurcomb, London, July 1931.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Botany

Personal names
Smith | Sir | James Edward | 1759-1828 | Knight | botanist
Sowerby | James | 1757-1822 | naturalist

Corporate names

Places