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Ornithology

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  • Fifteen birds indigenous to France, including a falcon, buzzard, eagle, golden plover, blue tit and woodpecker. Chromolithograph after M. Georges.
  • The British Museum: the Zoological Gallery, crowded with holiday visitors. Wood engraving, 1845.
  • Fifteen birds indigenous to France, including a snipe, kingfisher, hoopoe, cuckoo, heron and stork. Chromolithograph after M. Georges.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Sabine, Sir Edward (1788-1883)

    Sabine, Sir Edward, 1788-1883, soldier scientist and explorer | Date: 1813-1820 | Reference: WMS/Amer.109-111
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    The natural history of the birds of Great Britain and Ireland / By Sir William Jardine.

    Jardine, William, 1800-1874. | Date: 1838-1843
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    Lister, Agnes Syme (-1893)

    Lister, Agnes Syme, d.1893 | Date: 1892-1893 | Reference: MS.3297
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    Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology. Second series: with a continuation of the autobiography of the author. / by Charles Waterton.

    Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865. | Date: 1844
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    Incubation periods throughout the ages / by Margaret Morse Nice.

    Nice, Margaret Morse. | Date: 1954
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