Shelfmark
MS 199
Author
Title
Thirty-six autograph letters to G. B. Sowerby.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1821-1836.
Physical description
1 volume, bound : paper ; 4to
Note
Quarto volume containing 36 autograph letters of Provost Joseph Goodall to G. B. Sowerby.
Note
George Brettingham Sowerby was a natural history dealer and (with James Sowerby) author of The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in conchology and geology.
Note
Letters dated from Eton, Weymouth and Bath (T. Thackeray's).
Note
Contain biographical material, conchological information and suggestions to Sowerby for correct and "etymological" Latin nomenclature for shells.
Note
According to a note by M. R. James in the interleaved, annotated copy of his Descriptive catalogue at ECL (MS 932), Provost Goodall's collection of shells was housed in a room cut off from the south end of Election Hall at Eton; in 1819 he purchased for £200 a collection of 3275 drawings of shells made by Charles Wodarch for Napoleon Bonaparte, which was resold in 1896.
Note
Some intact seals preserved.
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 199
Provenance
Purchased in 1902.
Subject
Subject
Shells.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50143