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GB 0114 MS0247 · 1857

Papers of Lyon Playfair, 1857, comprising a letter from Lyon Playfair to Richard Owen, 22 Jun 1851. Relating to the examination of a specimen of charcoal.

Playfair , Lyon , 1818-1898 , 1st Baron Playfair , politician and chemist
On the Incubation of an Egg
GB 0114 MS0062 · c 1769

Manuscript volume titled 'On the Incubation of an Egg', c 1769, comprising notes and observations on the incubation of a hen's egg. Including references to the work of Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), and John Hunter (1728-1793).

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GB 0114 MS0261 · 1876-1956

Papers of Florence Nightingale, 1876-1956, comprising notes on sick nursing addressed to the editors of Every Girl's Magazine, 19 Nov 1881; photographs of autograph labels for Nightingale's collection of shells. Including a letter from G Ellis Flack from Nottingham University, where the shell collection is now housed, 1951; autograph in pencil; correspondence with Dr John Shaw Billings, 23 Oct 1876-4 Dec 1876, requesting advice from Nightingale on the building of a hospital in Baltimore by the Johns Hopkins Trust; and 2 letters relating to the efforts to locate the correspondence, Apr-May 1956.

Nightingale , Florence , 1820-1910 , reformer of hospital nursing
Humphryes, Sydney
GB 0114 MS0059 · 1646-[1668]

Papers of Sydney Humphryes, 1646-c1668, comprising a volume containing 'receipts' or recipes compiled by Sydney Humphryes, although the volume contains a variety of other hands. Including recipes for fruit waters and hair dyes, as well as treatments for burns, vomiting, the plague, and scrofula.

Humphryes , Sydney , fl 1686 , collector of recipes
Holland, Samuel
GB 0114 MS0052 · 1740

Papers of Samuel Holland, 1740, comprising four volumes of manuscript notes from Charles Alston's lectures on 'Materia Medica'. The first volume is titled Dr Alston's Lectures, 1740. The other volumes are: Volume 1 containing notes on minerals, lead, silver, copper, iron, tin, alumen, borax and vitriolum, 1740; Volume 3 containing notes on vegetables, roots, bark, leaves and flowers, 1740; Volume 4 containing notes on fruits, seeds, juices, and animals, 1740.

Holland , Samuel , fl 1740 , student of botany and anatomy
GB 0114 MS0246 · 1834

Papers of Jean Pierre Flourens, 1834, comprising a letter from Jean Pierre Flourens, Perpetual Secretary of the Royal Academy of Science of the Institute of France, to Richard Owen, 22 Sep 1834. Relating to his publication on the Pearly Nautilus.

Flourens , Marie Jean Pierre , 1794-1867 , physiologist x Flourens , Jean Pierre
Experiments [in] Physiology
GB 0114 MS0034 · 1776-1777

Manuscript volume titled Experiments Physiology 1776, 1776-1777, comprising notes of experiments carried out on dogs, cats, and on eggs. Including the names of persons present during the experiments. The script of the volume's title is in the handwriting of William Clift, however the text inside does not belong to Clift. In his catalogue of manuscripts, Victor Plarr suggests that the text is by a Scot experimenting at John Hunter's house.

Clift , William , 1775-1849 , museum curator and scientific illustrator
Ellis, John (c 1710-1776)
GB 0114 MS0038 · c 1755

Papers of John Ellis, 1755, comprising a manuscript copy by an unknown author, of John Ellis An Essay towards the Natural History of the Corallines (1775); and an undated manuscript list by an unknown author, of desiderata in the West Indies, found at the end of a tract by John Ellis held in the Library A description of the mangostan and the bread-fruit (1775) TRACT B. 272 (3).

Ellis , John , c 1710-1776 , zoologist