Item 16 - Notebook, with notes on butterflies, beetles and some birds

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ONSL/4/16

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Notebook, with notes on butterflies, beetles and some birds

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  • [c 1919] (Creation)

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1 hardback notebook, 84ff. Many illustrations pasted in, a few loose.

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Onslow, Victor Alexander Herbert Huia (1890-1922), biochemist
(1890-1922)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Observations on pigmentation under various conditions and preparations, arranged under species headings, accompanied by illustrations of wing scales etc as seen under a microscope. Some references to numbered slides. Sources of specimens, such as 'Mr Scott', 'W. Rothschild, Tring' etc sometimes noted.

Notebook used from both ends in; heading 'Coleoptera etc.' written on first page from one end, 84v, and entries continue this way until f 53v.

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