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On the British representatives of the genus Limnaea Brug : autograph manuscript signed : Bedford Park, London, 1884 July 5.

BIB_ID
195256
Accession number
MA 4774
Creator
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.
Display Date
1884 July 5.
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1992.
Description
1 item (59 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Includes an autograph note dated July 7: "Since this was written my case [containing the shells] has met with an accident ... When being brought up to school this morning, it received a shock ... In the dinner-hour I succeeded in partly rearranging it ... Happily this will not interfere with the conclusions I have drawn."
Written while Cockerell was a day student at St. Paul's school.
Provenance
Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
His schoolboy prize essay on shells.
Housed in
Red cloth slipcase (19 cm)