Overview This collection consists of a single volume containing notes for an ornithological work, as well as loose material removed from the volume. The section Accipitres from G. R. Gray's Genera of Birds, 1849 (42 printed pages) has been placed into this volume and is heavily annotated, interleaved with many sheets of lined blue paper containing extensive annotations on and additions to the text. The additions are largely citations of dated nomenclature up to 1875;...

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The Letters of John Gould contains manuscript letters written by the 18th century ornithologist John Gould. The collection also contains letters written to Gould and letters between Gould's contemporaries. There are also several print pieces including Gould's Monograph of the Ramphastidae Prospectus in German.