University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
The University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge was founded in 1865. The initial collection consisted of an amalgamation of two older repositories, Clark's Museum at the Anatomical School and the Philosophical Society of Cambridge. William Clark (1788-1866) was Professor of Anatomy from 1817 to 1865. During his long tenure, he collected a large number of specimens illustrating comparative anatomy, physiology and osteology. The Cambridge Philosophical Society had started a Museum soon after it was founded in 1819, specialising in local natural history. When the specimens from these two collections were transferred to premises on the New Museums Site in the centre of Cambridge, they were first kept as separate entities. They were only combined when the new building was finished in 1877.
The first director of the new Museum of Comparative Anatomy (as it was then called) was John Willis Clark (1833-1910) from 1866 to 1890, followed by Sidney Frederick Harmer (1862-1950) until 1908. The greatest part of the collections of the museum were added during the years of their tenure. A few collections were added during the twentieth century.
The Museum of Zoology holds correspondence, field journals and catalogues related to the zoological collections. Most of the manuscripts relate to research and accessions in the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century. All manuscript holdings are included in the Archives Hub, except catalogues of various classes of animals maintained for internal use.
The Hub has descriptions of over 80% of our manuscript holdings.
Web: http://www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/collections.archives/histories.archives/
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- Adaptive Coloration by Hugh Bamford Cott (1900-1987)
- Bird Diaries
- Bird Eggs in the Collection of A. F. Sealy
- Birds in the Collection of Kettlewell
- Catalogue of Beetles Collected by David Sharp
- Catalogue of British Lepidoptera
- Catalogue of Coleoptera
- Catalogue of Collection of Eggs
- Catalogue of Eggs
- Catalogue of Insects
- Catalogue of Insects of Perkins Collection
- Catalogue of Saul's Collection of Cypraea
- Catalogue of Shells in South Africa
- Catalogue of Shells in the Saul Collection
- Catalogues of Eggs in Buckley Collection
- Catalogues of Shells
- Collection of Butterflies by Johnstone
- Conchological Papers of Hugh Watson
- Correspondence of Hugh E. Strickland
- Description of Lystrosaurus.
- Egg Books
- Entomological Diaries
- Entomological Diary of Rutledge
- Entomological Notebooks and Letters
- Fishes Collected by Darwin
- Geological Papers of Francis Rex Parrington
- Gwatkin's Collection of Molluscs
- Histories of the Museum of Zoology
- Insect Collections
- Journal of Collections in Canary Islands
- Lecture Notes on Vertebrate Zoology
- List of British Beetles by Janson
- Minutes of the Cambridge Natural History Society
- Molluscs Collection by Collinge
- Notebooks and Manuscripts of D.M.S. Watson
- Notebooks on Bird Eggs
- Notes on British Animals
- Notes on British Hemiptera
- Notes on Butterflies from Brazil
- Ornithological Notebook
- Papers and Correspondence of C.W. Benson
- Papers and Manuscripts of Hugh E. Strickland
- Papers of Alfred Newton
- Papers of William Swainson
- Papers on Birds and Mammals
- Parasitic Hymneoptera of Cambridgeshire
- Register of British Coleoptera and Hemiptera
- Termites Collection of Haviland
- The Dodo Book of Hugh E. Strickland
- Zoological Papers of Harold Brindley
