- Catalogue of Collection of Birds' Eggs - specimens are entered as they were collected between 1864 and 1900 (116 pages).
- Egg-Book, with handwritten entries similar to those in no.1.
- Catalogue of Birds' Eggs in the Evans and Buckley Collection, with specimens donated to the University Museum of Zoology in 1927 (about 200 pages). Besides eggs collected by Buckley, it incorporated some taken by Alfred Newton and others by Arthur Humble Evans (who donated the collection to the museum).
Catalogues of Eggs in Buckley Collection
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- ReferenceGB 433 Buckley
- Dates of Creation1860-1927
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description3 volumes
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Administrative / Biographical History
Thomas Edward Buckley (1846-1902) studied arts at the University of Cambridge graduating in 1867 or 1868. He made expeditions to collect birds to Lapland and Sweden (1866-1868), Turkey and Greece (1869), four trips to Africa (1872, 1873, 1876, 1889), to New Brunswick (1882, 1884) and USA (1893). Since 1874 he mainly lived in Scotland.
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Note
Description compiled by Kees Rookmaaker, Archives Hub project archivist, with reference to an obituary of Buckley in the Annals of Scottish Natural History, Jan. 1903, pp. 1-4.
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