Comprises above 124 coloured drawings and a large number of outline and detail drawings of the genera.
Original drawings from the microscope, (of the natural order, Acarina) by the late Tuffen West, F.L.S.
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 MS 196
- Dates of Creation
- ca.1840-1890
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 147 sheets (quarto and folio) and 4 lithographed sheets
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Tuffen West was a nineteenth-century British botanist and illustrator. He was the author of Half hours with the microscope, 1858, which advocated the microscope as a popular tool for the study of the physical world.
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
The gift of the widow of Tuffen West, February 1896
Note
In English