Arthur Humble Evans Ephemera

This material is held atRoyal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives

  • Reference
    • GB 235 EAH
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1855 - 1943
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
    • 1 folder containing 4 items

Scope and Content

• Obituary, reprinted from "The North Western Naturalist" September 1943; a 3 page obituary by George Taylor which includes a portrait of A.H. Evans.
• Three items from Botanical Society of Edinburgh archives relating to Evans’s biography and bibliography – correspondence between William Wright Smith, George Taylor, Alex Cowan and J.T. Johnstone including a typed letter from George Taylor to Professor William Wright Smith (6 April 1943) regarding Evans's biography and bibliography; a handwritten note from Alex Cowan to Professor William Wright Smith (12 April 1943) regarding Evans's notification of death and clarification of a date; and a cover note from William Wright Smith to librarian J.T. Johnstone.

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Note

Obituaries T.S. Palmer, George Miksch Sutton, Josselyn Van Tyne and H.G. Deignan - The Auk, Vol.61, No.1 (Jan. 1944), pp.177-185, published by the American Ornithologists' Union
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4079637
'The birds of Britain, their distribution and habits' by A.H. Evans, published by Cambridge University Press, 1916
http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.29745

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Additional Information

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