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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1
Title:: William Henry Fox Talbot: Notebooks and loose notes
Scope & Content:: Talbot's notebooks testify to his wide-ranging intellectual and practical scientific interests, which extended far beyond pioneering photographic research and invention to encompass research in mathematics, optics, astronomy, botany, horticulture, Assyriology, philology, and many associated aven...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:: 1778-1877
Extent:: 386 folders

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/8
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('Q')
Scope & Content:: This notebook contains rough notes. It might be part of an incomplete series and is certainly related to notebook 'M' (Add MS 88942/1/7), which it continues. It contains botanical notes(e.g. lists of Latin plant names) and miscellaneous notes (e.g. lists of names of scholars in various instituti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: 1 notebook (21 folios, 20 pages of text)

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