The Leverian collection was a natural history and ethnographic collection assembled by Ashton Lever. It was noted for the content it acquired from the...
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ʻAhu ʻula (section Leverian collection)
Blackfriars Bridge. The Leverian collection was liquidated in 1806 (cf. § Leverian collection), and Hawaiian objects entered Bullock's collection (cf. § Bullock...
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1788) was an English collector of natural objects, in particular the Leverian collection. Lever was born in 1729 at Alkrington Hall. In 1735 Sir James Darcy...
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two successive Hanoverian princes of Wales. From 1775 to 1788, the Leverian collection was on display in Leicester House. The house was sold and demolished...
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preserved specimen from North America in the Leverian collection while Pennant's specimen formed part of the collection of Anna Blackburne and had come from Long...
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existed from 1787 to 1958 in various forms. It initially housed the collection of the Leverian Museum after it had been disposed of by lottery. For a period...
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Latham in his multi-volume work A General Synopsis of Birds. The Leverian Collection in London included two specimens that had been collected in Angola...
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specimen he described was in the Leverian Museum in London, but has been lost, which probably happened when the Leverian collection was broken up and sold by...
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land agent and the proprietor of the Leverian Museum which he won in a lottery. He then moved the Leverian collection to a museum at the Blackfriars Rotunda...
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had been described in 1781 by John Latham from a specimen in the Leverian collection that had been obtained in February 1780 at Princes Island off the...
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A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern Hemisphere (section Collections)
issue may have been sourced from the sale of the contents of the Leverian collection in 1806. Following the death of James Cook the publishing of material...
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had been described in 1781 by John Latham from a specimen in the Leverian collection that had been obtained in February 1780 at Princes Island off the...
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George Shaw in his illustrated scientific publication covering the Leverian collection, which was published between 1792 and 1796. All mammalian fossils...
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owned a preserved specimen, and another specimen formed part of the Leverian collection. The great horned owl is now placed in the genus Bubo that was introduced...
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patch. The holotype likely ended up in the Leverian collection in England, and was lost when the collection was broken up and sold. German naturalist Johann...
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World Museum (category Collection of the World Museum)
(e.g. Leverian collection). The vertebrate zoology collection was vastly increased with the purchase of Canon Henry Baker Tristram's collection of birds...
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assembled a museum with an extensive collection of natural history specimens, comparable to the Leverian collection of her cousin Ashton Lever. The museum...
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aforementioned earlier volumes. Gwillim refers in one of her letters to the Leverian collection (referred to by her as Parkinson's [museum], then at the Blackfriars...
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Spotted green pigeon (category Collection of the World Museum)
details. It is possible that it was based on the drawing in the Leverian collection, since Latham stated that this drawing showed the end of the tail...
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Charles Longuet Higgins (section Family collections)
Higgins bought numerous ethnographic exhibits at the 1806 sale of the Leverian Collection. Charles Longuet Higgins himself collected, from auctions in the...
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bird that had never been seen. Her collection of more than a thousand water colours based on specimens from the Leverian Museum were dispersed along with...
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on the Economy of a Christian Life (1822), and a handbook to the Leverian collection. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Bingley, William" . Dictionary of...
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ended up in the collection of Sir Ashton Lever. He exhibited them in his museum, initially called the Holophusikon and later the Leverian Museum. It was...
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Museum Digital Collections. Video and taxidermy by John W. Moyer. Reel 2, Reel 3 John W. Moyer videos from Field Museum Digital Collections depicting taxidermy...
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On the expedition's return much of Cook's collection was exhibited in the Leverian Museum. Lever's collection was then disposed of by public lottery, was...
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work A General Synopsis of Birds. Latham had examined a specimen in the Leverian Museum in London. Two subspecies are recognised: L. l. bifasciata (Brehm...
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in 1806 at the sale of the Leverian Museum. His interests covered geology, scientific equipment and animalia. The collection was bequeathed to the people...
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work A General Synopsis of Birds. Latham had examined a specimen in the Leverian Museum in London. The black wheatear is now placed in the genus Oenanthe...
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Latham had based his account on a specimen in the Leverian Museum and on drawings in the collection of the naturalist Joseph Banks. Georg Forster mentioned...
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Synopsis of Birds. Latham had examined a specimen from Tonga in the collection of the Leverian Museum in London. The Polynesian wattled honeyeater is now one...
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