Papers of Leslie Hilton Brown
Papers of Leslie Hilton Brown including papers and correspondence, research materials, field notebooks, diaries, reports, manuscripts and typescripts, newspaper clippings, drawings, photographs, film reels and eight crowned eagle feathers.
Dates
- Creation: 1945-1986
Extent
4.3 Linear metres (58 boxes)
Language of Materials
- English
Conditions Governing Access
Some material is closed.
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark, e.g. MS. 14920/1].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. 14920/1-50; MSS. 14920 Photogr. 1-7
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 14920
Abstract
Papers of Leslie Hilton Brown.
Biographical / Historical
Leslie Hilton Brown (1917-1980), Chief Agriculturist, Department of Agriculture, Kenya, 1960-1963.
Obituaries were published in British Birds, 74 (5): 223–226, 1981; The Ibis, 123: 548–550, 1981; and Scottish Birds, 11: 196–197, 1981.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from the Alexander Library of Ornithology, 2018.
Topical
Subject
- Title
- Catalogue of the papers of Leslie Hilton Brown
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by EAD version by Jen Patterson and Marion Lowman
- Date
- 2019
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Weston Library
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Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
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