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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