Notebook containing handwritten notes on cries and call notes of British waders, n.d. [c.1915-c.1937].
Dates
- Creation: n.d. [c.1915-c.1937]
Extent
1 volume
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. 15225].
Shelfmark:
MS. 15225
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 15225
Abstract
Notebook of Francis Linley Blathwayt.
Biographical / Historical
Reverend Francis Linley Blathwayt (1875-1953) was educated at Malvern College and Hertford College, Oxford. He held curacies in Lincoln from 1900 to 1909 and was then successively Rector of Doddington, Lincolnshire (1909-1916), Melbury Osmond, Dorset (1916-1929), and Dyrham, Gloucestershire (1929-1953).
He was a member of the British Ornithologists' Union and served as Secretary of the Vertebrate Zoology Section of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union (1906-1919, President 1918), President of the Ornithological Section of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society (1920-1949), and Vice-President of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society (1925-1953).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from the Alexander Library of Ornithology, 2018.
Topical
- Title
- Notebook of Francis Linley Blathwayt
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by EAD version by Jen Patterson
- Date
- 2019
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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