Letter from Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards to Dr Stuart Smith
Single Item
MS. Eng. c. 8415, fols. 54-55
Letter from Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards to Dr Stuart Smith, 30 Mar 1949, regarding variation in bird song.
Dates
- 30 Mar 1949
Extent
2 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. Eng. c. 8415, fols. 54-55.
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Shelfmark:
MS. Eng. c. 8415, fols. 54-55
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 15450
Abstract
Letter from Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards to Dr Stuart Smith.
Biographical / Historical
Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards (1906-1997), zoologist. Educated at New College, Oxford, graduating in zoology in 1927. Assistant Professor at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1930-1946. Regius Chair of Natural History, University of Aberdeen, 1946-1974. Editor of The Scottish Naturalist , 1948-1956, and Assistant Editor until 1964. Author of Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour (1962).
For a fuller biography see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 44 (1998).
For a fuller biography see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 44 (1998).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from the Alexander Library of Ornithology, 2018.
- Title
- Letter from Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards to Dr Stuart Smith
- Status
- Completed
- 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
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