Correspondence between Shuel and the British Museum of Natural History, mainly David Bannerman. The letters discuss the bird skins and eggs sent to the Museum by Shuel from Nigeria and Bannerman's book The Birds of Tropical West Africa.
Dates
- Creation: 1931-1945
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. 15478.
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Shelfmark:
MS. 15478
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 15478
Abstract
Correspondence of Ronald Stuart Shuel.
Biographical / Historical
Ronald Stuart Shuel (b. 1900), Assistant Commissioner of Police in Nigeria and ornithologist.
Custodial History
Deposited in the Alexander Library of Ornithology by David Wilson, c.1988.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from the Alexander Library of Ornithology, 2018.
- Title
- Correspondence of Ronald Stuart Shuel
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by EAD version by Sarah Thiel and Jen Patterson
- Date
- 2019
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
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