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Specimens.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Individual samples or units that are deliberately selected for examination, display, or study, and are usually chosen as typical of their kind.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Botanical notebook of George Crabbe containing notes on the taxonomy of `British plants` with, reversed from the rear, `Extracts from the second volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, 1794`., Circa 1800.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42069
Scope and Contents

The title is based on the description of the volume in the `Index of English Literary Manuscripts`, volume 3, part 1, page 330 (London : Mansell, 1986).

With the notebook are 8 pressed specimens of British flora and fauna : 5 plant specimens and 3 insect specimens, including the remains of two damselflies.

Dates: Circa 1800.