Zona de identificação
Código de referência
Título
Data(s)
- 1839 - 1922 (Produção)
Nível de descrição
Dimensão e suporte
Small collection; ephemera a box of papers, including correspondence (3 Folders)
Zona do contexto
Nome do produtor
História biográfica
Born Perthshire 1839; died Perthshire 1922
Charles McIntosh, sometimes known as ‘The Perthshire Naturalist’, was a postman whose rounds enabled him to observe and study the local flora and fauna of rural Perthshire. He was a member of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science and later the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland. He became friends with the young Beatrix Potter, then holidaying in the Dunkeld area, through their common interest in fungi, and helped improve the accuracy of her illustrations, taught her taxonomy and supplied live specimens to paint during the winter. McIntosh discovered thirteen species of fungus completely new to Britain and four new to science and some of his collection is now in the City of Perth museum. He contributed to FBW White’s ‘Fl. Perthshire’ published in1898.
Sources: R. Desmond ‘Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists’;‘Perthshire Diary’ for 1922; City of Perth Council website
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Entidade detentora
História do arquivo
Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência
Zona do conteúdo e estrutura
Âmbito e conteúdo
a box of papers, including correspondence (3 Folders)
Avaliação, seleção e eliminação
Incorporações
Sistema de arranjo
Zona de condições de acesso e utilização
Condições de acesso
Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/
Condiçoes de reprodução
Permission required from RBGE.
Idioma do material
- inglês