STRICKLAND (Hugh Edwin, 1811-1853, Naturalist)

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘my dear Sclater’, probably Philip L. Sclater (1829-1913, Secretary of the Zoological Society of London), asking him if he “can come to us on Monday the 18th for a few days it will suit us very well. On Tuesday the 19th is a meeting of the ‘Malvern Naturalist’s Club’ on Bredon Hill near here, to which I shall be happy to take you if you like to go. I shall be much obliged for Parra gallinacea as I believe I have not got it...”, 2 sides 8vo., Apperley Green, Tewkesbury, 11th July

Strickland was the grandson of Edmund Cartwritght, the inventor of the power loom. He accompanied W. J. Hamilton on a geological tour through Asia Minor, and traversed several countries in Europe in 1835. He drew up rules for zoological nomenclature in 1841 and was killed by a train when examining a railway cutting at Clarborough on the 14th September 1853, just a couple of months after this letter. He wrote The Dodo in 1848 and Ornithological Synonyms in 1855 and had a large collection of over 6000 birds which went to Cambridge. The Description of the egg of Parra Gallinacea was an article by John Gould.

Item Date:  1853

Stock No:  42533      £275

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