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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelFile
Reference Number DE BEER/1/23
TitlePothenology Letters
Date1955
DescriptionLetters between De Beer and Eduard Kolb regarding turkeys in the Schleswiger Dom, and early linguistic evidence of the Turkey in Scandinavia.
Letters between De Beer and Alexander Beaulieu Marconnay, regarding De Beer's research into historical images of turkeys, and the "turkey saga" of Schleswig.
Letters between De Beer and Heinrich Straumann regarding Straumann's paper in Atlantis.
Letters between De Beer and W M Edwards ("Bergsteiger"). De Beer requests help in coining a term "to denote the scientific study of topographical origin of things". De Beer initially suggests Opothenology; Edwards suggests Pothenology.
Letters between De Beer and O L Brady regarding a purported diamond found in Cornwall.
Extent12 letters plus 1 folio of notes
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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