ZSL Archives is pleased to announce that digitised images and transcripts of the correspondence of Brian Houghton Hodgson is now available on the ZSL Archives Catalogue. The collection includes letters to and from the British Museum, the taxidermist Edward Gerrard, the Royal Asiatic Society and Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Brian Houghton Hodgson is widely recognised for the great progress he made in describing the birds and mammals of Nepal. He wrote more than 140 zoological papers, ranging from descriptions of single species to checklists of the fauna, and presented ZSL with his manuscript notes and drawings
Read more about Hodgson and his ‘Zoology of Nipal’ in a guest blog by our former visiting scholar David Lowther : Hodgson and the “Zoology of Nipal” a guest blog by David A. Lowther, University of Durham | The Zoological Society of London (zsl.org)
Many thanks to ZSL Library & Archives volunteer Roberta Davis for the transcriptions.
ZSL Archives is pleased to announce that digitised images and transcripts of the correspondence of Brian Houghton Hodgson is now available on the ZSL Archives Catalogue. The collection includes letters to and from the British Museum, the taxidermist Edward Gerrard, the Royal Asiatic Society and Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Brian Houghton Hodgson is widely recognised for the great progress he made in describing the birds and mammals of Nepal. He wrote more than 140 zoological papers, ranging from descriptions of single species to checklists of the fauna, and presented ZSL with his manuscript notes and drawings
Read more about Hodgson and his ‘Zoology of Nipal’ in a guest blog by our former visiting scholar David Lowther : Hodgson and the “Zoology of Nipal” a guest blog by David A. Lowther, University of Durham | The Zoological Society of London (zsl.org)
Many thanks to ZSL Library & Archives volunteer Roberta Davis for the transcriptions.
