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Scrapbook and Letterbook of Edward Heron-Allen, Relating Chiefly to his Election to the Royal Society and to his Presidency of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1914-1920

Inventory Number 13171

Item type
Object
Provenance
Purchased from the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970. Part of the RMS library and manuscript collection. It was acquired after Heron-Allen's death in 1943 by Alfred B. Richards. Bound in this form by Edward Heron-Allen about 1925.
Primary inscriptions
Spine title: 'E. Heron-Allen | Royal Society | 1915-1919. | Royal | Microscopical | Society | 1916-1918.'. Binder's blind-stamp on front pastedown: 'Morrell. Binder. London.'.
Other inscriptions
Bookplates of Edward Heron-Allen, 1925, and Alfred Ben. Richards, 1944.
Physical material
Paper
Card
Cloth
Leather
Dimensions
Height: 340mm Width: 230mm Depth: 82mm
Inventory No
13171
Accession Number
1978-708

Description

Scrapbook bound in dark red half-leather and dark pink cloth. With Heron-Allen's armorial bookplate dated 1925. Flyleaves + 94 paper leaves, not counting many large papers mounted on guards and between. A huge ensemble of 259 letters and many additional printed notices and other papers, organised chronologically in two sections, with title pages and manuscript introductions (written in 1919), relating to Heron-Allen's election as a Fellow of the Royal Society (in 1919) and to his Presidency of the Royal Microscopical Society (in 1916-17). The material actually dates from 1914 to 1920, together with 2 newspaper cuttings of 1944 and 1945 added by the subsequent owner.

Contents include (see separate entry): photograph of Heron-Allen (loose in first opening).

For fuller list of contents see narratives.

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