The Ashmolean as a museum of natural history, 1683-1860

Journal of the History of Collections

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 125-144

  MacGregor, Arthur ^a  

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EID: 61149251024     PISSN: 09546650     EISSN: 14778564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhc/13.2.125     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. Thomas Johnson, The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes gathered by John Gerarde ... very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson (London, 1633), passim
2. John Parkinson, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris (London, 1629), passim
3. John Ray, The Ornithology of Francis Willughby (London, 1678), pp. 154, 193-4
4. John Tradescant, Musæum Tradescantianum: or, a collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London (London, 1656)
5. Arthur MacGregor and Anthony Turner, 'The Ashmolean Museum', in L. S. Sutherland and L. G. Mitchell (eds.), The History of the University of Oxford V The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1986), p. 643
6. R. F. Ovenell, The Ashmolean Museum 1683-1894 (Oxford, 1986), pp. 49-50
7. See M. E. Jahn, 'The Old Ashmolean Museum and the Lhwyd collections', Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 4 (1966), pp. 244-8
8. Cecil Schneer, 'The rise of historical geology in the seventeenth century', Isis 45 (1954), pp. 260-61
9. Robert Plot, The Natural History of Stafford-shire (Oxford, 1686), p. 397
10. A. V. Simcock, The Ashmolean Museum and Oxford Science 1683-1983 (Oxford, 1984), pp. 7-10
11. Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire (Oxford, 1677), pl. VIII fig. 9
12. Lhwyd, op. cit. (note 20)
13. W. H. Quarrell and W. J. C. Quarrell, Oxford in 1710, from the Travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (Oxford, 1928), p. 49
14. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 26 no. 314 (1708), pp. 77-8
15. For Woodward's existing collection at Cambridge, see David Price, 'John Woodward and a surviving British geological collection from the early eighteenth century', Journal of the History of Collections 1 (1989), pp. 79-95
16. Op. cit. (note 15)
17. See Arthur MacGregor, 'Mary Davis's horn: a vanished curiosity', The Ashmolean no. 3 (1983), pp. 10-11
18. Richard Gough, British Topography (London, 1780), vol. II, p. 134
19. Arthur MacGregor and Abigail Headon, 'Re-inventing the Ashmolean: natural history and natural theology at Oxford in the 1820s to 1850s', Archives of Natural History 27 (3) (2000), pp. 369-406
20. William Paley, Natural Theology: or evidences of the existence and attributes of the Deity, collected from the appearances of nature (London, 1802)
21. For Strickland see Sir William Jardine, Memoirs of H. E. Strickland (London, 1858)