Arthur Humble Evans Ephemera

• Reference:GB 235 EAH
• Dates of Creation:1855 - 1943
• Name of Creator:
  Evans, Arthur Humble
• Physical Description:
  1 folder containing 4 items

• Scope and Content

  • Obituary, reprinted from "The North Western Naturalist" September 1943; a 3 page obituary by George Taylor which includes a portrait of A.H. Evans.
  • Three items from Botanical Society of Edinburgh archives relating to Evans’s biography and bibliography – correspondence between William Wright Smith, George Taylor, Alex Cowan and J.T. Johnstone including a typed letter from George Taylor to Professor William Wright Smith (6 April 1943) regarding Evans's biography and bibliography; a handwritten note from Alex Cowan to Professor William Wright Smith (12 April 1943) regarding Evans's notification of death and clarification of a date; and a cover note from William Wright Smith to librarian J.T. Johnstone.

• Access Information

  Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/

• Note

  Obituaries T.S. Palmer, George Miksch Sutton, Josselyn Van Tyne and H.G. Deignan - The Auk, Vol.61, No.1 (Jan. 1944), pp.177-185, published by the American Ornithologists' Union
  Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4079637
  'The birds of Britain, their distribution and habits' by A.H. Evans, published by Cambridge University Press, 1916
  http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.29745
  

• Conditions Governing Use

  Permission required from RBGE

• Additional Information

  published

  Partial

  GB 235 EAH

• Personal Names

  Smith, Sir William Wright

  Cowan, Alexander

  Johnstone, James Todd