Catalogue description Autograph letters of Concologists and Malacologists addressed to Nora McMillan and Others

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Title: Autograph letters of Concologists and Malacologists addressed to Nora McMillan and Others
Description:

Autograph Letters of Conchologists and Malacologists addressed to Nora McMillan and Others

Date: 1883-1974
Related material:

A similar but later collection is held in the General Library at press mark L MSS MCM.

Held by: Natural History Museum Library and Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

McMillan, Nora Fisher, 1908-, naturalist

Physical description: 18 folders
Immediate source of acquisition:

She presented this collection to the Zoology Library in 1980.

Subjects:
  • Natural sciences
Administrative / biographical background:

Born in Belfast, Miss Nora Fisher worked in Belfast Municipal Museum (1929-1933), Liverpool Museum (1933-1937), and part time in the Geology Department of Liverpool University (1940-1956). She married in 1937 and became Mrs Nora Fisher McMillan. Mrs McMillan returned to Liverpool Museum in 1954, and continued to work there after her retirement. She is an authority on recent and Quaternary molluscs, as well as being an amateur botanist and naturalist.

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