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Sibbald, Sir Robert, (1641-1722), Knight, natural scientist and antiquary

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Surname: Sibbald
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Robert
Gender: Male
Date: 1641-1722
Title: Knight
Biography: ODNB link for Sibbald, Sir Robert (1641-1722) Knight Natural Scientist Antiquary
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P137622 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P26127 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Robert Sibbald
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
c1682-1701: misc papers
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Adv MSS 6 1 14; 33 3 20, 27; 33 5 15-16, 19
See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
2
drawings
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Adv.MS.6.1.14
3
c1700: collections for a natural history of Scotland (copy)
British Geological Survey Archives
IGS3
NRA 18675 Inst of Geol
4
transcriptions from his collections made for Walter MacFarlan
Society of Antiquaries of London
MS 32
NRA 27819
5
1696-1714: letters mainly to Sir Hans Sloane
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Sloane MSS
6
1692-98: letters to Royal Society
Royal Society
See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
7
1699-1703: letters from Robert Wodrow
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
La iii 355