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Westwood, John Obadiah, (1805-1893), Entomologist Antiquary

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Surname: Westwood
Forenames: John Obadiah
Gender: Male
Date: 1805-1893
Biography: ODNB link for Westwood, John Obadiah (1805-1893) Entomologist Antiquary
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P150838 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P30229 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
c1820-93: corresp, diaries and notes and papers (65 boxes)
Oxford University: Museum of Natural History
NRA 42507 Oxford

See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
2
collections rel to ecclesiastical antiquities
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS top eccles b 41, d 18-20; MSS top gen d 17-18; MSS top Ireland a 6, d 4; MSS drawings gen a 6, c 7
3
drawings
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
4
1816-90: corresp and papers
Smithsonian Institution Archives
MS 7112
5
1842-86: corresp
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Autogr d 21
6
1846: diary of tour in South Wales
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng.misc.c.143, ff1-20
7
notes and copies of illuminated MSS
Oxford University: Sackler Library
NRA 28493 Ashmolean Mus
8
drawings
British Library: Asian and African Studies
NHD 5
9
drawings
Cambridge University: Museum of Zoology
See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
10
1832-71: letters to Leonard Blomefield
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Jenyns Corresp
NRA 41808 Blomefield
11
letters (10) to JC Dale
Oxford University: Museum of Natural History
Dale MSS
NRA 42507 Oxford
12
1866-69: letters to AH Haliday
Royal Entomological Society
Box 8/77-93
See Berit Pedersen, Guide to the Archives of the Royal Entomological Society (2002)
13
letters to GAJ Rothney
Oxford University: Museum of Natural History
NRA 42507 Oxford
14
1830-40: letters (17) to William Swainson
Linnean Society of London
Swainson
NRA 22111 Swainson