1827 FOX, George Townsend (1810 – 1886)

Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, late The Allan, formerly The Tunstall, or Wycliffe Museum: To which are prefixed Memoirs of Mr. Tunstall, the founder, and of Mr. Allan, the Late Proprietor, of the collection; with occasional remarks on the species, by those gentlemen and the editor.

Ornithologist and collector Marmaduke Tunstall began collecting for his private museum in London in the 1770s, acquiring numerous 'curiosities brought by Captain Cook'; he moved the collections in 1776 to his home at …

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