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Download or read book Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 written by Arthur MacGregor and published by British Archaeological Reports. This book was released on 2000 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcriptions and translations of sixteen manuscript catalogues of a wide range of items held in the Ashmolean Museum between 1683 and 1886. The catalogues include books of benefactors to the Museum, catalogues of curiosities, gems, minerals, shells, fossils, zoological, ethnological and anthropological specimens as well as specimens collected from Cook's second Pacific voyage and curiosities from the Figi or Cannibal Islands. The second volume will publish the recently rediscovered AMS 11 which provides an invaluable record of the Museum's early collections.