Summary

Alternative Name(s): Letter

Manuscript or letter extract on single sheet of folded paper folded into four, written (presumably) by ornithologist John Cotton to his brother circa 1834-1848. The work discusses his observations of owls. Extracted from a longer document, it is numbered pages 11 and 12. It begins '"As a whole", W. Swainson [?] observes, "The owls present an assemblage of birds as united among themselves as they are distinct from all others."...' The front of the manuscript includes two detailed drawings of eyeballs; a small additional sheet is pinned to the front of this page, the underside of which illustrates an ear canal. The inside pages feature details of a new and talons; the back page a foot and a head.

From an archive of writings by and about ornithologist John Cotton. The archive includes his diary, manuscripts and sketches, as well as transcriptions and later research notes. John Cotton's writings are likely to have come to Museum Victoria in the early 1970s during research by Allan McEvey, then Curator of Birds at Museum Victoria.

Physical Description

Single sheet of paper, folded in half. Extensive writing and four sketches, now very browned. Paper corners and edges torn and folded.

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