- The
Leverian collection was a
natural history and
ethnographic collection ****embled by
Ashton Lever. It was
noted for the
content it
acquired from the...
- the
south end of the
Blackfriars Bridge. The
Leverian collection was
liquidated in 1806 (cf. ยงย
Leverian collection), and
Hawaiian objects entered Bullock's...
- Mr. Thomson,
Animal and Bird
Preserver to the
Leverian and
British Museum in 1802...
- 1787 to 1958 in
various forms. It
initially housed the
collection of the
Leverian Museum after it had been
disposed of by lottery. For a
period it was home...
-
January 1788) was an
English collector of
natural objects, in
particular the
Leverian collection.
Lever was born in 1729 at
Alkrington Hall. In 1735 Sir James...
- the two
successive Hanoverian princes of Wales. From 1775 to 1788, the
Leverian collection was on
display in
Leicester House. The
house was sold and demolished...
- lifetime. He made his
first significant purchases in 1806 at the sale of the
Leverian Museum. His
interests covered geology,
scientific equipment and animalia...
-
English land
agent and the
proprietor of the
Leverian Museum which he won in a lottery. He then
moved the
Leverian collection to a
museum at the Blackfriars...
- dog, mud-devil, mud dog,
water dog, grampus,
Allegheny alligator, and
leverian water newt. The
generic name, Cryptobranchus, is
derived from the Ancient...
- also
owned a
preserved specimen, and
another specimen formed part of the
Leverian collection. The
great horned owl is now
placed in the
genus Bubo that was...
