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Harris Collection

Reference
Uncatalogued collection, handlist available at Special Collections
Extent
170 items
Date
1800-1900s
University Collection
Special Collections

The collection consists of 170 volumes of books, journals and offprints on palaeobotany dating from the early 1800s to 1981.  It was collected by Thomas Maxwell Harris (1903-1983), Professor of Botany at the University of Reading from 1934-1968.

Associated collections

Spines of volumes of W. H. Smith press cuttings, bound with brown cloth and gold lettering

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