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O’Donoghue Collection

Reference
Uncatalogued collection, card index available at Special Collections
Extent
700 items
Date
1800-1900s
University Collection
Special Collections

Charles Henry O’Donoghue (1885-1961) was Professor of Zoology at the University of Reading from 1939 to 1952.

The collection consists of about 700 offprints and books, mostly on Opisthobranchia, an order of marine snails, collected by Professor O’Donoghue.

Associated collections

Spines of books of WHS press cuttings and an inset of the front cover of Inventory of a Life Mislaid by Marina Warner

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