‘I have one in my Musæum’: Marmaduke Tunstall, George Allan, and the <i>British Zoology</i>
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Abstract
Gilbert White spoke of his hopes that the Natural History of Selborne (1789) would inspire other ‘stationary men’ to join him in writing down their observations of nature in their immediate surroundings. In the north-east of England, Marmaduke Tunstall (1743–90) made a great effort in recording curious sightings near his estate at Wycliffe, interleaving his copy of Thomas Pennant’s British Zoology with extensive notes. These notes are now in Canada, largely detached from their original context. An eight-volume transcript was completed by George Allan of Darlington following Tunstall’s death. The notes were supplemented with additional illustrations, newspaper articles, and further observations and remain interleaved within a copy of the Zoology. This article follows a chronological approach detailing Tunstall’s and Allan’s connections to their local natural history community at the end of the eighteenth century, exploring the content of the two sets and their afterlife and demonstrating evidence that the transcript now at Windsor was used by Thomas Bewick in preparation for the History of British Birds (1797–1804).
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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