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William Thompson

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2026.5
Level of description: Fonds
Title: William Thompson
Scope and content: Correspondence, notes and manuscript material of William Thompson (1805-1852), the Irish naturalist and ornithologist, whose work, “The natural history of Ireland”, became a standard of nineteenth-century Irish zoology. The focus is predominantly on birds, but also reptiles, snakes and amphibians, including frogs.