Description compiled by Robert Steiner, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives. The biographical history was compiled with reference to the entry on Seebohm in Sidney Lee, ed.,
Henry Seebohm (1832-1895), ornithologist, was born on 12 July 1832. His parents were members of the Society of Friends, and he was educated at the Friends' School at York, before becoming a steel manufacturer at Sheffield. Seebohm visited Holland, Greece, Asia Minor, Scandinavia, Germany and Siberia to carry out ornithological study, and subsequently published his findings. He joined the British Ornithologists' Union and the Zoological Society in 1873, and was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society from 1878, and its secretary, 1890-1895. He died on 26 November 1895.
MS.Add.4471: 'Journal of a trip to the Great River Petchora in the land of the Samoyedes, vol. 1', 1875.
MS.Add.4472: 'Journal of an ornithological trip to Holland', 1876, with notes on excursions round south-east England, 1881.
MS.Add.4473: 'Ornithological excursion to Heligoland', 1876.
MS.Add.4474: 'Journal of a journey to the Yennesie, vol. 1', 1877.
MS.Add.4475: Notes on species of Phylloscopus, c. 1875.
MS.Add.4476: Notes of an ornithological visit to Germany, Denmark and Holland, 1880.
Purchased 1908.
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Cambridge University Library also holds an ornithological notebook of Seebohm, MS.Add.8794.