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d'Almaine, Harry or Henry George William

D'Urban, William Stewart Mitchell

Dack, Charles

Dadley, William

Dale, William

Dallas, James S. [possibly Sweetland]

Dammann, Carl

Darbishire, Robert Dukinfield

Darling, Cathi

Darwin, Francis

Daveney, [Mr][full version unknown]

Davey, Drew

Davis, Anne Charlotte Vaughan

Davis, J.

Davis, Joseph Barnard

Davis Brothers & Co.

Davis or Davies, W.R.

Davis-Cooke, [Miss] G.

Daw, F.W.

Dawkins, William Boyd

De Alarcón, Marina

de Chroustchoff, Boris

de Vitre, J.D. [possibly John Durham Denis]

Debenham, Arthur W.

Delafield, William

Denham, Alfred

Dennis, G.H.

Dennison, Ann

Department of Earth Sciences Queen Mary College University of London

Dew, T.

Dew-Smith, Albert George

Dexion Limited

Diamond Match Co. Ltd

Dick, [Mrs] C.

Dickens, [Mrs] K.

Dickinson, Alfred Ernest

Dickinson, Cicely Frances

Dickinson, Enid May

Dickson, [Colonel] [full version unknown]

Dickson, [Mrs][full version unknown]

Didcot Girls' School

Dines, Henry George

Dipper, Andrew

Dixey, Charles Westell

Dixon and Sons, James

Docker, George

Dodd, [John?] [full version unknown]

Dodds, Theodore

Dorchester Weavers

Dorset Police Force

Dorsett, Edith

Dougan, Robert

Douglas, James Archibald

Dow, George

Dowler

Down Bros. Ltd

Downes, [Mrs] Roger Meaden

Downey, William and Daniel

Downs, Jane

Drennan in Japan

Druce, George Claridge

Drummond, James

Drummond, K.R.

Drummond, William Hamilton

Dryden, Henry Edward Leigh

Duffy, [full version unknown]

Dulcet, A.B.S.

Dunbar, M.J.

Dunn, William

Dupe, William

Durham, Mary Edith

Duvelleroy, [J. ]

Individual's Details

George Claridge Druce

Career Natural Historian / Businessman / Politician

Biography Botanist who worked as a chemist in his own business in Oxford from 1879. In 1895 he was appointed Special Curator of the Fielding Herbarium. Served on Oxford City Council from 1892 until his death [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 10/01/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32898 / Who was Who 2007 / http://athens.arch.ox.ac.uk/archives/collectors.php / http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/cgi-bin/acwww25u/wbi10_en/allegro.pl

Clubs & Societies Freemasons / Northamptonshire Natural History Society / Midland Union of Natural History Societies / Ashmolean [Natural History] Society / Royal Society / Botanical Exchange Club / Pharmaceutical Society

County Oxfordshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1904

Dates active 1850-1932

Donated around 1939

English collections Wheel tinder-box of tin

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1879-1932

Portrait link http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32898

English collection size 1

Connections Henry Balfour / Sydney Howard Vines

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