[Miss] E.F. [probably Emilia Frances] Noel

Career Natural Historian / Artist

Biography If this is the correct match, and it seems likely it is, then she was a botanist and botanical artist [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 19/02/2007]Her residence is unknown because the items were sent care of a bank

Biography References http://www.a2a.org.uk/about/contributors/402-list.asp / http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=26 / http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P34268 / http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0007-2745%28192109%2924%3A5%3C65%3AMFBGAD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J

Clubs & Societies Ashmolean [Natural History] Society / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Linnean Society / Royal Geographical Society

County No counties listed

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1946

Date made around 1750 - 1850

Dates active ?1892-1950

Donated around 1946

English collections Back scratcher in the form of an ivory hand on a long wooden handle

Oxford Uni College ?Somerville

Oxford Uni Education ?Yes

Oxford Uni date ?1895 - 1898

Oxford based Unknown

Date in Oxford 1895 - 1898

English collection size 1

Connections Beatrice Blackwood