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The collection includes correspondence with Brooks’ foster family, his birth parents family, and scientific colleagues; and reminiscences about interment campus “A” including a class portrait, the “Khaki University”, the experience of writing McGill University matriculation exams, and academic life at McGill. While Brooks spent the majority of his academic career at the University of Western Ontario, this collection concerns his childhood and introduction to academic life shaped by the internment camp in Farnham, Quebec.

Brooks, Vernon B.

Verney, Col. William Willoghby Cole

CA RBD MSG BW006-2563
File
1903

Part of Blacker-Wood Correspondence Collection

File contains 1 autograph letter signed. Includes correspondence with Bowdler Sharpe.

Vernal Hanging-Parrot

CA RBD MSG BW002-309
Item
undated

Part of Taylor White Collection

Drawing of a pair of Vernal Hanging-Parrots from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: India and Southeast Asia.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.

Paillou, Peter, approximately 1720-approximately 1790

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