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- 1893 - 1991 (Creation)
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1 file paper
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Papers relating to the life of Osmond Fisher including 'Osmond Fisher: Pioneer, Earth Scientist and Lover of the Arts' by Richard Wilding from the Dorset Year Book, 1991 with associated correspondence relating to the research for the article; Copies of transcriptions of letters to Fisher from his grandmother Mary and aunt Mary, 18th August 1836, from John Gibson 23rd February 1846 and from M. A. Chapman 21st March 1841; Photographs of Fisher, c. 1910; Copy of obituary from the Cambridge Review, October 1914; Biographical notes from the Cambridge Review, 16th March 1893; Extract of will; Biographical notes from the Geographical Magazine, February 1900; Copy of 'Osmond Fisher (1817-1914) - Dorset Geologist and Pioneer Geophysicist' by Richard Wilding from Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1988; Photograph showing Fisher, John Gibson, Arthur Westmorland, Henry Woodham and (Francis Charles?) Drake, c. 1860;