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| Description | Former ref: AL 1957/57
Correspondence;
Mrs N M Goodall relating to hair piece
A W Hubbard, Laboratory of the Government Chemist Kenneth, relating to hair samples
Stanley Rajakarun relating to hair samples from Veddah people
Series of correspondence relating to the collection of hair samples from Tanzanian people as part of the Liverpool Medical Undergraduate Anthropological Expedition to Tanganyika in 1963
R Ruggles Gates, Indian Statistical Institute, relating to a donation of hair samples from the Lepcha people and ‘Tibetan refugees’ and other donation of hair samples
Father Frank Lynch, Institute of Philipine Culture, relating to offer to provide hair samples
Document titled ‘Hair Collection’ which lists all the hair samples in the BM(NH) collection
Manuel Morales Ramos, El Museo Canario, Canary Islands, relating to the donations of hair samples from the Canary Islands
Rosemary Powers, relating to the collection of 112 tubes of hair from the ‘second Cambridge Journey’
Elise Thorvildsen, relating to 12 samples of prehistoric human hair
N Barnicot relating to analysis of a hair from a Roman period skeleton
N A Barnicot, University College London, relating to hair samples of ‘young males in England, Scotland, and Wales’
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