The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
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References in Documents:[Travel Diary of Georg Christoph Stirn of Nuremberg, includes description of the Tradescant collection, as well as those in the tower and at Oxford] [*]P. B.
Duncan , Introd. to the Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum p. 4, mentions as
deserving especial notice 'the beak of the helmet hornbill, from the East Indies , which has been but lately
imported in the entire state, having been long suspected to have been a foolish
imposition contrived to deceive Tradescant .' The younger
Tradescant bequeathed the Museum
in 1662 to Ashmole who presented it to the University of Oxford .