D2.6.1-10: Specimens of Bushman folklore. Notes on fauna and flora for Lucy Lloyd by Mr Roland Trimen

D2.6.1-10: Specimens of Bushman folklore. Notes on fauna and flora for Lucy Lloyd by Mr Roland Trimen

Publications and Reports

This fonds folder contains correspondence between Lucy Lloyd and Roland Trimen from 1878 to 1879, accompanied by notes on bovids, rodents, insects, arachnids, and reptiles, as well as occasional rough sketches and unrelated doodles. Trimen was a naturalist and former curator of the South African Museum (1873-1895), succeeding Edgar Leopold Layard (Fenwick, 2017: 17; Seeman, 1915: 279; Jobling, 2010: 390). This correspondence with Trimen sought to, where possible, conclusively identify the scientific names of fauna in Bleek and Lloyd's 'Bushman researches' in preparation for the 1911 publication of 'Specimens of Bushman folklore', the project's definitive work.

Ink on paper

1878-1879

Notes, correspondence, rough sketches, and blank slips of assorted dimensions.

Weather forecasts (Fitzroy's), Roland Trimen (letters from), fauna (South African), bovids (blaauwbok), rodent (mouse), insects (dragonfly), reptiles (agama lizard), eggs (of geckoes), larvae (of moths Grey Library), doodles (of cross hatching), eights or lemniscates, a circle, and a conical form, preface (notes for the)