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Gilbert, Pamela. John Abbot: Birds, Butterflies and Other Wonders. London: Merrell Holberton, 1998.
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Related Online Resources
John Abbot: Early Georgia Artist and Naturalist
An Exhibition at the Morris Museum of Arthttp://www.themorris.org/exhibitions/past/abbot/abbot_main.html
Other Libraries with Abbot Collections
Callaway Gardens, Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center, Pine Mountain, Georgia
http://www.callawaygardens.com
Special Collections and Archives, Emory University
http://web.library.emory.edu/libraries/speccolls/
Henderson Library, Georgia Southern University:http://www2.gasou.edu/art/betty/index.html
Hargrett Library, University of Georgia
http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/speccoll.html
Houghton Library, Harvard University.
http://hcl.harvard.edu/houghton/
Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University
http://www.library.jhu.edu/home/index3.html
Natural History Museum, London
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/index.html
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia
http://www.amphilsoc.org/
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/
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