Major accessions to repositories in 1998 relating to Natural History

Local

Birmingham City Archives

• John Osborne Partnership, chartered architects, Birmingham: architectural drawings, incl school plans c1970-89 (MS 2135)

Essex Record Office

• Essex Wildlife Trust: council minutes 1964-87 (A10175: D/Z 328)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds

• Yorkshire Naturalists Union: records incl of ornithological section (Accs 4331, 4246)

National

National Archives of Scotland

• Scottish Natural Heritage, Nature Conservancy Council: records incl minutes 1967-92 (SNH)

Natural History Museum

• Rene Gallant (1906-85), researcher into meteorite impacts: papers incl ms copies of his 'Bombarded Earth' essay (Earth Sciences Library MSS GAL)
• George Sheppard (d 1965), geologist: notebook of time in Canada, ms copies of works (Earth Sciences Library MSS SHE)
• Streatham Entomological and Natural History Society: records rel to flora and fauna 1902-28 (General Library Manuscripts MSS STRE)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

• William Martin Condry (1918-98), naturalist and writer: research papers rel to biography of Mary Richards (Acc PrP 98-0010)
• George July, research chemist and amateur photographer: research papers rel to the photography of blue flowers 1991-93 (Acc PrP 98-0009)
• Mary Alice Eleanor Richards (1885-1977), amateur botanist: diaries and papers (Acc PrP 98-0010)
• Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, entomologist: papers rel to irises and plant lists for gardens at Tring and Ashton Wold c1900-23 (Acc PrP 98-0012)
• AW Waitt, botanist: research papers rel to West African yams c1950 (Acc PrP 98-0001)

Special

Linnean Society of London

• Richard Sidney Richmond Fitter (b 1913), author and naturalist: papers rel to nature conservation
• Julius Groner (b 1919), lawyer and Fellow of the Linnean Society: papers rel to his work on John Ellis
• George Llewelyn Lucas (b 1935), conservationist and botanist: papers rel to nature conservation
• Edward Max Nicholson (b 1904), ecologist: papers rel to nature conservation

Royal Institution of Cornwall

• Richard Quiller Couch (1816-1863), naturalist (addnl): corresp with his father Jonathan Couch

University

Aberdeen University, Special Libraries and Archives

• Edward Forbes, naturalist: notes on a course of lectures 1840-41 (3564)

Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

• Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist: corresp and papers 1851-78 (DAR 185/124-25, 127-34)
• Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist: letters to Sir Henry Barkly and from John Stevens Henslow 1843-77 (Add 9537)

Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre

• George Salt (b1903), entomologist: papers (GS)

Hull University, Brynmor Jones Library

• Eva Crackles, teacher and botanist: papers c1940-90

London University: Imperial College Archives

• John Sutton, geologist: papers 1919-92

Manchester University: John Rylands Library

• Peter Rowe (1922-97), Professor of Soil Mechanics at Manchester University: papers (R002)
• Royal Manchester Botanical Society: records incl minutes 1829-1999 (R001)

Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts

• Sir Thomas Richard Edmund Southwood (b 1931), zoologist: papers