Major accessions to repositories in 2007 relating to Natural History

Local

Centre for Kentish Studies

• Kent Beekeepers Association: records incl minutes of the Mid Kent Association and material rel to Midland Association 1908-69 (Acc 7321)

Derbyshire Record Office

• Ilkeston and District Naturalists Society: minutes 1975-1997 (D6798)

Doncaster Archives Department

• William Bunting, amateur naturalist: records rel to Thorne Moors, incl diaries, corresp, notes, maps and photographs 1950s-1980s (DZ BU)

Manchester Archives and Local Studies

• Manchester Wildlife Trust: records incl minutes 1987-1991 (MISC/1094)

Norfolk Record Office

• Thetford and District Natural History Society: minutes, accounts and papers 1969-2004 (ACC 2006/357)

Northumberland Collections Service

• William Henderson, gardener: gardening diaries, pressed specimens, surveys 1794-1876 (NRO 07231)

Nottinghamshire Archives

• Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Field Club: record books, photographs, scrapbooks and minutes rel to meetings and excursions 19th-20th cent (7201)

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

• Plymouth Zoological Gardens: plans and papers 1925-1962 (Acc 3315)

Shropshire Archives

• Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club: further records 1897-1913 (7678)

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch

• Suffolk Wildlife Trust, Bradfield Woods National Nature Reserve: campaign records 1968-76 and management and wood working papers 1963-87 1963-1987 (HD2933)

West Sussex Record Office

• Sussex Ornithological Society: additional records 1959-2001 (Acc14633)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds

• Alice Barker Welfare and Wildlife Trust: burial register 1996-2006 (WYL2192)

National

National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services

• International Bee Research Association: records incl corresp, reports and slides (IBRA Papers)

Natural History Museum

• Dennis Malcolm Batchelor, ornithologist: notebook diaries describing natural history observations in Malaya, North Borneo and the United Kingdom 1951-1961 (MSS. Batchelor)
• Barbara Kathleen Snow, ornithologist: index cards (500) containing data rel to observations of Shags on Lundy Island 1954-1958 (MSS Snow BK)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

• Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, botanist: additional corresp 1948-1953 (PrP-07-004)

Special

Linnean Society of London

• Peter Humphry Greenwood: papers from his time as President of the Linnean Society 1976-1979
• Doris Mary Kermack and Kenneth Alexander Kermack, zoologists: research notes
• John Christopher Willis, botanist: letters from his daughter (Mrs Browning) 1940-1954
• Edgar Barton Worthington, biologist: notebooks and journals

University

Aberdeen University, Special Libraries and Archives

• James Dalgarno, student: lecture notes on natural history taken under John Shier, Marischal College 1838-39 (MS 3777)
• Deeside Field Club: minute books, financial records, corresp rel to excursions, talks and projects, membership records, photograph albums 1922-2006 (MS 3775)

Liverpool University: Special Collections and Archives

• Ness Botanical Gardens & Bees Ltd: account books, register of trees and shrubs, photographs, films, videos and sound recordings 1902-1994 (A.311)

Manchester University: John Rylands Library

• Henry Eeles Dresser, ornithologist: corresp and photograph album 19th cent (2007/015)