Major accessions to repositories in 2010 relating to Natural History

Local

Bedfordshire and Luton Archives Service

• Bedfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club: additional material incl minutes, annual reports and corresp c1990-2000 (Z916)

Bristol Record Office

• Bristol Botanical Club: minutes, reports, corresp and papers 1903-30 (44420)

Devon Record Office

• Torquay Natural History Society: accessions registers 1960-1990 (7884)

Herefordshire Record Office

• Woolhope Naturalists Field Club: minutes 1953 - 2003 (CL86)

Highland Council Archives

• Highland Biological Recording Group: minutes, newsletters, corresp, individual species surveys, data management software, etc 1986-2000 (D1207)

Oldham Local Studies & Archives

• Oldham Natural History Society: minutes and records 1952-1965 (2010/47)

Surrey History Centre

• West Surrey Natural History Society: records incl minutes, accounts, newsletters, and papers rel to West Surrey Badger Group 1979-99 (8669)

Trafford Local Studies

• Hale Ornithologist Club: records 1969-2010 (10/74)

National

British Library, Sound Archive

• Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, ethologist: film recordings from Botswana, San culture (C1426)

Natural History Museum

• Alfred Russel Wallace, naturalist: papers and family papers incl corresp, photographs, lecture notes, legal documents, drawings, reprints, press cuttings and pamphlets c1844-1920 (411981-1001, 412638-1001, 412974-1001, 417324-1001)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

• Peter Bally, botanist: collector's notebooks (183) and lists of plants collected in Africa 1939-1975 (PrP 10-0020)
• Frederick George Harcourt, gardener and agricultural superintendent: letters, photographs and cuttings rel to time in Antigua and Dominica c1920-1970 (PrP 10-0030)
• Charles Samuel Pollock Parish, chaplain and botanist: drawings of orchids 1856-1874 (PrP 10-0006)
• William Wilson Saunders, entomologist: photograph album of Agaves 1872 (PrP 10-0004)
• Ernest Henry Wilson, botanist: photograph album of vegetation and trees of Formosa 1917-1918 (PrP 10-0033)

Special

Royal Society

• Lt General Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond: letters (36) to Martin Folkes, Fellow of Royal Society rel to Royal Society business and elections, and hydra experiments of Abraham Trembley 1725-1744 (20099)

University

Aberdeen University, Special Libraries and Archives

• William Richmond Postle Bourne, ornithologist: papers c1920-79 (Acc 440)

Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections

• Sir Charles Maurice Yonge, marine biologist: papers as Professor of Zoology 1919-1962 (DM2259)

Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

• John Harold Goodland, editor and environmentalist: additional notebook with diary entries 1945 (MS Add. 9704)

London University: Goldsmiths College

• Giles C Roche, entomologist: research papers 1998-2008 (ROCHE)

Manchester University: John Rylands Library

• Sydney John Hickson, zoologist: papers (2010/20)