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Major accessions to repositories in 2013 relating to Natural History

Local

Durham County Record Office

  • Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists Field Club: records 19th-20th cent (8488)

Essex Record Office

  • Thomas Nottidge: letters incl the introduction of birds, insectivores and bumble bees to New Zealand 1859-1902 (Acc. A13745)
  • Rayleigh Antiquarian and Natural History Society: reports, accounts and membership lists 1966-1983 (Acc. A13668)

Norfolk Record Office

  • John Edward Kett, poet: nature diaries 1929-2003 (MC 3002)

Pembrokeshire Archives

  • Stephen Marchant, ornithologist: papers incl corresp and photographs taken on Skomer Island in 1946 1946-2004 (HDX/1910)

Somerset Heritage Centre

  • Norton sub Hamdon Local and Natural History Society: records 1888-1975 (A\BPB)
  • Willow rust and climate surveys of the Somerset Levels 20th cent (A\CBD)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

  • Richard Abbay, Rector of Earl Soham, Canon, naturalist: scrapbook early 20th cent (HD3053)
  • Ipswich and District Natural History Society: minutes, accounts, photograph album of field meetings, newsletters and other records 1966-2013 (GC444)

West Sussex Record Office

  • Shoreham District Ornithological Society: annual reports c1953-2013 (Acc 17016)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

  • Castleford and District Naturalist Society: records 1956-2013 (WYW1795)
  • Wakefield Naturalist Society: minutes, accounts and other records 1923-2013 (WYW1796)

National

Jersey Archive

  • Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Author Zoologist and Conservationist: manuscripts, notes, corresp, financial records and publicity material c1940-2002 (JA/2424)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

  • William Henry Bennett, gardener: notes from a series of lectures on organography and systematic botany 1879 (PrP 13-0031)
  • Frank Nigel Hepper, botanist: additional papers rel to Silene Nutans Linn, typescript accounts of expeditions to Holy Land, corresp, notes on cedars, collecting notebooks, papers regarding expeditions in West Africa 1950-1999 (PrP 13-0001, PrP 13-0003, PrP 13-0023, PrP 13-0032)
  • Charles Edward Hubbard, botanist, gardener: additional corresp 1972-1973 (PrP 13-0028)
  • Christopher Roy Fraser-Jenkins, botanist: index of Herbarium specimens 1957-2013 (PrP 13-0030)
  • Ronald William John Keay, botanist: corresp, papers and photographs rel to the genus Aloe 1959-1966 (PrP 13-0021)
  • Patricia Lewis, botanist: corresp, photographs, research notes on Flora of Montebello Islands, botanical sketches c1950-1959 (PrP 13-0006)
  • Robert Desmond Meikle, botanist: bound first draft 'Index of Author Abbreviations: Flowering Plants' c1965-1976 (PrP 13-0009)
  • Charles Russell Metcalfe, botanist: corresp 1961-1992 (PrP 13-0018)
  • Charles Jacques Edouard Morren, botanist, editor and director of Jardin Botanique de l'Universite de Liege: corresp 1874 (PrP 13-0022)
  • Paul Westmacott Richards, botanist: collecting labels from expedition to Xavantina, Brazil 1967-1968 (PrP 13-0014)
  • Edward Armitage Robinson, sculptor, botanist, educationalist: lists of specimens collected and distributed c1960-1967 (PrP 13-0034)
  • Jacob Christian Schaffer, Fellow of the Royal Society, botanist and inventor: corresp 1765-1766 (PrP 13-0019)
  • Sarah Smith, botanist: collecting notebooks rel to specimens collected in Kenya 2000 (PrP 13-0025)

University

Aberdeen University, Special Collections Centre

  • Samuel Michael David Alexander, industrial trainer and amateur ornithologist: papers c1940-2010 (Acc No 679)
  • Adam Watson, ecologist: notebooks on grouse behaviour 1959-1977 (Acc No 680)

Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York

  • Michael Rowntree, bird watcher: records 1930-1999 (RFA)

Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections

  • Sidney Hugh Reynolds, professor of Geology, University of Bristol: photograph albums (5) the Orient and France 1880-1925 (DM2520)

Cambridge University: Clare College

  • Michael Majerus, ecological geneticist with specialism in ladybirds: fieldwork notebooks, lab notebooks, research and teaching notes 1978-2008 (CCPP/MAJ)

Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections

  • Royal Scottish Forestry Society, Edinburgh: records and photographs 20th cent (Coll-1380)

Oxford University: Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House

  • John Rice Francis Mills, warden of the Ugandan National Parks: papers incl notebook on safaris in Bunyoro and North West Uganda, notes and slides 1949-1952 (8440)

Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Western Manuscripts

  • Nikolaas Tinbergen, ethologist: corresp with Bryan Nelson, ornithologist c1958-1980 (Acc 9489)