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Major accessions to repositories in 2014 relating to Natural History |
Local
- Environment Agency: Bristol Avon Local Flood Defence Committee minutes 1996-2005 (44840)
- Susan Cowdy, nee Stewart-Liberty (1914-1996), natural historian and conservationist: typed reminiscences rel to Second World War, incl Women's Land Army and to The Lee c1999 (AR 105/2014)
- Dee Estuary Conservation Group: minutes, corresp, reports, constitution and business plan 1975-2009 (D 8582, D 8606)
- Environment Agency, North West Region, South Area Flood Defence Advisory Committee: records incl minutes and reports 1995-2005 (D 8547)
- Transcription from original manuscript of Thomas Tonkin (1678-1742) 'Continuation of the Topographical History of Cornwall', property of Rev Wm Pye of Blisland 1805 (AD2322)
- Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991), author and environmentalist: additional papers comprising Betty Wainwright's notebooks of walks and holidays, no. 4 and 5 1976-1983 (WDAW)
- British Beekeepers Association, Dorset branch: records of county and sub-groups (D2637)
- Council for the Protection of Rural England, Dorset branch: photographs, reports and papers 1977-2011 (D/PRE)
- Environment Agency: Wessex Regional Fisheries Advisory Committee and Avon and Dorset Flood Defence Committee minutes 1994-2005 (NG/EA)
- Residents Against Gravel Extraction (RAGE), Piddle Valley: minutes, corresp and papers 1991-1996 (D2616)
- Bumble Hole Conservation Group: minutes and ephemera 1994-2014 (Acc 9794)
- Chelmsford Environmental Partnership: minutes (A13841)
- Cardiff Naturalists Society: corresp rel to the Taff and Cardiff Bay barage 1920-1993 (DCNS)
- William Lock Mellersh (c1873-1941), ornithologist: notes rel to birds of Gloucestershire 1888-1932 (D13705)
- Hampshire Ornithological Society: notebooks and field lists 1960-2011 (75M94)
- Harry Sharrock (fl 1948-2011), nature diarist: natural history diaries, occurrence registers and indexes for butterflies and dragonflies 20th cent (DDX 3066)
- Clitheroe Naturalists Society: additional minutes and species records 1969-2013 (DDX 3076)
- Marjorie Blanche Honeybourne (1899-1974), topographer: corresp, lecture notes, diaries, photographs and printed material 1890-1982 (B14/064)
- Crosshills Naturalists Society: minutes, reports, papers, membership cards and photographs 1904-2013 (ZNV)
- Blyth Harbour Wind Farm Project, Wansbeck: records incl environmental statements, statistics and photographs 2007 (NRO 10600)
- Environment Agency: Somerset local flood defence committee minutes 1996-2005 (A\BER)
- Norton sub Hamdon Local and Natural History Society: minutes and papers 1998-2013 (A\BPB)
- Weston-super-Mare Archaeological and Natural History Society: minutes, corresp, photographs and papers 1915-2008 (A\DXY)
- Suffolk Coastal Conservative Association: records incl of constituent branches c1906-2006 (GK407)
- Royal Institution of South Wales: additional records incl accounts and newsletters 2006-2013 (RISW)
- Chichester Harbour Conservancy: records c1953-1980 (17474)
- West Sussex Beekeepers' Association, Chichester Division: additional records 1970-2001 (17715)
- Environment Agency: digital records of Yorkshire and North East committees, with agendas and papers of the Regional Environment Protection Advisory Committee, Regional Fisheries Ecology and Recreation Advisory Committee and Yorkshire Regional Flood Defence Committee 2000-2010 (C1001)
- Wakefield Natural History Society: bird reports 1972-1991 (WYW1796)
- Colin Mather (fl 1970-2005), photographer: photographic collection documenting change in the built and natural environment across Wigan Borough 1970-2005 (Acc. 2014/2)
- Campaign to Protect Rural England, North Wiltshire branch: minutes and papers 1970-2005 (4268)
- World Wildlife Fund, Salisbury and District branch: minutes and fund-raising records 1971-1993 (4244)
National
- Centre for Alternative Technology, eco-centre, Machynlleth: records incl oral history project on the establishment and early work of the Centre c1973-2014 (The Centre for Alternative Technology Archives)
- Edward P Wiltshire (1910-2004), amateur entomologist: corresp, drawings, photographs and negatives c1930-2004 (Acc 2014/07)
Special
- Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1858-1934), Lieutenant Colonel, Antarctic explorer and geologist: manuscript abstract of notes on geology at the Western Front 1919 (A/2014/04)
- Edward A 'Ted' Irving (1927-2014), geophysicist: corresp and research notebooks from his scientific career, notably his work on palaeomagnetics 1949-2013 (LDGSL/1108)
- James Alfred Richardson (1914-2007), geologist: typescript autobiography rel to time as POW in Malaya 1985 (A/2014/12)
University
- Bee Farmers' Association: rules, minutes and bulletins, with a typescript history of the Association c1950-2011 (BFA)
- Yorkshire Wildlife Trust: papers rel to nature reserves, incl minutes, annual reports, management plans, work programmes, ecological surveys, corresp, photographs, scrapbooks and press cuttings 1960-2010 (YWT)
- Environment Agency, Severn Trent Region Regional Flood Defence Committee: records incl minutes, agendas and reports 1997-2012 (REA)
- Humphrey Morrison Burkill (1914-2006), botanist: corresp, papers, oral history recordings and photographs mainly by his father, Isaac Henry Burkill c1900-2005 (9673)
- Christian Tutundjian de Vartavan (b 1965), Director of the Armenian Egyptology Centre: additional material rel to the study of botanical specimens from the tomb of Tutankhamun incl corresp, notes and reports, papers rel to seminars and lectures, and negatives c1980-1999
- Frank Spragge (d 2011), naturalist: papers rel to the Scottish Wildlife Trust, lecture notes and travel journals c1950-2000 (ms38967)
- Henry Williamson (1895-1977), naturalist and author: letters to Ruth Tomalin and related papers 1952-1977 (MS 422)
- Robert Ferns Waller (1913-2005), ecologist and poet: typescript and manuscript drafts of poems, talks and essays c1940-1969 (MS 5535)
- Pete Wilkinson (b 1946), environmental campaigner: papers rel to Greenpeace and other environmental campaigning groups c1970-79 (Acc 989)
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