Major accessions to repositories in 2021 relating to Nature

Local

Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office

• James Keen (fl2021), photographer: digital images showing the effects of Storm Arwen in Berwick, Tweedmouth and Spittal 2021 (BRO 2727)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

• Anthony Edward (Tony) Squires (1940-2021), landscape historian: research papers incl notes, publications, copies and transcripts (both collected and created) rel to landscape studies incl parks, woodlands and enclosures c1960-2021 (DE10127)

Northumberland Archives

• Claire Manners (fl 2021), of Northumberland: digital image of Storm Arwen damage to garden summerhouse and hen house at North Farm, Embleton, Northumberland, 26 November 2021 2021 (NRO 12392 [PRO/STAR/1])
• Samantha Bamford (fl2021), of Northumberland: digital image of fallen tree in Glebe Close, Ponteland, Northumberland, caused by Storm Arwen on Friday 26 November 2021 2021 (NRO 12394 [PRO/STAR/2])
• Mrs J. Farrell (fl2021), of Northumberland: digital images (2) showing damage caused by Storm Arwen to a property in Bedlington, Northumberland 2021 (NRO 12396 [PRO/STAR/4])
• Amanda Sheldon (fl2021), of Northumberland: digital photographs (8) showing damage caused to a back garden in Chestnut Street, Ashington, Northumberland 2021 (NRO 12397 [PRO/STAR/5])
• Katie Ward (fl2021), of Northumberland: digital photographic images showing damage caused by Storm Arwen to a car and property in Amble, Northumberland 2021 (NRO 12404 [PRO/STAR/7])
• Mr. Simon Deniel (fl2021), of Northumberland: digital images (5), and videos (2), showing Storm Arwen hitting Amble, Northumberland, and damage caused, Friday 26 November 2021 2021 (NRO 12395 [PRO/STAR/3])

Surrey History Centre

• Lyonell Barlow (fl1875), of Ewhurst: notes on the natural history of Ewhurst 1875 (10321)

National

Natural History Museum Library and Archives

• Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937), 2nd Baron Rothschild: letter to Dr ET Sweeting regarding black swallowtail butterflies 1922 (2021/1)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

• Dawson William Turner (1815-1885), educationalist: album sheets from an autograph collection of letters thought to have been compiled by Turner, also incl corresp with Joseph Dalton Hooker, William Hooker, Francis Palgrave 1859-1912 (PrP 21-0005)

Special

Linnean Society of London

• John Tyley (fl1793-1800), Caribbean botanical illustrator: watercolour of a breadfruit tree, 'Artocarpus incisus' c1793-1800 (2021/01)

Royal Society

• John Robert Lawrence Allen, FRS, FSA (1932-2020), geologist and archaeologist: papers 1960s-2010s (2021/10)

University

Bangor University, Archives and Special Collections

• Dr Paul Ernest Sutton Whalley (1930-2019), entomologist: handwritten nature diaries 1944-2000 (2021/11)

Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York

• Yorkshire Wildlife Trust: 35mm slides of various YWT sites incl Spurn, Fen Bog, File Dams, Burton Ings and Potteric Carr 1969-1988 (YWT (2021/024))

Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre

• Rosemary and David Goodridge: ms drawings and watercolours, and typescript notes, of 'British Wildflowers', mostly as seen in Cambridgeshire, with spreadsheet index 1943-2021 (GBR/0272/KCAC/1/6/IngleLM)

King's College London: College Archives

• Meteorological Office, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and Warren Spring Laboratory: printed atmospheric pollution, smoke and sulphur dioxide annual reports for the UK 1914-1993 (Acc 3887)

Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections

• University of Nottingham, Department of Botany: collection of 2.25 inch slides used in teaching depicting places, plants, sea life and molluscs c1910-1919 (ACC 3143)