Major accessions to repositories in 2022 relating to Nature

Local

Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven

• Mary Cicely Fair, (1874-1955), archaeologist and naturalist: photograph album of Copeland area with scenes of the western lakes and fells as well as oak spelk basketmaking in Eskdale; Herdwicks Woolpack Show and a few steelworks, pits and docks 1935 (PH/1677)

Northamptonshire Archives

• Kettering and District Natural History Society: records including minutes, balance sheets, programmers, photographs, publications, journals 1908-2021 (2022/67)

West Sussex Record Office

• East Grinstead Natural History Society: records 1932-2020 (20190)
• Richard Williamson (1935-2022), naturalist and writer: papers late 20th cent (20336)

National

National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services

• Eva Crane (1912-2007), researcher and writer on beekeeping: records of bee boles, consisting of numbered files including reports, photographs, corresp and related papers for sites recorded in the UK and Ireland, together with an additional box containing slides, compiled by Crane and others 1950-2000 (Eva Crane Trust Bee Boles Register Archive)
• Friends of the Earth Cymru: records incl files on specific campaigns, reports, press releases, correspondence and photographs c1990-2010 (Friends of the Earth Cymru Archive)

Special

Linnean Society of London

• Jenny Grundy (fl2001-2019), Fellow of the Linnean Society of London: sketchbooks (40) containing watercolour sketches, comprising between 30-50 drawings, primarily botanical but also occasionally incl animals, birds and landscapes. Some sketches have been used to create greetings cards which have been sold in aid of the Linnean Society 2001-2019

University

London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections

• George Bellas Greenough (1778-1855), geologist: travel diaries and notes c1798-1820 (GREENOUGH)

Museum of English Rural Life

• Ray Woolmore (fl2000-2010), Senior Planning Officer at the Countryside Agency: designation histories for a number of protected landscapes designated as Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty across England and Wales c2000-2010 (Acc.DX2429)
• George Albert Taylor (fl1940-1970), beekeeper: glass lantern slides and drawings rel to bees and diseases in bees 1940s-1950s (Acc.DX2417)
• Christopher B Bartlett (fl1914-1954), commercial beekeeper: collection of correspondence, show programmes, brochures and catalogues rel to beekeeping 1914-1954 (Acc.DX2388)

University of Exeter Library (Special Collections)

• Henry Williamson (1895-1977), naturalist and author: additional papers, mostly personal created and accumulated throughout his life, some literary papers 1900-2000 (EUL MS 43/PERS add. 1)

University of Reading: Special Collections

• Henry Malcolm Fraser (1874-1970), author and beekeeper: manuscripts, typescripts and corresp rel to Charles Butler; incl typescripts of Butler's works entitled 'The Feminin' Monarchi [sic] and 'Rameae Rhetoricae Libri Duo' c1950 (Acc.MS5795)