Catalogue description Diaries of Frank Simon Collier (1900 - 1967)

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Title: Diaries of Frank Simon Collier (1900 - 1967)
Description:

Diaries of Frank Simon Collier (1900-1967)
Date: 1915-1935
Held by: Natural History Museum Library and Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Collier, Frank Simon, 1900-1964, forester and naturalist
Physical description: Four boxes
Immediate source of acquisition:

See file ARC III/COL for accession correspondence, 1982.
Subjects:
  • Natural sciences
  • Forestry
Administrative / biographical background:

Collier grew up in Hertfordshire and went to Oxford University. He travelled to Nigeria in 1923, where he served as a Forest Officer, and later Chief Conservator. He developed an unequalled knowledge of the fauna of West Africa, and was an accomplished natural history artist. Collier strove unsuccessfully to establish wildlife laws in Nigeria. He was on the Council of the Fauna Preservation Society from 1953 to 1957.

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