Major Accessions to Repositories in 1995 relating to Natural History

Birmingham Central Library, Archives Division

• Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society: minutes 1975-85 (MS 1520, addnl)

University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Library

• Roger Cotes, Plumian Professor of astronomy and natural history: lectures on hydrostatics and pneumatics c1730 (Add 9302)
• Charles Darwin (1809-1882), naturalist: letters (4) to John Scott, George King and William Carpenter (DAR 185/111-114)

Hampshire Record Office

• Hampshire Ornithological Society: addnl research and survey notes c1950-90 (74M95)

Royal Botanic Garden

• Norman Edward Garry Cruttwell: botanical archives (incl photographs) esp rel to Papua New Guinea 1946-95 (PrP 95-005)
• Laurence Chalk (1896-1979): papers on wood anatomy and growth (QX 95-0017)
• Charles Russell Metcalf (1904-1991), Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory, Kew: papers, incl papers rel to his book The anatomy of Dicotyledons 1950 (QX 95-0018; QX 0019)

Surrey Record Office

• Holmesdale Natural History Club, Reigate: rules and list of members, nd (4349)