Major accessions to repositories in 2006 relating to Science

Local

Barnsley Archive and Local Studies Department

• Barnsley Naturalist and Scientific Society: minute books 1989-2000 (A/57/G)

Bromley Local Studies & Archives

• Scientific Instrument Research Association: minutes, accounts and reports c1919-1979 (1734)

Derbyshire Record Office

• Derbyshire Science Centre: minutes, reports and misc papers 1972-1985 (D6551)

Glamorgan Record Office

• George Desmond Morgan, scientist: papers c1950-1982 (D444)

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Lichfield Record Office

• Lichfield Science and Engineering Society: records 1992-2006 (D455)

National

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

• Euan Neilson Kerr Clarkson, palaeontologist: corresp and papers 1965-2002 (Acc.12663)

National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library, Manuscripts Section

• Captain William Nobel, President of the Royal Astronomical Society: letters to Ernest Wiltshire 1876-1884 (REG04/000012)

Natural History Museum

• Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist: letters (150) to and from associates, incl Browne, Hooker, Huxley and Lyell 1837-1913 (Kohler Darwin Collection)

Special

BBC Written Archives Centre

• British Broadcasting Corporation: records from BBC Research Department rel to transmitter field strength and transmitter site data 1940-49 (Dep ID 3670)

Royal Society

• Eric James Denton FRS, physiologist: working papers 1970s-2006
• Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923-2004), chemist: diaries, corresp, lecture notes and papers rel to chemistry and artificial intelligence 1950s-2004
• Robert McCredie May, UK Government Chief Scientist and Zoologist, President of the Royal Society: corresp, research papers, publication files 1980s-2000s
• Nicholas John Shackleton, climate scientist and palaeoceanographer: papers 1950s-2000s

Wellcome Library

• Peter Brian Medawar, medical scientist: additional papers 20th cent (PP/PBM)

University

Aberdeen University, Special Libraries and Archives

• Richard Burghart, anthropologist: papers rel to his research interests in South Asia and in the field of medical anthropology 20th cent
• British Astronomical Association: records 20th cent

Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre

• Sir Hermann Bondi (1919-2005), mathematician and astronomer: further papers (BOND)
• George Clifford Evans (1913-2006), ecologist: papers (EVNS)
• Cesar Milstein, molecular biologist: papers c1949-2003 (MSTN)

Exeter University Library (Special Collections)

• Donald Barber, biophysicist and astronomer: papers incl papers rel to Norman Lockyer Observatory 1910-1999 (MS 303)
• Norman Lockyer Observatory: papers rel to Sidmouth and District Astronomical Society 1913-1989 (MS 72)

Liverpool University: Special Collections and Archives

• School of Biological Sciences Marine Biological Station, Port Erin, Isle of Man: records c1890-2006 (A.301)