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Major accessions to repositories in 2023 relating to Nature

Local

Archives and Cornish Studies Service (formerly Cornwall Record Office)

  • Stella Maris Treharne Turk and Helford Voluntary Marine Conservation Area: documents and newsletters 20th-21st cent (AD2984)
  • Stella Maris Turk (1925-2017), zoologist, naturalist, and conservationist: correspondence with over one hundred conchologists. Also incl material rel to other non-specialist correspondents, obituaries and biographical notes 20th-21st cent (AD2698)

ARK: Archive Resource for Knowsley

  • Christopher Felton, (fl 2021-2022), naturalist: diaries recording observations of the flora and fauna of Kirkby and other locations in the region 2021-2022 (GB1076.FEL/6)
  • Christopher Felton, (fl 2007-2012), naturalist: North Merseyside biological records rel to observations made and recorded in the North Merseyside area, including Sefton, St. Helens, Knowsley and Liverpool c2007-2012 (GB1076.FEL/7/1)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal

  • Kendal Natural History Society: minutes, annual accounts and programmes 1946-2023 (WDSO 426)

Derbyshire Record Office

  • Derby CHA & HF Rambling Club: minutes, annual reports, membership lists, programmes, photographs 1924-2013 (D8506)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • James Harley, (1817-1855), naturalist: apprenticeship indenture (1817), diary of Notes & Observations (1840-1844) with photocopy of transcript, A Synopsis of vertebrated animals of the County of Leicester (1840-1855) 1817-1855 (DE10606)

Manchester Archives and Local Studies

  • Manchester Field Club: proceedings incl natural history rel information of the Manchester area incl collated data, newsletters, drawings, annual reports, minutes and field books 1937-2023 (2023/44)

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

  • Plymouth Save the Trees of Armada Way Campaign Group (STRAW): digital copies downloaded from the group's website: incl flyers, posters, policy statements, photographs and newspaper articles rel to removal of trees in Armada Way in March 2023 by Plymouth City Council 2018-2023 (4514)

Sheffield City Archives

  • Maurice Lilley (1931-1988), young amateur naturalist: diary of natural world incl sketches and observations 1945-1950 (X1042)

National

Natural History Museum Library and Archives

  • David Measures (1937-2011), natural history artist: entomological artwork archive 1966-2010 (LIB 2023/01)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

  • Royal Botanic Gardens Kew - Arboretum: Goods Inwards books 1892-1969 (QX 23-0014)
  • Sir David Prain (1857-1944), botanist, Director of Kew Gardens: certificates and presentation documents, also incl some letters 1877-1937 (PrP 23-0003)

University

Aberdeen University, Special Collections Centre

  • Aberdeen University Bird Club: records 1972-2017

Leicester University Library: Special Collections

  • University of Leicester: records incl financial statements, annual reports, photographs, publications, ephemera; oral history interview with Sir David Attenborough; King Richard III discovery records 1921-2023 (Acc 2023)
  • Ian Burton (fl1958-2023), Zoology student, University of Leicester: memoir of studying BSc Zoology at the University of Leicester (1958-1961) 2023 (Acc 2023/01)

Museum of English Rural Life

  • Ahmed Zaky Abushâdy, Egyptian poet, publisher, medical doctor, bacteriologist, bee scientist: patents and related papers for his beekeeping equipment inventions 1919-1921