Alexander Library Archives
The archive records are listed by author in two lists according to
their location in the Library.
A
Acland, Clemence M.
1. Twenty-eight small NBs and diaries (including
a 1909 egg collection) from 1910, 1912-1915, 1921-1933, 1935-1936, 1945;
Four bird NBs; List of bird names in French.
Alexander, H. G.
1. Sixty-seven bird diaries 1904-1946 (46 &
47 missing) 1948–1962.
2. Letter bundles: from Chistopher (C.J.) Alexander
1905-09, Jan-June 1911, 1911-12 Birds of Rome, June 1911–Feb 1916 Rome,
1916-17, England, Wales, France, Belgium; from William Backhouse (W.B.)
Alexander 1900-1930; Correspondence regarding RSPB Watcher's reports
& Dungeness.
3. Letters bundles: West Midland Bird Club;
Great White Heron Dorset; Notes on Dungeness by J. Tart's;
RSPB papers; Dorset Birds and bird letters; with Bruce Campbell
regarding 70 years of Bird Watching.
4. Bird diaries of C. J. Alexander (10) and H.
G. Alexander (51); Four NBs of an unidentified author 1907 onwards.
5. Correspondence with Ticehurst, Witherby, E.
L. Turner ("Skipper"), Tucker, and Coward (mixed) and letters from B.
W. Tucker Jan. 1926–Jul 1948 (folder); Miscellaneous cuttings and
letters; Photos from the Ornithological Congress in Finland (1958?);
Various manuscripts and papers by H.G. and others; BOU British Records
Committee correspondence 1963-4; Sharp-tailed Sandpiper in Jersey correspondence;
Folders with letters from Tony Blake, Stephen Incldeon, Brian Barnett, J.
Grauton, R. Fitter, and R. Stokes; Correspondence with Salim Ali and
others regarding the Indian National Committee for Bird Preservation.
6. Correspondence and papers: BOU British Records
List; miscellaneous with various people; British Birds Rarities Committee
1957-1965.
7. Correspondence: Delhi Bird-watching Society;
BOU and Cambridge University Madingley Field-Station; Letters from
Phyllis Barclay-Smith, ICBP and IUCN; Letters with Bill Bourne 1960-68
regarding ocean birds; Various ornithological letters 1959-1969
including letters from David Lack Jan-Feb 1959.
8. MS: "The migration and distributions of birds
in SE England."; J. A. Benington's Two Irishmen in Oxford given
to W.B. Alexander by Arnold Bennington; C. B. Ticehurst's 1938 A
systematic review of the Genus Phylloscopus (Willow-warblers or Leaf-warblers),
with notes by H. G. Alexander; Annotated copy of Hartert, Jourdain,
Ticehurst and Witherby's 1912 A Handlist of British Birds with an account
of the distribution of each species in the British Isles and abroad.
9. Correspondence including David and Elizabeth
Lack, James Monk, Salim Ali. Bert Axell, Ernst Schüz; Various
papers on the D.V.O.C. and H. G. Alexander's bird writings from the 1970s;
Papers and correspondence with Poyser Publishers.
10. Correspondence: Bird letters 1956-59 and 1960-63;
Slender-billed Gulls 1950; Fair Isle.
11. Annotated copies of the Bulletin of the British
Ornithologists' Club 1906-14 vols 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, and 34.
12. Scrap Album containing illustrations of birds
taken from magazines, post cards, photographs and specimen plates from
books; Small envelop of photographs from Hickling Broad 1905 -.
13. Indian birds and bird letters 1960-65;
Indian ornithology 1954-55 and 1956-59; Himalayan migration;
Bird writings; India and Indian Ocean; Bird note book 1957.
14. Twenty-one NBs on birds in India and England
over various decades.
15. Material, correspondence, and papers pertaining
to Birds in India.
16. Letters, most sorted into correspondents, and
book disposal notes.
17. Papers regarding birds on the danger list (1957-9),
including papers and correspondence with the ICBP; Folders on rare
birds on various continents and the Indian Ocean.
18. Miscellaneous notes and letters on bird observations
and field identification; drawings; small paintings;
photographs (including one of Alexander and his wife); "bird letters"
from 1985; Numerous items of personal correspondence.
19. Field NB of W. B. Alexander's (?) from August
1909 with lists of birds singing in certain months and observations on
birds at Rome (July to November 1911); NB (H.G. or W.B.?) on migrant
arrival and departure dates; Migration notes by H.G. inc. photograph
from Helsinki IOC; Bird Notes in America 1955; Species List NB
(H.G. or W.B.?); the Advisory Council of Science and Industry of Australia's
Memoir No. 1 on The Australian Environment 1918.
20. NB on Bird Mapping; C.J. Alexander(?)'s
field NBs (3); Copy of H.G.'s book Gandhi Through Western Eyes 1984
edition (orig. published in 1969); W.B.'s signed copy of James Fisher's
Bird Recognition; Vol. 2 of hand-written NB Zoological Notes: Birds,
& c. seen abroad; Birds of Tunbridge Wells 1905-6 by W. B. Alexander.
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Alexander, W. B. (also see Boxes 19 and 20 above).
1. Photograph album of photos taken by W. B. Alexander
"in the wilder parts of Great Britain (Shetlands, Sutherland, Caithness,
Invernesshire, Dumbartonshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Wigtownshire, Cumberland,
Westmorland, Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, Merioneth, Pembrokeshire,
and Cornwall) of scenery, bird-haunts, nests, and birds".
2. Two albums of bird cigarette cards; Collection of British
Museum (Natural History) bird plate post-cards; NB with cut-out illustrations
of foreign birds; RSPB species information plates; Photographs
of W.B.A. and friends in the field at Heligoland (small photographs) Dungeness,
and other localities; EGI and other group photos, field trips, etc.;
Photos of St. Kilda scenery and guano harvesting off the coast of Peru.
3. Collection of photographs of famous ornithologists: Macpherson,
Jourdain, Witherby, Seebohm, Harting, Sclater, Armstrong, Bannerman, Edward
Grey, Jardine, Mountfort, Pavlovsky, Eagle Clarke, Tucker, Newton, Bewick
(copy of engraving), Stresemann, Sibley, Lack, W. B. Alexander, Mrs. Bannerman,
Porteuno (?), Wetmore, Yeates, Huxley, and Fleming; Photographs
of Pterodroma arminjoniana, Puffinus pacficus, roosting tree-creeper, Bullock's
Oriole nest, White-winged Petrel, Olive-sided Flycatcher nest, Mountain
Chickadee nest, Valley Quail nest; Correspondence and photographs
regarding Bowerbird nests, Rufous Fan-tail NSW 1928, Bluecap 1928, Yellow
Robin, Hylacrla pynopygia NSW 1928, Deirdre chisholm and Lyrebird nest Sydney
1928.
4. Notepads: No. of birds seen in each county of British Isles;
Notes on journey to Sicily 1928/9; Palestine & Cyprus 1929,
Scotland 1929; Bird Notes on Voyages 1905-1920; Notes on the
natural history of W. Liguri (including letters); Seabirds seen on
voyages; Lists of birds seen in zoogeographical regions; Notes
on history of Australian ornithology; Notes on birds eating seeds
from Witherby's Handbook; Bird notes undated; Winter migrants
Oxford district; Summer migrants Oxford district.
5. Notepads: Birds seen in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942-3; Central
Queensland birds; Other notes on Bordighera Peggy? Tucker;
Bodighera Birds – non-passerines and passerine; Inns with birds in
their names; List of literature by bird species.
6. Notepads: British Birds (Number of counties in which seen);
Bird Maps (rare species); Bird Maps (common species); Bagley
Wood records; Sandford Sewage Farm records; Birds seen in
Jersey 1953; Birds seen in Palearctic region; World list of
birds seen Non-passerine and Passerine; Birds seen 1927-1936;
Relative status of birds in England & Scotland.
7. Notepads (1918-45): A geographical bibliography of British
ornithology: British Isles (books and general articles); England
(Shrop to Yorks); England (Beds to Glos); NBs on Wales and
the Isle of Man, Scotland, Ireland, since 1918; Plate collection
of Ralliformes, Psittaciformes, Coraciformes, Palaeognathae, Columbiformes,
and Impennes.
8. Program for the BOU and SOC gathering 1947 with autographs of participants;
Reprint of Newton's copy of Owen's article on the Solitaire with note
attached (by?) Charles Darwin regarding flightless birds; 1767 reprint
of Marthland's Pteryplegia: Or, the Art of Shooting-Flying; Note from
P.L. and W. L. Sclater and Jardine; Various letters including Newton
and Blanford, John Latham to T. W. Chevalier 1823; 1816 Leach's Systematic
Catalogue of Indigenous Mammalia and Birds in the British Museum;
Newton's reprint of Bonaparte's Catalogo metodigo degli Uccelli Europei
with letter to "Mr. Prince Agent to Mr. Gould Celebrated Ornithologist from
C.L. Bonaparte (?) 1842; Pages extracted from the Encyclopaedia Londinensis
1799 on bird-catching, bird-lime, bird nests, and singing birds; Notebooks:
12 watercolour sketches of flowers; Notes Brisbane to Southampton
1925/6; Voyages to and from South America 1926; Bird List for
1921, 1922, and birds seen 1921 and 1920; Birds seen 1926; Birds
seen in Chile 1920; Notes on Seabirds; Holland 1935; Heligoland
1933; Notes on problems to be solved and diagrams re. ringing, movements
of birds, and letters from Falla, Harry Crossfield, photos and account
Little Barrier Island.
9. Passeriformes plate collection; Bird illustrations
collected from magazines and newspapers and pasted onto paper.
10. Plates of birds arranged in folders systematically: Turdidae,
Oscines, Cuculiformes, Ciconiformes, Anseriformes (British and
foreign).
11. Route-Atlas van de Rotterdamsche Lloyd 1925; W.B. Alexander's
letters to H. G. from America 1920-21; Correspondence and notes
regarding Heron Census 1928-38 (notes by Nicholson, for a paper compiled
by Alexander); W.B. Alexander's correspondence connected with the
Great Crested Grebe Census 1950-52; Letters to C.J. Alexander 1903-1912;
Letters to H. G. Alexander 1920-21; Correspondence regarding Cactus
enemies in South America; Lab sketches and notes found in Sedgewick's
"Zoology"; Plates of Passeriformes, Charadriiformes and Galliformes.
12. Contents of W. B. Alexander's desk drawer, miscellaneous papers,
clippings, and letters.
13. Plates organized systematically.
14. Plates organized systematically.
15. Photo albums: Cyprus, Greece and Italy 1929; Tunisia
1925 (Jourdain's?); Two volumes of the Oxford University Expedition
to Spitsbergen 1921 (and Bear Island).
16. Photo albums: Balearic Islands (Spain) 1930; Island
Bird-catching stations (Heligoland, Skokholm, Isle of May), (2 vols);
Egypt 1935; EGI Wedding photo of Betty and Gordon Orians June 25,
1955; Photographs of IOC Congresses (groups and individual shots)
for 1905, 1926, 1938, 1947, 1950, 1962, 1966; Signatures of participants
of 1950 IOC; Russian OC; AOU 1939.
17. Notecards of new species description citations and synonomy.
18. Folio box of large photographs and plates; Correspondence
and photographs re. "A Gannet Catastrophe." Purse with writings
including letters to Phyllis Barclay-Smith from 1929 and field notes
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Anonymous
Field NBs of daily observations 1894-1910 and 1911-1917, indexed.
Aplin, O.V.
1. Box of Notes on Wales; letters from H.E.
Forrest 1900-1905; Northamptonshire Birds (extracted from The Natural
History of Northamptonshire by John Morton 1712; Envelope of newspaper
clipping regarding rare birds, etc.; Letters from T. A. Coward 1899-1904;
letters from Gregory Haines (?) and various others.
2. Correspondence and manuscripts; Bound volume of reprints
and notes on Birds of Oxon.
3. Correspondence and manuscripts.
4. Natural History Journals, including extracts from various authors;
Uruguay Journal I & II 1892; Birds of Oxon.; Notes and
observations on quadrupeds, birds, and reptiles 1882; Extracts from "Catalogue
of my collection of British Birds Eggs, with notes, etc." by Charles E.
Stubbs 1867; Birds of Lleyn (bound reprints and notes), and Notes in Tunisia
1895.
5. Field Notes 1883-85 (MS NBs of various sizes with extracts, notes,
and clippings); Letters circa 1903.
6. Field Notes 1886-1894, including Diary of a tour in Switzerland
1891
7. Field Notes 1895-1918; Travel 1895; NBs: Birds–General
(2); Miscellaneous notes 1915; Notes and art 1879-1885; Contributions
to the natural history of Banburyshire district 1881; Diary of
a tour to Belgium and Holland 1895; Journal of a visit to Belgium
1898; Journal of a visit to Pwllheli and Lleyn 1899; Journal
of a visit to Pwllheli 1903; Journal of a visit to North Wales 1900;
Journal of a visit to Barmouth 1904; Journal of a visit to Lleyn 1905;
Birds in Holland 1907.
8. Birds of Oxfordshire (bound notes and reprints); Birds of
Oxon (bound notes and reprints).
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Armstrong, E.A.
1. Correspondence.
2. Bird NB of George Bird, given to EAA; TS: Discovering Bird
Courtship; Marked proof of The Folklore of Birds and line drawings;
TS: Birdlife.
3. Articles and ornithological paper drafts.
4. TS: The Wren (pub. 1955) and A Study of Bird Song.
5. EAA's publications list prepared by Patrick Armstrong; Data
for Discovering Bird Song and The Wren; TS and MS for papers and
BBC scripts on wrens, etc.
6. Photos for the Folklore of Bird,, Bird Display, A Study of Bird
Song, Discovering Bird Courtship, The Way Birds Live, the Birds of the
Grey Wood.
7. Correspondence with ornithologists and other scholars.
8. TS (x2) of BirdLife; TS of "Shakespeare's Birds," much of
which was used in "Shakespeare's Imagination"; "Symbolism of Goose
and Swan," mostly published in Folklore 1945; Miscellaneous mythology
material.
9. Article TS (some unpublished), ornithological, natural history
and general.
10. Large photos and album.
11. Sermons.
12. Sermons.
13. Sermons.
14. Seven notebooks of negatives.
15. Photographs of birds.
16. Photographs of birds.
17. Photographs of people and places, especially Hong Kong.
18. Wren photographs.
19. Negatives.
20. Small photographs.
21. Sermons.
22. Sermons.
23. Sermons.
24. 1 sonogram roll.
25.-30. Boxes of lantern slides of a variety of topics, mostly
natural history, many birds (located above library's card catalog).
Backhouse, J.
MS folder with list of common trees and what birds nest in them.
Balfour, H.
1. Photographs: plate glass negatives; bleating
of the common snipe Galiago caelistis (1 box); Snipe drumming (3
boxes + letter re. Mr. Mann & Cyrena shells); snipe pictures
from various books (3 boxes).
2. Photographs: plate glass negatives.
3. Photographs: plate glass negatives.
4. Photographs: plate glass negatives.
5. Photographs: plate glass negatives.
Box of bird photographs taken in Oxfordshire
Numerous files of reprints by species, county & observatory
[From James Monk 1/2/95]. Located above library card catalog.
Baker, E.C.A.
1.
2. vol. 2: Folder of handwritten bird notes by species1900-1947
(presented by Mrs A. Turberville Smith via RSPB)
Barrington, J. S.
Donation of photographs and drawings: bird catcher of the Faroe
Islands; plate of a ground-roller from Madagascar.
Bates, Colonel
One box of lantern slides (located above library card catalog).
Bell, M. F. B.
Photograph of kestrel's nest on University Farm, Sandford.
Bird, G.
George Bird's NB and photos 1920s-1930s (in E.A. Armstrong Box
2).
Blathwayt, F. L.
Handwritten NB on Cries and call notes of British waders.
Blockey, Robert
Handwritten NB on Birds seen in Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Cysenaica,
Sinai, and Iraq (birds seen in S. Africa at end of book) 1941-.
Boase, H.
Three TS NBs: Birds of Angus 1962, Birds of North and East Perth
1961, and Birds of North Fife 1964.
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Borrer, Clifford
TS: The Wild Birds of Blakeney Harbour. 1921, with additional notes
to 1945.
Briggs, J. M.
1. 16 game bags notebooks 1924-1974, 5 fishing
1944-58.
2. 5 Game bags notebooks 1908-1972.
Brotherton, W.
Game Book for 1883, with game license. Small notebook in vellum wallet.
Brown, George
Bird observations 1921-1925 Ceylon
1930-1950 Combe Manor, Inkpen near Newbury
Brown, L. H.
1. TS: Systematic Problems in African Falconiformes;
Fish Eagle data and notes; Flamingo letters and papers; TS:
A proposal to establish a chain of national parks or national monuments
along the length of the Kenya Rift Valley; papers on ostriches;
numerous plates of birds from magazines; Agricultural Change in Kenya
1945-1960 by Leslie Brown 1968, reprint; correspondence and photos
regarding nest of Circaetus cincrascens.
2. Ford Foundation Range Research Centre data and correspondence;
BOWP requests New Dictionary articles, etc.; correspondence regarding
Great Blue Turaco nests; papers and correspondence from the Fourth
Pan-African Ornithological Congress 1976; a fiction story "The Life
of Alexander Magunki."; sketchbook of notes on Big Game in Nigeria;
miscellaneous typescripts of papers and reports.
3. Field NBs on the crowned eagle at Karen 1959 – 1972; various
miscellaneous NBs (addresses, accounts, etc.); Nigerian Bird Notes
NB; flight log and maps; permits; 2 packets newspaper
clippings.
4. Miscellaneous, uncatalogued correspondence; copy and notes
of Meyer's Red Kite paper; various typescripts of papers;
photographs of Brown's dogs; miscellaneous original drafts "perhaps
useful again" including correspondence; reports resulting from work
as environmental consultant on various development projects.
5. Correspondence: WWF/IUCN; local conservation action
in Kenya; soil and forest conservation; miscellaneous;
correspondence re. flamingoes; large mammals; Nyala, etc.;
Moreau, Landsborough, Marshall.
6. Correspondence: bird papers miscellaneous; Coraciiformes,
Kemp, Fry; gulls, terns, Britton, etc.; pelicans; copies
of published articles and letters; correspondence re. TS's;
letters from ornithologists other than birds of prey.
7. Correspondence (mainly re. Ethiopia): John Blower;
conservation board; National Geographic Society; E.K. Urban;
UNESCO; WWF (Vollmar); Wild Ass.
8. Correspondence and papers: Lake Naivasha Pollution Study;
Lake Naivasha Biological Survey; Mountain Nyala (large mammals in
Ethiopia).
9. Correspondence (Ethiopia): Ministry of Agriculture; British
Museum; Mr. Crowe; Ethiopian Trust Organisation; Fauna
Preservation Society; Ian Grimwood; Natural History Museum;
IUCN; Kenya National Parks (Perez Olindo); African Wildlife
Leadership Foundation; General Mabratu; P. D. Stracey;
Scientific Exploration Society; Mr. Tjonneland; miscellaneous;
checklist and Godare Expedition. Also: typescripts; report and
papers re. Arash Park Area, de Brazza's Monkey, Colobus Monkey, and rainforests
of southwest Ethiopia.
10. Ethiopia reports and papers (con't) re. Walia Ibis, legislation,
Mountain Nyala, Rift Valley, and Semien Mountains.
11. World Birds of Prey correspondence; Peter's Checklist as
revised by E. Stresemann TS and Vaurie MSS raptors in Birds of Palearctic
Fauna.
12. Correspondence (raptors): owls – Sessions & c.;
Sweden and N. Europe; South and Central America; oddments
(speed, etc.); systematics – Brooke, Vous; N. America;
Amadon; N. America – Postupalsky et. Al.; N. America – Ryder,
Nader; D. Wood re. birds of prey; India and Australia;
N. America – Cade and Hickey.
13. Correspondence (raptors) con't: S. Africa – Hall, Kemp, etc.;
West and North Africa; E. Africa; Steyn, Newman, etc.;
Siegfried, Gargett et. Al.; A. Watson, C. E. Palmer, Golden Eagle;
British birds of prey.
14. Correspondence: Birds of Prey 11.5.58 – 4.12.65 (1-437).
15. Correspondence and papers: Ceylon Shikra; with Mr. Phillips;
Crested Goshawk, Anceda jardini, etc.; Golden Eagle Scottish Census
(including Tucker).
16. Black Sparrowhawk material, original and short papers; Owls
of the Northern Hemisphere correspondence and drafts; information
on individual species; data on S. coronatus, Karen: analysis up to
30.6.65.
17. Plates; wildlife in South Africa papers; Garget. Verreaux's
Eagle population study data; ringing results; correspondence
and field notes on Verreaux's Eagle Owl; miscellaneous raptor material,
notes, correspondence, etc.
18. Range management papers and wildlife in rangelands in Kenya TSs.
19. Photographs.
20. Watamu fishing log; "Information on contents" papers;
Ethiopian Episode original MS; "The Biology of Pastoral Man as a
Factor in Conservation" reprint with notes; abortive migration TS;
miscellaneous poems.
21. Leather African folders w/ types notes on various species observations.
22. Typescripts by others; Westlands Working Group papers;
Ithange project report and data; University of Oxford Development
Record Project.
23. Typescripts and originals.
24. Reports and typescripts.
25. Typescripts: 1940 Expeditions, Kenya Eagles, and migration in
Nigeria.
26. Correspondence, miscellaneous notes, and Nairobi data.
27. Photographs; birds, Trinidad, Tobago; OBE; folders
of photographs of raptors, "photos relating to Browns' Nigeria Diaries",
great white and brown pelicans, Ethiopian episode MS; illustrations
for "Birds and I", herons, and various material.
28. 1968 Fish Eagle Lake Naivasha, Embu Eagles NB; Fish Eagle
diurnal behaviour, records, and analysis; Nesting Log 1937 and Fishing
Diary; Typed notes on African Eagle species; Nightjar papers
and tapes from Myles Merth.
29. Material from various NBs.
30. On the Biology of the large Birds of Prey of the Embu District,
Kenya w/ MS sketch-map showing sites; Nigerian Field Notes I – III;
Nigerian Bird Notes from Bannerman Vols I, II, IV -–VIII; Fishing
Diary and Nesting Log 1932-36; Crowned Eagle NB, Karen 22.5.72-2.8.80.
31. NBs: Britain, Kenya, Ethiopia, Botswana, Rhodesia, US, Sweden,
Holland, France, Somalia, South Africa, Germany, Yugoslavia 1970-1978.
32. NBs: Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Europe, Britain, E. Africa, Zambia,
USA 1966-1970.
33. NBs: Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Monaco, Britain, US, Tanzania, Rhodesia,
Botswana, S.W. and S. Africa, Arabia, M. Nyala Expedition 1963-1966,
and 1978-79 Diary.
34. Photographs.
35. NBs: Kenya, Scotland, Spain, Camargue, India, Scotland, US 1954-1960
and Nigeria 1942-1943.
36. NBs: Kenya, Scotland, Austria 1948-1954.
37. NBs: Nigeria 1940-1944 and Scotland, Kenya 1946-1947 including
Eagle expedition 1946.
38. Photo Album: Torridon-Applecross March-April 1951 and African
raptors and waterbirds.
39. Wing outline sketch of Bateleur Eagle; various large-size
photos; Certificate from the appointment to the Most Excellent Order
of the British Empire; Certificate from the Geographic Society of
Chicago for Brown's book Africa, a Natural History; drawings by
D. Tischler.
40. Certificate of Achievement from the US International Cooperation
Administration; Plates from Hawks, Eagles and Falcons; TS and
MS of material gathered for Africa Book; miscellaneous papers.
41. 1 reel of 16 [?] mm positive film. Ethiopia: Mountain scenery;
baboon; ravens; Lammergeyer nest; flamingos; shore birds; Fish eagle;
short clip LHB; Saddlebill stork; pelicans; mountain heath scenery; waterfall;
cranes.
42. 1 reel of 16[?] mm positive film: African Lake birds: flamingos; Elmenteita;
LHB (hide); Flamingo nests; flamingo eggs; flamingo sitting.
43. 1 reel of 16[?] mm positive film: African Lake birds: Kenya: young flamingo;
flamingos; Fish eagle; Marabou storks; "good quality".
44. 600ft [Kodachrome II ]colour original and colour print film of pelicans
in Ethiopia
45-51. 52 100ft 16mm cine film + 16 reels 400ft 16mm cine film, mostly
Ethiopian & Kenyan birds notably flamingos
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Buxton, John
List on cardbox and Excel spreadsheet (see librarian). Boxes
located in main library.
Buzzard, G.
Complete set of BWP plus 2 extra copies of vol. 1-5, all interleaved with
extensive notes by Gui Buzzard
Cambridge Bird Club
Report of Council, list of members, miscellaneous.
Clarke, G. R.
Photograph of pigeon nest made from pieces of galvanised iron wire
and fledglings.
Cottam, Lt.
Drawings of the eagle from Vancouver brought home by H.M.S. "Sayers"
by Lt. Lambe 1864.
Chance, E. P.
Photograph album containing some of the photographs published in Chance's
books "The Cuckoo's secret" and "The truth about the cuckoo" with correspondence
from John Compton to Jeremy Greenwood about the deposition.
Clarke, Gordon
NB typescript: Somali Bird Notes 1968.
Conder, P. J.
List on Cardbox; Boxes located in main library room.
Coward, T.A.
44 volumes of Field Notes 1883-1933; Private letter list; Newspaper
articles; Bound letters in 4 volumes; Notes on Manx Shearwaters (1895-1923).
Unsorted or boxed. Brief
biographical sketch and report by Tony Usher of his visit to the Alexander
Library to view Coward's field notes.
Cox, A. H.
1. NBs: Roostings of Starlings 1929-1933 (9);
Breeding behaviour of Stonechats 1920 (1); Drumming of Woodpeckers
1931-1933; Breeding behaviour of Wood Warblers 1925-1933 (7). Also:
rough MSS The Nesting of the Woodwren.
2. Diaries 1899-1903.
3. Diaries 1904-1930.
4. Diaries 1931-1946.
4b. Card index file on drumming in woodpeckers c. 1930.
1. Starling material and correspondence;
NB on starling roosts in Devon and Cornwall var. years 1899-1946, interspersed
with letters.
2. Correspondence regarding woodpecker drumming and boring: Barclay,
Huxley, Blathwright, E. Hardy, F. J. Wacker, Mrs. Briggs, F. C. Butters,
O. H. Latter, E. C. Hope Hall, Miss Goode, H. A. Gilbert, N. Tinbergen.
MS on woodpecker drumming; Barham House Register NB 1885; Notes
on nuthatches (small NB), various poems, etc. MS The Woodpecker's
Tattoo.
3. Correspondence regarding Starling Roost Inquiry.
Cramp, S.
1. Large notebook 1968- 1979: Libya; Hungary; London;
England; Cyprus; Iran; Scotland; Eire; Turkey; Texel; USA; Rumania; Tobago;
Trinidad; Tunisia; Gambia; Israel.
Large notebook 1979-1982: Israel (maps); England; Malta; Italy; Belize;
Scotland
Large notebook: Species list 1948-1982.
2. i. Area census – London, 1949-1978 [weather, Carrion Crow,
Wood Pigeon, Starling, House Sparrow, Blackbird, Blue & Great Tit]
ii Area Census – London, 1959-1985: weather; squares; parks; species;
nests.
iii. Area Census –London, 1947-1982: Parks; Wood Pigeon; House Martin;
Starling; dead birds.
3. i. London: Pigeons & Gulls
ii London: Corvidae
iii. London: House sparrow
iv. London: Buckingham Palace Gardens
4. i. Spain & Iran, correspondence, maps
ii Rumania & Portugal: correspondence, maps
iii. London: Tits
iv. Drafts of talks and publications
v. Publications
vi. notebooks : pubs with bird names; RSPB observer log
Crosfield, A.J.
Small NBs; Notes on birds seen in various localities in England
and Wales (1890-1922), and various foreign localities. 2 Volumes.
D'Aeth, Christopher.
Field notes on birds. 1927.
Dewar, John Michael
1. Typescript of Dictionary of the Habits and Behaviour
of Birds by John Michael Dewar M.D., F.R.C.P.E., F.R.S.E., author of
The Bird as Diver, and ready for publication at time of his death on the
24th May 1941 but never published. Organized alphabetically by ornithological
terms: Behaviour to Feeding Habits.
2. Flight to Orientation.
3. Oviposition to Young, including Index to Animals and Plants and
Supplementary Index.
Dickinson, et. al.
Birds of the Philippines: an annotated check-list. By Edward C. Dickinson,
Robert S. Kennedy, and Kenneth C. Parkes. BOU Checklist No. 12.
Proofs from James Monk.
Dobson
Dobson's copy of Liste distributive des Oiseaux de la Suisse: Elenco
degli uccelli svizzeri 1892, annotated in 1926.
Dunlop, E. B.
1. Nineteen hand-written NBs on field observations
of birds, arranged by family.
2. Eighteen small field NBs 1904–1906 and 1908-1914 and seven hand-written
NBs on various topics: zoologist references, roosts of Corvidae, disposal
of shells after hatching of young, animals kept in captivity (2), incubation,
bird's means of protection of offspring.
3. Seven small field NBs from 1907, 1910, 1911 and eighteen hand-written
NBs on field observations of birds, arranged by family and some on various
topics: roosting of Corvidae, Canada summer 1915, Canada spring 1915,
Canada trapping notes, Animalia various, incubation, structure of birds,
dogs, States and Canada.
East Lancashire Ornithologists' Club
TS: The East Lancashire Ornithologists' Club: It's first 21 years.
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Elliot, Sir Hugh.
Eleven small NBs: 1942 N. Tanganyika; 1956 N. Tanganika;
1960 Madagascar; 1961 France; Tristan; 1969-70 Uganda;
1965; 1966-71 Turkey, Fiji, New Caledonia, Australia, Bombay;
1972 Poland list; 1975 Finland, Europe, Rwanda & Zaire;
small NBs; Correspondence with Moreau, North, Rand, Chapin, Rowan,
Monk et al. 1952 onwards;
Folder of correspondence regarding Mascarene Expedition Reports (primarily
with Horne, J.), 1981.
Fisher, James
Files on Procellariiformes (folders on Diomedea, Oceanitidae, puffins);
Notes, cuttings, typescripts, and photos, including TS of November 1952
broadcast of "Birds in Britain."
Fitter, R.S.R.
Correspondence regarding Birds on Airfields 1947-48.
Field notes on index cards: mammals + divers - godwits;sandpipers
to crows; tits - starlings; finches - sparrows, aliens, reptiles,amphibia,
personal observations for London NH group special species; Place records,
5 drawers
10 small note books: Ornithological notes 1-6 (1926-1938); British
mammals 1929-1944; Lepidoptera; Oological notes 1925-1934. 4 small note
books: Register of No. 1 rings ; Register of No. 1a rings ; Ring register
sizes 2 and larger; ringing 1962-63.
Great Black Woodpecker- the lost British Bird - ms. to Birding world
+ corresp.; Records submitted to BOU Records Committee; Ms. from Gus Buzzard
"The BWP Dryocopus maritus, a new study of its European distribution and
the problem of its status in the British Isles"
Notes and correspondence on starlings and their roosts, Ruxley Roost
1933.
Fronteras, P & F.J.
Field NB "Field Notes: Birds of Bonny Nigeria." RETURN TO TOP
Gibb, J.A.
1. Envelopes with notes and sketches on: birds
tapping on windows; fluctuations of population of Great Crested
Grebes; flight and fighting of grebes; the feather-eating
habit of grebes; golden-eye; feather-eating habits of grebes;
hybrid ducks and the "bimaculate duck"; mallard; plumage,
attitudes, etc. of Great Crested Grebe; tufted duck; goosander;
tail-less (or "sawed-off") ducks; starlings in London; cormorant;
pigeons; notes on species of grebes other than Great Crested Grebes;
coots; nidification and breeding behaviour of grebes; miscellaneous
notes on ducks, geese, and swans; grebe behavior (feeding, diving,
swimming, fighting, etc.);. Four bound typed notes on fledgling periods
and incubation period by species .
2. Envelopes with notes and sketches on: miscellaneous notes,
gulls, courtship display of Great Crested Grebes; Bound notes on the food
of wild birds compiled for British Birds vols 1-32; Data from routine
observations on tits feeding in Marley Wood, Wytham: 1950-1951.
3. NBs: Automatic nest entry recordings for tits 1945 -.
4. NBs: Automatic nest entry recordings for tits 1945 -.
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Groswold, H.
Drawing of Crested Tit 1880.
Harden, G. E. and T. Winall
Photograph Album of British Birds taken between 1930-1960(?), presented
by Prof. Sir. R. Southwood 29.10.84.
Harrisson, T.H.
Six NBs: Notes on birds in the London area during 1929 for the
L.N.H.S. (on loan) 1929;
Diary for 1930; Ringing results and statistics 1930 - ;
Birds; Local collected lists for gardens, villages, districts, counties,
etc.; Collection of author's notes on birds, arranged under species
for reference.
Hartley, P. H. T.
List on Cardbox; Boxes above Library card catalog.
Hector, J.
Letter to G. E. Mason regarding Apteryx fossils.
Hereford and Radnorshire Annual Representative Council
Member's List.
Herklots, G. A. C.
Papers and letters on birds of British Guiana, Trinidad, and Tobago
1941-58.
Hertfordshire Ornithological Section of Natural History Society
General meetings and committee minutes.
Hibbert-Ware, Miss A.
NB: Notes and correspondence on bird pellets. 1939.
Hinde, R. A.
Correspondence regarding the first breeding Moustached Warbler record
for Britain.
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Howard, E.
1. Small field NBs 1906-1915.
2. Field NBs 1916-1930 (not inc. 1924-25).
3. Field NBs 1930-1938.
4. Field NB 1924-25; 25 small NBs with musings, field notes,
and calendars.
5. Manuscript NBs of writings.
6. Three large NBs with miscellaneous writings 1918-1931.
7. Correspondence, including letters from Professor Lloyd Morgan.
Huxley, J. S.
1. Bird notes and diaries 1901-1924 and 1949; MSS and
drafts of papers (27 items, lits in box).
2. Bird notes and diaries 1901-1924 and 1949; MSS and
drafts of papers. (Con't)
3. Photographs of Avery Island, egrets and herons; Lantern
slides on courtship and various other topics; MSS: Notes on heron
behaviour; Bear Island; A Spitzbergen Camp; A Stay at
Cape Boheman.
4. Correspondence and papers from a filebox regarding the 1921
OU Spitzbergen Expedition, including practical and financial arrangements
for the expedition, fund-raising efforts, and equipment lists; A collection
of newspaper cuttings regarding bird behavior, courtship, evolution and
other topics (list enclosed) from 1922-1948.
5. Notecards series 1
6. Notecards series 2
7. Notecards series 3
8. Lantern slides: two boxes on Spitzbergen, one box on egrets
and herons, others on courtship and behavior gen and various birds (list
of species covered with box).
ICBP British Section
Report of the Scientific Administrator, Cousin Island, Seychelles
1970-1979
Jack, T. A. M.
NB: Notes on Bird Flight.
Jourdain, F.C.R.
1. Field NBs 1892-1897, 1898-1901, 1902-03, 1904-05,
and Index.
2. Field NBs 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909.
3. Field NBs 1910, 1911, 1912.
4. Field NBs 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916.
5. Field NBs 1917, 1918, 1919.
6. Field NBs 1919 (con't)- 1920, 1921, 1922.
7. Field NBs 1923, 1924, 1925.
8. Field NBs 1926, 1927, 1928.
9. Field NBs 1929, 1930.
10. Field NBs 1931, 1932, 1933.
11. Field NBs 1934, 1935.
12. Field NBs 1936, 1937, 1938.
13. Field NBs 1939, 1940, and Food of British Birds NB 1913.
14. MS exercise books of notes taken from numerous sources (complete
list in MS/ARCHIVE card file box), interleaved with letters.
15. Six NBs: The Breeding Biology of British Birds, organized
by family I-VI.
16. NBs: Ranges and migrations of British birds 1911;
Notes on the Birds of the Western Palearctic Region Vol. I (with letters
interleaved).
17. NBs: Notes on British birds, with special reference to their
breeding habits; Ornithological bibliography of various regions (Europe
and other continents) 1916.
18. NBs: Dobrudscha and Romania; Volume VII of The Breeding
Biology of British Birds; Small NB on Birds of Spitzbergen and Bear
Island 1921; Notes on Gulleries (L. ridibundus) 1918-.; British
Gulleries; References in ornithological literature (w/E.B. Dunlop);
‘Injury feigning' 1937; Birds of Marocco 1920; Notes on Coleopters;
Persian Gulf; Worcestershire; Notes on Syrian and Palestinian
breeding birds; annotations to Witherby and Ticehurst's paper "On
the more important additions to our knowledge of British Birds since 1899"
1909; Birds in Iceland; References to the principal figures
in works on European and British Oology; Avifauna Arctica; Birds
of Spitsbergen and Bear Island; OUE to Spitsbergen 1921; List
of skins procured in Norway, Bear Island, and Spitsbergen.
19. MS exercise books of notes taken from numerous sources (complete
list in MS/ARCHIVE card file box), interleaved with letters.
20. Small NBs: References to literature on special points in
ornithology, Weight records of British birds; Cumberland and Scotland,
Cornwall, Scilly, and Shetland 1939.
21. NBs: Geographical Index to Ornithological Papers (exercise
book and NB) 1911, Notes and extracts on British Birds (3 loose-leaf folders).
22. NBs: Courtship of British breeding birds, Parts I and II;
Notes on the Birds of the Western Palearctic Region Vol II (with letters
interleaved).
23. NBs: The Avifauna of Southern Spain and N. Morocco, compiled
from many authors, Extracts from the "Field" relating to breeding stations
of birds in the British Isles.
24. Photo Albums: Algeria 1926-28, Moracco 1928, Palestine and
Syria 1931; Tunisia 1925.
25. Photo Albums: Norway, Finland and Germany 1924; Hungary;
Norway and Spitzbergen 1922 (Jourdain, Congreve, and Tucker); Palestine
and Malta; Balearic Isles 1930.
26. Photo Albums: Egypt; Cyprus 1929 (Greece, Italy);
Oxford University Expedition to Spitzbergen 1921 2 Volumes.
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Kepler, K.
Field notes on Todus mexicanus September 1968-1971, also notes
on other tody species.
Lack,
D. L.
Rare Books Cupboard.
Landon, K.
Nature Notes (birds) no. 1 May 1948-Dec. 1953; No. 2 Jan 1954-Dec
1961 (Britain, Watford)
Lewis, Sir Thomas (1881-1945)
Ornithological record cards.
Lockley, R. M.
1. Skokholm Island typed bird notes abstracted
from original log 1927-1940 kept by R.M. Lockley et.al.; Log of
voyage to Rockall 17 June 1948 to 29 June by R.M. Lockley and Stephen Marchant;
Species record of birds at Skokholm 1927-1940; Skokholm Bird Observatory
visit of International Ornithological Congress 1934 inc. signatories of visitors
July 8, also some old records. CV & bibliography by W.R.P. Bourne.
2. Log Book Original 1927 to 1940 for Skokholm Island Bird Observatory,
including map of first Heligoland Trap; Manuscript notes, letters,
and records from Skokholm Bird Observatory re. Grassholm, Middleholm Island,
Cardigan Island, etc.
Lodge, G. E.
H.F. Witherby's "A check list of British birds 1941" used and annotated
by Lodge when he was drawing the plates for The Birds of the British Isles.
Longstaffe
Bird NB for the Oxford University Expedition to Greenland 1928 (with
Max Nicholson, J. O. and H. P. Hanham, and Basil Nicholson).
Lynes, Rear Admiral
NB: Kashmir 1928 and Algeria 1930.
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Mason, G. E.
Letter from J. Hector regarding Apteryx fossil specimen Nov. 14, 1901.
Meade-Waldo, E.G.
NB on Tenerife 1887; Correspondence with M. Elwes and Trevor
Battye re. Spitzbergen Expedition; Correspondence re. kites, Morocco,
Tangiers, kiwis fighting and various topics including letters from Lord
Lilford, Lord Grey, Salvin, Dresser, Tristram, and others 1880-1900s.
Meylan, O.
Exploration of La Dombes MS.
Mitford, R.H.
Random notes on the birds of Suffolk 1887-1888, 15 p.
Mountfort, Guy
Expedition Diary Pakistan 1967; Hungarian Expedition Diary;
Pakistan expedition diary 1966. (handwritten loose-leaf folder on which
The Vanishing Jungle was based); Jordan Expedition Diary April/May
1963.
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Nicholson, E.M.
Lecture TS on "The Challenge of the New Renaissance" September 1997
to RGS; Correspondence (1983-) re. Birds of Egypt (Max Kasparek;
S. Howe; Peter Meininger, Robin Brewster; Orn. Soc. Middle
East Bull. 11 1983); Letters from Bernard Tucker 1930-1950;
Correspondence with W.R.D. Harrisson, Gladys Tucker; W.B. Alexander,
A.W. Boyd, A. Hardy, Jourdain (1931 - ); Papers and correspondence
re. North Atlantic Birds (originals of his 4 papers on North Atlantic
Birds and paper given at 1950 IOC, letters to editors of British Birds).
Also see W. B. Alexander Box 11, folder on Heron Census correspondence
and notes.
Niethammer, G.
Correspondence regarding origin of Niethammer's Vogels der Mitteleuropas
(1937-1942) in Alexander from A. Schifferli to C.M. Perrins; copy
of correspondence 1941-45, 1988 from John Buxton to A. Schifferli and comments
by John Barrett to C.M. Perrins.
Norris, C. A.
Corn Crake Inquiry correspondence 1939 -. (Indexed).
Oldham, C.
1. Field Notes NBs: 1883-1899, letters and photographs
interleaved.
2. Field Notes NBs: 1900-1906, letters and photographs interleaved.
3. Field Notes NBs: 1907-1917, letters and photographs interleaved.
4. Field Notes NBs: 1918-1929, letters and photographs interleaved.
5. Field Notes NBs: 1928-1929, letters and photographs interleaved.
6. Field Notes NBs: 1930-1932, letters and photographs interleaved.
7. Field Notes NBs: 1933-1935, letters and photographs interleaved.
8. Field Notes NBs: 1935-1939, letters and photographs interleaved.
Orielton.
Orielton Decoy Books (2) 1877-1919, 1935-46, and Ringing books (3)
1934-6. Col. Saurin and H. A. Gilbert.
Osmaston, F.C.
Annual plan of operations for Wytham Wood, forest year 1961/62
Owen, J. H.
1. Photographs; small NB on Whinchat.
2. NBs: Annotated copy of his article on cuckoos in the Felsted District
"with comments by my brother"; Down Plumage; Notes on the
Red-backed Shrike 1942-43; Notes on the Common Snipe culled from
past diaries; Nature Notes 1946; Bird notes starting 1949;
Bird Notes 1945; Bird Notes 1944; Wasps 1946-1950 and Vol.
2 of Field Notes on the Red-backed Shrike 1944-; Notes on ravens at
nest in Llanymyneck quarries March 1949 and Nature Notes 1947 -; Long-tailed
Tits 1946 – 1947 and Notes on the ravens at nest in Llanymyneck quarries
1945-1949.
3. Correspondence and MSS (mostly Sparrowhawks but also Whitethroats,
Whinchats and Dippers).
4. Correspondence and MSS on various subjects, especially Red-backed
Shrikes.
Oxford Ornithological Society
1. OOS Abridged minutes by Balfour 1921-; OOS Minute Books Vol I 1921-1927; Vol II 1927-1931; Vol III 1932-1934.
2. OOS Minute Books Vol V 1936-1939; Vol IV 1934-1936; Vol
V 1936-1939; Vol VI 1940-1943.
3. OOS Minute Books Vol VIII 1949-1956; Vol X 1962-1968;
Vol XI 1968-1978 (Vols VII 1943-1949 and IX 1956-1962 missing).
4. OOS Attendance Books 1923-1928, 1929-1932, 1937-1948, 1948-1955,
1956-1965.
5. Christ Church Meadow Trap 16 Nov 1927 NB including instructions
to observers by E.M. Nicholson and trapping data; University Museum
Trapping Station data on ringing; Correspondence regarding traffic
in Birds from Tanganyika with Balfour; "Rook Book" Rook census NB
1931; OOS Kingfisher Experiment correspondence and data NB;
OOS Fieldfare and Redwing Report 1936-1939 (3 NBs, including sketchmaps).
6. NBs: Passerine birds ringed by OOS away from trapping stations;
University Museum Trapping Station data by species.
7. OOS Minute Books Vol. XII 1978-1984; Vol. XIII 1984-1998.
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Patterson, A. H.
Two NBs: Volume I - copy of List of the birds of Blakeney Point, Norfolk,
by William Rowan, with cuttings and additional notes by A.H.Patterston.
1916-17; Volume II - "Letters and ‘Recriminations' over Blakeney
Point as to privileges of the natives, the affairs of the terns, and the
anxiety of imported gunners and little-bird slayers" collected by A.H.
Patterson 1931-1932.
Peake, Rev. E.
1. Bird NBs 1894, 1922, 1927, and 1914 and correspondence.
2. Bird NB 1935-1937.
Pease, H. J. R.
Tripolitania for Birds in Winter 1966 (birder's guide); Bound
album of TS and photos.
Pitman, C.R.S.
Bird NBs (5): Mesopotamia 1916 (2 volumes); List of "Bird and
other skins sent to BNH Society from Mesopotamia 1917; Middle East
1918 (2 volumes).
Popham, C.
Bird Notes. MS NB. 1939.
Priest, C. D.
Letter to Admiral Lynes from southern Rhodesia 22.9.1930.
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Richardson, R. A.
1. Box of notecards on species observations.
2. NBs: Bird-watching on the plains of India 1944; Notes on
the birds of Dovrefjell, Fokstumyren 1949; St. James Park and other
Bird Notes Part I; Newspaper cuttings with illustrations by Richardson
for articles by R. Fitter.
3. Sketchbook of drawings and paintings; Ornithological Report
for the month of February 1946, Singapore; NBs: St. James Park and
other Bird Notes 1939 Part II, III, and IV; India, Bombary Province
1944-45; Camargue Birds (Rhone Delta) with additional notes from
Les Alpilles 1949.
Robinson, D.N.P.
Crossbill References TS.
Rowland, B.W.
Correspondence and compilation of museum records of St. Helena bird
specimens collected by the Cleveland Museum Natural History (CMNH) Blossom
Atlantic Expedition 1923-26. List of St. Helena material in the CMNH (includs
some non avian material); Yale Peabody Museum; American Museum of Natural
History and summary of James Chapin's correspondence on Sooty Terns. (Received
1998)
Scott, S. G. Need 3 C1s
1. Nature Diaries 1913, 1914, and 1915.
2. Nature Diaries 1916 and "Natural History Notes" NB 1892-1900.
3. "Natural History Notes" NBs 1901-1908 and 1909-1912.
Selous, E.
Summary of the papers of Edmund Selous 1857-1934 & former BTO
holdings compiled by K.E.L. Simmons in box
29.
1. Note books I-IV & VI pt4. Icklingham 1899-1900; Norway 1899;
Longford 1990
2. Loose notes Icklingham , 6/1/-30/4/1900
3. Loose notes: Longford 1899-1900; 1902/ ; Cheltenham 1901-1902;
1904-1905; Woolmer Forest 1902/ .
4. Loose notes: Icklingham 1898-1899; Richmond 11/11/1899, Longford
25/12/1899
5. Loose notes: Icklingham 1/5/-9/12/1900; Longford / Icklingham 1-31/1/1900
6. Loose notes Longford 1900; Icklingham 1900-1901; Richmond 1901
7. Loose notes Icklingham 1900-1901; Exercise books Icklingham 1901
8. Manuscripts Icklingham 1900(?), index 1901-1903, 1914, 1916;
index 1888-1901, 1914; Note books Longford / Down Hatherley / Cheltenham
1901; Down Hatherley / Cheltenham 1901; Down Hatherley 1901
9. Loose notes Shetland 1900
10. Loose notes Shetland 1902; Arctic Skua paper; Beachley 1902;
Aust 1903; Lerryn 1904
11. Loose notes & Manuscript Texel 1905
12. Loose notes Texel 1906; London Zoo 1906
13. Loose notes & note books Lennartfors 1907; loose notes &
note book Freudenstadt 1907 (july-August); Stuttgart 1908 (January – March);
Budleigh Hill 1908
14. Note books and loose notes St Servan 1908-1909
15. Note books and loose notes St Servan 1910 & index; London
Zoo 1909
16. Note books Falstone 1909; Shetland 1910-1911
17. 3 notebooks Iceland 1912
18. Notebooks 1-4 Iceland 1912
19. Notebooks 1-3 Shetland 1913
20. Notebooks 1-4 Icklingham 1914; Manuscript Icklingham
21. Notebooks:Isles of Scilly 1914; Tring, 1915; Tring / Flempton
1915
22. Notebooks 1-4 Richmond 1916
23. Notebooks: Richmond (3) 1916-1918; Rhayader June-August 1919;
Frensham October-November 1917; Manuscript “Heatherley’s notes on the
Raven”
24. Notebooks: Portland May 1919; Wyke Regis November-December 1919,
March 1920, March-May 1920, May 1920-March1922, December 1919, May 1927;
Icklingham June 1914; Southwell March 1920, April 1921
25. Manuscripts miscellaneous – unpublished /published
26. Manuscripts miscellaneous – unpublished & published (includes
notes on family); typescript ‘evolution of habit in birds’- preface, thought
transference in birds,Miscellaneous letters
27. Typescripts: ‘My Icklingham field diary; Down Hatherley / Pittville
Gardens / West Stow
28. Typescripts: Weymouth area 1928, 1929; Weymouth swannery 11 Feb
1930
29. Manuscript: the birdwatcher in Shetland
Shuel, Ronald
Correspondence between Shuel and David Bannerman on collections by
Shuel in Nigeria of birds and eggs for Bannerman's "The Birds of Tropical
West Africa 1932-1936."
Simmons, K.E.L. 1929-2002
1.1 Biographical notes
by Marion Simmons
1.2 Certificates & photographs
1.3 BOU Union medal 1979
2.1 1951-1959
Reprints of published papers
2.2 1961-1969
Reprints of published papers
2.3 1970-2003
Reprints of published papers
3.1 1967 The
role of food supply in the biology of the Brown Booby at Ascension Island
Msc thesis, University of Bristol [THESES]
4.1 1970 The
biology of the parent-chick stage in the Great Crested Grebe
PhD thesis, University of Bristol [THESES}
5.1 Unpublished manuscript for
proposed biography of Edmund Selous
5.2 Unpublished manuscript for
proposed biography of Edmund Selous
5.3 Selous letters:
Huxley, Fisher, Hardy, Kirkman, Alexander (copies); Service (originals)
6.1 1962 Field
Note books Ascension Island 1-19
6.2 1962-1963
Field Note books Ascension Island 20-37
6.3 1963 Field
Note books Ascension Island 38-49
6.4 1966-1997
Field note books Ascension Island New Series 1-16
6.5 8 Field note books Brown
Booby behaviour + 1 note book numerical data [Ascension Island]
7.1 1948-1962
Field note books Great Crested Grebe 1-17
7.2 1966-1968 Field
note books Great Crested Grebe 1-25
7.3 1968-1983
Field note books Great Crested Grebe 26-43 + 3 notebooks on other grebes
8.1 1970-1972
5 Field Note books - Mallards
9.1 1958-1961
6 Field Note books - Anting
10.1 1948-1951 11 field
note books Reading area
11.1 1981-1995 10 field
note books - garden birds
12.1 1949-1950 13 field
note books - Egypt + annotated Greaves' 60 common birds of the Nile delta
13.1 1950-1969 13 field
note books - miscellaneous
Simmons, W. C.
Nature NB: birds 1935.
Smith, A.F.
Bird Notes 1922-1941.
Smith, K.D.
1. Correspondence (list in box) regarding winter
song in palearctic migrants in Africa 1968-1972; TS of "Notes on
Winter Song in Palearctic Migrants in Africa"; NB diary on Ethiopia
and Eritra, Volume I.
2. NBs: Nature Diary 1938 (Dorset, Somerset, Holland, Atlantic Ocean,
South Africa and Southern Rhodesia); comments on species, originally
in Shuel's correspondence with Bannerman box; List of species seen;
library inventory and Morocco checklist; Corsica Diary 1937, with notes
compiled prior to visit; 1958 Nature NB; Morocco 1962-1963;
Morocco 1963-1964.
3. NBs: Ethiopia and Eritrea Volume II, III, IV and V.
Southern, H.N.
1. NBs: Tawny Owl journal 1943-1947 and 1948-1950; Summary of
Tawny Owl and small mammal data 1944-1961.
2. NBs: Tawny )wl journal 1950-1956 and 1956- , includes in
outline a proposed book on his Wytham work, written just before he died
in 1986, ring register and barn owl notes; File with list of skulls
deposited by Mrs. K. Southern in the BM(NH) Bird Room at Tring in 1987.
3. NBs: Tawny Owl territories. Reprint of the Little Owl food
enquiry 1931-1937 by A. Hibbert-Ware, Witherby for the BTO. Unbound
notes on an index for the owl population.
4. NBs: Small mammal index trapping 1953-1966 (also field notes on
mammals and trapline samples of small mammal populations in the grounds
of Haselmere Educational museum, Haselmere, Surrey 1957-1961); Summary
of shrew catches 1952-1970; Photocopy of V.P.W. Lowe's small mammal
trapping in Wytham Great wood, working with H.N.S. from 1954-1956.
5. NB: Wytham trapping 1 Sept. 1948 – June 1950.
6. NB: Wytham trapping 2 Aug. 1950 – Aug. 1952.
7. NBs: Abstracts, general ecology and Tawny Owl literature;
Field notes Wytham 1943-46 survey of predators; Wytham notes;
Reprint of A. Gosler's paper 1990 ‘Birds of Wytham'; Wildlife investigation
1938-1942, which became the Sheepstead Rabbit population study;
Summary of Sheepstead Rabbit population study.
8. NB: Wytham Trapping Register.
9. NB: Small mammal index trapping 1969-1985, summary of breeding
condition and weights of female Clethionomys from Jan. 1969 – Dec. 1973,
summary of data collected throughout index trapping, comparison of standard
index trapping with ‘trapping out.'
10. NBs: 1931-1945 Bird Notes I (Avocet to Short-eared Owl);
Bird Notes II (Stilt to Black-winged Wryneck and botanical notes and animals
up to 1943); Tawny Owl autumn census 1970-1971.
11. NB: Maps showing walks taken through Wytham with vertebrates,
especially predators, seen or heard on each occasion.
12. Working files for mouse and Tawny Owl paper (J. Zool. 1982).
13. Working files for Tawny Owl paper (J. Zool. 1970).
14. V.P.W. Lowe's and H.N.S.'s trapping data 1952-1956; Tawny
Owl cassette compiled by G. Hirons from his own recordings 1972-73.
15. Magpie and crow nests North Oxford 1985; 1988 catalogue
by Mrs. Kitty Southern of H.N.S.'s archive.
SERIES II
1. Owls. Owl note book by C.S. Elton 1936; owl correspondence; Tawny
owl: skins 7 skulls collected (skulls in BMNH); pellet analysis
2.New Zealand:4 small note books, cuttings, correspondence
3. Scotland: MSc: population changes in the Scottish Crossbill. Notes
on visits to Shetland 1934 & 1935
4. Nature notes: 5 notebooks
5.Miscellaneous field note books (9): Bird Notes 1937, 1939, 1948
journal, Teneriffe; 1959-1967 Wytham; 1969 cats - Sweden; 1973 Norfolk,
1980 hebrides, 1981 Culterty (Guillemots).
6. File of cuttings from "The Ingle Nook" Oxford Mail 1937-1943.
7.Red note book: bird notes 1937-1942, colour-ringed birds (mainly
Marsh Tits Bagley Wood? 1937-9, note Wytham Woods 23/12/45 on Marsh Tits.
Brownfile: House mice caught Isle of May 1936; Index of bird photographs
(glass-slides);Whinnyfold Guillemots photographs 1953; Wytham general albums
1-3;photographs from 1964 New Zealand visit (C. Kidnappers Gannet colony,
Ball's Clearing Podocarp Forest).
8. Photographs: Herons; Swifts; Tenerife - habitats; Trapping (Longworth
traps) & handling small mammals; Tawny owl pellets, nest boxes, Wytham
habitats; Rabbits: 1939 rabbit research, post 1954 Myxomatosis prints.
Sykes, A. Neil
Ordinance survey maps for Huddersfield; Nature Notes NBs 1921-1941,
1941-1947, 1955-1962, and 1963-1972; MS nature notes; poems;
letters (A.W. Boyd, Bruce Campbell, re. visit to the Isle of May);
Bird Ringing Book 12.1944 to 6.1955; Ringing Record and Recoveries
1944-1949, 1953-1969, and 1969-1970.
Symonds, A. E. J.
TS: The time starlings leave their feeding grounds daily to fly roostwards;
Photographs and negatives (roosts, etc.); Data sheets of observations.
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Taylor, Capt. Mark R.N.
Notes and papers on New Zealand and Barrier Island Birds. Observations
on seabirds on a voyage from Melbourne to England 1947. Letters from J.
M. Winterbottom and D.S. Serventy. 1946-8.
Taylor, S.
Letter to J. Boswall regarding rooks 1964.
Thomas, J. F.
NB: Census of the Bird Population of a portion of the South Downs
near Seaford, Sussex 1927-1932 (data and photographs).
Ticehurst, C. B.
Letters 1910-1913 from Eagle-Clarke.
Tomes, Robert Fisher
Copy of "Victoria History of Worcestershire" Birds section 1901, followed
by MS notes from MS catalogue of local birds of Worcestershire in the
Victoria Inst. Museum and the Tomes Collection of birds.
Tuck, J.P.
Great Bustard in Suffolk 1891. 1p.
Tucker, B. W.
Rare Books Cupboard, see Librarian
Tully, H.
1. Ornithological observations and diaries
2. Ornithological observations and diaries 1935-39, 1939-42
and 1942-45.
Turnbull, Prof. H. M.
Folder on birds of Balgarvie, S. Johns Hillroad, Woking, Surrey.
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University Committee for Ornithology
1. Reports and correspondence 1933-1941.
2. Reports and correspondence 1931-1938 and 1939-1941.
Versey, C. M.
TS: Some further notes on birdlife at Ham Island; NB: Ham Island
Records 1950-58 waders, ducks, geese, terns, etc.; Obituary Note;
Eight NBs June 1947 to March 1974 on bird observations at Ham Island.
Vorobuev, K. A.
TS: Birds of the Ussuri Region. 1954.
A. F. G. Walker
Located above library card index. List on Cardbox.
Walker, F. J.
TS: Notes on the birds of Northeast Oman 1978; Notes on the
birds of Dhufar, Sultanate of Oman 1979; Data for sea-watch at Cape
St. Vincent, Acgarue Sept 1997-March 1998.
Wallace, A. R.
Letters to H. E. Howard 13.12.1903 and 10.9.1904 regarding color change
in old female birds and beauty as evidence of design.
Wallis, H. M.
Thirty-three NB diaries 1874-1924 each of a different trip or geographic
area, including Switzerland, Pyrennees, Ireland, Algeria, Holland, Germany,
North Africa, France, Bulgaria, Orkneys, Italy, Scillies, and others.
Trips made with various people including C. E. Pearson, Herbert Crosfield,
and G. H. Fox.
Ward, Peter
Ten boxes and 3 brown folders of notes, correspondence, data, manuscripts,
and spare reprints. Unboxed or sorted.
Whittaker, Arthur
1. NBs of observations made on various species
and indexed by species and locality 1900-1948. Volume 1 and 2.
2. Volumes 3 and 4.
3. Volumes 5 and 6.
4. Volume 7.
5. Data book of observations.
6. Notes on British Birds, made chiefly between the years 1900 and
1948, being a typed copy of the MS diary of the personal observations and
records of Arthur Whittaker. Vol 1: Crows to Swifts, Vol 2: Nightjars to
Stone Curlew.
White, C.M.N.
Original typescript Wallacea (copy in BMNH)
White, L. S.
Photocopies of NBs 1911-1935: Notes on the birds of the Himalayas;
Notes on the Birds of Kashmir (Srinagar April & May 1920, Srinagar
and Pahlgam May-July 1927, Srinagar to Winlar and Manasbal Sept-Oct 1932;
Notes on the birds of the Plains; Letter from C.M. Perrins regarding
diaries.
Wiley, Alexander John.
Notes on preparation of scientific papers from Trelease & Yle;
Notes on Motacilla from published sources; Unpublished MS: The Migration
of Birds by harrier cuttings of the Naturalist section of East African
new review. 1947-1949; NB on observations of birds in Kenya by species;
Cuttings of the Naturalist section of the East Africa Review 1947-49;
Databook on nest characteristics by species.
Williams, "Sparky" the talking budgerigar
TS by Mrs. Mattie Williams 1973 and three reels 7 1/2 ips of Sparkie
talking and rhyming.
Wilson, V. J.
NB in TS: Fauna notes of Cheshire and Lancaster, including the Dee
Estuary (from the library of T. A. Coward, with a note from him regarding
the work).
Winnall, Robert Nichol, 1909-2000.
Game books vol 1-25, 1932-1985, notebook: Details of shoots
and fishings and game book from January 14th 1932; notebook: Iter
in Caledoniam 1933: full story of an ornithological expedition to the north
of Scotland June-July 1933 (includes photographs); notebook: iter in Zetlandicium
1946 (includes map and bird photographs). Biographical details (1 page)
supplied by Mrs Beard, Winnall’s neice.
Witherby, H. F.
Correspondence regarding Spain and Gibraltar, some with Tucker;
TS: Some Ornithological Excursions in Spain; Maps; MS notes
on species in Spanish; TS: Some breeding birds of Spain and Portugal
observed during two visits 1928 and 1930 by John Armitage.
Wood, M. G.
Sixty-six NBs 1932-1952 of nature notes from Nigeria:
1. 1932-1934.
2. 1934-1937.
3. 1937-1943.
4. 1943-1947.
5. 1947-1952.
Wrigley, Thomas
Anatomical darings and MS on Avian Anatomy.
Wynne-Edwards, V. C.
Letter from Wynne-Edwards (Scottish Naturalists) to S. Smith 1949
re. variation in bird song.
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Young, C. G.
1. Bound reprint of 'A Contribution to the Ornithology
of the coastland of British Guiana,' by C. G. Young from Ibis Oct. 1928,
Jan. 1929, and Apr. 1929 (with original watercolour of a kiskadee);
NB of watercolours of Birds of the Malay Peninsula that have been found
in England, also fish of Guiana and diseases of rubber trees; NB
of watercolours Oct. 1924 to April 1926; MS w/photos and watercolours
of "Some Birds of Guiana" 1921 illustrated by Charles Grove Young and descriptions
by Charles Gore Young.
2. NBs: Diary of a voyage (England, Gibraltar, Mediterranean, Suez
Canal, Red Sea, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Lower Perak, Kampar hills, Penang,
Kedah, Ipoh Perak, and Brastagi Sumatra, filled with photographs and indexed
Mar. 1926 to Dec. 1927 with letters from N.B. Kinnear and C.B. Kloss;
Camerouns notes from 15.6.1946 of species seen and drawings.
3. NB of watercolours from Jun. 1926, indexed; Large NB of watercolours
and photos 1922 to 1925 of Great Britain, Atlantic Ocean, Barbados, Trinidad,
British Guiana, Dutch Guiana, Madeira and France with appendices on froghopper
blight on sugar cane, birds in cane fields, measurements and stomach
contents of birds useful to cane fields, and table of recorded bird song.
4. Folder notes: Singapore, Sydney; Tasmania 1941-42;
Sydney-Perth 1942; Perth-Durban 1942; index to Australian
birds; South Africa 1942; Cape Town-Douala 1942; French
Equatorial Africa 1942; TS of notes on birds seen on voyage Capetown
to Gold Coast by C.M. Morrison, letter from C.M.M. and his widow, index
of birds seen; Camerouns notes and photographs 1942-1946 and 1946-1956
with paintings and sketches.
Young, Robert
Nature Diaries, bound in green 1949-1988 (?), most in top end cupboard.
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