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2 Great auk
3 Great bustard
4 Pallas's sand grouse
5 Wild Bird Preservation
6 Alfred Newton's revision of William Yarrell's British birds
7 Alfred Newton, papers on Gilbert White
8 St Croix and Iceland eggs
9 Records of weather and birds seen at Elveden, Suffolk
10 Alfred Newton, miscellaneous papers
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Alfred Newton Papers

Title Wild Bird Preservation
Reference MS Add.9839/5
Creator Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907
Covering Dates 1858–1906
Extent and Medium 363 letters and papers; paper
Content and context

Letters and papers on Wild Bird Preservation

[1] Scrapbook 'Bird Preservation', Parliamentary reports, Bills, motions; newscuttings,

leaflets, committee reports, 1869-80.

[2] RSPCA, invitation to meeting of Association for the Protection of Sea Birds, 1869.

[3] Printed invitation to same meeting, about 'Proposed Act for the preservation of sea

birds', 10 MAR 1869, with MS notes on proposed clauses and voting.

[4] Motions proposed at meeting, 10 MAR 1869.

[5] Printed appeal 'To the members of the Association for the protection of sea birds'.

[6] Receipt to AN for donation.

[7] MR. CARR (Hedgeley, Northumberland), MS 'On some of the details desirable in a

Bill for Protection of Seabirds', 1869.

[8] AN, draft letter to 6TH DUKE OF RICHMOND, 30 APR 1869.

[9] J.E. HARTING, draft Bill on destruction of seabirds during breeding season,

submitted to Committee of British Association, 1869.

[10-11] Sea Birds Preservation Bill, amendments and amended Bill, 1869.

[12] Act to grant a duty of excise on licences to use guns, 1870.

[13] Association for the protection of sea birds on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland

Report (Bridlington, 1871).

[14] H. STEVENSON, paper on Wild Birds Protection Act, 1872, reprinted from

Norfolk Chronicle, 5 APR 1873.

[15] MS extract from Quarterly Review, APR 1873.

[16] AN, MS notes for a speech about game laws and extermination of animals, 1873.

[17] Olphe Galliard, 'La diminution du gibier' in L'Acclimatation, 20 AUG 1874.

[18] Wild Fowl Preservation Bill, 1876

[19] Division list, second reading of Wild Fowl Preservation Bill, 24 MAY 1876.

[20] Notice of motion on Bill, 9 JUN 1876.

[21-22] AN to 'My Lord', FRANCIS BUCKLAND, 1876.

[23] Act for the Preservation of Wild Fowl, 1876.

[24] Printed statement by BAAS Committee continuing investigation on possibility of

establishing a close season for preserving indigenous animals, 1876.

[25] Report of committee, Plymouth, 1877.

[26] Notification by BAAS that committee is reappointed, SEP 1877.

[27-28] Notes about close time in various English and Scottish counties, 1877.

[29] Tasmania, House of Assembly, notice of motions, 1 MAY 1879, including

Meredith's motion to bring in a Bill to protect sea birds.

[30] Van der Snikt, 'Les chapeaux des dames', L'Acclimatation, 2 NOV 1879.

[31] AN, draft letter to editor of Edinburgh Courant, 3 JAN 1880.

[32-33] Wild Birds Protection Law Amendment, Bill and amended Bill, 1880.

[34] Wild Birds Protection Act, draft with AN's suggested amendments.

[35] AN, draft letter to The Times, on Wild Birds Protection Act, SEP 1880 ('not

inserted – but seems to have stopped the nonsense'); on back of part of a draft article

on 'Archaeopteryx'.

[36] AN, MS copy of notice of Ness Salmon Fishery Board, in Inverness Courier, 26

OCT 1880.

[37] HENRY GORDON-CUMMING (Scottish Salmon Fisheries). Copy letter to

JOHN DICKSON (1880).

[38-39] Article 'Protection of British birds' reviewing BAAS reports, 1869-80, and Wild

Birds Protection Act, 1880, with explanatory notes (London, 'Field Office', 1880), 1st

proof corrected by AN, 1st revise, with annotation.

[40-41] AN, notes on how to counter arguments of 'One interested', and draft reply,

1881.

[42] An Act to explain the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880 — 1881.

[350-359] Drafts of Bill, proposed amendments, 1881.

[43-44] AN, copy letter to the Editor of The Field, in support of Captain Clark Kennedy's

protest about 'the wanton destruction of rare birds', and draft, n.d.

[45] LEONARD BLOMFIELD, offprint of letter to Bath Chronicle, 7 JUL 1887, on the

Selborne Society.

[46] HUGH G. BARCLAY to AN, printed note, 7 MAY 1889, on taking of gulls' eggs

on Farne Islands.

[47] Aberdeen County Council, report under Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889,

about an offence under Wild Birds Acts, and proposed amendments, 1889.

[48] AN, draft of Bill to amend Wild Birds Protection Acts, 1891.

[49] Farne Islands Report for year 1892 (Alnwick, 1893), H.A. Paynter, Treasurer and

Secretary.

[50-52] Breydon Wild Birds' Protection Society, reports, 1892-95.

[53] Act to amend the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880 (Wild Birds Protection Act,

1894).

[54-55] AN, MS notes on County Council Association – Executive Council, JAN-FEB

1895.

[56] Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, poster 'Protection of wild

birds', c.1895.

[57-58] County Council of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk, notices on wild birds

protection, 1895.

[59] Eugène Servin, 'La protection des oiseaux utiles (1)', Cosmos. Revue des Science et

de leurs applications, N.S. 487, 26 MAY 1894.

[60-61] Farne Island Report, 1894-95 (as [49] above).

[62] MS extract from Daily News, 30 JUN 1897, Queen Victoria to be a patron of Society

of Women for the Preservation of Small Birds in Austria.

[63] MS extract from Westminster Gazette, 17 SEP 1897, urging introduction of house

sparrows into Jochi field area to counter plague of flies.

[64] AN, extract from letter W.G.N. to R.M.N., 1 APR 1899.

[65] MS extract by Mrs. F.E. Lemon from The Times, 28 JUN 1876, 'Borrowed plumes',

sent 1899.

[66] AN, note, 1899.

[67] MS Mrs. Lemon (Secretary, Society for the Protection of Birds), reports by John S.

Tulloch, James Horeason, W. Eagle Clarke, 'The protection of skuas' eggs on Foula',

1900.

[68] AN, MS notes, n.d.

[69] Card announcing East India Association paper by Robert H. Elliot, 'The preservation

of wild birds in India'.

[70-71] AN, draft, 'Wild animals and their legal rights', another draft, n.d.

[72-76] Feather sales catalogues, 1876

[72-73] Lewis & Peat, 19 JAN 1876, and Supplement.

[74] Hale & Son, First supplement, 19 JAN 1876.

[75-76] Hale & Son, First and second supplements, 15 MAR 1876.

[77] AN, 'Borrowed plumes', letter to The Times, 27 JAN 1876, reprint.

[78-83] Wild animals protection

[78] Cape Province, South Africa, Government notice, report of E.L. Layard, Curator of

South African Museum, on acclimitisation of animals, 24 FEB 1864.

[79] Cape Province, Bill for the better preservation of game, 1868

[80] AN, 'The zoological aspect of game laws', address at BAAS, AUG 1868, proof

slips, Norfolk Chronicle.

[81] A Bill to amend the law relating to wild animals in Scotland, 1873.

[82-83] Report of BAAS committee on establishing a 'close time' for protection of

indigenous animals, 1874; statement.

[84-85] Report of BAAS committee, as above, and for watching Bills introduced into

Parliament affecting this subject, 1874? MS and printed report.

[86-89] Offprints of parts of J.E. Harting's article 'British wildfowl', in The Field, 1877.

[90-342] Newscuttings

1858

[90] Report of John Gould's notice to Society[?] about A.R. Wallace's collection of birds

of paradise in the Aru Islands, Journal of _____, 6 MAR 1858.

1863

[91] Edward Wilson, 'The little bird', The Times, 9 OCT 1863.

1866

[92] 'Natural History Society of Dublin', ____s's Newsletter, and Daily Advertiser, 9

JUL 1866.

1868

[93-101] 'G.', 'A plea for the kittiwake'; 'The game laws'; F.O. Morris, A. Clayfield

Ireland, 'Destruction of sea birds'; G., 'Zoological aspect of the game laws'; G.D.,

'Destruction of small birds', The Times, 21,24,25,27,29 AUG, 7 SEP 1868.

1874

[102] Elliott Coues, 'Hybrid ducks', Forest and Stream, MAR 1874.

1875

[103] 'The Wild Birds Protection Act', The Field, 17 APR 1875.

[104] Wildfowl Preservation Bill, 17 JUN 1875.

[105] 'Destruction of small birds', The Times, 13 NOV 1875.

1876

[106] AN, 'Borrowed plumes', The Times, 28 JAN 1876.

[107] 'St. Valentine's Day and our ''feathered songsters'', n.d.

[108] 'Wildfowl Preservation Bill', The Field, 19 FEB 1876.

[109] 'The Wild Fowl Preservation Bill', Land and Water, 19 FEB 1876.

[110] 'Retriever', 'The preservation of wildfowl', 'The Wildfowl Protection Bill', T.S.,

'The game supply of Paris', The Field, 26 FEB 1876.

[111] F.O. Morris, quoting AN's letter to The Times, in Hand and Heart, FEB 1876.

[112] 'Retriever', 'The preservation of wildfowl', The Field, 4 MAR 1876.

[113-114] Article on feathers in ladies' hats, AN's letter, Royal Gazette, Georgetown,

British Guiana, 11,14 MAR 1876.

[115] B.H., 'Wild birds protection', Land and Water, 18 MAR 1876.

[116] 'Anser', 'The Wild Fowl Preservation Act', Pall Mall Gazette, 25 MAR 1876.

[117] Advertisements for traps, 20 APR 1876.

[118] AN to Editor of Royal Gazette, 25 MAY 1876.

[119-123] Notices in The Times, including [120] AN on 'Sand grouse', [122] F.O.

MORRIS on 'The spoonbill', 25 MAY, 3,5,10,15 JUN 1876.

[124] 'Wildfowl Preservation Bill', The Field, 17 JUN 1876.

[125-126] Wildfowl Preservation Act, editorial, text, Norfolk Chronicle, 16 SEP 1876.

[127] AN's address at BAAS, Daily Telegraph, 19 SEP 1876.

[128] 'A lover of nature', 'Protection or extermination', Hobart Tribune, 9 OCT 1876.

[129-130] 'Kangaroo Protection Bill', report of debate in [Tasmania] House of

Assembly, Bill passed, 17,19 OCT 1876.

[131] 'The Greenland seal fishery', The Times, 2 DEC 1876.

[132] 'The Wild Birds Protection Act', The Times, 7 DEC 1876.

1877

[133-141] Notices in The Times, on Wild Birds Protection Act, prices of game birds at

Leadenhall Market, [141] LORD COLVILLE, 'Wild Birds Preservation Act',

16,17,24,26 FEB, 3,10,17,24 MAR, 6 APR 1877.

[142] 'The Wildfowl Preservation Act', The Field, 3 FEB 1877.

[143] 'The Norfolk squires on snipe shooting', Land & Water, 24 FEB 1877.

[144] 'Anas', 'The Wildfowl Preservation Act, 1876', The Field, 24 FEB 1877.

[145] AN, letter in The Field, 10 MAR 1877.

[146] 'Close time for game and birds', Land & Water, 31 MAR 1877.

[147] 'The game laws', The Field, 31 MAR 1877.

[148] FRED. NAT. LOWNE, 'The Birds Protection Act', Land & Water, 7 APR 1877.

[149] Wild Birds Preservation Act, letters from Chairman, British Scandinavian Society,

and O.S. ROUND, The Times, 7 APR 1877.

[150] 'The Wildfowl Act in Norfolk', Land & Water, 7 APR 1877.

[151] 'Wild fowl shooting', Norfolk Chronicle, 7 APR 1877.

[152-154] 'J.P.', 'A.', 'Salesmen' 'The Wild Birds Protection Act', The Times, 11 APR

1877.

[155-156] Prosecutions against London poulterers, The Times, 16-17 APR 1877.

[157] 'British wildfowl' [long-tailed duck to ringed plover], The Field, 21 APR 1877.

[158] Prosecutions under Act at Brighton, Sussex Daily News, 2 MAY 1877.

[159] Brentford girls summonsed for taking robin's nest, The Times, 14 MAY 1877.

[160-161] Appeal in case Whitehead v. Smithers, The Times, 16 JUN 1877, The Field, 23

JUN 1877.

[162] 'Close time for the protection of indigenous animals', Land & Water, 18 AUG

1877.

[163-164] 'Beverley', 'Argus', 'Close time for sea birds in Yorkshire', The Field, 25

AUG, 1 SEP 1877.

[165] 'Close time for wild fowl and sea birds', Land & Water, 20 OCT 1877.

[166] 'The protection of wild fowl', The Times, 20 OCT 1877.

[167] 'Close time for snipe and wildfowl in Yorkshire', The Field, 20 OCT 1877.

[168] O.S. ROUND, 'Wild fowl protection', The Times, 24 OCT 1877.

[169] F.O. MORRIS, 'Rare birds', The Times, 30 NOV 1877

[170] 'The Witham and fen drains', Land & Water, n.d.

1878

[171] 'W.E.', 'Birds and fruit', 'S.P.T.', 'Frogs', The Times, 24 JAN 1878.

[172] 'Wild Powls Preservation Act in Middlesex', Land & Water, 26 JAN 1878.

[173] F.O. MORRIS, 'Sport and slaughter', The Times, 7 FEB 1878.

[174] 'Local variations in the Wild Fowl Preservation Act', Land & Water, 9 FEB 1878.

[175] 'The Wild Fowl Preservation Act', The Times, 26 FEB 1878.

[176] Prices of birds in London markets, The Times, 2 MAR 1878.

[177] 'Another alteration of the Wild Fowl Act' Land & Water, 2 MAR 1878.

[178] 'A suburban resident', 'The Wild Birds Protection Act', The Times, 9 MAR 1878.

[179] C. RUPELL, 'The Wildfowl Preservation Act', Land & Water, 9 MAR 1878.

[180-181] D.G.F. MACDONALD, 'Birdcatchers'; 'The Wild Fowl Preservation Act',

The Times, 20 MAR 1878.

[182] C. RUSSELL, 'The Wild-Fowl Preservation Act', Pall Mall Gazette, 22 MAR

1878.

[183-184] 'The Scotch herring fisheries', 'Egyptian quails', The Times, 17-18 APR 1878.

[185] AN, 'Herrings and gannets', The Times, 23 APR 1878.

[186] VAUGHAN P. DAVIES, 'Seabirds and rabbits', The Times, 25 APR 1878.

[187-188] E.K. BRIDGER, 'The food of sea-birds'; HARRY JONES, 'Rooks', The

Times, 27 APR 1878.

[189] J. HOARE, 'Decoys past and present', The Field, 27 APR 1878.

[190] 'Sale of foreign game', Land & Water, 27 APR 1878.

[191] 'The Scotch herring fisheries', The Times, 29 APR 1878.

[192] CHARLES CUMMING, 'Slaughter of small birds', The Times, 30 APR 1878.

[193-194] E.S.C., JAMES HOWARD, 'Rooks and wheat poisoning', The Times, 1-2

MAY 1878.

[195] 'The close season for wildfowl and sea birds', The Field, 6 JUL 1878.

[196] 'Close time for indigenous animals, Dublin Express, 16 AUG 1878.

[197] 'Game protection in America', Land & Water, 21 SEP 1878.

[198] Report of BAAS session, Dublin, 1878.

1879

[199] Land values in New Zealand, The Times, 31 JAN 1879.

[200-201] Article on rabbits in New Zealand, W.J.M. LARNACH, New Zealand

Agricultural Company and 'rabbit nuisance', The Times, 6-7 FEB 1879.

[202] CHARLES FIELDING HARMER, 'The close time for wildfowl', unnamed

paper, 8 APR 1879.

[203] F.0. MORRIS, 'Sea birds', The Times, 12 APR 1879.

1880

[204-205] 'A schedule of close timesfor various game birds and wildfowl in the United

Kingdom', 'Our table of close times', Land & Water, 28 FEB 1880.

[206-208] 'Sir D. Wedderburn, M.P., and wild bird protection'; 'Prosecutions under the

Wildfowl Act'; FRANK BUCKLAND, 'Foreign game birds and the public', Land &

Water, 6,13,27 MAR 1880.

[209] 'Taking plover's eggs', Bury & Norwich Post, 11 MAY 1880.

[210] EDWIN BIRCHALL, 'The rights of animals', Manx Sun, 22 MAY 1880.

[211] 'Protection of wild birds', Land & Water, 19 JUN 1880.

[212] 'An ornithologist', 'The Wild Birds Protection Bill', The Spectator, 19 JUN 1880.

[213] 'Protection of wild birds', Land & Water, 26 JUN 1880.

[214] 'The protection of wild birds', St. James's Gazette, 1 JUL 1880.

[215] Extinct toothed-birds of North America, The Nation (New York), 5 AUG 1880.

[216] 'The Wild Birds Protection Act', The Field, 18 SEP 1880.

[217] E. CLOUGH TAYLOR, 'The Wild Birds Protection Act', The Times, 28 SEP

1880.

[218-224] 'Sentimental legislation'; HELY H. ALMOND, 'Highlanders and consump-

tion'; H.B. TRISTRAM, 'The Sea Birds Protection Act'; HELY ALMOND, 'Sea

birds preservation'; SAMUEL L. MASON, 'Sea birds and their ravages'; 'The Sea

Birds protection Act'; 'Ignis Fatuus', J.S., 'A dweller on Tweedside', 'Tweed

pollution', The Scotsman, 24 SEP, 16,20,21,22,30 OCT, 1 NOV 1880.

[225] 'Reserve', 'Ravages of sea birds', The Scotsman, 28 OCT 1880.

[226] 'Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society', 29 OCT 1880.

[227] 'One interested', 'Scarcity of salmon – disease and cure', Edinburgh Courant, 16

DEC 1880.

[228] AN, 'Professor Newton on salmon and sea birds', Edinburgh Courant, 22 DEC

1880.

[229] 'Foreign game and poultry', The Observer, 26 DEC 1880.

[230] 'One interested', 'Professor Newton on salmon and sea birds', Edinburgh Courant,

31 DEC 1880.

[231] 'The close season for wildfowl', unnamed paper, 1880.

1881

[232-233] 'Another interested', 'An amused and interested observer [JA.H.B]', 'Salmon

and sea birds'; AN, 'Bird protection', Edinburgh Courant, 3,5 JAN 1881.

[234] Variation of close time, Norfolk Chronicle, 15 JAN 1881.

[235] Fen country, Standard, 25 JAN 1881.

[236] 'Wildfowler', 'The Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880', The Field, 12 FEB 1881.

[237] Prosecution for selling wildfowl, The Times, 31 MAR 1881.

[238] Rabbit plague in Australia, The Times, 3 APR 1881.

[348] 'Wild Birds Protection Act', Land & Water, 9 APR 1881.

[239] AN, ' The Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880', Land & Water, 23 APR 1881.

[240] 'The Wild Fowl Act of 1880', The Times, 10 MAY 1881.

[241] F.O. MORRIS, 'The pomarine skua', Land & Water, 14 MAY 1881.

[242] E.T. BOOTH, THOMAS W. WEBBER, 'Wildfowl protection', 14 MAY 1881.

[243] 'Sale of woodpigeons, rooks, &c.', The Field, 14 MAY 1881.

[244] H. GORDON CUMMING, 'Destruction of salmon parr and smolts by gannets,

gulls, etc.', Land & Water, 21 MAY 1881.

[245] Prosecutions for selling rooks, The Field, 21 MAY 1881.

[246] 'East Anglia', C. RUSSELL, T.M. PIKE, 'Wildfowl protection', The Field, 28

MAY 1881.

[247] 'Round the cliffs', Pall Mall Gazette, 3 JUN 1881.

[248] 'Scotus', 'Destruction of smolts by gannets, gulls, etc.', Land & Water, 4 JUN

1881.

[249] Summons under Wild Birds Protection Act, unnamed paper, JUN 1881.

[250] 'Grey beard', 'Wild birds', Standard, 7 JUN 1881.

[251] 'The Wild Birds Protection (1880) Amendment Bill', The Field, 2 JUL 1881.

[252] 'The sale of foreign wildfowl', Land & Water, 9 JUL 1881.

[253] H. M. DRUMMOND-HAY, 'Our salmon supply', Dundee Advertiser, 11 JUL

1881.

[252] Prosecution for taking lark's nest, Daily Telegraph, 22 JUL 1881.

[253] 'R', 'Mr. Paget and the lark's nest stealer', Land & Water, 30 JUL 1881.

[254] Amendment to Wild Birds Protection Amendment Act, The Times, 19 AUG 1881.

[255] 'Wildfowl protection', The Field, 20 AUG 1881.

[256] 'Destruction of the sea birds at Flamborough', Land & Water, 20 AUG 1881.

[257] W.S. EVERITT, 'Wildfowl in Norfolk and Suffolk', The Field, 27 AUG 1881.

[258] 'Wild Birds Protection Act, 1881', The Field, 3 SEP 1881.

[259] F. FRANCIS, 'The plague of small birds', The Field, 17 SEP 1881.

1883

[260] P.M.C. KERMODE (Hon. Sec.), 'The Isle of Man Natural History and

Antiquarian Society', Manx Sun, 12 MAY 1883.

[261] 'Republican game laws', 'Open seasons for American game', Land & Water, 8

SEP 1883.

1884

[262] THOMAS CORNISH, 'Destruction of sea fish by birds', Land & Water, 29 MAR

1884.

[263] H.D. ASTLEY, 'Shot–of course', Standard, 22 APR 1884.

[264] 'The fisheries and the Wild Birds Protection Act', The Field, 5 JUL 1884.

[265-266] 'Wild animals and their legal rights. II-III', Land & Water, 15 NOV, 13 DEC

1884.

[267-269] CECIL SMITH, 'Wild animals and their legal rights'; ''The writer of the

article', 'The Wild Birds' Act and its critics'; 'A constant reader', 'Wild animals and

their legal rights', Land & Water, 22,29 NOV, 27 DEC 1884.

1885

[270] 'Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society', Norfolk Chronicle, 4 APR 1885.

[271] W.H. ROWLAND, 'Fair play', 'Rook hawking', The Times, 18 APR 1885.

[272] 'The close time in Norfolk', Lowestoft Journal, 18 JUN 1885.

1886

[273] [J.E. HARTING], 'Sale of game out of season', The Field', 10 APR 1886.

[274] 'The Wild Fowl Act of 1880', The Times, 6 MAY 1886.

[275] Lecture by Canon Tristram, Dundee Advertiser, 4 DEC 1886.

1888

[276] Description of a dress trimmed with robin feathers, The Queen, 23 FEB [1888?].

[277] 'Venator', 'Close time for hares', 'Adminsitration of the Game Laws in Scotland',

The Field, 24 MAR 1888.

[278] 'Shooting dotterel during the close season', The Field, 26 MAY 1888.

[279-280] 'The Wild Birds Act'; 'Wild duck', 'The Wild Birds Act', Shooting Times, 2

JUN 1888.

[281-283] JOHN COLAM (Secretary, RSPCA), JOSEPH ROWLANDS, 'The

protection of wild birds', The Times, 25,30 JUN, 5 JUL 1888

[284] 'Wild Birds Act', The Times, 23 SEP 1888.

[285] 'Local gossip', from a Tyneside paper, n.d.

1890

[286] T. SOUTHWELL, 'The barn owl and pole-traps', unnamed paper, DEC 1890.

1891

[287] 'Wild bird shooting', Norfolk paper, MAR 1891.

1893

[288] Wild Birds Protection Bill, The Scotsman, 1 MAY 1893.

[289] 'Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society', Eastern Daily Press, 1 JUN 1893.

1894

[290-291] W.H. HUDSON, AN, 'The last of the ospreys', The Times, 19 NOV 1894.

1895

[292] MALCOLM ROSS, 'The Leader Expedition in Fiordland. No. VI', Otago Daily

Times, 29 AUG 1895.

1897

[293-295] EDWARD CLIFFORD, RICHARD EDGCUMBE, ARTHUR GAYE,

'The slaughter of the innocents', The Times, 20,26 OCT, 9 NOV 1897.

[296-297] Prosecutions, The Times, 29 OCT, 1 NOV 1897.

[298] 'Martyrs to fashion. Osprey feathers at £6 the ounce', Daily Mail, 15 DEC 1897.

1898

[299-300] M.R.A.C., 'An admirer of living things', FRANCIS KING, 'The trade in

birds' feathers', The Times, 4,18 JAN 1898.

[301] AN, 'Wild forest bulls', Notes & Queries, 10 SEP 1898.

1899

[302] AN, 'The plume trade', The Times, 25 FEB 1899.

[303] Review of A.H. Evans, Birds (London, 1899), Literature, 18 MAR 1899.

[304] 'Ladies and birds' plumes. A cruel fashion', Cheshire Observer, 15 APR 1899.

[305] 'Death to the sparrow', Derby Mercury, 22 APR 1899.

[306] 'Death to the sparrow', Liverpool Mercury, 24 APR 1899.

[307] A.J. LAWFORD-JONES, 'Shall 250,000 sparrows die?', Daily Mail, 26 APR

1899.

[308] 'The house sparrow', The Queen, 10 JUN 1899.

[309] 'The great plume question', The Field, 2 JUL 1899.

[310] YE KEN WHA, 'The over-preservation of certain birds', Shetland Times, 12 AUG

1899.

[311-317] LINDA GARDINER, K. THOMSON, AN, WATKIN WATKINS, H.B. TRISTRAM, 'The harvest of the plumes', The Times, 22,25,28,29 AUG, 8,9,13 SEP

1899.

[318] Comment on foregoing letters, The Times, 26 AUG 1899.

[319] Comment on controversy, Liverpool Mercury, 29 AUG 1899.

[320] 'The great plume question', The Field, 2 SEP 1899.

[321] 'An act of exceptional avian barbarity', Yorkshire Post, 9 SEP 1899.

[322] Linda Gardiner, 'Egret plumes', Land & Water, 9 SEP 1899.

[323] Comment on 'harvest of the plumes' controversy, Western Morning News, 9 SEP

1899.

[324] H.J. MONRO, 'Feathers inladies' hats', The St. James's Gazette, 11 SEP 1899.

[325] SOPHY COLLIER, 'The needs of animals', LINDA GARDINER, 'The harvest

of the plumes', Western Morning News, 15 SEP 1899.

[326] F.H.H. GUILLEMARD, 'A census of birds', W.B. TEGETMEIER, 'Birds and

fruit growing', The Field, 14 OCT 1899.

[327] Notice of reprint of AN's Dictionary of birds, Yorkshire Weekly Post, 21 OCT

1899.

[328] MARK L. SYKES, 'A British Association idyll: the neomylodon', Manchester

City News, 21 OCT [1899].

[329] Notice of AN reprint, Literature, 11 NOV 1899.

[330] Obituary, Joseph Wolf, The Times, 22 APR 1899.

1900

[331] Killing of bitterns, Standard, 2 JAN 1900.

[332] Note of AN's article on Gilbert White in DNB, Publishers' Circular, 6 JAN 1900.

[333] 'Our winter visitors. From Leisure Hour', Coventry Herald, 2 FEB 1900.

[334] W.B. TEGETMEIER, 'The possibility of twin eggs', The Field, 17 FEB 1900.

[335] Announcement of death of Elloitt Coues, Popular Science, MAR 1900.

[336] Award of Linnaean Gold Medal to AN, Manchester Guardian, 13 APR 1900.

[337] 'The European quail', Country Sports, 14 OCT [1900?].

[338] Announcement of AN entertainment at Barnsbury Club, Sporting Mirror, 14 OCT

[1900?].

1903

[339] JOHN EVANS, obituary, The Times, 3 JUN 1903.

1906

[340] 'Echoes of science', The Globe, 22 JUN 1906.

n.d.

[341] 'The distribution of bird life', unnamed paper, n.d.

[342] G.H.W., Poem 'To ''Anas Canadensis''', unnamed paper, n.d.

[343-347] Other papers

[343] J.M. ANDERSON to H.B. TRISTRAM, 27 OCT 1880.

[344] Envelope inscribed by AN, 'Tristram, 'Scotsman'', 1880.

[345] Anon., note on paper addressed 'Loretto, Musselburgh', n.d.

[346] Offprint, 'The Wildfowl Preservation Act', The Field, FEB 1878.

[347] Newscutting, 'Interesting discovery at Trowse', unnamed paper, NOV 1868.

[348] follows [238]

[349] AN, draft about close-time.

[350-359] follow [42]

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