| Description | Contains:
1) Hull Field Naturalists' Society printed notices Jun-Aug 1886 (9 pieces);
2) Correspondence of W L Shooter, local egg collector with related notes and cuttings and lists of eggs with prices 1888-1897 also with notices of sale of collection 1935;
3) Notes and printed circulars relating to special meeting relating to amalgamation of Hull Scientific Club and Hull Field Naturalists' Society Jan-Aug 1895;
4) Paper written on the origins of the Hull Scientific Club by F W Fierke with related notes c.1897-c.1898;
5) Programme for Exhibition and Conversazione 1-10 Feb 1900;
6) Newsletter 1910-1911;
7) Membership list c.1920;
8) Letter from J Fraser Robinson declining invitation to attend opening of Natural History section in Hull Museum, 22 Sep 1925;
9) Membership list c.1930;
10) Newspaper cuttings on closure of Spurn to visitors to protect bird life Jan-Feb 1958;
11) Typescript notes on the birds of Hull 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1966
12) Spurn survey c.1964-c.1965;
13) 'Everingham Carrs. A report of botanical and ornithological observations made during May-July 1966' by F and G S de Boer, 1966;
14) Lists of books in the club library 1970-c.1978;
15) Published notes on East Riding Himiptera by R Crossly, 1972;
16) Survey of Allerthorpe Common nd. [1970s]
In memoriam notices of local and Yorkshire naturalists many reprinted from 'The Naturalist' some with photographs including the following: 17) Nathaniel Charles Rothschild (1877-1923), 18) Joseph Taylor Sewell (1857-1925), 19) Robert Standen 1925, 20) William Norwood Cheesman 1925, 21) William Henry Parkin 1926 and William Pearson 1926, 22) A W Rowe 1926, 23) George Grace 1926, 24) George William Lamplugh (1859-1926), 25) Prof P F Kendall 1927, 26) Walter Bagshaw 1927, 27) Godfrey Bingley (1842-1927) and Walter Bagshaw 1927, 28) James Fraser Robinson (1857-1927), 29) George Taylor Porritt (1848-1927) and Joseph Darker Butterell (1853-1927), 30) visit of Cardiff Naturalists' Society 1927, 31) William Horne (1836-1928), 32) C G Danford 1928, 33) Richard Kearton 1928, 34) W Harrison Hutton (1857-1928), 35) John Ashworth Hargreaves (1856-1929), 36) Frederick Boyes (1842-1929), 37) Dr E O Croft 1929, 38) Seth Lister Mosley (1848-1929), 39) Sidney S Buckman (1860-1929), 40) John Crowther (1859-1930), 41) Professor Wilfrid Robinson (1884-1930) with 42) reprint from 'Memoirs & Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosphical Society', 43) F W Fierke (1867-1930), 44) Charles Edward Moss (1870-1930), 45) E T Newton 1930 and Thomas Castle 1930, 46) Harold Wager 1930, 47) W H Hudson [biographical notes] 1930, 48) Edwin Port Philip Butterfield (1847-1931), 49) Greevz Fysher (1845-1931), 50) John William Taylor 1931, 51) note on Scoresby portraits 1931, 52) Thomas Petch [biographical notes on new president] 1931, 53) J Beanland (1857-1932), 54) William Herbert St Quintin (1851-1933), 55) A I Burnley 1933, 56) Charles Mosley (1875-1933), 57) Arthur Rufus Sanderson 1932 and Herbert Hastings Sturdy 1932, 58) George Bolam (1859-1934), 59) F A Bather (1863-1934), 60) Henry J Wilkinson (1859-1934), 61) Thomas Stainforth (1882-1944) |