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Papers of Stephen Willats, 1960s-1998, comprising documentation relating mainly to his West London Social Resource Project in the Greenford, Hanwell and Osterley area, [1972], including questionnaires, re-modeling books and manuals for Greenford, Hanwell and Osterley, black and white photographs of the areas, audio tape of statement and interviews with project operators, examples of returns from re-modeling books and manuals, participants' sheets, public decision sheets, map of project area, exhibition display mounts; papers relating to his Edinburgh Social Model Construction Project, 1973, including project operators' manuals, problem sheets for project areas, participant project file; advertising posters, photographs; exhibition catalogues, 1968-1998, for exhibitions of Willats' work in the UK, Europe and Toronto.

Papers of the Anti-Locust Research Centre, c 1850-2002, principally comprising: locust report forms, narrative reports, survey reports, control campaign reports; cables, letters, transcripts; organisation and committee papers; bulletins, abstracts, memoirs; indexes, registers, catalogues; field note books and records; synoptic meteorological and hydrological data and reports; photographs and slides; films and microfilms.

Key components of the archive are: the report forms, cable messages and supporting correspondence detailing records of locusts and locust activity, spanning over 100 years of sightings; the long runs of meteorological data used in conjunction with locust reports that enable forecasts of future locust activity to be made; the large collection of maps (estimated at 18,000 items) recording locust sightings and distributions, and meteorological data such as temperature, rainfall and humidity. The same locust event is often described in several different documents, and information taken from several reports combined with meteorological and habitat data is required to build up a complete picture of the original observation. The large collection of photographs and slides (an estimated combined total of 15,000 items) provides a valuable pictorial record of locust research and control, and of the people involved and places visited. The archive holds information on locust records spanning nearly 3,500 years. The earlier dates are from analyses of historical documents that contain records of locust plagues.

Correspondence and papers of the British Museum East Africa Expedition, 1924-1931, including notebooks and papers of William Edmund Cutler; notebooks and papers of Frederick William Hugh Migeod and miscellaneous and printed material relating to East Africa Expedition.

Scientific and antiquarian manuscript and printed papers of Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, chiefly relating to his unpublished work on historic diamonds and other gemstones. Includes: Historical notes on the Koh-i-noor diamond and other historic gemstones; Notes on the Koh-i-noor and other historic diamonds; On the Koh-i-noor diamond: manuscript draft; Diamonds and antiquities: notes and newscuttings; 'Notes on jewels etc', with extracts from Theophrastus, Dioscorides and Pliny; 'Lectures on the mineralogy of antiquity'; includes much on historic diamonds; 'The filling of fissures', notes for a lecture on the formation of ore minerals; Newscuttings relating to the British Museum, one of them a letter of John Ruskin, 1866-1873; 'On diamonds', the text of a lecture given at the Royal Institution, reprinted from 'The Chemical News', 1860; 'The metals and minerals of the Bible' (printed), [1888]; 'Physical properties of minerals - I. optical': notes for a lecture, illustrated with diagrams; 'Visitors to Prof Maskelyne's lecture on crystallography, Nov 23, 1874', with notes on crystal structure from the works of Groth, Fedorov and others, and circular polarisation of crystals, 1874-1901; Translations of ancient texts; Viktor von Lang: crystallographic measurements and drawings from specimens in the Museum collection, 1863 and Royal Institution: Syllabus of lectures on the allied phaenomena of the chemical and electrical forces by Michael Faraday (printed), 1848. Many of the papers are accompanied by notes made by Walter Campbell Smith at the time of transfer.

Correspondence, notes and photographs from C W Andrews' expedition to Christmas Island, 1897-1898, including notes on the birds and other animals of Christmas Island, with a register of photographs; notes on the vegetation and geology of Christmas Island, with a register of plants; notes on the geology of Christmas Island, with a register of rock specimens; rough sketches and notes on the geology of Christmas Island; letters from Andrews to C D Sherborn written from Christmas Island and elsewhere; photographs taken during Captain Pelham Aldrich's visit to Christmas Island in HMS Egeria, 1897-1898 and 1908; photographs taken by Andrews on Cocos-Keeling, 1898; album of photographs taken by Andrews on Christmas Island; leaflet prepared by Graham Collins and others, reprinting a letter from C W Andrews on Christmas Island to C D Sherborn, 11 Sep 1897, with illustrations and calendar of the Christmas Island Natural History Association for 1988, containing reprints of some of C W Andrews' photographs of the island.

Volume of correspondence of Richard Meinertzhagen including official receipts from the Museum for donations (1914-1956), drafts of his critical memoranda on the state of the Museum (1939-1945), letters from Museum staff and trustees on his collections from the Hogga Mountains, Algeria (1931-1932), and correspondence on the disposal of his bird collection (1950-1954).

Minutes, correspondence and papers of the Huxley Memorial Committee, including two out of three volumes of minutes of the various Huxley committees kept by G B Howes, into which are pasted printed papers, newscuttings, notes and letters. There is also a volume containing a complete set of the printed notice produced by the committees at different times. The whereabouts of the third minute book is unknown.

Papers of Jacqueline Grizel Georgiana Palmer relating to her work in the Children's Centre of the Natural History Museum, including papers relating to the Argus Club; Children's Centre papers; Junior Naturalists' Club papers; Field Observer's Club papers; correspondence; worksheets; pressed plants and photographs.

Correspondence and Papers of Lord Macmillan, 1936-1947, comprising correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the Trustees of the Natural History Museum and their work. Items 1 and 2 are concerned with the committee on accommodation that Macmillan chaired in 1935 and which reported to the Trustees in 1936, while later items relate to such matters as the Trustees response to the critical memorial by J Graham Kerr, MP, (1945-1946), C Forster Cooper's memorandum on the future development of the Museum (1943) and the crisis over the choice of his successor as Director (1946).

Scientific papers of A K Totton including official Museum files, diaries and correspondence and material produced after his retirement. It relates entirely to his work on coelenterates, and the bulk is concerned with the Siphonophora, the group which includes the Portugese man of war.

Administrative and financial records of the five trustees who administered the Godman Exploration Fund. It includes their annual reports in which they accounted for money disbursed, details of their investments, and correspondence over the lease of a house that they owned.

Administrative papers of the two union branches that represented the scientific staff of the Museum from 1918 until they merged as the Museum branch of the Institute of Professional Civil Servants, later the Institute for Professional and Managerial Staff. Also included are some earlier papers relating to the grievances of the attendant class between 1854 and 1914, and some papers of the Departmental Whitley Council.

Professional and personal papers of Doug Clark and his wife Jean Clark. The majority - correspondence, research and records from professional associations - relate to Doug Clark's work on arachnids at the British Museum (Natural History) from the mid-1950s until his death in 1971. There are records from after this date as his wife, Jean, continued correspondence, collecting articles and published Doug's work posthumously. There are more general employment records from the Army and Civil Service as well as photographs (of people and spiders) and personal papers, mainly correspondence and newspaper cuttings.

Jean Clark was also employed by the British Museum (Natural History) and published articles in her own right and therefore her records - academic articles, correspondence and collected momentos - also form a small part of this collection.

Central administration papers of the Natural History Museum comprising: DF1000 Director's Office: Reports and Letters;
DF1001 Director's Office: Museum Secretary's Outgoing Letters;
DF1002 Director's Office: Numerical Register of Incoming Letters;
DF1003 Director's Office: Alphabetical Register of Incoming Letters;
DF1004 Director's Office: Case and Policy Files;
DF1005 Director's Office: Personnel Files;
DF1006 Director's Office: Salary and Wage Records;
DF1007 Director's Office: Registers of Payable Orders;
DF1008 Director's Office: Journals, Ledgers, Abstracts and other Financial Records;
DF1009 Director's Office: Establishment Officer's Files;
DF1010 Director's Office: Papers of the General Foreman;
DF1011 Director's Office: Printed Forms.

Papers of the Department of Botany comprising: DF400 Botany Departmental correspondence;
DF401 Registers of Botany departmental correspondence;
DF402 Botany finance and accounts;
DF403 Botany Reports to Trustees and other official documents;
DF404 Keeper of Botany's correspondence and papers;
DF405 Papers of the editors of the Journal of Botany;
DF406 Keeper of Botany's subject files;
DF407 Keeper of Botany's Staff Files and Official Diaries;
DF408 Botany Annual Reports of Progress;
DF409 Exhibitions in the Botany Gallery;
DF410 Biographical index by Britten, Boulger and Rendle, papers;
DF411 The Island of Mull (1978), data sheets, papers and correspondence;
DF412 Botany Departmental visitors' books;
DF413 Botany Acquisition and loan records;
DF414 Parcel Books;
DF415 Equipment Registers and Collecting Materials;
DF420 Correspondence and Papers of Antony Gepp;
DF421 Agal Section correspondence and papers;
DF422 Diatom Section correspondence and papers;
DF423 Lichen Section correspondence and papers;
DF424 Fern Section correspondence and papers;
DF425 Mycology Section correspondence and papers;
DF426 Cryptogamic Herbarium Visitors Books;
DF427 Cryptogamic Herbarium Accession Records;

DF440 General Herbarium Correspondence and Papers;
DF441 General Herbarium visitors books;
DF442 European Herbarium correspondence and papers;
DF443 European Herbarium visitors' books;
DF444 British Herbarium tract collection manuscripts;
DF445 British Herbarium, papers associated with plant collections;
DF460 Botany Library Accession Records;
DF461 Botany Librarian's correspondence.

Papers of the Director's Office comprising: DF930 The Principal Librarian's correspondence and files;
DF931 Official papers of the Superintendent;
DF932 Correspondence of the Director;
DF933 The Director's subject files;
DF934 The northern boundary;
DF935 Departmental annual reports;
DF936 Museum notices;
DF937 Press notices;
DF938 The Index Museum: correspondence and papers;
DF939 Papers and correspondence of the Secretary.

Papers of the Department of Entomology comprising: DF300 Keeper of Entomology's correspondence;
DF301 Registers of Entomology departmental correspondence;
DF302 Keeper of Entomology's out-letters;
DF303 Entomology reports to Trustees;
DF304 Sectional correspondence;
DF305 Keeper of Entomology's expedition files;
DF306 Keeper of Entomology's subject files;
DF307 Keeper of Entomology's staff files;
DF308 Entomology donation records;
DF309 Entomology departmental and sectional visitors books;
DF310 Entomology Financial Records;
DF311 Artwork for Publication;
DF312 Entomology Librarian's Correspondence;
DF313 Entomology Specimen Loan Books;
DF330 Economic Section correspondence and papers;
DF331 Diptera Section correspondence and papers;
DF332 Lepidoptera Section correspondence and papers;
DF333 Coleoptera Section correspondence and papers;
DF334 Hemiptera Section correspondence and papers;
DF335 "Neuropteroid" Orders Section correspondence and papers;
DF340 Custodian of Rothschild Collection of Siphonaptera Correspondence and Papers.

Papers of the Exhibition Section and the Education Section of the Natural History Museum, 1939-1983, comprising: DF700 Exhibition Section Project Files; DF701 Exhibition Section Internal Administration; and DF702 Education Section Files.

Papers of the General Library, Natural History Museum, 1878-1984, comprising: DF600 Head of the General Library's Correspondence;
DF601 Head of the General Library's Subject Files;
DF602 General Library Visitors Books;
DF603 Library Finance and Accounts;
DF604 General Library Official Diaries;
DF605 Library Main Agents Acquisition Files;
DF606 Library Accession Records;
DF607 Library Cataloguing Records.

Papers of the Department of Mineralogy including: DF1 Mineralogy Departmental Correspondence;
DF2 Registers of Mineralogy Departmental and Other Correspondence;
DF3 Mineralogy Departmental Correspondence, Individual Collections;
DF4 Mineralogy Reports to Trustees and Other Official Documents;
DF5 Authorisations from Trustees Meetings;
DF6 Keeper of Mineralogy's Staff Files;
DF7 Keeper of Mineralogy's Subject Files;
DF8 Correspondence and Papers of W Campbell Smith;
DF9 Mineralogy Publications Correspondence and Artwork;
DF10 Collection Notes, Reports and Correspondence;
DF11 Reports and Correspondence on Collecting Expeditions and Other Visits;
DF12 Mineral Gallery and Exhibits;
DF13 Keeper of Mineralogy's Accommodation Files;
DF14 Mineral Library, Correspondence and Papers;
DF15 Keeper of Mineralogy's Internal Correspondence;
DF16 Mineralogy Annual Reports of Progress;
DF17 Correspondence and Papers of L J Spencer;
DF18 Keeper of Mineralogy's Papers on Staff and Staffing;
DF19 Laboratory Notebooks and Registers of Apparatus;
DF20 Official Diaries, Correspondence and Papers of Scientific Staff;
DF21 Mineralogy Invoices and Accounts;
DF22 formerly Department of Mineralogy: Leave and Absence Books. Destroyed 1996;
DF23 Mineralogy Departmental Visitors Books;
DF24 Pass Books;
DF25 Parcel Books;
DF26 Requisition Books;
DF27 Laboratory Order Books;
DF28 Oceanography Section, Correspondence and Papers;
DF29 Outgoing Mineralogy Donations Books;
DF30 formerly Department of Mineralogy: Photographic Requisition Books, destroyed 1996;
DF31 Mineralogy Specimen Loan Books.

Papers of Department of Palaeontology comprising:

DF100 Palaeontology Departmental Correspondence;
DF101 Registers of Palaeontology Departmental Correspondence;
DF102 Palaeontology Departmental Finance and Accounts;
DF103 Palaeontology Reports to Trustees and other Official Documents;
DF104 Palaeontology Reports of Progress, Monthly and Annual;
DF105 Palaeontology Acquisition, Loan and Exchange Correspondence and Papers;
DF106 Staff Files and Diaries;
DF107 Keeper of Palaeontology's subject files;
DF108 Palaeontology Departmental visitors books;
DF109 Publications correspondence and artwork;
DF110 Parcel books;
DF116 Correspondence and papers on Piltdown Man;
DF117 Palaeontology loan registers;
DF120 Early members of staff, correspondence and papers;
DF121 Fossil Reptilia Section: correspondence and papers;
DF122 Fossil Mollusca Section: correspondence and papers;
DF123 Fossil Echinodermata Section: correspondence and papers;
DF124 Fossil Brachiopoda Section: correspondence and papers;
DF125 Fossil and Recent Protozoa Section: correspondence and papers;
DF140 Anthropology Sub-Department correspondence;
DF141 Anthropology Sub-Department subject files;
DF142 Anthropology Sub-Department visitors books;
DF160 Palaeontology Library accessions;
DF161 Palaeontology Librarian's correspondence.

Papers of the Natural history Museum's publication section, 1881-1994, comrising: DF500 Publications Salesbooks;
DF501 Publications Stockbooks;
DF502 Booksellers Account Books;
DF503 Photographic Section Negative Registers;

DF507 Publications Exchanges Registers;
DF508 Publications Presentation Books;
DF509 Postcards and Greetings Cards;
DF510 Catalogues of Publications;
DF511 Calendars, Almanacs and Annuals;
DF512 Diaries.

Papers of the Trustees, 1852-1989, comprising: DF900 Minutes of the Standing Committee;
DF901 Minutes of General Meetings and sub-committee meetings;
DF902 Extracts from minutes of the Standing Committee;
DF903 Background papers and memoranda of the Standing Committee;
DF904 The Chairman's agendas for Standing Committee meetings;
DF905 The Director's precis for the General Meetings;
DF906 Papers of the Principal Trustees;
DF907 Attendance books for General and Standing Committee meetings;
DF908 Books of presents;
DF909 Lists of trustees, officers and staff.

Unofficial Archives of the Natural Museum, 1848-1992, containing papers closely related to the Museum and its work, but are not strictly speaking part of its official archive. Photographs and newscuttings belong in this category, as do the papers of associate or part-time workers, benefactors and trustees. The papers of the Museum's union branch, the Sports and Social Club and the Scientific Officers Association will all be found here, as well as newscuttings relating to the Museum. Papers of former members of staff given after the individual has left the Museum are generally placed here, as they will often contain a mixture of official and private papers. There is also a series for any small donations or purchases of individual items or small collections.

The collections comprise:

DF5000 British Museum East Africa Expedition, 1924-1931: correspondence and papers

DF5001 Papers of Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne (1823-1911), mineralogist

DF5002 C W Andrews' expedition to Christmas Island, 1897-1898: correspondence, notes and photographs

DF5003 Correspondence of Richard Meinertzhagen (1878-1967), ornithologist

DF5005 Huxley Memorial Committee: minutes, correspondence and papers

DF5006 Papers of Jacqueline Palmer (1918-1961), teacher

DF5008 Correspondence and papers of Lord Macmillan (1873-1952), Trustee

DF5009 Papers of Arthur Knyvett Totton (1892-1973), zoologist

DF5010 Trustees of the Godman Exploration Fund: papers

DF5011 Union Branch papers and correspondence

DF5012 Small acquired collections

Papers of the Department of Zoology comprising: DF200 Keeper of Zoology's correspondence and files;
DF201 Keeper of Zoology's out-letters;
DF202 Department of Zoology: Keeper's miscellaneous documents;
DF203 Keeper of Zoology's wartime papers and memoranda;
DF204 Registers and indexes of Zoology departmental correspondence;
DF205 Zoology Reports to Trustees and other official documents;
DF206 Keeper of Zoology's subject files;
DF207 Zoology Departmental finance and accounts;
DF208 Keeper of Zoology's staff files and official diaries;
DF209 Zoology reports of progress, monthly and annual;
DF210 Keeper of Zoology's building and accommodation files;
DF211 Keeper of Zoology's publication files;
DF212 Keeper of Zoology's confidential files;
DF213 Keeper of Zoology's expedition files;
DF214 Keeper of Zoology's Great Barrier Reef Expedition files;
DF215 Keeper of Zoology's John Murray Expeditions files;
DF216 Zoology Acquisition, loan and exchange records;
DF217 Artwork for publication;
DF218 Zoology Accessions Registers;
DF219 Collection Catalogues;
DF220 Zoology Departmental Visitors Books;
DF230 Bird Section correspondence;
DF231 Vertebrate Section reports to Trustees and other official documents;
DF232 Mammal Section correspondence;
DF233 Fish Section correspondence;
DF234 Osteology Section subject files;
DF235 Reptile Section correspondence;
DF250 Invertebrate Section correspondence and papers;
DF251 Invertebrate Section reports to Trustees and other official documents;
DF252 Crustacea Section correspondence;
DF253 Coelenterata Section correspondence;
DF254 Mollusca Section correspondence;
DF255 Arachnida Section correspondence;
DF256 Crustacea Section research papers;
DF257 Coelenterata Section research papers;
DF258 Coelenterata Section collection records;
DF259 Parasitic Worms Section correspondence;
DF260 Sponge Section correspondence;
DF261 Bryozoa Section correspondence;
DF262 Invertebrate sections visitors books;
DF263 Sponge Section, photographs and artwork for publication;
DF264 Echinodermata and Protochordata Section correspondence;
DF265 Annelida Section Correspondence and Papers;
DF266 Echinodermata and Protochordata Section research papers;
DF270 Zoology Library accession records;
DF271 Zoology Library correspondence and memoranda;
DF272 Zoology Library catalogues and related material.

The Photograph Collection contains images of the galleries, exhibits, staff and visitors from the time of the opening of the Museum onwards.

Papers of the Ray Society, 1939-1985, comprising: RS1 Secretary's Correspondence;
RS2 Secretary's subject files;
RS3 Treasurer's files and papers and

RS4 Book Reviews and other printed ephemera.

Papers of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 1936-1999, including minute books, 1936-1990; Secretary's correspondence and files, 1936-1985; membership application forms, 1950-1985; financial records, 1936-1987; editorial records, 1986-1999 and the historical collection.

Correspondence of the Tring (natural history) Museum, 1890-1955.

Alfred Russel Wallace family papers, [1790]-2000, including personal and related family papers, correspondence, accounts of expenditure, publisher's proofs, reprints, photographs, certificates, pamphlets, press-cuttings, lecture notes and obituaries. The correspondence includes letters from Richard Spruce, and letters written by Wallace to his family from Canada, c 1886-1887, to his son William c 1889-1911, to his daughter Violet, to Herbert Walter Bates, and to the Clarion newspaper. Siblings with whom he corresponded or who mentioned in these papers include older brothers William G [George] (died c 1845), John (c 1819-1895) older sisters Eliza (died 1832) and Frances (Fanny, Mrs Thomas Sims; died 1893) and younger brother Herbert Edward. (c 1829-1851).

Records of the East Coast Steamship Company (1875-1971).

Papers of Adam and Company Limited covering the period 1825 to 1914. They relate to the sugar trade and import merchanting, including in-letters, bills of lading, charter parties, invoices, account sales and disbursements accounts; to ships' agency work, in particular that of the Clan Line; to insurance matters, consisting of policies and claims; to marine casualties, notes of protest and particular and general average statements and survey reports. There is a great deal of detailed information about the employment of immigrants and the conditions relating to their welfare. There is also a census of slaves employed on the Pipon estates in 1826 ('Greffe de l'Enregistrement des Esclaves'). Note that this collection is uncatalogued and there is no detailed list available.

The Admiralty Compass Observatory Collection comprises correspondence papers and reports, 1842-1950 transferred from the Public Record Office (The National Archives), Kew in 1983, Papers from the Scientific and Technical Review Section (S&T) 1890- 1970 acquired in 1993 and 1996 also from the Public Record Office, (The National Archives), Kew. Further to these series the collection is divided into twelve sections of material deposited from the National Archives, Kew, in 1983. These are HM Ships Compass Bearings 1842-1918, Swing Books 1904-30, Admiralty Compass Department D Series, N Series 1870-1980, R series 1826-1946, Reports 1956-62, Compass Department Examination of Instruments, Compass Observations and Experiments 1842-1933, Magnetic Elements of HM Ships 1864-1918, further correspondence and papers 1873-1914, handbooks and miscellaneous material 1842-1953, manuscripts removed from the Compass Department Library and catalogues, inventories and indexes.

See sub-fonds level descriptions for individual scope and contents.

The Admiralty records at the National Maritime Museum cover the administration of the Navy from 1688-1832 (when the Navy Board was abolished) in considerable detail. There are also a few records from 1832-1883. Together they consist of 7,497 bound volumes and a large mass of loose papers.

The majority of orders and letters are original documents, often minuted, but there are a few volumes of indexes, minute and letterbook copies of correspondence. The collection includes over 5000 Lieutenants' logs forwarded to the Navy Board in connection with the work of passing the Officers' accounts.

The Admiralty records now at the National Maritime Museum, consist of the original orders from the Admiralty to the Navy Board from 1688-1815 (ADM/A&N&RP&Q&P&OT), and the Navy Board replies from 1733-1831 (ADM/B&BP&D&DP&F&FP). Orders to the Navy Board relating to transports during the period when there was no Transport Board were bound up separately as were those relating to the special appointment of General Bentham, as Inspector General of Naval Works, during the Napoleonic War. The Navy Board letters respecting the fitting of ships from 1804-1809 were separated from the general correspondence, and bound with a chronological index at the beginning. In addition to these main series of orders from the Admiralty to the Navy Board, there are some copies of orders for the Ticket Office from 1774-1815, and some loose papers relating to the Marine Office and a few orders for the Office of Stores (ADM/J&K).

The Admiralty orders to the Victualling Commissioners from 1707-1815 (ADM/C) are included in this collection, as well as the abstract of Admiralty orders from 1694-1819 (ADM/G) and the Victualling Board's replies from 1703-1822 (ADM/H). The Admiralty orders to the commissioners for taking care of sick and wounded seamen from 1702-1806 form a complete series, supplemented by the Commissioners replies from 1742-1806 (ADM/E). Orders relating to prisoners of war were bound up separately and cover the years from 1743, some distinction being made for the different nationalities (ADM/M). Both these series of orders were continued when the Transport Boards took over the Commissioners; the former series has been preserved in this collection up to 1815 (ADM/ET), and the latter from 1796-99 (ADM/MT).

The Lieutenant's logs which total 5,205 volumes are bound according to the name of the ship, some Captain's logs being included (ADM/L). There are also bound up with some logs, accounts of expenses of paper and ticket books. The Lieutenant's log was accompanied by a certificate from his captain stating that he had complied with the printed instructions and not been absent from his ship. These journals were deposited first in the Admiralty Office and a certificate was made out, for which the chief clerk received 2s 6d.' though captains usually paid 5s 0d. The chief clerk then abstracted details of the voyage of each ship from her logs "specifying the day of her sailing - of her arrival at each port, her stay there and departure there from". The logs were then passed to the Navy Office where the clerk of the acts made out certificates "to enable the lieutenants and masters to receive their wages". It was also his duty to "arrange and keep the journals and log books of every ship that may be delivered of the proceedings from the time of such journals and log books". The logs in this collection have been preserved from the time of Pepys until 1809, when the procedure for keeping logs was altered, and contained much useful information. The logs were kept according to the nautical calendar, which counted the day as starting at mid-day, until 1805 when the civil practice was adopted.

The only records for the period after 1832, which are included in this collection, are those of the Surveyor's department for the years 1832-39. These letters, addressed to the Board of Admiralty, contain some interesting material on ship-building. There are also a number of volumes of papers relating to the preparation of naval estimates for the years 1849-1883, as far as the Victualling department was concerned.

The earliest of the ten volumes relating to foreign navies are two copies in English of the ordinance of Louis XIV for his navy, 1689. There is also a receipt book of the Treasurer General of Galleys of the French Navy, 1715 to1717; a volume of 1780 listing the French navy, giving the officers, dimensions, construction details and comments on each vessel; a treatise on seamanship, in French, c 1780, which concludes with lists of French and English ships; and the order book of Captain J M Girardias of the INFATIGABLE, 1803 to 1806, together with a bundle of loose orders received. The remaining four volumes contain cuttings, original photographs, plans, building specifications, details of armaments and equipment and copies of reports relating to foreign warships; they were very probably compiled at the Admiralty in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One deals with Italian warships, ca. 1880 to 1922; the second with French warships, c 1880 to 1906; the third with cruisers and smaller ships of the French Navy, c 1880 to 1906, the German navy, ca.1880 to 1926, and the Russian Navy, c 1885 to 1907; and the fourth volume deals with non-European unarmoured ships and includes details of the United States Navy, ca.1883 to 1922, the Brazilian Navy, 1883 to 1910, the Argentine Navy, 1880 to 1913, the Japanese Navy, 1884 to 1922, the Chinese Navy, 1883 to 1914 and the navies of many powers.

Records of Albyn Line Ltd, comprising Directors' and shareholders' minute books, 1901 to 1966, containing an unbroken series of balance sheets and profit and loss accounts; a full series of cash books and ledgers, 1901 to 1966; ships' voyage books, 1953 to 1966, containing information on costs, types of cargo, freight rates, rates of hire, fuel costs etc; voyage papers for some of the voyages of the last three ships from 1962 to 1966; insurance records, 1952 to 1966, and a random collection of chief officers' log books, 1960 to 1966. There are also the records of Allan Black and Company, the managers, relating to internal office administration, 1958 to 1966 and papers relating to the voluntary liquidation, 1966. There is no correspondence apart from two out-letterbooks.

Papers covering a short period of the career of Admiral Pelham Aldrich. There are extracts from journals, 1860 to 1867, returns from the sledge CHALLENGER and notes and journals concerning surveying 1879 to 1884. There are no papers for the CHALLENGER expedition in this collection: the main Arctic papers are with the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge.

This catagory contains examples of various types of ships' papers and documents relating to the operation of merchant ships. There are examples of Charter Parties, including one of 1322 between Walter Giffard, master of the cog OUR LADY of Lyme and Sir Hugh de Berham for a freight of wine; the remainder are twentieth-century examples. The earliest example of a Bill of Lading is for the TRIPLE CROWN of Bristol, 1689; there are others from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Among the examples of Bills of Sale of ships and shares of ships is one for the Dutch East India Company ship DEHELDWOITEMADE, sold to James Mather, a London merchant, 1782; and also one for the SPECULATOR, a French prize, formerly LE CARME, sold in 1810. Examples of documents relating to insurance include a Statement of General Average for the POLLY AND EMILY made after she had been damaged in a gale in 1895. There are also Muster Rolls and Articles of Agreement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (see also entry no.13); Bills of Health, nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Safe Conducts, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and various nineteenth-century passenger documents and papers relating to wreck and salvage, including an order issued by Sir Cyril Wyche (1632-1707) and Sir Henry Capel (d 1696), Lord Justices of Ireland, for the arrest of the pilot of the wrecked TALBOT pink, 1695.

This class consists of thirty two volumes of accounts, disbursements and memoranda relating to shipping and trade, seventeenth to twentieth centiuries. There are two seventeenth-century volumes. The first is the account book of Thomas Pye, cloth merchant in the Levant trade, 1657 to 1661; the second is an abstract of the 'Inspector-General's accounts of import and export, 1697 to 1698'. Of the twelve eighteenth-century volumes, the earliest is a volume relating to the packet contract of Edward Dummer (d 1713), and the subsequent enquiry into it, 1702 to 1713. There is also a volume containing the names and salaries of the Commissioner and officers of the Customs, 1711; the day book of the CASTLE of Bristol, 1727 to 1728, in which accounts of the slaves purchased in kind were entered together with a list of the slaves who died, with the causes; an account book showing the profit and loss of the collier GEORGE, 1737; the account book of the whaler HENRIETTA of Whitby, 1777 to 1820, and that of the privateer GEORGE of Bristol, 1779 to 1782. There are sixteen nineteenth-century volumes. They include the freight book of three ships which plied between Liverpool and Londonderry; they were the ISABELLA NAPIER, 1835 to 1840, the ROBERT NAPIER, 1847 to 1848 and the MAIDEN CITY, 1847 to 1848. There are two account books of insurance underwriters, 1836 and 1884, Baltic and Mediterranean trades; the wages account book of the GRESHAM, 1865 to 1871, together with a collection of wages forms, and the COLDSTREAM, 1872 to 1874, in the Australian trade; voyage expenses of the RYDAL HALL, 1871 to 1875, and of the barque EARL GRANVILLE, 1895 to 1903.

Papers of Roger Charles Anderson, relating in the main to the Royal Navy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but also includes papers on merchant shipping and on the French, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish and Venetian navies. One of the earliest is a volume containing documents written in the seventeenth century relating to the part played by Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612-1671) in the English Civil War; a copy of the account by Sir Walter Raleigh ([1552]-1618) of his expedition to the Orinoco, 1617, and an 'Explanation of Sea terms', a shortened version of the 'Seaman's Dictionary', c 1620, by Sir Henry Mainwaring (1587-1653). Connected with merchant shipping is a group of eight Bills of Sale of shares in merchant ships, seven of which are dated between 1637 and 1643.

There are four volumes of orders, patents and instructions relating to the administration of the Navy after the Restoration, including those issued to the Navy Board in 1662 and to the Victualling Board in 1683. Of the same period are the letterbook of the Chatham dockyard Commissioner, 1670, and an account of the construction of docks at Plymouth, 1698. The building and equipment of ships for the Navy is the subject of several volumes: one contains dimensions and costs of His Majesty's ships by William Keltridge, 1675, with later additions; another, by Edward Battine (fl 1679-1692), is entitled 'The Method of Building, Rigging, Apparelling and Furnishing His Majesty's Ships of War', 1689; a later notebook, dated 1793, contains illustrations and explanations related to shipbuilding. Detailed estimates of the 'charge' of maintaining the Navy are given in several volumes, 1672, 1689, 1701, 1800. One provides the establishment of men and guns for each ship, corrected to 1685; five contain lists of ships and vessels in the Navy, 1688, 1701, 1750, c 1797, 1846. Numerous other notes and lists on the establishment of the Navy, some made by Anderson himself, supplement these originals. Naval operations are represented by the letterbooks of Commodore Curtis Barnett (d 1746), 1744 to 1746, when he was in command of the British squadron in the East Indies. Less official records include some early journals: the 'Discourse of a voyage' made by the captain of the Fellowship of Bristol, employed on the King's service on the coast of Ireland, 1641 to 1642; extracts from journals relating to the proceedings of Prince Rupert's fleet, 1648 to 1650, 1651 to 1652, 1652; 'The daily motion and public transactions of His Majesty's fleet' under Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle, 1666; a copy of the journal of Captain (later Admiral) John Narbrough (1640-1688) on board the Prince, 1672, and St Michael, 1673, with accounts of the Battle of Solebay, 1672; an account of a voyage to the coasts of Africa, the Straits of Magellan, Brazil, Guyana and the Caribbean islands, 1695 to 1696; a copy of the journal of Sir George Rooke (1650-1709), 1700 to 1703 (printed by the Navy Records Society, ed. 0. Browning, 1897); and a copy of 'A Pirate's Journal' kept by William Davidson (d 1797), 1788 to 1789.

Volumes relating to Art and Architecture. Of the six volumes in this class four relate to Greenwich Hospital; one contains the Royal Warrant of 1696 granting site for the building, followed by plans and elevations. The other three contain copies of prints, plans and drawings of the building, grounds and locality compiled by Robert Mylne (1734-1811) while Clerk of the Works in 1793; they include a series of plans showing the state of construction in 1728, and others variously dated, 1734 to 1791. There is also an architect's notebook, 1694 to 1700, possibly belonging to Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736); and the sketchbook of Coote Carroll Nelson in HMS JAVA, 1826, in South-East Asia, which includes cartoons of life on board as well as coastlines and sketches of local craft and people.

Papers of the Asiatic Steam Navigation Company Limited comprising a continuous series of minute books from 1878 to 1968 (ASI/1): a similar series of annual accounts to 1965 (ASI/2) and a historical file on the settlement of the freight war (ASI/3).

Papers relating to Atkinson's research into the HMS BOUNTY mutineers, [1977-1980].

Papers of Francis William Austen, 1774-1865, they cover almost all Austen's active service from his entrance into the Royal Naval Academy, 1786, until the end of his commission as Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies, 1848, and include official log books, 1795 to 1814; letter books, 1801 to 1814, 1845 to 1848; order books, 1807 to 1813, 1829 to 1848, and loose papers, which are mainly general remarks and notes.

Diaries of Charles John Austen: a complete series of sixty-three diaries kept between 1 January 1815 and 31 December 1852.

Paper of Charles James Barlow, 1848-1812, including logs, 1863 to 1867, 1876 to 1880 and 1889 to 1892; a journal and a report on the Burma War; some papers concerning the opening of the Kiel Canal, 1899, and official papers for both dockyards.

Papers of Edward Bates and Sons. The major part consists of carbon copies of the daily letters written privately between 1878 and 1902 by Edward Percy Bates from Liverpool to his father Edward Bates in Hampshire and his brother Sydney in London. When he was away from Liverpool the letters were written by another brother (usually Gilbert Bates) and later by his son Edward Bertram Bates. The letters contain information on all the family's business interests, including ships' movements and cargoes, the sale of cargoes and the state of the various markets. As well as personal matters, the correspondence reflects the close-knit circle of shipowners in Liverpool during this period. Records of ships include: a disbursement book, 1902 to 1914; a movements book with details of cargo, 1908 to 1916; cargoes, 1870 to 1896; ships' expenses at different ports, 1869 to 1902. In addition there are copies of correspondence between Gilbert Bates and Edward Percy Bates while the latter was on a trip to India, 1887 to 1888; a small duplicate letterbook records the business and personal letters written by Gilbert Bates 1880 to 1881 (including a visit to India) and continued by Edward Percy Bates, 1883 to 1884, when most of the letters were written to Sydney while be was on a visit to India; copies of letters sent from Liverpool to Bombay, 1879 to 1881; a few loose letters addressed to Edward Bates during the period, 1852 to 1867; by the Bombay office, 1861 to 1865, and by masters of the ships, 1862 to 1877. There are the carbons of letters written by Colonel Denis H Bates (1886-1959), mainly to Sydney E Bates, Percy E Bates and Aubrey Brocklebank, 1919 to 1924. There is a carbon copy of a diary of a visit to India kept by H G Wilson, chief accountant of Brocklebank's, and sent to Colonel Bates; carbons of reports sent by Wilson from India to Brocklebank's, the Anchor Line and Ellerman's, 1920 to 1921; and a few papers of Sir Percy Elly Bates on shipping and transport, 1916 to 1919.

Papers of Admiral Robert Bax, Henry Bonham Bax and Captain Bonham Ward Bax.

Papers of the Baynes and Nias Families:

Papers of Henry Compton Anderson Baynes inclusing official service documents, 1866 to 1901; an article on 'Armament of Battleships', undated; a letter, 1888, concerning Whitehead torpedoes; a few letters about Baynes's fishery protection work in the North Sea in the 1890s and three night order books, 1893, 1895 and 1901.

Papers of Sir Robert Lambert comprising official service documents, details of ships on the Pacific Station 1854 to 1860, an autobiographical outline of his career, 1810 to 1857, invitations to social events, and other personal papers.

Papers of Sir Joseph Nias, comprising letters and orders received, 1815 to 1867, and service papers, and eighteen letters from Sir William Parker to Nias while he was Senior Officer at Hong Kong, 1841 to 1842.

Papers of John William Brackenbury. The bulk of the collection is a series of letters written by Brackenbury to his wife, 1870 to 1902. Other than these there are logs, 1862 to 1863, 1879; a diary, 1888; official service documents; official correspondence, 1879, 1881 to 1882, 1884, 1887 to 1892 and 1896; letters from other naval officers, 1879 to 1912, and papers relating to the Vitu operations and the VICTORIA and CAMPERDOWN disaster.