Correspondence, notes and data regarding rooks, bulk: Bulk, 1939-1959, 1928, c. 1939-1959
File
MS. 15584/1
Held in our offsite storage facility
Comprises:
- Correspondence addressed to BBC Children's Hour's Nature Parliament regarding rooks and walnuts. 1948-1949
- Notes, data and maps regarding rook traps and feeding habits, including responses to rook investigation questionnaires. c. 1939-1947
- Correspondence, notes and maps regarding the nesting of rooks in the Netherlands, and a negative mirror-image copy of article Données fournies par le baguage sur la biologie du freux en France et sur la migration de l'espèce en Europe occidentale by J. Giban. 1944-1947
- Correspondence, mostly with James Fisher, and articles regarding government policy on the destruction of rooks. 1943-1959
- Articles, correspondence and histograms regarding rook feeding habits. Also letters regarding master rookeries, article Caws and Effects: The Reflections of a Rook by Sir [Richard] Paget, letter regarding rook nesting and bibliographical notes. 1928, 1942-1959
Dates
- Creation: Creation: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1939-1959
- Creation: Creation: 1928, c. 1939-1959
Extent
1 box (5 folders)
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. 15584/1
Repository Details
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