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'The First World Conservation Lecture', presented at the Royal Institution, London, 12 Mar 1981: Correspondence, 1981

'The First World Conservation Lecture', presented at the Royal Institution, London, 12 Mar 1981. The Lecture, organised by the World Wildlife Fund, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Fund and the first anniversary of the World Conservation Strategy. It was published in The Environmentalist, 1, 1981, and by the WWF. Correspondence prior to the Lecture and guest list; manuscript notes and an incomplete early typescript draft.
Shelfmark: MS. 15041/1311
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates: 1981
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'Whose Environment', opening speech at an Athenaeum Club Talk Dinner, London, 2 Nov 1981, 1981

Brief correspondence etc regarding arrangements and arising; notes, mostly manuscript; typescript draft with manuscript revisions; revised typescript marked 'delivery copy' with further manuscript revisions.
Shelfmark: MS. 15041/1313
Extents: 31 Leaves
Dates: 1981
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Talk given to London Senior Wives Fellowship, 17 Feb 1982, 1982

The suggested topic was the [?William Curtis] Ecological Park or some other aspect of conservation. Brief correspondence regarding arrangements.
Shelfmark: MS. 15041/1314
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 1982
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Speech given at the British Trust for Ornithology's Jubilee Reception (commemorating the launch of the BTO 50 years earlier), 7 May 1983, 1983

Pages taken from BTO News, No.127, July 1983, containing the printed speech and a report on the award of the BTO's first Jubilee Medal to Nicholson (5 May 1983).
Shelfmark: MS. 15041/1318
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 1983
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'Prospects for the Environment: Recovery, Decline or Doomsday', lecture delivered at Aberdeen University, 19 Oct 1983: Correspondence, 1983-1984

During his stay in the Aberdeen area Nicholson also visited research stations, nature reserves etc and met Nature Conservancy Council officials. Correspondence regarding arrangements with programme of visit.
Shelfmark: MS. 15041/1319
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: 1983-1984
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'Prospects for the Environment: Recovery, Decline or Doomsday', lecture delivered at Aberdeen University, 19 Oct 1983: notes and drafts, 1983

Brief manuscript and typescript notes; 2 typescript drafts of the lecture (one incomplete) with manuscript revisions; typescript headed 'Publication copy' with further manuscript revisions.
Shelfmark: MS. 15041/1320
Extents: 44 Leaves
Dates: 1983
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'How Not to Live on Earth', 'a lecture in the series '60 Years On' ', delivered at Dartington Hall School, Devon, 2 Oct 1985, 1985

Typescript headed 'Final fair copy...definitive text'.
Shelfmark: MS. 15041/1323
Extents: 13 Leaves
Dates: 1985
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'How Ornithology Has Moved on', Bernard Tucker Memorial Lecture, Ashmolean Natural History Society, Oxford, 25 Nov 1986, 1986

Brief correspondence regarding arrangements and arising; 14pp typescript headed 'Delivery script' with manuscript revisions.
Shelfmark: MS. 15041/1324
Extents: 17 Leaves
Dates: 1986
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'Social dynamics - a modern framework 16.v.87', 1987

Typescript of script for a lecture or talk.
Shelfmark: MS. 15041/1325
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: 1987
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'The Bird Population of Britain in 2010', talk to the 1937 Bird Club, 20 Jan 1988: notes and drafts, 1932-1988

Typescript notes; 2 typescript drafts with manuscript revisions; 2 further typescript versions, one (6pp) headed 'Delivery marked copy'.
Shelfmark: MS. 15041/1327
Extents: 26 Leaves
Dates: 1932-1988
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'The Bird Population of Britain in 2010', talk to the 1937 Bird Club, 20 Jan 1988: Background material, 1932-1952

Background material, chiefly printed articles from the 1930s by Nicholson and others. Included are photocopies of Nicholson's notes for his 1932 Daily Mail article, 'Britain's Eighty Million Birds', with brief correspondence regarding publication and cutting of the printed article.
Shelfmark: MS. 15041/1328
Extents: 57 Leaves
Dates: 1932-1952