The Balfour Library transferred all its Alfred Newton archive material (correspondence, prints, printed materials, pamphlets, photos) over to the Manuscripts Department at the UL back in 1989, mainly so it could be catalogued. I've just received a full catalogue of all the items in the collection. They've also been added to the Janus catalogue of archives held in Cambridge.
I'm really pleased that this has been done and the collections are now more accessible to us all. The archives are fully accessible over at the UL, details are given on the web page.
You can download the Alfred Newton Papers catalogue from the library web page for Alfred Newton at http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/newton.html Most of the archives have been fully catalogued but I have added to the end of the document a list of what hasn't yet been fully catalogued (lots more interesting items). Here is a brief contents list of all the catalogued items:
As you can see, the archives are of major importance to ornithology. Many thanks go to Peter Meadows, archivist, for all his hard work on this.Add.9839 ALFRED NEWTON PAPERS
1. Correspondence
2. Great auk
3. Great bustard
4. Pallas's sand grouse
5. Wild bird preservation
6. Newton's revision of Yarrell's British birds
7. Papers on Gilbert White
8. St. Croix and Iceland eggs, 1857-58
9. Records of weather and birds seen at Elveden, 1850-60
10. Newton, other papers
11. Leonard Blomefield: natural history journals, 1823-46
12. George Crotch: genera of birds
13. Sir William Jardine: correspondence and papers
14. Prideaux John Selby: correspondence
15. Knoblock's egg-book
16. John Latham: Index Ornithologicus, 2nd edition
17. Martin Lichtenstein: Ornithologie
18. Sir Edward Newton: papers
19. William Proctor: Iceland journals, 1833, 1837
20. Osbert Salvin: Guatemalan papers, 1862-74
21. John Scales: correspondence and papers
22. Revett Sheppard: naturalist's calendar, 1798-1802
23. Hugh Strickland: papers for revision of Agassiz's Bibliographia, 1848-54
24. William Swainson: letter to Allan Cunningham, 1829
25. John Wolley: correspondence and papers
26. William Yarrell: letters to him
27. William Borrer: letters to him
28. Joseph Wilmot: letters to him
29. Newton: MS ornithological index to Thomas Wright, Vocabularies
30. Newton: collection of his ornithological pamphlets and printed papers
31. Photographs of skeletons of moa, dodo and solitaire, c.1867-68
32. Portrait and other photographs and prints collected by Newton
I'm really pleased that this has been done and the collections are now more accessible to us all. The archives are fully accessible over at the UL, details are given on the web page.
