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  <dc:title>Stranded Cetaceans (whales and dolphins)</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Correspondence concerning proposed Wild Creatures and Forest Laws Bill which would abolish royal fishes prerogative and consequent affect on stranded whales system as responsibility for disposal of stranded royal fish would move to local authorities, includes table of frequency of strandings by type 1913-1966, lobbying by Viscount Boyd and Lord Cranbrook;  report and drafts on stranded cetacea holdings (F C Fraser); notes on dealing with stranded cetaceans (scheme); lists of persons entitled to Royal Fish (England, Whales, Scotland); draft of article published in  The Times 23 January 1971 on (history of) and "Scientific Value of  Fishes Royal (Fraser); copy of London Letter by Francis Cowper (American Law Journal); transcript of letter to The Times by A J E Cave; proposed letter from Solly Zuckerman to the Lord Chancellor (Lord Hailsham); legal opinion; cutting from Daily Telegaph 2 February 1971 concerning amendment to bill by Lord Cranbrook.

Correspondence concerning waiving of the rights of new warden of Cinque Ports (Queen Mother 1979); correspondence concerning `popsy' porpoise rescued by Skegness Zoo (1980); copy of documentation concerning first stranding in 1911 including review of first annual report in the 'The Fishes Trade Gazette &amp; Poultry, Game  &amp; Rabbit Trades Chronicle 10 Oct 1914'.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1970-1980</dc:date>
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