| Ref No | DF/ADM/1004/749/1 |
| Alt Ref No | DF1004/749/1 |
| Title | Whales |
| Description | Includes Natal Fisheries Department Coast Fisheries report 1908; cutting from The Times 9 Nov 1909 'A new Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition' [Faroes - Sir John Murray]; reports by Mr J Innes Wilson concerning sealing season in South Georgia, Falkland Islands (1910); correspondence between the Museum and the Secretary of State (Lewis Harcourt) concerning protecting whales and sea elephants (1910-1911) and subsequent report to Trustees by Dr Harmer; lobbying against whaling in South African (H W Payne); list of whales and seals requiring protection (Walter Rothschild) (1911); disposal of whale offal in the Falklands and South Georgia (W L Allardyce) (1911); Correspondence from Otto Nordenskjold and J G Andersson, Einar Lonnberg concerning Swedish Antartic Expedition to Graham Land and South Georgia during 1901-4 and asking for a commercial license to capture whales and also that a scientific station to be established as a Swedish British collaboration (1912); proposed international conference on whales, memoranda on whaling licences in the South Georgia and the Falkland Islands (Colonial Office to Foreign Office 1912); draft report by Dr Harmer to Trustees on protection of whales (1912); cutting from Daily Mail 19 Feb 1913 'Shooting Whales'. |
| Date | 1909-1913 |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Held By | NHM Archives |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Level | Item |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| PX408 | Murray; Sir; John (1841-1914); Knight; Oceanographer | 1841-1914 |
| PX7932 | Harcourt; Lewis Vernon (1863-1922); 1st Viscount Harcourt | 1863-1922 |
| PX8413 | Wilson; James Innes (1882-20th Century); Magistrate | 1882-20th Century |
| PX515 | Harmer; Sir; Sidney Frederic (1862-1950); Knight; Zoologist, Director of the British Museum (Natural History) | 1862-1950 |
| PX53 | Rothschild; Lionel Walter (1868-1937); 2nd Baron Rothschild of Tring; Ornithologist and Collector | 1868-1937 |
| PX8414 | Allardyce; Sir; William Lamond (1861-1930); Govenor of the Falkland Islands | 1861-1930 |
| PX8415 | Nordenskjold; Nils Otto Gustaf (1869-1928); Professor; Geologist | 1869-1928 |
| PX8416 | Andersson; Johan Gunnar (1874-1960) | 1874-1960 |
| PX5146 | Lonnberg; Axel Johann Einar (1865-1942); Zoologist | 1865-1942 |