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Ref NoDF/ZOO/236/15/3/6
Alt Ref NoDF 236/15/3/6
TitlePercy Lowe correspondence file 'Very Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to Bird Protection'
DescriptionVarious correspondence with individuals and organisations relating to alleged breaches of legislation and new threats to wild birds, including:

Margaretta Lemon on behalf of RSPB re employment of Rev FCR Jourdain to catalogue birds eggs at the Museum and invitation to Birds Annual Meeting 7 March 1924- speakers to be Major Stevenson Hamilton re National Nature Reserves, HM Chief Inspector of Schools re RSPB educational work and Dr Raven, chaplain to the King

T Thwaites, Colwyn Bay regarding collection of dotterel eggs for collectors, commanding £4 each, 15 Sep 1924

Memo re New Zealand 'natives' no longer protecting petrels as no longer requiring them as a food source, c.1922

Percy Lowe to Sclater re 'orgies of [egg] collecting' and role of Brtish Ornithological Club, 1922

W Eagle Clarke to Percy Lowe regarding selection of men to Wild Birds Protection Advisory Committee

Margaretta Lemon, Percy Lowe and Edward Valpy regarding Valpy's propsed collection of rare species on the Galston Estate, 1924

Sir Montague Sharpe and Percy Lowe re list of rare British Birds collected possibly illegally by Mr Harrison, 23 Oct 1923

Margaretta Lemon and Percy Lowe discussing Hereford Museum circular inciting public to kill various rare birds including Dartford Warbler, Dec 1922

Percy Lowe, Earl of Ancaster and Viscount Esher re Vermin Clubs and destruction of birds of prey to preserve game, 1924

Newscutting from 'Daily Chronicle, 26 Mar 1924 re oil slick at Hythe, Kent

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Percy Lowe re protection of lapwing, 1921

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Percy Lowe re protection of starling, 1922

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Percy Lowe re protection of little owl, 1922

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, RSPB (Margaretta 'Etta' Lemon) and Percy Lowe re protection of Whooper Swan, 1921

RSPB (Margaretta 'Etta' Lemon) and Percy Lowe re protection of peregrine falcon, 1923

Einar Lonnberg, Riksmuseum and Norman Kinnear re golden eagle, 1927

AE Cameron, Department of Agricultural and Forest Zoology and Norman Kinnear re Dr A Milnes investigation of sheep ticks, 1943
Date1920-1943
AccessStatusOpen
Held ByNHM Archives
Extent1 file
LevelFile
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