Record

Ref NoDF/ZOO/236/15/5/7
Alt Ref NoDF 236/15/5/7
TitleCorrespondence regarding Plumage Bill, including memo from British Museum (Natural History) Trustees to staff, warning them not to 'take part in controversies of the general press'
DescriptionIncluding:
Committee on the Protection of Wild Birds Minutes of Evidence taken before the Departmental Committee on the Protection of Wild Birds, 1919
Letter to WP Pycraft from Walter Collinge of The Yorkshire Museum claiming 'nothing man or birds can do has the slightest effect on the wealth of life in the sea', 20 Nov 1925
Comments on the advisability of adding cormorants on the schedule to the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act, 1921 made in 1925
Textile Trades Section Memorandum, 12 Apr 1920 and analysis of same by WP Pycraft
'The Consequences of Exterminating the Birds of Small Island', probably by WP Pycraft
Note claiming existence of egret farms in Sind (now Pakistan), Claude Ticehurst, 1920
Date1919-1925
AccessStatusOpen
Held ByNHM Archives
Extent1 file
LevelFile
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