| Description | The arachnid section correspondence is arranged chronologically by year, and alphabetically within each year until 1958. After that the correspondence was arranged by year, and into a numbered sequence of thematically arranged files within each year. The exact arrangement changed over time but was roughly as follows:
1950s-1960s files:
1. Public health and local authorities
2. Keeper of zoology's general papers
3. general public enquiries - Acari
4. general public enquiries, other
5. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
6. not used
7. office administration
8. not used
9. not used
10. equipment
11. British Isles, scientific research institutes and private individuals
12. Western Europe
13. Eastern Europe and USSR
14. Africa
15. USA
16. Canada
17. Central and S America
18. Australia and New Zealand
19. automatic data processing
20. Asia
21. middle east
22. OSTI newsletters
23. learned societies
24. collectors notes
25. loans
26. annual reports
27. publications
28. accessions
29. visits and expeditions (forms)
30. MSC taxonomy
Files 2, 7, 10, 22, 26 and 29 have sometimes been removed and destroyed as they contained only ephemeral information that is available elsewhere.
1970s files:
1. General administration and notices
2. Keeper of zoology's memoranda and general papers
3. General public enquries - acari
4. General public enquiries - other
5. Ministry of agriculture, fisheries and food
6. Public health, local authorities, drs, vets, trade
7. Museums, libraries, schools, students, societies, expeditions and broadcasting
8. Central workshop requisitions
9. not used
10. Fred's loans (salticid loans)
11. British Isles, scientific research institutes and private individuals
12. Western Europe
13. Eastern Europe and USSR
14. Australasia
15. USA
16. Canada
17. Central and S America
18. Africa incl Madagascar
19. H Hoogstraal
20. Asia and middle east
21. not used
22. not used
23. Collectors notes
24. Annual reports
25. Loans
26. EM unit requisitions
27. Visits and expeditions
28. Aldabra data processing
29. Zoo record - computer
30. Imperial College taxonomic post graduate
Files 1, 2, 8, 24, and 26 have usually been removed and destroyed as they contained only ephemeral information that is available elsewhere.
1974 files 8 and 9 are missing.
The 1980s files are generally arranged by geographic location, and this has been noted on the catalogue title
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