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1 - Children's Centre diary
2 - Children's Centre diary
3 - Children's Centre diary
4 - Children's Centre diary
5 - Children's Centre diary
6 - Children's Centre diary
7 - Children's Centre diary
8 - Argus Club: correspondence, lists of members, details of meetings, news, and examples of children's work
9 - Argus Club: results of a visit to an aquarium, London Zoo
10 - Argus Club: examples of children's work and accounts of lessons, trips and club organization
11 - Children's Centre papers
12 - Children's Centre and Junior Naturalists Club Album
13 - Children's Centre visitors book: adults
14 - Children's Centre visitors book - children
15 - Junior Naturalists' Club: exhibition visitors book
16 - Junior Naturalists' Club and Children's Centre visitor book
17 - J Palmer's notebook on London's water supply and letter
18 - Worksheets: ponding, and instructions for students helping in the Children's Centre, a modified scheme for a field centre
19 - Worksheets: prehistoric life and plumage
20 - Worksheets: plant surveys and how to make a herbarium
21 - Worksheets: museum worksheets
22 - Worksheets: birds
23 - Junior Naturalists' Club: diary entries, correspondence, articles, educational journals and worksheets
24 - Bourne Mill Projects and Field Observer's Club
25 - Correspondence 1951 and 1958, Junior Naturalists' Camp 1956, with statistical breakdown of types of schools and children visiting the Centre
26 - Bourne Mill: nature diary
27 - 'Watching Birds for Beginners, 1954'. By Francis Shearer
28 - 'List of children who came to the Children's Centre before the card index was begun'
29 - J Palmer whale notes
30 - Records of starling survey
32 - Field Observer's Club: reports for 1955 and 1954 (Alderney, Channel Islands), a history of the club, its activities, organization, analysis of children and their relationships, draft of report.
33 - Newspaper cuttings and bulletins relating to the work of the Children's Centre and the Museum in general, some with drafts or related correspondence
34 - Correspondence: miscellaneous
35 - Reports, notes and plans about the clubs, projects and the Centre
36 - Correspondence, notes report and articles on the Children's Centre and the clubs,
37 - Field Observer's Club: reports, newsletters, log books, project booklets, minutes, bulletins.
38 - Field Observer's Club: camp logbook 1954
39 - Field Observer's Club: camp diary/logbook 1956
40 - Junior Naturalists' Club: visit to the Congress of the Nederlandse Jeugdbond voor Natuurstudie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
41 - Junior Naturalists' Club: minutes of committee meetings
42 - Junior Naturalists' Club: minutes of general meetings
43 - Field Observer's Club and Junior Naturalists' Club: organizational and constitutional matters
44 - Field Observer's Club: meetings and expeditions
46 - Field Observer's Club: diary of the expedition to Terschelling, Netherlands
47 - Register for children's activities in museum
48 - 'Register of Museum Activities for Children 1959'
49 - Alderney camps, Channel Islands
50 - Junior Naturalists' Club, Field Observer's Club and Argus Club: programmes of activities, record sheets and examples of work
51 - Junior Naturalists' Club and Field Observer's Club: a selection of newsletters and magazines with a copy of 'Special Facilities for Children' 1951
52 - Notes, reports, booklets published by members , minutes - all concerning a range of activities at the Centre
53 - Junior Naturalists' Club and Field Observer's Club: constitution, details of expeditions, bird survey sheets, club histories, a directory of quarries and correspondence
54 - Country Club (Junior Naturalists' Club): newsletters, reports, drafts, correspondence, work relating to this club and the Children's Centre, exhibitions mounted
55 - Country Club (Junior Naturalists' Club): entry forms
56 - Country Club (Junior Naturalists' Club): individual records containing entry forms, examples of work and correspondence
57 - Suggestions for teaching: correspondence, reports, accounts, suggestions, analysis, work, programmes and sheets
58 - Instructions on how to conduct field studies and collections: sheets and suggestions
59 - Worksheets on birds, snails, stones and flowers
60 - Junior Naturalists' Club: personal questionnaires and a table
61 - Personal files, some correspondence, work and assessments
63 - Pressed plants found on bombed sites in Islington in 1951 by the girls of Rotherfield Primary School
64 - Pressed plants, sixteen white flowers
65 - Correspondence: guided tours
66 - Correspondence, including The Nature Scheme 1956
67 - Correspondence: labelled 'Letters Answered'
69 - Correspondence: 'Letters from children on various subjects'
70 - Correspondence: letters in an unlabelled folder
71 - Correspondence: letters, a report and newsletter (Piedmont Centre), plans and worksheets, folder labelled 'To be answered'
73 - Correspondence: letters to London County Council and others, some sheets, tax/pay slips, teaching plans and assessments
74 - Correspondence
75 - Correspondence
76 - Correspondence: A-B
77 - Correspondence: C-D
78 - Correspondence: F-H
79 - Correspondence: J-L
80 - Correspondence M-W
81 - Correspondence
82 - Correspondence: letters to and from schools
83 - Correspondence: a statement about the Junior Naturalists' Club and Country Club
84 - Correspondence: letters, including those relating to sick leave
85 - Correspondence
86 - Photographs: Alderney, Channel Islands
87 - Photographs: Bourne Mill
88 - Photographs: Museum
89 - Photographs: Museum
90 - Photographs: children undertaking various Club activities at the Museum
91 - Photographs: North Kent Marshes Camp
92 - Photographs: clubs and expeditions
93 - Photographs: children's work
94 - Photographs: schools
95 - Photographs: 35mm negatives of Alderney (Channel Islands) and Heathside
96 - Junior Naturalists' Club: records of expeditions, including photographs
97 - Scrapbook of children's reports and photographs of Children's Centre field trips
98 - Report on the Junior Naturalists' Club camp, Alderney, by Linda Greenaway
99 - Children's Centre leaflet
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