Letters, field diary, copies of off prints of articles, and map relating to the Oxford-Cambridge natural history expedition to St Kilda., 1910, 1931-1933.
Scope and Contents
Containing:
(i) Letters (1 each), 1931, from father of John Norman Stuart Buchan and from Sir Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod, then proprietor of the islands.
(ii) Field diary while on St Kilda, July 1931.
(iii) Copies of off prints of articles produced by the expedition John Norman Stuart Buchan, T H Harrisson and David Lack, ‘The early autumn Migration at St Kilda in 1931’ from The Scottish Naturalist, January-February, 1932; and Harrisson and J A Moy-Thomas, ‘The Mice of St Kilda’, from Journal of Animal Ecology, vol.ii, no.1, (1933).
(iv) Map of the Faroe Islands, Copenhagen, 1910.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1910, 1931-1933.
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, was a member of the expedition.
Extent
1 Folders
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
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