American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus: an historic first for Essex
References
Essex Record Office at Chelmsford: Audley End House archived material [all hand-written]:
1820-1834 Monthly General Accounts [D/DBy/A230}
1835-1850 Monthly General Accounts [D/DBy/A231}
1851-1866 Monthly General Accounts [D/DBy/A232}
1867-1890 Monthly General Accounts [D/DBy/A233}
Various monthly chits for the year of 1826 [D/Dby/A84/1 -12]
Saffron Walden Museum archived material:
Christy, R.M. 1883. Catalogue of British Birds and Mammals in the Saffron Walden Museum. [Hand-
written text.]
Clarke, J. 1845. An Abridged Catalogue of Saffron Walden Museum. Youngman. Saffron Walden.
Clarke, Joseph F.S.A. 1845 approx. "Notes on Birds (MS.), chiefly made in the vicinity of Saffron Walden."
[See Section C. below in the Museum's first catalogue (Reference 24 in Christy (1890)]
Letters, number 41086 [Hand-written letters written by R.M. Christy to G.S. Gibson seeking to label and
catalogue birds in the spring of 1883.]
Maynard, G.N. 1892. The Saffron Walden Gazette. A series of newspaper articles extracted therefrom,
entitled "A RAMBLE THROUGH SAFFRON WALDEN MUSEUM". The pertinent article was
published on April 7 1892. featuring mainly herons in case 27 in the collection.
Maynard, G.N. 1897. Accession Register of articles for the Saffron Walden Museum from the year 1832 to
1880 or 1881. | Hand-written text with various drawings in places: microfilm used for research.]
Photographs of the American Bittern specimen (numbered 16072 through to 16092).
Pole, L. 1985. Stand Awhile and Admire, A History of Saffron Walden Museum. Saffron Walden History
volume 28.
Saffron Walden Natural Histon-' Society. 1832-35. The Museum's first Catalogue: A collation of four works:
(A) Scientific Order "Specimens Deposited in the Museum of the Natural History Society at Saffron
Walden, Essex, before the. opening of it on April 1835 or previous to the admission of the Public, which
were collected by the then self-elected committee.''; (B) Valuation Order "Valuation of Specimens
deposited in the Museum of the Natural History Society at Saffron Walden. Essex, before the admission
of Trustees "; (C) Labels for birds by Joseph Clarke - sec Clarke (about 1845) reference above; (D)
Original Notes for specimens donated before the Museum opened; plus a collection of itemised
taxidermy bills on the first few pages with (E) "Travers & Incidents" taxidermy label on page 4a; (F)
"Birds stuffed 1833 & 4" by Stephen Salmon on page 4j. [All Hand-written text].
Saffron Walden Natural History Society. 1834. Minutes of the Saffron Walden Natural Histoiy Society 1832
- 10 April 1834: vol. 1. [Hand-written text].
Saffron Walden Natural History Society. 1834. Minutes of the Saffron Walden Natural History Society 17
April 1834 - 20 May 1834: vol. 2. [Hand-written text].
Tuck, E.J. 1860. Diaiy of Bird Observations 1849-1860. [I land-written diary of all his travels and bird
sightings.]
Saffron Walden Library documents:
O'Leary, J.G. 1974. Worthies - Joseph Clarke. Saffron Walden History, The Occasional journal of the
Saffron Walden Antiquarian Society. VOLUME TWO NUMBER FOUR JUNE 1974.
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