Contents of the two-door metal Archive Cupboard housed at Doncaster Museum, Chequer Road, Doncaster.
Catalogue compiled by CAH 5 May; 16 May 2023.
TOP SHELF:
Microscope: Smith, Beck & Beck, London.
[The Wellcome Collection (via the Science Museum, London) has a compound acromatic microscope of 1857 by Smith and Beck which looks very similar. [Described as “Educational type microscope, suitable for routine work”] It comes with an accompanying booklet.
Internt ref. https://asiuk.net/mkrbec/Beckmicroscopes.htm gives the following information: –
MICROSCOPES FROM THE SMITH & BECK DYNASTY.
When the newly founded Microscopical Society placed their first orders for microscopes in 1841, they went to the three leading makes: James Smith, Andrew Ross and Hugh Powell. James Smith was given the order, ahead of both Ross and Powell. Richard Beck, a nephew of J.J. Lister was sent to Smith as an apprentice and in 1847 he was taken into partnership so that the firm became known as Smith & Beck. In 1851 Richard’s brother Joseph joined the firm. Joseph Beck had already served an apprenticeship with the famed Troughton and Simms and in 1857 Joseph was also made a partner and the firm’s name changed to Smith, Beck & Beck. James Smith retired in 1864 and the firm’s name changed to R. & J. Beck in 1865. James Smith died in 1870. R & J Beck became a limited company in 1894 and was eventually taken over by Griffin & George Ltd. in 1960.
“Popular Microscope” as listed by Richard Beck in The Achromatic Microscope 1865. This all brass microscope comes with its accessories in it’s fitted “clamshell” type case. The name is cast into the triangular folding stand and the number 5221 is engraved on the base of the microscope dating it to 1868. There is a circular rotating stage with slide bar, rack & pinion main focus and thumbwheel fine focus, and a single-sided mirror below the stage. The microscope comes with a range of accessories in two drawers, including a wheel of stops sub-stage condenser, a live box, a high power eyepiece, 2 objectives and some antique microscope slides and slide preparation parts. All this comes in the original case with brass handle, catches and lock but no key. This microscope makes an impressive display as well as being a good working instrument.
MINUTE BOOKS
- BOX 1 (re-used Duplicating Paper box)
Minute Book 11cm x 18cm
Wednesday 17 March 1880 to 7 April 1886 (Ordinary meetings, Committee meetings & press cuttings of meetings).
Minute Book 17cm x 21cm
1886 to Wednesday 6 June 18 1894 (Ordinary meetings, Committee meetings & press cuttings of meetings).
Doncaster Museum Committee Minute Book
1900 to 1901
Chair: The Mayor Ald. R.C. Bentley; Coun. Theobald; Coun. Windle.
Vice Chair: Coun. Edgar, Bentley; Coun. Gyles, Young Street; Coun. Armitage, St Sepulchre Gate; Ald. Wainwright, Hall Gate.
Hon. Sec: Dr H.H. Corbett, 9 Priory Place
Hon. Treasurer: M.H. Stiles, Frenchgate.
Committee Member: H. Culpin, 36 Netherhall; Dr. J.M. Wilson, Hallgate; T. Cutriss, High Street; Alma Jordan, Clifton Terrace, Cemetery Road.
List of Gifts to Doncaster Museum 18cm x 23cm
18 April 1910 to September 1912
- BOX 2 (re-used Duplicating Paper box)
Minute Book 20cm x 24cm
October 1894 to 30 April 1901 (Ordinary meetings, Committee meetings & press cuttings of meetings).
Minute Book 20cm x 26cm
May 1901 to 5 March 1906 (Ordinary meetings, Committee meetings & press cuttings of meetings).
- BOX 3 (re-used Duplicating Paper box)
Minute Book 19cm x 25cm
25 April 1906 to 30 April 1913 (Ordinary meetings, AGMs, Committee Meetings & Annual Reports)
- BOX 4 (re-used Duplicating Paper box)
Minute Book 19cm x 25cm
1913 to 28 February 1922 (Ordinary meetings, AGMs, Committee Meetings & Annual Reports).
- Un-boxed Minute & Report books
Minute Book (Hard Back)
8 May 1922 to 19 March 1930 (Ordinary meetings, Committee Meetings, AGMs & Annual Reports).
Minute Book (Loose leaves in expandable file)
8 October 1930 to 10 May 1950 (Ordinary meetings, Committee Meetings, AGMs & Annual Reports).
Minute Book (Hard Back)
4 October 1950 to 15 March 1967 (Ordinary meetings, Committee Meetings, AGMs & Annual Reports).
Minute Book (Hard Back)
4 October 1967 to 11 April 1973 (Ordinary meetings, Committee Meetings, AGMs & Annual Reports).
Minute Book (? Not yet located ?)
1973 to 1980
Minute Book (Hard Back, bound by David Gagg)
1 October 1980 to 13 December 1995 (Ordinary meetings, Committee Meetings, AGMs & Annual Reports).
Doncaster Scientific Society Members names, addresses & Account book 1941 to 1958
FIELD MEETING REPORTS
Summer Excursions 1929 Leaders Accounts and records. (In a National Simplex Transfer Binder).
Summary of Summer Excursions 1929 (In a National Simplex Transfer Binder).
Record Book Extracts from Reports Session 1929-1930. Archaeology; Botany; Geology; Zoology; Entomology; Mollusca; Ornithology. (In a National Simplex Transfer Binder).
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Lever-Arch file DNS Excursion Reports 1991-1999 (see Appendix 1 for details)
Blue (transparent) plastic Ring Binder DNS Excursion reports from 2000 to 2010 etc (see Appendix 2 for details)
Blue Ring Binder File DNS Excursion reports from 2009 to 2012 etc. (see Appendix 3 for details)
- [On loan to Bob Marsh to enable him to add any outstanding local records to the DMBC RECORDER Biodiversity Database 24 May 2023].
Bound Books/Reports
(Doncaster Naturalists’ Society Publications)
Bramley, D.M. (ed.) (1990) A Survey of Castle Hills, Scawthorpe. (Hard back bound by David Gagg. Ex Libris Dorothy Bramley).
Bramley, D.M. (ed.) (1992) A Survey of Wadworth Wood (2 Hard back copies bound by David Gagg).
Bramley, D.M. (ed.) (1992) A Survey of Wadworth Wood (1 Soft back copy).
Bramley, D.M. (ed.) (1995) A Survey of Austerfield Quarry (2 Hard back copies bound by David Gagg. 1 Ex Libris Dorothy Bramley).
Bramley, D.M. (ed.) (1995) A Survey of Austerfield Quarry (1 Soft back copy).
Crane, Gwyneth (ed. Pip Secombe) (1996) A Report on the Natural History of Manor Farm, Sykehouse. (Spiral bound).
Robinson, Deena (2003) (ed. Pip Seccombe) A Year at Manor Farm, Sykehouse. (Wire spiral bound) ISBN 0951 225 2 27.
Secombe, P.A. & Seccombe, T.J. (eds.) (1999) Doncaster’s Living Churchyards. Doncaster Naturalists’ Society.
(Hard back bound by David Gagg. Ex Libris David Gagg).
Secombe, P.A. & Seccombe, T.J. (eds.) (1999) Doncaster’s Living Churchyards. Doncaster Naturalists’ Society.
(Spiral bound copy).
Supplement on Mosses and Liverworts by Colin Wall (2006) (Spiral bound copy).
The Botany of Scabba Wood, Sprotbrough: A species list produced for the owner Mr G. Morris
by the Doncaster Naturalists’ Society. June 1997.
Stainforth East Ings SE669133: A preliminary investigation in respect of the botanical interest.
(ed.) Pip Seccombe & H.R. Kirk. September 1997 (3 paper copies).
Bunting V Fisons June 1983. Collection of Cartoons and Press Cuttings relating to the court case between Fisons Lts,
(the horticultural giant) and William Bunting (Naturalist and public rights of way champion of Torne) regarding the
registration of Thorne Moors as Common Land in order to prevent Fisons extracting 800,000 tons of peat from
Thorne Moors. (Document hard back bound and cartoons drawn in situ by David Gagg).
Note: This was one of the only occasions in legal history the Court of Chancery had ‘sat’ outside London and the
only time it had ever ‘sat’ in Doncaster.
Carroll, D. (1982) Melton Wood. DDOS. (Hard back bound by David Gagg. Ex Libris David Gagg).
Holland, D. (1976) Bawtry and the Idle River Trade. Museum and Arts Service Publication No. 31.
(Hard back bound by David Gagg)
Phillips, H. (ed.) (1973) Edlington Wood. Doncaster RDC. (Hard Back bound by David Gagg. Ex Libris David Gagg).
Rhodes,R.J. (1988) Birds in the Doncaster District. DDOS.
(Hard back bound and donated by David Gagg 20.12/2005).
Sandall Beat Management Group (1980) Sandall Beat Management Plan. DMBC (Hard back bound by David Gagg.
Ex Libris David Gagg).
Skidmore, P. (1983) The Ecology of Sandall Beat Nature Reserve. Directorate of Educational Services. Doncaster MBC.
(Hard back bound by David Gagg. Ex Libris David Gagg).
SECOND SHELF: (22 May 2023)
Unopened packet of SECOL Archival grade clear plastic sleeves to be used in housing sensitive DNS archives.
Box containing unopened ring binder presumably to hold the SECOLE sleves.
Journals: Copies of the British Plant Gall Society journal CECIDOLOGY
Vol. 2 No.1 1987
Vol. 4 No.1 1989
Vol. 4 No.2 1987
Vol. 6 No.1 1991
Vol. 6 No.2 1991
Vol. 7 No.1 1992
Vol. 8 No.1 1993
Vol. 8 No.2 1993
Off-prints of:
Sledge, W.A. (—) The distribution and ecology of Scheuchzeria palustris. Watsonia 1 (1): 24-35. [Rannoch Rush now extinct on Thorne Moors]
Sledge, W.A. (1941) Thorne Waste Plants. +: 266-268.
Sheffield Naturalists’ Club 25th Annual Report 1895. (Single copy)
Doncaster Microscopical & General Scientific Society Programmes
Winter Programme 1884-85
Annual Report 1884-85 (inc. financial statement of the Gilchrist Lectures)
Promotional Leaflet for the ‘Conversazione’ held in the Corn Exchange 2 October (no year given)
Doncaster Scientific Society
Programme of Annual ‘Conversazione’ held in the Mansion House 6 April 1905
Promotional Leaflet for the ‘Conversazione’
Doncaster Scientific Society Programmes (on card)
Winter Programme 1906-07
Summer Programme 1907
Winter Programme 1907-08
Summer Programme 1908
Summer Programme 1909
Winter Programme 1909-10
Summer Programme 1910
Winter Programme 1910-11
Summer Programme 1911
Winter programme 1911-12
Summer Programme 1912
Winter Programme 1912-13
Summer Programme 1913 (2 copies)
Winter Programme 1913-14 (2 copies)
Summer Programme 1914
Winter Programme 1918-19
Winter Programme 1919-20
Winter Programme 1920-21
Syllabus for October 1939
Summer Programme 1940
Summer Programme 1943 [including Seckar Wood with YNU 3 July 1943]
Winter Programme 1943-44
Summer Programme 1944
Winter Programme 1944-45
Winter Programme 1945-46 [including ‘Impressions of and Irish Holiday’ Mrs E.M. Morehouse 3 Oct 1945
– may relate to photo in archives]
Winter Programme 1946-47
Winter Programme 1964-65 (on paper)
Winter Programme 1965-66 (2 copies)
Winter Programme 1966-67 (2 copies)
Winter Programme 1967-68
Winter Programme 1968-69 (2 copies)
Winter Programme 1970-71 (2 copies)
Winter Programme 1973-74 (P. Skidmore President)
Winter Programme 1974-75 (3 copies)
Winter Programme 1975-76 (2 copies)
Winter Programme 1976-77 (2 copies)
Winter Programme 1977-78 (C.A.Howes President)
Doncaster Naturalists’ Society Programmes (on A4 paper folded in three, all artwork by David Gagg)
Winter Programme 1982-83
Winter Programme 1983-84
Spring & Summer Programme 1984
Summer Programme 1985
Winter Programme 1985-86
Spring & Summer Programme 1986
Winter Programme 1986-87
Spring & Summer Programme 1987
Spring & Summer Programme 1989
Summer Programme 1996
Winter Programme 1999-2000 (2 copies)
Summer Programme 2001
Doncaster Naturalists’ Society Newsletter
No.1 (2000): 1-2.
Posters & Display materials
- A4 poster advertising photographic exhibition by Heather Angel ‘Natural Visions’ Doncaster Museum 22 May – 18 July 2004.
- Promotional leaflet advertising publication of ‘Wild Flowers of the Peak District’ by Patrick Harding & Valerie Oxley (2000)
- Promotional poster (A1 size) for DNS Summer events including bat survey at Fishlake Church + Bar BQ.
- Poster featuring Stoats (based on poem) on A2 sheet artwork by David Gagg (3 A4 sheets with colour photocopies of stoat images).
- 2 copies of Hon. Membership Certificate for C.A.Howes Nov. 2002 on A2 velum/paper. Artwork by David Gagg.
DNS Centenary Exhibition 1980
- Two Promotional poster for DNS Centenary Exhibition March 5-9 1980 (Artwork by David Gagg).
- Card-mounted photographs by early society members for Centenary Exhibition Photo of Miss K. Morehouse with Mr & Mrs A.W. Stelfox (the famous Irish Naturalists) and one other on sand dune? in Ireland possibly 1940s.
- Photo of 2 Mute Swans ? at Cusworth Park by G. Wilkinson.
- Photo of Song Thrush brooding chicks, Doncaster 1920s by G. Wilkinson.
Draft of a Memorial (proposal) to be presented by the Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society to the Mayor of Doncaster October 1887 proposing that meeting rooms and a Lecture theatre be included in the design of the new Free Library & Art School.
Botanical Sketch books containing David Gagg’s artwork ca.1980s
- Red Hard bound sketch book (1975 – 2001)
- Blue Hard bound sketch book (1986)of David Gagg’s artwork.
- Portrait sketch of John Hartley (Ornithologist) made by David Gagg while John was giving a talk to the DNS 7 July 1998.
2 Colour photographs
- 1 showing Dorothy Bramley in the Cambridge Botanic Gardens.
- 1 showing 4 Doncaster Nats on a garden seat in the sunshine during the outing to Cambridge Botanic Gardens (Mrs — from Zetland Road; Maurice Hanson & Mrs Hanson; Doris Duddington).
Hard Backed Volumes (Bound by David Gagg):
- An Outline Study of the Hatfield Chase Pt. 3. Notes on a Decree made in the Exchequer, 4 July 1609 confirming Customs and Copy hold Lands and Tenements and some subsequent evidence from 1609 to today; Falsifications and Suppressions of Official reports; Deliberate Acts of Mal-administration; Wilful delays created to the benefit of the Wealthy, Powerful and Influential to the Detriment of the Environment, its Fauna and Flora and the public’s Right of Enjoyment of their Natural Inheritance. The periods ca. 1633 to ca. 1825; to 1952 to the present along with associated matters being dealt with as Pts. 4, 5, 6, & 7. Wm Bunting, Thorne, Doncaster DN8 5DC 18 May 1983. (2 copies inc. 1 donated by David Gagg to the DNS.
Some Aspects of the Hatfield Chase History not found in history books. Wm Inc. photocopies of press cuttings relating to the Outline Study Pt 3 & Fison V Bunting 1983.
THIRD SHELF:
Books:
Garney, W. (ed.) (1881) Wild Flowers of Repton: Contributions to the Flora and Fauna of Repton neighbourhood.
Repton School. (Inscribed Doncaster Scientific Society. Presented by Mrs Gledhill –/11/13).
Cooke, M.C. (1890) Introduction to Freshwater Algae. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
International Scientific Series Vil. LXIX. Stamped Doncaster Microscopical & General Scientific Society.
Gissing, T.W. (1867) Materials for a Flora of Wakefield and its Neighbourhood. J. Van Voorst. London. (soft back).
Griffith, J.W. and Henfrey, A. The Micrographic Dictionary: A guide to the Examination and investigation of the
structure and nature of microscopic objects. Vol.II. J. Van Voorst. London. (Hard covers separated from spine).
Griffith, J.W. and Henfrey, A. The Micrographic Dictionary: A guide to the Examination and investigation of the
structure and nature of micrographic objects. Vol.III. PLATES. J. Van Voorst. London. (Franked on spine D.M.&.G.S.S.).
Lees, F.A. (1888) The Flora of West Yorkshire. Lovell Reeve & Co. 2nd Volume of the Botanical Series of the
Transactions of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. (Stamped inside with Doncaster Microscopical & Scientific Society.
Rebound in half leather by David Gagg).
Poritt, G.T. (ed.) (1907) Insect Fauna of Yokshire. An interleaved and annotated hard backed copy of the Insect section of the
Victoria History of the County of Yorkshire Vol. 1. (Franked in gold letters on the cover DGSS).
Robinson, J.F. (1902) The Flora of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Brown & Sons Ltd. London. (Inscribed The Doncaster Scientific
Society Oct. 1902).
Journals
The Doncaster Naturalist Vol.1 (Hard bound copy containing Nos. 1 (1982); 2 (1983); 3 (1983; 4 (1984); 5 (1984);
6 (1985); 7 (1986); 8 (1987); 9 (1988); 10 (1989). (Bound by David Gagg).
(single copies)
The Doncaster Naturalist Vol.2 No. 1 (2010).
The Doncaster Naturalist Vol.2 No. 2 (2011).
The Doncaster Naturalist Vol.2 No. 3 (2013).
The Doncaster Naturalist Vol.2 No. 4 (2014).
The Doncaster Naturalist Vol.2 No. 5 (2016).
The Doncaster Naturalist Vol.2 No. 1 (2010).
Yorkshire Butterflies and Moths 2005 (YNU/Butterfly Conservation/BC Yorkshire).
Yorkshire Butterflies and Moths 2006 (YNU/Butterfly Conservation/BC Yorkshire).
Yorkshire Butterflies and Moths 2007 (YNU/Butterfly Conservation/BC Yorkshire).
Yorkshire Butterflies and Moths 2008 (YNU/Butterfly Conservation/BC Yorkshire).
Yorkshire Butterflies and Moths 2009 (YNU/Butterfly Conservation/BC Yorkshire).
Yorkshire Butterflies and Moths 2010 (YNU/Butterfly Conservation/BC Yorkshire).
Yorkshire Butterflies and Moths 2011 (YNU/Butterfly Conservation/BC Yorkshire).
Yorkshire Butterflies and Moths 2012 (YNU/Butterfly Conservation/BC Yorkshire).
Yorkshire Butterflies and Moths 2013 (YNU/Butterfly Conservation/BC Yorkshire).
Yorkshire Butterflies and Moths 2014 (YNU/Butterfly Conservation/BC Yorkshire).
Yorkshire Butterflies and Moths 2015 (YNU/Butterfly Conservation/BC Yorkshire).
APPENDIX 1 to 3 (DNS Excursion Reports)
- Lever-Arch file DNS Excursion Reports 1991-1999
- Blue (transparent) plastic Ring Binder File DNS Excursion reports from 2000 to 2010 etc.
- Blue Ring Binder File (containing DNS Excursion reports from 2009 to 2012 etc)
to be continued ………………………. [Housed at Doncaster Museum, Chequer Road, Doncaster]
Catalogue compiled by CAH 5 May; 16 May 2023