Archives Collection: Institutional Papers

Contents of the Archives Catalogue

The Marine Biological Association

MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 
Documents relating to the foundation of the Marine Biological Association.
1883-1884     Letters, pamphlets, circulars and reports     [MB1] 
Summary: Includes "A proposal for the foundation of an observatory..."; material relating to the foundation meeting (31 March 1884); circular listing the committee and officers, and soliciting donations.

MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 
Documents relating to the early history of the Association and the establishment and opening of the Plymouth Laboratory.
1883-1889     Letters, circulars, reports     [MB2] 
Summary: Includes Honorary Secretary's (E. Ray Lankester) correspondence and reports; letters from Bangor and Weymouth, and correspondence regarding the Plymouth site; memorabilia relating to the opening of the Plymouth Laboratory; reports of the 1st and 2nd annual general meetings.

• Documents relating to the early history of the Association.
  1883-1889     Reports and documents     [MB2.2] 
  Summary: Includes reports of 1st and 2nd annual general meetings (1885 and 1886); memorandum by Council members and others on the work of the proposed Fishery Department; financial statements and projections (1886-1891).
• Documents relating to the establishment and opening of the Plymouth Laboratory.
  1884-1889     Letters, reports, memorabilia     [MB2.3] 
  Summary: Includes correspondence from the Menai Society, Bangor, and Weymouth; letters from : Plymouth Municipal Offices, the Treasury, War Office and Royal Engineers; material from the opening of the Laboratory, and estimate from Spooners of Plymouth for the supply of furniture.
• Honorary Secretary's (Sir Edwin Ray Lankester) correspondence, reports and memoranda.
  1884-1888     Letters and reports     [MB2.1] 
  Note: Lankester Pamphlets (a collection of volumes of reprints) is one of the MBA Library's special collections.
  Summary: Includes letters from Anton Dohrn, Alexander Agassiz, John Murray, and from Mar/borough House confirming that the Prince of Wales would be Patron. Appeals for funds, and responses from Government bodies, City companies, and individuals; letters of support; memoranda and reports prepared for the MBA Council; evidence to Royal Commission on Trawling; correspondence with Home Office, Board of Trade, Scottish Fishery Board, Marine Fisheries Society, and Agent General for New Zealand.

MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Administrative material relating to the work of the Association.
1891-1912     Documents and letters     [MB3] 
Summary: Includes correspondence and reports of the Honorary Secretary (G.H. Fowler); Notice of the Situation of the Registered Office of the MBA (1893); Comparative tables of income and expenditure (1897-1899); Correspondence relating to annual grant from University of London (1910-1911); MBA bye-laws (1912).

• Honorary Secretary's (G. Herbert Fowler) correspondence and reports.
  1891-1894     Letters and printed reports     [MB3.1] 
  Summary: Includes report on oyster farming in the Yealm, prepared for Lord Revelstoke; evidence to House of Commons Select Committee on Sea Fisheries (1893); Comments to National Sea Fisheries , Protection Association on North Sea fisheries (1894).

MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
International Fishery Investigations.
1897 -1910    Letters, memoranda, reports and newspaper cuttings     [MB4] 
Note: The MBA undertook the English share of the investigations of the North Sea and English Channel, with government support, under the auspices of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
Summary: Includes correspondence and copies of correspondence with government departments; reports; three files of Walter Garstang's reports and correspondence, including material concerning the Lowestoft Laboratory.

• International Fishery Investigations.
  1899-1910     Letters and reports     [MB4.1] 
  Summary: Includes letter from E.J. Allen to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs regretting that the MBA had not been consulted (1899); meeting reports; reports on work carried out by the MBA, and requests for funds.
• Walter Garstang's documents concerning the International Fishery Investigations.
  1897-1907     Letters, reports and newspapers cuttings     [MB4.2] 
  Summary: Includes letters, reports and memoranda regarding the MBA's role in the International Investigations, with letters from John Murray, E. Ray Lankester, G. W. Balfour, MP, the Board of Trade and the Foreign Office; Garstang's attendance, as expert adviser, at meetings of the International Council; copies of letters to The Times and other newspapers regarding criticisms made by Noel Paton.

• Evidence presented to the Parliamentary Committee on Fishery Investigations, 1907 -1908.
  1907 -1908     Typescripts and printed draft     [MB5.1 ] 
  Summary: Printed Draft of Evidence, with typescripts of the evidence of E. Ray Lankester, A.E. Shipley, J. Amery Travers, G.C. Bourne, E.J. Allen, G.H Fowler, DJ Matthews, HR. Mill, and outline of evidence of Walter Garstang. Committee Chairman was HJ. Tennant, MP.; report (Cmnd. 4268) (1908) is in the library (BT.1/P).

MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Descriptive brochures and publicity material.
1890-1939     Booklets and leaflets     [MB6] 
Summary: Includes 1890, 1907, 1912, 1925, 1926 versions of "An account of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom"; leaflet on the Plymouth Laboratory (1922); Regulations for the working of the Laboratory (1935); descriptive leaflets (192-?) and with membership application form (1939); leaflet advertising the 2nd edition of Plymouth Marine Fauna (1931).

MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 
Autograph letters from eminent scientists.
1840-1947     Letters     [MB7] 
Summary: Includes A. Alcock; C. Spence Bate; W. Bateson; W. M. Bayliss; R. Beddington; G. C. Bourne; E. T. Browne; F. Buckland; R. Collett; J. Couch; A. D. Darbyshire; F. Day: A.. Dohrn; M. Dunn; T. Eimer; H. Gadow; F. W. Gamble; A. Gunther; V. Heureu; E. W. L. Holt; T. H. Huxley; T. Johnson; S. Kent; E. R. Lankester; A. F. Marstoy; M. M. Martin; M. Mayer; E. Meyer; J. B. Poulton; C. T. Regan; T. Scott; A. Sedgwick; H. Steenstrup; J. A. Thompson; W. Turner; M. Weber; W. F. R. Weldon; G. S. West; A. C. Willis; W. Yarrell. Many of the earlier letters are addressed to J. T Cunningham.