 More information on F.S. Russell
Sir Frederick Stratten Russell F.R.S.1921-1984 Letters, laboratory notebooks, drawings, photographs [PRU1]
Summary:
- Scientific notebooks;
- General correspondence;
- Plankton, ICES, tunny, young fish, Medusae correspondence, drawings and notes;
- Fish data and drawings;
- The Seas (book with C.M. Yonge);
- Royal Society Defence Services Research Facilities Committee papers;
- Correspondence relating to George Parker Bidder;
- Newspaper cuttings
- Obituary material including his memorial service, July 1984.
- Generally excludes material related to MBA administration. Additional relevant material is in Director's Office documents.
Details:
Scientific notebooks.
1921-1971 4 MBA Naturalists Log Books; 23 hardback notebooks; 32 softback
notebooks [PRU2]
Summary: Notes, records and some drawings, relating to fish, young fish, eggs, larvae, plankton. Mainly Plymouth waters and Great Barrier Reef Expedition (1928-1929).
Correspondence -general.
1927-1984 Letters and cards [PRU3]
Note: Excludes MBA Director's Office correspondence.
Summary: Letters to and from 50 correspondents, mainly relating to scientific matters, with envelope of 1980's documents which includes MBA centenary material.
Plankton correspondence.
1925-1931 Letters and notes [PRU4]
Plankton - International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) Plankton Committee letters and documents.
1935-1936 Letters and reports [PRU5]
Note: F.S. Russell attended meetings of the Committee and was later Chairman.
Plankton - International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) Plankton Identification Sheets correspondence.
1936-1957 Letters and drafts [PRU6]
Plankton correspondence.
1945-1949 Letters and reports [PRU7]
Summary: Mainly concerning the activities of the ICES Plankton Committee (Russell was Chairman 1947-1949). Also the International Mixed Commission on Oceanography, and the International Association for Physical Oceanography.
Tunny and tunny fishing.
1934-1937 Letters, cuttings and photographs [PRU8]
Summary: Mainly concerning the North Sea and the South West. with material relating to Colonel E.T. Peel, President of the British Tunny Club, and his boat the St. George.
Young fish - catch records, data and drawings.
1937-1939 Notes and records [PRU9]
Fish - data, notes and drawings.
197-? Data sheets and notes [PRU10]
Medusae correspondence.
1931-1980 Letters [PRU11]
Summary: Letters to and from 102 correspondents, including many from E.T Browne, P.L. Kramp and W.J. Rees. One file of correspondence with Cambridge University Press includes a 1971 letter regretting the loss of his originals for the coloured plates of his book The Medusae of the British Isles Vol. 2.
Medusae notes, drawings and photographs.
193-?-197-? Notes, drawings, photographs, proofs [PRU12]
Summary: Includes material relating to his publications, particularly The Medusae of the British Isles (2 volumes, Cambridge University Press. Vol. 1 -1953 and Vol. 2 -1970).
The Seas (book by F .S. Russell and C.M. Yonge).
1941-1984 Letters and notes, and annotated copy of The Seas [PRU13]
Summary: Letters to and from the publisher Frederick Warne; letters to and from C.M. Yonge, and others. The annotated copy is of the 1944 reprint of the 2nd edition.
Royal Society Defence Services Research Facilities Committee papers.
1955-1961 Letters and notes [PRU15]
Summary: Includes an application from Hans Hass for help in the Maldive Islands.
Documents relating to George Parker Bidder.
1945-1954 Letters, notes and cuttings [PRU16]
Summary: Includes letters from Bidder and R. Dohrn (Naples), with obituary material.
Newspaper cuttings.
192-? - 196-? 2 volumes [PRU17]
Summary: Cuttings related to the MBA and people and events of interest to Russell.
Sir Frederick Russell's memorial service.
1984 Letters and cards [PRU18]
Summary: The service was held at St. Andrew's church, Plymouth on 31 July 1984.
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