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School Natural Science Society Archive

Archive Collection: MS 1329

Details

Type of record: Archive

Title: School Natural Science Society Archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: MS 1329

Date(s): c.1903-1995

Language: English

Size and medium: 12 boxes, manuscript, typescript, photographs, printed material, 1 tape-casette.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5428

Description

Comprises: (1) Administrative correspondence of the Society; (2) Annual and conference reports; (3) Executive Committee meetings minute books, expenses book, and receipt book; (4) Many publications of the Society and its members, with some draft manuscripts of articles and offprints; (5) Publicity material and an exhibition display board with photographs; (6) Photographs of some Society members and a card index of members; also, an address book for members; (7) Notes on the history of the Society; (8) Microfilm reels of the Society's journal; (9) Additional donation (2002): i) School Natural Science Society Publications (- Leaflets) nos. 1-49 (incomplete); ii) School nature study, vol.51, no.202, January 1956 - vol.57, no.229, October 1964 (wanting no.211); iii) Teaching science, vol.1, nos.1-3, 1983; iv) Natural science in schools, vol 2, no.3, November 1964 - vol.20, no.3, autumn 1982 (incomplete), with index, 1963-1977; v) envelope containing miscellaneous items, including photographs;
vi) envelope containing photocopied correspondence; vii) audio-cassette of the Society's Presidential address, March 1978; (10) Additional donation (2005): i) Publications of the Society; ii) Publications information; iii) Minutes of meetings, correspondence, conference stationery.


Includes several reels of microfilm, a card index file, and 2 photograph display boards.

Biography or history

The School Natural Science Society was originally founded as the School Nature Study Union in 1903 by Miss K.M. Hall and the Rev. Claude Hinscliff to encourage the study of biology and nature in schools. Its name and constitution were amended in 1963. Its executive committee met several times every year until it ceased to function in 1994. The Society published the journal 'Natural Science in Schools', which was originally entitled 'School Nature Study Journal'.

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