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2020

Journal article

Carlisle Museum's Natural History Record Bureau, 1902–1912: Britain's first local environmental records centre

Carlisle Museum's Natural History Record Bureau, Britain's first local environmental records centre, collected and collated records, mainly of birds but including also mammals and fishes, from amateur naturalists. It initially covered an area of 80 kilometres around Carlisle, and later from Cumberland, Westmorland and the detached portion of Lancashire north...

Sellers, Robin M ; Hewitt, Stephen M

amateur naturalists, Kingmoor Nature Reserve, ornithology, Cumbria, Biological Records Centre, bird ringing, black-headed gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus, and Lake District