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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: Algae Section Correspondence...
Catalogue reference: DF 421
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This record is about the British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: Algae Section Correspondence... dating from 1925-1965.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- DF 421
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: Algae Section Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1925-1965
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series consists of a small collection of Geoffrey Tandy's (b 1900) correspondence, papers, photographs and newscuttings, including the scripts for a number of unofficial radio broadcasts. There is also a packet of Shirley Eskritt (Mrs Phillips) correspondence.
Series held at The Natural History Museum are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference DF BOT/421). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, see DF 421.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The series has not been arranged or listed in detail.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Tandy's diaries and notebooks are held in the Marine Algae Section.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The Natural History Museum Archives, London
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- The series was transferred to the archives from the Botany Library in 1989.
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Previously housed in the Crypogamic Herbarium.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Geoffrey Tandy (b 1900) was the first member of staff to specialise on the algae. He was appointed in January 1926 having read Forestry at Oxford, and was in post when Antony Gepp retired in 1927. Tandy remained at the Museum until September 1939 when he joined the Royal Navy, and did not return after the war. He was given special leave in 1928 and 1929 to act as botanist to the Great Barrier Reef Expedition, and again in 1931 to work on the Dry Tortugas, Florida. Most of his career at the Museum was spent working on the collections made on these two trips.
After Tandy's departure in 1939 algae, along with bryophytes and lichens, were the responsibility of Alan H Norkett, and it was not until Linda Newton (Mrs Irvine) was appointed in 1950 that there was a separate Algae Section once again. She was succeeded by Yvonne Chamberlin (Mrs Butler) in 1954 and J H Price in 1963. Shirley Eskritt (Mrs Phillips) worked in the Alga Section from 1956 until she resigned in 1964/5.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- 'The Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-1929', G Tandy, Natural History Magazine, 2: 82-92 (1929). 'A summer at the Dry Tortugas Laboratory, Florida', G Tandy, Natural History Magazine, 3: 145-156 (1932).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15512/
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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: Algae Section Correspondence and Papers