Declaring Success on the Salmon Negatives

 We've reached the point where all of the Salmon negatives have been cleaned and stored in acid free paper and boxes. 

Well we though t we had and we should manage it this week. What we found out at the last minute from Robin the Museum's photographer was that there were a few extras stored within the Dark Slides and he arranges to have these taken out for us so we have just a handful to deal with this week 

So there are a little over 3100 done and we have spent something like 2500 person hours on this as a team of volunteers which is incredible

We are now working on the archive and that's turning up a whole heap of new information, but more of that to come.  

In the mean time here are some nice pictures 

Red-backed Shrike Young in nest 22/6/1921

Grey heron, Thaw Valley 12/4/1925

Merlin and chicks, Ireland Moor, Radnorshire, 6/7/1952

Ronald Lockley (left) and Ex-king Ferdinand of Bulgaria (centre) at the IOC congress 1934 onboard a Royal Navy Destroyer "borrowed" for the day to ferry birdwatchers around 3 islands 

1,000,000 pages of Welsh history to 1910 free and online.

The latest from the National Library of Wales

Papurau Newydd Cymru Ar-lein papuraunewyddcymru.llgc.org.uk
Welsh Newspapers Online  welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk

Try this to see how we're featured in the English versions

http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/search/query?rows=80&query=%22cardiff+naturalists+society%22&date[min]=1844&date[max]=1912&sort=score

Sorry I'm not a Welsh speaker if anyone knows it please post a suitable link in a comment

CNS Transactions now on-line

Many years ago the National Library of Wales asked us if they could scan and put on-line the Cardiff Naturalist's Society Transactions

We heard nothing despite chasing, but finally they see to have got around to it and they have been spotted by one of our members

So here they are... Reports and transactions (Cardiff Naturalists' Society), 1900-1981

It's a fantastic resource and secures a copy of our works into the digital age

There is a comment in the text that "Reports and transactions (Cardiff Naturalists' Society) was published annually, containing scholarly articles on geology, archaeology and natural history, with book reviews and society notes. It was published between 1870 and 1986. For digitisation, the publication has been split into two sequences: Vol. 1 (1867) – Vol. 31 (1898-1899) and Vol. 32 (1899-1900) -Vol. 100 (1986)."

I can't find part 1, if anyone spots it please let us know 

Regards
Andy