1972 - The Vasculum

GUIDE TO THE SOURCE DOCUMENTS OF "THE WILDLIFE OF THE LOWER
DERWENT VALLEY" 1969
A report on the wildlife of the Lower Derwent Valley was written in 1969
by Derek Ungley, who was at that time working in Newcastle upon Tyne for the
Nature Conservancy. The purpose behind the report was that the Durham County
Council Planning Department should have a statement from naturalists on the value
placed on various parts of the valley and that this would help the planners to reach
proper conclusions as demands for changing land use inevitably appear. The report
was compiled from many documents of very varied descriptions which were
submitted by many people in a grand piece of teamwork that included members of
local natural history societies, the Northumberland and Durham Naturalists' Trust as
it then was, the Nature Conservancy and of course a number of individual
contributors.
In order that the information in the source documents should not be lost,
three sets, complete with maps, have been prepared. One set is to be held by the
County Planning Department for their professional use, one set is to be held by the
Nature Conservancy and one set is to be held by the Science Section of Durham
University Library. It is this last set which people are most readily able to consult
though this must be done during normal working hours in the library. Copies,
including maps, can be made for a charge and under the usual conditions.
While it is hoped that the Guide and the documents will prove useful as
they are, the intention is that new information shall be fed into the dossier on the
valley, in other words to the Keeper of Science Books, University Library, Science
Section, South Road, Durham.
The Guide has been deposited at the National Lending Library for Science
and Technology. This means that it has been publicised in the NLL Announcement
Bulletin and that it is available from the NLL in the usual way through your library.
Retention copies can be supplied (NLL form + 2 coupons).
Requesters should quote the full title of the document: — Guide to the
source documents of the wildlife of the Lower Derwent Valley (NLL-D).
To sum up, if you have an interest in the widlife of the Lower Derwent
Valley, you can borrow or buy a copy of the Guide from the NLL or you may consult
a copy held by: —
Durham University Library, Science Section.
Consett Public Library.
Durham County Reference Library.
The source documents can be consulted at and copies bought from: —
Durham University Library, Science Section.
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