The Elton Archive

• Main Authors: Pond, C, Elton, C, Clarke, J, Fisher, N, Mann, D, Kirby, K
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: University of Oxford 2015
• Subjects: Life sciences; Forests and forestry; Population biology; Ecology; Zoology; Arctic; Svalbard; Magdalen; Arctic Archipelago
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5287/bodleian:s4655h124; https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e426b54a-22f5-472c-a7bf-050e3dff7ab4

Please note: the files for this record have been embargoed and replaced with a second version of the work available to download from the related item. The Elton Archive mostly comprises the Field Notes compiled 1942-1965 by Charles S. Elton, FRS, CBE (1900-1991) while he was Director of the Bureau of Animal Population, a research group affiliated to the Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy (from 1963, Department of Zoology), Oxford University. Further material (not yet transcribed) is held in the Bodleian Libraries Special Collections. Also included in this Archive are transcriptions of a seminar that Elton gave in 1962 to mark 30 years of the Bureau of Animal Population, apparently delivered to a small audience in the library of the Magdalen labs., and that of a similar event in 1993 by Dr. John R. Clarke, Elton’s research student and long-time collaborator. The original manuscripts were held in private archives, as were those of the accounts of three Expeditions from Oxford University to the Arctic archipelago now called Svalbard in 1921, 1923 and 1924. They were transcribed and edited 2013-4 by Caroline M. Pond (Emerita Professor of Comparative Anatomy, The Open University and honorary Senior Research Associate in Zoology, Oxford University) as a volunteer recruited by the Joint Museums Volunteer Service and supervised by Nigel Fisher (Wytham Woods), Darren Mann (Hope Entomological Collections) and Keith Kirby (Department of Plant Sciences). Voice-activated software (Dragon and Talkingpoint) was used throughout. The Editor would like to record that she attended Elton’s lectures as an undergraduate in the 1960s, and was a colleague of Stephen Hurry (1932-2008) at The Open University when he worked there 1979-92. The Elton Archive material is made available by permission of his family and the Department of Zoology (successors to the Bureau of Animal Population) and Oxford Museum of Natural History via the Oxford Research Archive, through the work of Professor Caroline Pond who 'read-in' the entire ...