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BIRD-NESTING SURVEY 1951

TC30: 1 box only

BOX 1

30/1/A: Children's responses to Questionnaire on Bird-nesting

Answers to questions testing knowledge of birds - some in chart form describing nests, eggs and sites form children, 21.5.51

Answers to questions testing knowledge of birds - some in chart form describing nests, eggs and sites form children aged 7-9

Answers to questions testing knowledge of birds - some in chart form describing nests, eggs and sites form children (ages and dates not mentioned)

30/1/B: Children's responses and teachers' notes on Bird-nesting Questionnaire

4 handwritten bird-nesting questionnaires with replies to 11 questions (1 incomplete)

50 (approx) typewritten bird-nesting questionnaires with (handwritten) results incorporated on to them by teachers

11 handwritten responses to 11 questions on bird-nesting by schoolgirls aged 12-14

9 handwritten responses (1 torn) to 11 questions on bird-nesting by schoolgirls aged 7-8

Handwritten responses to 11 questions on bird-nesting by schoolboys aged 10-14, (8 from one school in Chelmsford, Essex)

1 handwritten note by London schoolteacher about bird-nesting Directive (AW Hodgkinson)

Teachers' handwritten results of bird-nesting survey

30/1/C: Material relating to Bird-nesting survey

Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club (26.6.40)

Typewritten note: "Special Directive to Parents and Teachers of Boys of School Age ......."

Correspondence from and to Richard Fitter, (ornithologist and Mass-Observer) on bird-nesting survey, Nov 1950-Feb 1951

Drafts on investigation of correlation between boys' pursuits of bird-nesting and delinquency

Typewritten report on bird-nesting survey (5 pages, incomplete)

30/1/D & E: Bird-nesting Survey for Adults

Typewritten questionnaires on bird-nesting with responses to 12 questions (handwritten)