William Homan Thorpe: Papers

Diaries, notebooks, laboratory notes and field observations, correspondence, conference notes, research and lecture papers and notes, publishers' correspondence, University papers, Royal Society material, papers on conservation, psychical research, photographs and tape recordings.
An addition to the collection in 2018 includes offprints of publications by Thorpe c. 1930s-1980s and a small quantity of interfiled miscellaneous publications by others, along with a series of the newsletter "Biophone" delivered to Thorpe and then Robert Hinde at the Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge.

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Presented by Mrs. Margaret Schuelein, 1984. An addition to the collection was transferred from the Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, 2018.

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

The files M8 (papers relating to Chippenham Fen) and M9 (papers relating to Woodwalton Fen) were discarded in 1990.