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Recording Doncaster's Wildlife since 1880

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    • Order – Araneae
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Doncaster Scientific Society

Historical Archives

The archive cupboard at the museum.
Minute Books

Field Meetings 1982-1993 Record Book

A list of Papers read at meetings

Archived Newspaper Cuttings

Programme Cards as issued to members

Field Meeting & Reports

35mm Slides from the Archive Cupboard

The Ben Burrell Archive
The Ben Burrell Collection of Programme Cards (1931-1976)
Ben Burrell in the News – 1968
Ben Burrell Collection of Photographs

Publications from the Archives (1884-19240

Other Local Interest Publications from the Archive

Past Presidents

Past Secretary

List of Honorary Members

Officials of the Doncaster Naturalist’s’ Society (1931-1976)

Miscellaneous Correspondence

Occasional Newsletters

A List of Conversazione Promotional Leaflets

Items Recovered From Colin’s Old Office in Museum

Other items awaiting to be relocated within the Archive

Dr. R. Angus Smith, The Development of Living Germs in Water
Various Water Reports (Grange, Hooton Brook, Hexthorpe, Falconar’s)

Contemporary Newspaper Reports

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Recent Posts

  • Next Meeting – Wednesday 15th July 2026 to Thorpe Marsh NNR 13 July 2026
  • Next Meeting – Saturday July 4th, 2026 at Denaby Delf 30 June 2026
  • Next Meeting – Friday 26 June 2026 to Brockadale 22 June 2026
  • Next Meeting – Wednesday 17th June 2026 at Mount Pleasant Hotel on Bawtry Rd. 12 June 2026
  • Next Meeting – Wednesday 3rd June 2026 Carolina Heath, Lakeside, Doncaster 29 May 2026

Gallery

Scorpion Fly (Panorpa sp.), Swinston Hill Wood, Dinnington, May 6th 2026. Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsia), Sprotbrough.

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Spangle galls Butterfly Orchid (Platanthera bifolia), Quarry Farm, Sprotbrough. Tricholoma terreum - Grey Knight, Clumber Park, Notts. Heron, Potteric Carr. Doncaster Scientific Society Excursion Aphids being 'farmed' by ants, also what appears to be a grub., Potteric Carr. Euthrix potatotia - Drinker (male) - Kirk Smeaton Kestrel (Falco columbarius), Common Twayblade (Neottia ovata). Danes Hill NR, Notts. Pieris napi, Green-veined White, Austerfield
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