| Description | Typescript drafts of information handbooks on English regional geoconservation sites designated National Nature Reserves or Sites of Special Scientific Interest by William Archibald Macfadyen, comprising: Lincolnshire, [post 1966]; Devon, [1960]; Cornwall, [1960]; Somerset, 1961; and Gloucestershire, 1962. Includes letter from Macfadyen explaining the project, 22 November 1960. |
| Administrative History | In 1960 Macfadyen retired from the Nature Conservancy but was still employed on a part-time basis to complete the first (and only) of a projected series of handbooks on the protected geological and geomorphological sites in Britain. It was published as ‘Geological Highlights of the West Country’ (1970). |