Our Library - 2007 Update

The Society's library was for many years located at Imperial College, South Kensington. This arrangement has now come to an end because the College needed extra space for its own purposes. The Society has regretfully had to put its library into temporary storage until a new home is available in Phase 2 of the Darwin Centre, in two to three years time.

In the meantime, members of the Society are encouraged to use the library of the Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, and the libraries of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington.

These libraries have on-line catalogues and you should reserve journals by telephone before your visit. They are for reference only.

Availability of the Society's Journals at the Natural History Museum Libraries

If you want to vist the NHM library you must make an apointment in advance. For more details about using the libraries please see: Libraries of the Natural History Museum .

The General and Zoology libraries of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington hold a complete set of The London Naturalist.

Thier holdings of the London Bird Report are as follows:
Nos 1 – 4 (1936 – 1939) bound with contemporary Volumes of the LN.
Nos 6 (for 1941), 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 (1950);
N0 28 (1963) onwards.

There is a complete set of the LBR at their outstation at Tring, Herts. If you wish to view any of these volumes on loan at South Kensington, please speak to the librarian.

Availability of the Society's Journals at the Library of the Linnean Society

If you want to visit the Linnean Society's library to view the Society's journals please phone the library in advance. For more details about using the library please see: Linnean Society's Library

Their holdings of The London Naturalist are as follows:
Volumes from 1932 to 1934; and no 21. for 1941 onwards.

Their holdings of the London Bird Report are as follows: no 7 onwards.