GULLAND, John Alan (1926-1990)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0098 B/GULLAND |
Held at | : Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/recordsandarchives › |
Full title | : GULLAND, John Alan (1926-1990) |
Date(s) | : 1972-1990 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 11 boxes |
Name of creator(s) | : Gulland | John Alan | 1926-1990 | fisheries ecologist |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in Andover, Hampshire, 1926; educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, 1935-1940, and Marlborough College, 1940-1944; served in the Royal Navy; read mathematics at Jesus College, Cambridge, 1947-1951; joined the Fisheries Laboratory at Lowestoft, working on the population dynamics of fishes, 1951; adviser to the International Whaling Commission, 1964-1986; worked at the Fisheries Department of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation in Rome, Italy, as Chief of the Stock Assessment Branch, 1966-1974, and Chief of the Marine Resources Service, 1974-1984; Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Technology at Imperial College, London, 1984-1990; elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1984; served on the Canadian Royal Commission on Seals and Sealing, 1984-1986, which assessed the impact of the annual seal cull on seal populations; died, 1990.
Publications: Estimation of Growth and Mortality in Commercial Fish Populations (London, 1955); On the Fishing Effort in English Demersal Fisheries (London, 1956); Fishing and the Stocks of Fish at Iceland (London, 1961); Contributions to Symposium 1963 on the Measurement of Abundance of Fish Stocks Editor (Copenhague, 1964); The management of marine fisheries (Scientechnica, Bristol, 1974).
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of John Alan Gulland, 1972-1990, comprising correspondence and papers from Gulland's period as Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College, London, 1984-1990; drafts for publications and editorial correspondence; papers relating to his consultancies, including those for the European Community and the Canadian Government; documentation of overseas visits, including a 1985 visit to Antarctica; correspondence files.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
By section as follows: Publications, Consultancies, Visits, Conferences and lectures, Correspondence, Biographical. Index of correspondents.
Conditions governing access:
Researchers wishing to consult the Archives should first contact the College Archivist, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, for an appointment.
Conditions governing reproduction:
A photocopying service is available at the discretion of the Archivist. Photocopies are supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archivist.
Finding aids:
A catalogue is available in the reading room of the College Archives (NCUACS catalogue no 28/4/91).
Archival Information
Archival history:
The papers were received by the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, University of Bath, from Mrs Audrey Gulland, widow, in 1991.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, University of Bath, to the College Archives in 1991.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Records of the Centre for Environmental Technology (KO), held at Imperial College.
National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Sources: Based on the guide compiled by the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists; British Library On-Line Public Access Catalogue 97. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions:
General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
October 2000
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