Ornithology Library

Street Address: The Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum
Tring
Herfordshire
WC1B 3DG
Tel: 020 7942 6156
Fax: 020 7942 5559
Website: Click here »
Type: Further/Higher Education
Access policy:
Accessibility: There is free parking available.
Opening hours:

Collections

The library contains the following collections (subjects are in brackets)

Natural History Museum Ornithology Library Collection
The ornithological library is one of the world's most prestigious, housing over 75,000 volumes. The volumes in the Rothschild Library generally date back to before 1938 and include ornithological and general natural history monographs (for example books by John Gould and Edward Lear) , together with travel books, including unpublished manuscripts, field notebooks and paintings.,
(Birds, History of science, Life sciences, Natural history, Science)