Salmon and Ingram Diary and Locations information

The Cardiff Naturalists' Society is the longest established wildlife organization in the area having been formed in 1867.One of it's key members in the early 20th century and onwards was Harry Morrey Salmon (1890-1985) 72^nd President (latterly Colonel). He was a pioneering nature photographer specialising in bird photography and conservationist and he left his collection of glass plate negatives, along with some other items to the society in the 1980s.

Between 2022 and 2025 members of the society along with staff from the Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru / National Museum of Wales worked to conserve, clean and digitise these images with a plan to put a selection of them into the public domain for non commercial use

As part of this work we scanned and transcribed many documents that were created by Morrey Salmon and also by his photographic partner Geoffrey C S Ingram 53^rd President

Salmon and camera taken in 1981

This page has been created to make available some of these supporting documents which do not fit within the structures of the Museum's web pages (their links will be made available here when available). The following notes are important and we hope will aid in the reading of the documents and the understanding of the people and processes mentioned in the documents

The documents are provided as good faith translations. There may be mistakes as some of the handwriting and abbreviations were not easy to read.

Some of the practises mentioned such as cutting branches for a better view of a nest were considered reasonable at the time. Given the limitations of the equipment they were in fact necessary if any form of result was going to be achieved and the actions of the authors should not be measured against current practises, Neither do we support or advise these as reasonable these days and, given the benefits of modern equipment they should not be necessary

Some of the documents were created by Morrey, some (to be added later) were created by Geoffrey Ingram. At the time of creating this page (2025) all of the original documents are housed in the CNS collections at the National Collections Centre in Nantgarw. The museum have also been given an electronic copy of all the word files that the PDFs here were created from and as such should there be any problems that we are unable to resolve please contact the National Museum, details at https://museum.wales/curatorial/natural-sciences/

More documents will be added here as they are able to be prepared for internet publication. Please click the filename link to open them in another tab

In addition to this page and the linked documents there are already many online resources that have information about Morrey Salmon, the project and some of the images that we have worked on.

Our Newsletters can be found here https://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/newsletter.htm many of the issues since 2022 when we started with the in person sessions doing the work contain updates and pictures

There are also updates in our blog site with a number of pictures and there were some updates in our facebook page

Should you wish to join the society which is excellent value, we would add you to our mailings and you would be kept informed of when the rest of the pictures go online