1949. Diaries of C.S. & D.H. Meares 1892 to 1949. Vol. 1 & 2.

Bird-nesting and other notes.

T.A. (Tony) Waddell researched, compiled and published, in 50 copies, this 368, A4 format book in 2017, kindly donating a copy to Histo/SOS. It is comprised primarily of images of the handwritten diaries of the brothers interspersed with texts by the editor along with photographs of the brothers and other personalities, some sites and a few maps. Each volume, paginated separately, has a birds and localities index.

For clarity the following PDFs are versions of the indexes and texts relating to general spieses index, Common Sandpiper and migrant arrival dates.

Download 03 Summary of 24 PDFs

Download 05 Secies Index

Download 06 Arrivals data

Download 07 Common Sandpiper

In 2020 the page scans were located and permission obtained to publish them on Histo as a series of PDF files.

Links to pages Volume 1

Download Meares 1 Vol.1. Intro. 1892-99

Download Meares 2 1899-1903

Download Meares 3 1903-05

Download Meares 4 1906

Download Meares 5 1906

Download Meares 6 1906

Download Meares 7 1906-07

Download Meares 8 1908

Download Meares 9 1908

Download Meares 10 1908-09

Download Meares 11 1909.

Download Indexes 1892-1909

Links to pages Volume 2

Download Meares 13 Vol.2. 1909-10

Download Meares 14 1910-11

Download Meares 15 1911-12

Download Meares 16 1912-13

Download Meares 17 1913

Download Meares 18 1913-14

Download Meares 19 1914-16

Download Meares 20 1917-30

Download Meares 21 1930-32

Download Meares 22 1932-35

Download Meares 23 1935-44

Download Meares 24 1944-46. Indexes 1910-46