Scope and Contents Includes: 1) British Association Botany Section, Birmingham, 1913. Large formal group of unidentified men and women gathered on the steps, Hugh Hamshaw Thomas under lamp, back right (Copyright Whittock and Son?); 2) Hugh Hamshaw Thomas in military uniform (WW1), photographer illegible; mounted photograph of Hugh Hamshaw Thomas with aerial (glass plate) camera, standing beside a plane, WW1; two unidentified men standing in front of a (?WW1) aeroplane; formal group photograph, presumably of...

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Letters to the Royal Society of Arts, mainly relating to his proposed lectures on (and subsequent manuscripts relating to) aerial reconnaisance, with additional information about his other commitments in Cambridge.

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Letters mainly relating to his proposed lectures on aerial reconnaisance and other matters.

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Letters mainly relating to his proposed lectures on aerial reconnaisance and other matters.

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He has made some adjustments to the syllabus. He requests some extra tickets for his friends and suggests several military personnel to invite.

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He explains that he has "been for the past six months organising secretary for one of the parties in the Admission of Women to the University controversy" and so work outside Cambridge has been neglected. No further information given.

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His proposed lectures (in January or February 1920) will be: The taking and production of aerial photographs; The employment of aerial photographs in war; The use of aerial photographs in exploration and survey in times of peace. He intends to cover also the apparatus and methods of the Germans [during the war].

Scope and Contents Letter written from the Air Ministry, Strand, explaining that Major Laws (invited by the RSA to lecture on aerial photography) is too busy and has asked him to undertake the lectures as he gave something similar in India last winter. His proposed lecture would be on 'Aerial Photograph and its application in War and Peace', dealing with his area of expertise, the use of the aeroplane camera in the survey and exploration of unmapped countries. His experience as RAF photographic officer in the...

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Letters mainly relating to his proposed lectures on aerial reconnaisance and other matters.