Scope and Contents Includes: 1) British Association for the Advancement of Science Botany (K) Section meeting at Birmingham, 1913, including (from online sources) from back to front, left to right M.J.Legoe, T. Whitehead, Miss Jepps, Dr. Darbishire / Dr. Gordon, Miss L.J. Clarke, Miss Bancroft, F.D. Farrow / Prof. Buller, Dr. Marie C. Stopes (Birkbeck student), Prof. M.J. Benson, F.T. Brooks, R.H. Compton, R.S. Adamson, Miss E.N. Thomas, C.G.P. Laidlaw, H.H. Thomas / Miss Mitchell, Miss Hume, Miss...

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Original letters relating to lectures on aerial reconnaissance, original photograph of a meeting of botanists, c.1922, and copies of family photographs (originals retained by the family).

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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 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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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 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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Includes Prof. A. C. Seward (2nd from right on front seated row) and Hugh Hamshaw Thomas and Edith Gertrude Torrance ['Torrie'], his wife from 1923 (3rd and 4th from right on row behind). Also includes John Walton (Seward's son-in-law) seated 2nd from left on ground. Henry Horation Dixon (President of Section K, 1922) is seated centre on the front row, with Edith Saunders (in black) to his right.