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Christy, Cuthbert, 1863 - 1932 (explorer and zoologist)

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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[African hut, ? Buvuma Island], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/61
Scope and Contents

152 x 110 mm. A view showing a large grass hut set among banana plants, probably on Buvuma Island. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

Dates: 1902
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Lethargy. The last stage. Buvuna [?Buvuma] Island 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/35
Scope and Contents

150 x 110 mm. A view showing a sleeping, emaciated man in the terminal stage of sleeping sickness. Christy (1903) describes how this man was carried from his hut without awakening and how all the other members of his family were in a similar condition.

Dates: 1902
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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