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

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Christy collection of photographs on Africa

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A

Scope and Contents Contains loose photographs relating to various of Christy's travels; some photographs are his own and some are by professional photographers. Subjects include: scenes on the Nile including pyramids; railway views in Kenya; rubber trees and cultivation in Nigeria, Uganda and the Cameroons; scenes in the Congo including sufferers of sleeping sickness and ethnic groups of Central Africa of shorter than average height described as Pygmies; scenes in India; scenes from travels in Norway,...

Dates: 1880 - 1913

Conditions Governing Access: 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).

Found in: Cambridge University Library

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Ugandan papers, 1902-06-10 - 1903-04-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4

Scope and Contents Diaries, notes and reports recording Christy's research for the first Royal Society Sleeping Sickness Commission in Africa. The medical expedition was a response to the spreading Uganda Sleeping Sickness epidemic of 1901. Its aim was to elucidate the role of the Filaria perstans parasite in causing the disease. Christy travelled widely in Uganda, British and German East Africa, and the upper Sudan to map the distributions of the parasite and the disease. His findings were important in...

Dates: 1902-06-10 - 1903-04-15

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).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of Cuthbert Christy

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

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