Christy, Cuthbert, 1863 - 1932 (explorer and zoologist)
Person
Found in 265 Collections and/or Records:
File
Notes on fishes, 1926 - 1927
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/7/8
Scope and Contents
36 leaves describing the fish collected from Lake Tanganyika and the locations where they were found.
Dates:
1926 - 1927
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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'Notes on heatstroke in Mesopotamia', 1918-04
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/9/4
Scope and Contents
Annotated draft of a medical manual (fourteen pages) written by Christy while serving at the 33rd British General Hospital during the First World War.
Dates:
1918-04
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).
Item
Nursery seedlings of Funtumia elastica, Uganda, 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/81
Scope and Contents
72 x 95 mm. A studio photograph (with scale) showing newly germinated nursery seedlings.
Dates:
1903 - 1910
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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Nursery seedlings of Funtumia elastica, Uganda, 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/82
Scope and Contents
72 x 95 mm. A studio photograph (with scale) showing nursery seedlings around nine months old.
Dates:
1903 - 1910
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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Old female Chimpanzee, Ituri Forest, 1913, 1913
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/223
Scope and Contents
100 x 78 mm. A view showing a large female chimpanzee, shot by Christy and held up to be photographed by his tent boy.
Dates:
1913
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).
Item
On board the 'Kinfarren Castle' to Madeira, 1909, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/340
Scope and Contents
314 x 86 mm. A panoramic view looking along the deck, with passengers seated in wicker deckchairs. Photograph presumably by Christy.
Dates:
1909
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).
File
On the distribution of Filaria perstans and of enlarged glands (cervical and parotid) in equatorial East Africa, 1904-11-04
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4/9
Scope and Contents
A report (46 leaves) by Christy discussing the findings of his research, including charts of data and a map.
Dates:
1904-11-04
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).
File
On the distribution of Filaria perstans in Uganda and elsewhere in tropical Africa, 1903
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4/8
Scope and Contents
Two annotated copies of a report by Christy discussing the findings of his research, including charts of data and a map.
Dates:
1903
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).
Item
On the Entebbe-Kampala Road, 1906, 1906
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/147
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. A view showing an African at the top of a fig-tree telegraph post, 'alive and antproof'.
Dates:
1906
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).
Item
On the road to the Grand Curral, Madeira 1909, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/334
Scope and Contents
303 x 86 mm. A panoramic view looking over mountain scenery, with the road, porters and a bullock sledge at the right of the print. Photograph presumably by Christy.
Dates:
1909
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).
Fonds
Papers of Cuthbert Christy
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124
Scope and Contents
Diaries, notes, letters, reports, publications and maps written or collected by Christy during his medical and zoological work in Scotland, Africa and India.
Dates:
1889 - 1930
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
Item
Pegging out the flat skin (n.d.)
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/245
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. A view showing African porters pegging out the skinned bush buck hide to dry.
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).
Item
Pine Forest, Madeira, 1909, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/339
Scope and Contents
302 x 87 mm. A panoramic view looking over wooded, hilly country with Funchal in the distance. Photograph presumably by Christy.
Dates:
1909
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).
Item
Plantation of Funtumias, Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/90
Scope and Contents
152 x 110 mm. A view showing a plantation of seven-and-a-half year old Funtumias where alternate trees in each row have been cut out. A European stands in the foreground examining a tree.
Dates:
1903 - 1910
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).
Item
Plantation of Funtumias, Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/91
Scope and Contents
116 x 162 mm. A view showing a plantation of seven-and-a-half year old Funtumias where alternate trees in each row have been cut out. A European stands in the foreground examining a tree. Photograph probably by Christy.
Dates:
1903 - 1910
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).
Series
Publications and reports, 1903 - 1929
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/9
Scope and Contents
Works written by Christy or collected by him relating to medicine, zoology and travel.
Dates:
1903 - 1929
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).
Item
[Pumping station on the Nile], 1916
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/13
Scope and Contents
105 x 78 mm. A view showing an installation by the bank of the Nile for extracting water for irrigation purposes. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.
Dates:
1916
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).
File
Report on the possibility of the development of a Manihot (Ceará) rubber planting industry in the southern Sudan, 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/6/4
Scope and Contents
Draft of a report (20 leaves) submitted by Christy to the Sudanese Government with associated correspondence.
Dates:
1915
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).
File
Review of 'Zwischen Weissem nil und Belgisch-Kongo' by Hugo Adolf Bernatzik, 1929
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/9/3
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs of a review written by Christy for an unidentified journal.
Dates:
1929
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).
Item
Roadside camp, Uganda, 1903, 1903
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/148
Scope and Contents
133 x 54 mm. A view showing one of Christy's campsites while on the march, with a row of tents erected beside the road. The photograph was taken on the Kampala-Hoima Road and shows Christy's tent in the foreground, then his assistant's and beyond, a cluster of tents for cook and porters.
Dates:
1903
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).
File
Rubber: ceara coming into its own, 1924
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/9/5
Scope and Contents
Annotated paper (six leaves) advocating the production of rubber in Tanganyika, Nyasaland, and Uganda.
Dates:
1924
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).
Item
Rubber patch, Chagwe Forests, Uganda, 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/74
Scope and Contents
100 x 72 mm. A view showing the edge of a young rubber patch from which the undergrowth has been recently cleared and the trunks of the trees whitewashed.
Dates:
1903 - 1910
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).
Series
Scottish diaries and ornithological notes, 1889-07-31 - 1893-06-19
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/1
Scope and Contents
Diaries describing ornithological excursions in Scotland.
Dates:
1889-07-31 - 1893-06-19
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).
File
Scottish diary, 1891-05-23 - 1892-07-13
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/1/2
Scope and Contents
Incomplete diary (circa 95 pages) describing ornithological excursions in Scotland. It includes an abstract of the paper 'An Ornithological excursion into the Highlands' by R. H. Read.
Dates:
1891-05-23 - 1892-07-13
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).
File
Scottish diary, 1893-03-11 - 1893-06-19
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/1/3
Scope and Contents
Diary of 47 pages describing ornithological excursions in Scotland.
Dates:
1893-03-11 - 1893-06-19
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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