Christy, Cuthbert, 1863 - 1932 (explorer and zoologist)
Found in 219 Collections and/or Records:
Rubber: ceara coming into its own, 1924
Annotated paper (six leaves) advocating the production of rubber in Tanganyika, Nyasaland, and Uganda.
Rubber patch, Chagwe Forests, Uganda, 1903 - 1910
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.
Seven-year-old Funtumias, Molive, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910
101 x 75 mm. A view of a plantation of seven-year-old Funtumias showing the effects of close planting and late thinning. With an African youth seated in the foreground.
Sickly tree with profuse flower development, Mamu, Southern Nigeria
78 x 101 mm. A view showing the leaves of a sickly young tree with profuse flower development. Photograph probably by Christy.
[Sleeping Sickness Commission members, Congo 1903-1904], 1903 - 1904
102 x 76 mm. A view showing the four members of the Congo Sleeping Sickness Commission standing in front of a cage covered in gauze, presumably built to store captured tsetse flies. The figures are, from left to right, Dr John Lancelot Todd (1876-1949), Dr Inge Heiberg, representing the Congo Government on the Commission, Cuthbert Christy and Dr Joseph Everett Dutton (1874-1905). Photographer unknown.
Sleeping Sickness Commission notes, 1902-09-04 - 1903-01-18
Nineteen loose leaves recording the distribution of filariae in the places Christy surveyed.
'Snakes, burrs and birds', 1912
Article published in the journal Knowledge, Jan. 1912, 13.
(?) Somali woman travelling by ox, 1916
158 x 114 mm. A view showing a woman, probably Somali, seated on an ox with her belongings. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.
Sudan Sleeping Sickness Commission letter book, 1915-02-10 - 1916-01-29
Copies of letters (100 leaves) written by Christy during his work for the Sudan Sleeping Sickness Commission. Some also relate to the specimens he collected during the Congo Zoological Mission. An alphabetical index of recipients is included.
Sudanese diary, 1915-02-12 - 1915-10-26
The diary (300 pages) records regional sleeping sickness inspection tours and the mapping of the Nile-Congo boundary for the Sudanese Government. It includes considerable zoological notes, and descriptions of the terrain, missionary stations, and the African peoples that Christy encountered. In many entries, Christy has underlined key words in the text or written summaries in the margins.
Sudanese papers, 1915-02-10 - 1915-10-26
Diary and letters written by Christy during his work for the Sudanese Government.
Tapping groovers and pickers
73 x 92 mm. A studio photograph showing the 'Funtumia knife' and pricker, and a double instrument which performs both functions.
Tapping in Uganda
72 x 99 mm. A view showing a Swahili on climbing slings using a Funtumia knife to score tapping lines in a rubber tree using the D.H.S. system (the Double Half Spiral) with alternate spiral lines running into a central vertical line which leads down to the collection cup.
Tapping in Uganda
74 x 95 mm. A view showing a Swahili on climbing slings using a Funtumia knife to score tapping lines in a rubber tree using the D.H.S. system (the Double Half Spiral) with alternate spiral lines running into a central vertical line which leads down to the collection cup.
Ten-year-old Funtumias, Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910
101 x 76 mm. A view showing an African youth standing beside a ten-year-old Funtumia. The tree illustrates the vertical system of tapping.
'The African rubber industry and Funtumia elastica', 1911
Prospectus of the book written by Christy and published by John Bale, Sons & Danielsson in 1911.
The Chef de Poste of Boga and escort of Askaris, Semliki River, (n.d.) [i.e. no date]
104 x 79 mm. A view showing the Boga Chef de Poste and his askaris standing on the left (Congo) bank of the Semliki River near Lessi. The rows of wooden stakes in the river are fish traps.
The Little Red Ituri Forest Buffalo (B. nanus) 1913, 1913
115 x 85 mm. A view showing an old bull shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.
The spiral system with the 'Funtumia knife'
72 x 93 mm. A view showing an incision being made in the bark of a rubber tree with the cutting end of a 'Funtumia knife'.
The spiral system with the 'Funtumia knife'
74 x 94 mm. A view showing the groove being deepened with the pricking end of the 'Funtumia knife'.
The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo, 1915, 1915
95 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot by Christy in order to capture its calf for the Antwerp Zoological Gardens.
The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo, 1915, 1915
95 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot by Christy in order to capture its calf for the Antwerp Zoological Gardens.
The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo, 1915, 1915
95 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot by Christy in order to capture its calf for the Antwerp Zoological Gardens.
The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Wele District, 1915, 1915
100 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot in the Bahr el Ghazal area (Nile-Congo Divide) [possibly Bahr al Ghazal in Sudan] by Christy, with two rifles laid against the stomach of the animal.
The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Wele District, 1915, 1915
100 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot in the Bahr el Ghazal area (Nile-Congo Divide) [possibly Bahr al Ghazal in Sudan] by Christy, with two rifles laid against the stomach of the animal.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Congo (nation) 53
- Uganda (nation) 36
- Nigeria (nation) 26
- Congo (general region) 25
- Sudan (nation) 22
- Orientale (province) 21
- Cameroon (nation) 18
- Sud-Ouest, Province du (province) 18
- Victoria (inhabited place) 16
- Southern (region) 13
- Bahr al Ghazal (province) 10
- Tanzania (nation) 9
- Malawi (nation) 8
- Liberia (nation) 7
- Niangara (inhabited place) 7
- Monrovia (inhabited place) 6
- Calabar (inhabited place) 5
- Kakata (inhabited place) 5
- Kenya (nation) 5
- Kisangani (inhabited place) 5
- Stanley Falls (waterfall) 5
- Tanganyika, Lake (lake) 5
- Cross River (state) 4
- Kasanga (inhabited place) 4
- Khartoum (inhabited place) 4
- Baraka (watercourse) 3
- Benin City (inhabited place) 3
- Eastern Equatoria (province) 3
- Entebbe (inhabited place) 3
- Gabon (nation) 3
- Ghana (nation) 3
- Ituri (river) 3
- Kampala (inhabited place) 3
- Kigoma (inhabited place) 3
- Luebo (inhabited place) 3
- Mongalla (inhabited place) 3
- Nile River (river) 3
- Ashanti (region) 2
- Cameroon Mountain (mountain) 2
- Central (province) 2
- Edo (state) 2
- Ibadan (inhabited place) 2
- Kalémié (inhabited olace) 2
- Kibanga Port (inhabited place) 2
- Kinshasa (inhabited place) 2
- Kinshasa, Ville de (province) 2
- North Buganda (province) 2
- Nyasa, Lake (lake) 2
- Oyo (state) 2
- Usambara Mountains (mountains) 2
- Victoria, Lake (lake) 2
- Asia (continent) 1
- Benin (nation) 1
- Bioko (island) 1
- Bujumbura (inhabited place) 1
- Burundi (nation) 1
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the (nation) 1
- Dar es Salaam (inhabited place) 1
- Equatorial Guinea (nation) 1
- Fort Portal (inhabited place) 1
- Iran (nation) 1
- Jebba (inhabited place) 1
- Kango (inhabited place) 1
- Karonga (inhabited place) 1
- Libreville (inhabited place) 1
- Malebo, Pool (lake) 1
- Mombasa (inhabited place) 1
- Mozambique (nation) 1
- Mwaya (inhabited place) 1
- Nairobi (inhabited place) 1
- Nile (province) 1
- Owendo (inhabited place) 1
- Somalia (nation) 1
- Tukuyu (inhabited place) 1 + ∧ less