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

 Person

Found in 262 Collections and/or Records:

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Sleeping Sickness Commission notes, 1902-09-04 - 1903-01-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4/7
Scope and Contents

Nineteen loose leaves recording the distribution of filariae in the places Christy surveyed.

Dates: 1902-09-04 - 1903-01-18
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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'Snakes, burrs and birds', 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/9/6
Scope and Contents

Article published in the journal Knowledge, Jan. 1912, 13.

Dates: 1912
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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(?) Somali woman travelling by ox, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/14
Scope and Contents

158 x 114 mm. A view showing a woman, probably Somali, seated on an ox with her belongings. 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).
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Street in Madeira, 1909, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/335
Scope and Contents

300 x 87 mm. A panoramic view looking along a street in Madeira with a dry river bed in the centre 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).
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Sudan Sleeping Sickness Commission letter book, 1915-02-10 - 1916-01-29

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/6/1
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1915-02-10 - 1916-01-29
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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Sudanese diary, 1915-02-12 - 1915-10-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/6/2
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1915-02-12 - 1915-10-26
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

Sudanese papers, 1915-02-10 - 1915-10-26

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/6
Scope and Contents

Diary and letters written by Christy during his work for the Sudanese Government.

Dates: 1915-02-10 - 1915-10-26
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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Tapping groovers and pickers

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/106
Scope and Contents

73 x 92 mm. A studio photograph showing the 'Funtumia knife' and pricker, and a double instrument which performs both functions.

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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Tapping in Uganda

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/107
Scope and Contents

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.

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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Tapping in Uganda

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/108
Scope and Contents

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.

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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Ten-year-old Funtumias, Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/92
Scope and Contents

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.

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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'The African rubber industry and Funtumia elastica', 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/9/2
Scope and Contents

Prospectus of the book written by Christy and published by John Bale, Sons & Danielsson in 1911.

Dates: 1911
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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The Chef de Poste of Boga and escort of Askaris, Semliki River, (n.d.) [i.e. no date]

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/159
Scope and Contents

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.

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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The Little Red Ituri Forest Buffalo (B. nanus) 1913, 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/219
Scope and Contents

115 x 85 mm. A view showing an old bull shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.

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).
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The spiral system with the 'Funtumia knife'

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/109
Scope and Contents

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'.

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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The spiral system with the 'Funtumia knife'

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/110
Scope and Contents

74 x 94 mm. A view showing the groove being deepened with the pricking end of the 'Funtumia knife'.

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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The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/202
Scope and Contents

95 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot by Christy in order to capture its calf for the Antwerp Zoological Gardens.

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).
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The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/203
Scope and Contents

95 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot by Christy in order to capture its calf for the Antwerp Zoological Gardens.

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).
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The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/204
Scope and Contents

95 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot by Christy in order to capture its calf for the Antwerp Zoological Gardens.

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).
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The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Wele District, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/199
Scope and Contents

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.

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).
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The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Wele District, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/200
Scope and Contents

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.

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).
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The square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Wele District, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/201
Scope and Contents

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.

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).
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The Stanley Falls fisheries at Stanleyville [i.e. Kisangani] 1912-14, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/236
Scope and Contents 99 x 75 mm. A view showing the wooden stagings of the fish traps:'Towards the end of the low-water season, small tree-trunks and great supporting posts are fixed upright amongst the rocks and broken water at the falls ... Upon these are built elaborate stagings, lashed with forest creeper ropes, and stretching far out across the tumbling rapids from both banks. Six or ten feet beneath the staging, according to the height of the water, are suspended conical or bell-shaped basket...
Dates: 1912 - 1914
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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The Stanley Falls fisheries at Stanleyville [i.e. Kisangani] 1912-14, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/237
Scope and Contents

99 x 75 mm. A view showing the wooden stagings of the fish traps. Photograph probably by Christy.

Dates: 1912 - 1914
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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The Stanley Falls fisheries at Stanleyville [i.e. Kisangani] 1912-14, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/238
Scope and Contents

99 x 75 mm. A view showing the wooden stagings of the fish traps. Photograph probably by Christy.

Dates: 1912 - 1914
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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