Christy, Cuthbert, 1863 - 1932 (explorer and zoologist)
Person
Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Effects of tapping on Funtumia elastica, Ashanti, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana]
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/102
Scope and Contents
76 x 93 mm. A view showing deep scarring caused by overtapping with African gouges ('a very common sight').
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
Effects of tapping on Funtumia elastica, Ashanti, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/103
Scope and Contents
77 x 94 mm. A view showing a rubber tree with raised scars along the tapping lines of a tree 'an occasional result of deep excision tapping with native gouge'.
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
Effects of tapping, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/105
Scope and Contents
76 x 94 mm. A view showing the scars (fourteen months old) caused by deep vertical incision with a pruning 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).
Item
Eight-year-old Funtumias, Botanic Gardens, Aburi, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/85
Scope and Contents
99 x 77 mm. A view showing a plantation of Funtumias planted on a rocky site.
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
Elephant grass in Uganda, 1907, 1907
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/141
Scope and Contents
112 x 157 mm. A view showing Cuthbert Christy and a band of porters standing in elephant grass from twelve to fifteen feet high.
Dates:
1907
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
Elephant grass in Uganda, 1907, 1907
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/142
Scope and Contents
74 x 100 mm. A view showing Cuthbert Christy and a band of porters standing in elephant grass from twelve to fifteen feet high.
Dates:
1907
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
Elephant grass in Uganda, 1907, 1907
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/143
Scope and Contents
74 x 100 mm. A view showing Cuthbert Christy and a band of porters standing in elephant grass from twelve to fifteen feet high.
Dates:
1907
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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[European and Africans Congo (n.d.)]
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/252
Scope and Contents
85 x 72 mm. A view showing an unidentified heavily bearded European standing in the centre of a group of Pygmies. Photographer unknown, possibly Christy.
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
Exhibits and correspondence, 1930-07-07 - 1930-09-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/8/2
Scope and Contents
File containing the commission's terms of reference and the evidence it gathered during its enquiry. It includes an index to the 102 items.
Dates:
1930-07-07 - 1930-09-11
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
Experimental tapping, Molive, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon]
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/113
Scope and Contents
77 x 99 mm. A view showing an African tapping a rubber tree with the 'Victoria Knife' an implement with a long, curved blade.
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
Felling timber, Mamu, Southern Nigeria, 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/71
Scope and Contents
75 x 99 mm. A view showing a forest clearing with felled timber in one of the Funtumia plots.
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
Five-and-a-half year old Funtumias, Myanja Plantation, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/95
Scope and Contents
75 x 96 mm. A view showing a block of five-and-a-half year old rubber trees.
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
Four-year-old Funtumias, Molive Plantation, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/84
Scope and Contents
103 x 78mm. A view showing a group of four-year old rubber trees in a 450 acre plot.
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
Funtumia Africana seeds, 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/70
Scope and Contents
97 x 74 mm. A studio photograph demonstrating the way in which Funtumia Africana seeds are blown by the wind from their pods. Taken at the Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Cameroons.
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
Funtumia elastica growing in avenues, Calabar, Southern Nigeria, 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/78
Scope and Contents
77 x 96 mm. A view looking along a pathway lined with rubber trees.
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
Funtumia elastica growing in the open, Calabar, Southern Nigeria, 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/79
Scope and Contents
78 x 97 mm. A view showing a young African standing beside a rubber tree growing without early pruning or side shade.
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
Funtumia elastica grown in avenues, Calabar, Southern Nigeria, 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/80
Scope and Contents
79 x 100 mm. A view looking along a pathway lined with rubber trees. 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).
Item
Funtumias, Victoria Planting Company, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/96
Scope and Contents
109 x 155 mm. A view looking along rows of five-and-a-half year old Funtumias.
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
Funtumias, Victoria Planting Company, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/97
Scope and Contents
163 x 127 mm. A view looking along rows of five-and-a-half year old Funtumia elasticas and showing natural regeneration.
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).
File
General Report on a tour through the Lado, Belgian Congo and the southern Bahr-el-Ghazal, undertaken during 1915, 1916-10
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/6/3
Scope and Contents
Annotated rough copy (32 leaves) of Christy's final report of his survey for the Sudan Sleeping Sickness Commission.
Dates:
1916-10
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
[Group of Europeans, ? Uganda, 1902], 1902
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/56
Scope and Contents
157 x 115 mm. A view showing three men and a woman standing on the front steps of a house, possibly in Uganda. Cuthbert Christy is at the left of the group, other figures are unidentified. Photographer unknown.
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).
Item
[Group of (? West) African musicians], 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/31
Scope and Contents
169 x 118 mm. A portrait showing a group of Africans, two of whom stand beside decorated drums. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.
Dates:
1900
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
Head of four year old sapling of funtamia elastica, 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/66
Scope and Contents
73 x 94 mm. A view showing the top of a four year old sapling with the fifth year growth developing.
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
Heavy figure-of-four trap for wild pig (n.d.)
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/235
Scope and Contents
97 x 74 mm. A view showing a wooden lattice-work trap made by marginal forest inhabitants for capturing wild pig and other animals.
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
High tapping, Molive, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon]
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/114
Scope and Contents
77 x 97 mm. A view showing an African making vertical tapping cuts on a tree with a pruning knife attached to a bamboo pole.
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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