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

 Person

Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:

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Report on the possibility of the development of a Manihot (Ceará) rubber planting industry in the southern Sudan, 1915

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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).
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Review of 'Zwischen Weissem nil und Belgisch-Kongo' by Hugo Adolf Bernatzik, 1929

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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).
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Roadside camp, Uganda, 1903, 1903

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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).
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Rubber: ceara coming into its own, 1924

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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).
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Rubber patch, Chagwe Forests, Uganda, 1903 - 1910

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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).
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Seven-year-old Funtumias, Molive, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/93
Scope and Contents

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.

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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Sickly tree with profuse flower development, Mamu, Southern Nigeria

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/124
Scope and Contents

78 x 101 mm. A view showing the leaves of a sickly young tree with profuse flower development. Photograph probably by 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).
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[Sleeping Sickness Commission members, Congo 1903-1904], 1903 - 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/246
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1903 - 1904
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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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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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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