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Correspondence from the distinguished palaeobotanist Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854-1934), honorary director of the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew and notebooks containing notes on plant fossils.

Scope and Contents Front cover marked 'Photographs taken by members of the British Association, Prof. Seward, Dr Lauder'. Photographs include: T.S.S. Euripides in dock; multiple photographs of members of the trip on deck; Cape Town; Soerabaya, Java; Chinese temple, Penang; the Three Sisters and Blue Mountains (Australia) and the Ainsworth Royal Hotel, Mirrool; group photograph of British Association delegates (including Prof. and Mrs [Marion] Seward) on deck on the Euripides; large group of ostriches...

Scope and Contents The date at which the Association was founded has not been ascertained, but it was presumably part of the opposition to the movement for tariff reform that developed within the Conservative party and elsewhere from 1902. With the exception of one undated letter (Add.9787/1/1) that was apparently written while the Association was being formed, the correspondence in this collection begins in March 1906, when a circular (not present) was sent to members announcing that the Association would...

Scope and Contents Includes: 1) British Association for the Advancement of Science Botany (K) Section meeting at Birmingham, 1913, including (from online sources) from back to front, left to right M.J.Legoe, T. Whitehead, Miss Jepps, Dr. Darbishire / Dr. Gordon, Miss L.J. Clarke, Miss Bancroft, F.D. Farrow / Prof. Buller, Dr. Marie C. Stopes (Birkbeck student), Prof. M.J. Benson, F.T. Brooks, R.H. Compton, R.S. Adamson, Miss E.N. Thomas, C.G.P. Laidlaw, H.H. Thomas / Miss Mitchell, Miss Hume, Miss...

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Correspondence concerning the publication 'Darwin and Modern Science', edited by A.C. Seward.

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Correspondence and other papers compiled in his capacity as Master of Downing College.

Scope and Contents Includes photographs of family life before A. C. Seward became Master at Downing, including at the family's Old Farm Cottage in Walberswick with family, visitors and friends, Seward's lab and the family home (at Westfield, Cambridge), including Marion's studio. Others pictured include: Frances Lupton; Arthur Rackham; Connie and Molly Scott; Bertram Priestman (painting with Marion) and Mrs Priestman; Professor Yapp; Taffy Giles and Betty Willis; Mr Rose and Dr Giles; Mrs Alexander and...

Scope and Contents Envelope including letters from a variety of correspondents: extract from Governing Body minutes, May 1907, relating to Mrs Maitland's gift, in memory of F.W. Maitland, of her late husband's set of the Seldon Society journals and 'the fittings of the West Lodge Lecture room', including tables, shelving and a large bookcase from his rooms at Trinity; from Violet Marsh (widow of the former Master, Professor Howard Marsh), re her gift to the College in his memory of several pieces of silver -...

Scope and Contents Letters to F.T. Brooks from I.H. Burkill, Sir A.W. Hill, A.B. Rendle, B.J. Rendle, Sir A.C. Seward and Cambridge University Press, and carbon copies of letters from Brooks, 15 April 1935-7 June 1938.BURKILL, (ISAAC) HENRY (1870-1965) (botanist). Letters to and from F.T. Brooks (1938) Add.9697/73-74,76CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. Correspondence with F.T. Brooks and G.A. Rendle (1935-38) Add.9697/64,67(ii),68,77-79CHIPP, ISABEL MARY (1888- ) (widow of Dr T.F. Chipp). Letter to...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Correspondence and papers of Henry Jackson concerning the place of Greek in the University of Cambridge's curriculum and examinations at the University 1878-80 and 1904-06 [1] An account of the movement for examination reform in the 1870s and of the work of the Greek Syndicate is given in D.A. Winstanley, 'Later Victorian Cambridge' (1947), chapter V. Further papers of Jackson concerning the Syndicate are at MS Add.5944/25 and /39. [2] A scrapbook made by A.C. Seward dealing with the 'Greek...

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Letters written to Dorothy (and Phyllis) at school in Godalming.

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Correspondence and other papers compiled in his capacity as Master of Downing College.

Scope and Contents Only partially copied (without holiday photos and non-Downing groups). Includes: Lord Robert Cecil and Canon Raven with A. C. Seward at Downing; Margery at the pianola in the Drawing Room in the Master's Lodge; Mary Hayward and Miss Smuts; Dockerill in an Austin car in front of the Master's Lodge at Downing; Huon and Camilla Walton [Dorothy and John's children]; Helen and Ladybird Haslam; Dorothy Sampson [Phyllis and Michael's daughter]; Margery ('dressed for Princess Mary') and Carola in...

Scope and Contents Includes; various family groups (including Phyllis and Michael Sampson's wedding, 1923, and the Walton family), Huon and Camilla as children; interior of Drawing Room at Downing, with Margery at her pianola; Marion, Phyllis and Mr Priestman sketching; 'Group at Downing' on Master's Lodge steps, including Seward women and Downing students (including John Walton); groups including Hugh Hamshaw Thomas and [Downing?] men Atkinson and Fuljames; A. C. Seward with Sir R. Cecil [Lord Robert Cecil?];...

Scope and Contents Includes: views of Cambridge Botanic Garden rock garden and pond, June 1914; interior and exterior of family home (before Downing) at Westfield, Cambridge, and various interior and external shots at Downing; May Races, 1914 (Seward family, Mr Blackman, Mr Kidd, Mr Price, Margaret and Mrs Tarsley); Cadets sports prize giving, 1917, including Col. Edwards and Cadet Stewart; 'Hospital Group', 1915 and various photographs of staff and patients (incl Pte Mansfield) at the Red Cross Wordsworth...

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Includes Prof. A. C. Seward (2nd from right on front seated row) and Hugh Hamshaw Thomas and Edith Gertrude Torrance ['Torrie'], his wife from 1923 (3rd and 4th from right on row behind). Also includes John Walton (Seward's son-in-law) seated 2nd from left on ground. Henry Horation Dixon (President of Section K, 1922) is seated centre on the front row, with Edith Saunders (in black) to his right.