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Scope and Contents Record of annual dinners and some special dinners of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, noting date, time, venue, signatures of those attending, menus and seating plans. The record appears to be incomplete but the following years are recorded: 1845 (the cost of a ticket being 13/6); 1878-1932 (no dinner was held in 1912 because of the death of George Darwin, President, and dinners were suspended 1914-18), 1935, 1938, 1966 (dinner for Academician Pyotr Kapitza held at Gonville and Caius...

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This section lists annual accounts, cash books, papers relating to investments, and receipts etc kept by the Treasurer.

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Two bundles of signed forms on which Fellows of the Society agree or disagree in principle with the ‘recommendation of the Council of the Cambridge Philosophical Society that the Society should participate in the establishment of a University Science Library’, many Fellows adding detailed comments on the proposal.

Scope and Contents Approximately 9,000 printed cards, one per subject, filled in by hand with the following information: reference number; name; college; birthplace; date of birth; ‘Origin’ (ie ‘N. or S. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland &c’); date of observations; details of eyes, eyesight, strength of pull, strength of squeeze, breathing power, head dimensions, height, weight, and span of arms. The format of the cards changed, circa 1897, to include extra information on eyes, hair, ears, facial...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Approximately 9,000 printed cards, one per subject, filled in by hand with the following information: reference number; name; college; birthplace; date of birth; ‘Origin’ (ie ‘N. or S. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland &c’); date of observations; details of eyes, eyesight, strength of pull, strength of squeeze, breathing power, head dimensions, height, weight, and span of arms. The format of the cards changed, circa 1897, to include extra information on eyes, hair, ears, facial...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Approximately 9,000 printed cards, one per subject, filled in by hand with the following information: reference number; name; college; birthplace; date of birth; ‘Origin’ (ie ‘N. or S. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland &c’); date of observations; details of eyes, eyesight, strength of pull, strength of squeeze, breathing power, head dimensions, height, weight, and span of arms. The format of the cards changed, circa 1897, to include extra information on eyes, hair, ears, facial...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Approximately 9,000 printed cards, one per subject, filled in by hand with the following information: reference number; name; college; birthplace; date of birth; ‘Origin’ (ie ‘N. or S. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland &c’); date of observations; details of eyes, eyesight, strength of pull, strength of squeeze, breathing power, head dimensions, height, weight, and span of arms. The format of the cards changed, circa 1897, to include extra information on eyes, hair, ears, facial...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Approximately 9,000 printed cards, one per subject, filled in by hand with the following information: reference number; name; college; birthplace; date of birth; ‘Origin’ (ie ‘N. or S. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland &c’); date of observations; details of eyes, eyesight, strength of pull, strength of squeeze, breathing power, head dimensions, height, weight, and span of arms. The format of the cards changed, circa 1897, to include extra information on eyes, hair, ears, facial...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Approximately 9,000 printed cards, one per subject, filled in by hand with the following information: reference number; name; college; birthplace; date of birth; ‘Origin’ (ie ‘N. or S. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland &c’); date of observations; details of eyes, eyesight, strength of pull, strength of squeeze, breathing power, head dimensions, height, weight, and span of arms. The format of the cards changed, circa 1897, to include extra information on eyes, hair, ears, facial...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Approximately 9,000 printed cards, one per subject, filled in by hand with the following information: reference number; name; college; birthplace; date of birth; ‘Origin’ (ie ‘N. or S. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland &c’); date of observations; details of eyes, eyesight, strength of pull, strength of squeeze, breathing power, head dimensions, height, weight, and span of arms. The format of the cards changed, circa 1897, to include extra information on eyes, hair, ears, facial...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Approximately 9,000 printed cards, one per subject, filled in by hand with the following information: reference number; name; college; birthplace; date of birth; ‘Origin’ (ie ‘N. or S. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland &c’); date of observations; details of eyes, eyesight, strength of pull, strength of squeeze, breathing power, head dimensions, height, weight, and span of arms. The format of the cards changed, circa 1897, to include extra information on eyes, hair, ears, facial...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Approximately 9,000 printed cards, one per subject, filled in by hand with the following information: reference number; name; college; birthplace; date of birth; ‘Origin’ (ie ‘N. or S. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland &c’); date of observations; details of eyes, eyesight, strength of pull, strength of squeeze, breathing power, head dimensions, height, weight, and span of arms. The format of the cards changed, circa 1897, to include extra information on eyes, hair, ears, facial...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Approximately 9,000 printed cards, one per subject, filled in by hand with the following information: reference number; name; college; birthplace; date of birth; ‘Origin’ (ie ‘N. or S. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland &c’); date of observations; details of eyes, eyesight, strength of pull, strength of squeeze, breathing power, head dimensions, height, weight, and span of arms. The format of the cards changed, circa 1897, to include extra information on eyes, hair, ears, facial...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Approximately 9,000 printed cards, one per subject, filled in by hand with the following information: reference number; name; college; birthplace; date of birth; ‘Origin’ (ie ‘N. or S. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland &c’); date of observations; details of eyes, eyesight, strength of pull, strength of squeeze, breathing power, head dimensions, height, weight, and span of arms. The format of the cards changed, circa 1897, to include extra information on eyes, hair, ears, facial...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Approximately 9,000 printed cards, one per subject, filled in by hand with the following information: reference number; name; college; birthplace; date of birth; ‘Origin’ (ie ‘N. or S. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland &c’); date of observations; details of eyes, eyesight, strength of pull, strength of squeeze, breathing power, head dimensions, height, weight, and span of arms. The format of the cards changed, circa 1897, to include extra information on eyes, hair, ears, facial...

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This box contains seven bundles with their original labels, as follows:
Women: chiefly from Newnham College, plus some from Girton College and some visitors, 1894-97;
‘Different type of cards’ (all Newnham College, 1894);
‘India’, 1897-1903;
‘One or both parents foreign or no statement’, 1897-1904;
‘No age’, 1897-1903;
‘Age under 18’, 1897-1904;
‘See former cards’, 1901-04 [presumably some subjects were measured more than once].

Scope and Contents Bill sent by Charles Humfrey, architect, for £205, together with covering letter, 21 April 1834. The file also contains the following:Bill for £29 10s for two marble chimney pieces and packing and delivery, 3 March 1834;Receipt for payment by the Society to Charles Humfrey of £29 10s, 7 April 1834;Receipt for payment by the Society to Charles Humfrey of £184 11s 6d on completion, 12 September 1834;Letter from Charles Humfrey to Frederick Thackeray, Treasurer of the Society, 3...

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This sub-section contains articles, notes etc which are based, wholly or in part, on research in the Cambridge Philosophical Society archive.

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This sub-section contains records relating to premises occupied by the Cambridge Philosophical Society in the Arts School from 1935. [In 1976, the Library became a dependent part of Cambridge University Library while retaining its links with the Society.]

Scope and Contents Arranged alphabetically by surname, recording the following information: name; dates of membership and record of subscriptions paid; date of election; degree / university; Cambridge College / Department; ‘P.K.’ [this may stand for ‘Personal Knowledge’, ie the name of a person who knows the applicant personally and proposed them for membership]. The cards are often annotated with later details, eg contact made to check whether they are still in Cambridge; moves to other departments; those...

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Surnames A-B.

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Surnames C-D.

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Surnames E-G.

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Surnames H-K.

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Surnames L-M.