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Scope and Contents Commemorative booklet, illustrated in black and white and colour, recording the proceedings of an event held on Monday 6 December 2004 at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, in memory of Professor Sir Charles Oatley [1904-96, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge 1960-71 and developer of one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes]. With contributions by the following: Prof K Glover; H Ahmed; D McMullan; K C A Smith; O C Wells; R F W...

Scope and Contents Booklet written by Peter Grubb, E Anne Stow, and S Max Walters and published by the Department of Plant Sciences (formerly the School of Botany) to celebrate the centenary of the Botany School building and the life and work of Harry Marshall Ward [1854-1906, Professor of Botany, also President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1904]. The booklet includes a biography of Harry Marshall Ward; also a section on various Cambridge Botany buildings, including detail of the history of the...

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The committee was appointed to draw up a programme of events to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Society.

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Signed minutes.

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Minutes, papers and correspondence.

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Published by the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

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Folder printed with the above title, containing 2 b/w photographs, each 20cm x 10cm, showing group photographs of those attending a Cambridge Philosophical Society visit to the Monotype Works. A key to names is given. Miss J E Larter, Executive Secretary and Librarian of the Society, is among those attending.

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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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28 page account for ‘Extra Works in additions to a Contract & Omissions therefrom for Erecting and finishing the new Rooms for the Philosophical Society Cambridge’ [in All Saints Passage] by William and Josh [Joseph?] Charles Bell, under headings for: Bricklayer & Digger; Mason; Plasterer; Carpenter & Joiner; Plumber; Glazier; Smith; Painter. Together with certificate of execution of the works by Charles Humfrey, architect, on last page.

Scope and Contents ‘Account of the proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society at their meeting of March 18, 1867, with a few reflections suggested by those proceedings.’ Manuscript with alterations and annotations, written 20 March 1867. Together with a letter from Herbert W Turnbull (whose father, W P Turnbull, wrote the account) to Professor Baker, 4 September 1926, in which he says the paper was ‘read I think at an Essay Society known as the Parallelepiped, which consisted of six members,...

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These volumes record copies sold to members, copies sent to booksellers, and copies sent as gifts to individuals and organisations.

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Entitled 'Memorandum Book for the Philosophical Society's Transactions'. Comprises chiefly lists of ‘copies sent to Members & not yet paid for’, annotated accordingly when payment made. Also some lists of presentation copies made. Largely written in the hands of Sedgwick and Henslow. A note written by Bewick Bridge, circa 1822, reads ‘It will be extremely difficult for the Treasurer to keep the Account for Books sold unless they are paid for at the time they are taken’.

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Front cover inscribed ‘Account of copies of the Philosophical Society’s Transactions Sent to Booksellers’, containing lists for 1825 only. Back cover inscribed ‘Account of Transactions sold - - - ‘, containing lists for 1825-27, including a record of 'Transactions sold and not paid for', 1825.

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Front cover inscribed ‘Account of Transactions Sent as Presents', containing lists for 1827-34, chiefly of institutions to which Transactions were sent. Back cover inscribed ‘Account of Transactions sold to members of the Cambridge Philosophical Society’, containing lists 1827-28.

Scope and Contents Front cover inscribed ‘Account of Transactions sent as Presents’, containing list of organisations and individuals receiving Transactions as a gift. Back cover inscribed ‘Account of Transactions sold to Members’. Pasted onto flyleaf at front: letter from Stationers’ Hall, 9 March 1837, concerning the five copies of books required to be sent to Stationers’ Hall for the British Museum, Oxford [Bodleian Library], Cambridge University Library, Trinity College Dublin and the Advocates Library,...

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This sub-section contains records relating to the building and maintenance of the Cambridge Philosophical Society's house on All Saints Passage, including a building specification, bills, and papers concerning lighting and ventilation.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers concerning the transport of, receipt of, duty on, and poste restante arrangements for parcels of publications from other bodies, including the Smithsonian Institution, Washington; the Société des Sciences, Bordeaux; and the Academy of Munich; also items from Vienna and Italy. Agents of transport include Williams & Norgate of 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden; C F Molini of 17 King William Street, West Strand; Golden Cross Foreign Office, 41 Regent Circus,...

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This sub-section contains papers and correspondence relating to the acquisition by the Cambridge Philosophical Society of books, periodicals, maps etc, including donations books dating from 1851-1874. The donations books listed at CPS 9/2/3 record donations to the Society's Library and its Museum.

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File contains 2 sheets [watermarked T Gilling 1831], as follows:
1) List of costs (appears to be a list of additional costs presented to a committee);
2) Report explaining the reasons for the additional costs.

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The agreement assigns copyright in the book to the Cambridge Philosophical Society, royalties and copyright having been bequeathed to the Society in the will of E H Hankin.

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'The Organisation of Agriculture': the Alexander Pedler Lecture, British Science Guild, delivered by Sir Daniel Hall at the CPS meeting of 6 November 1933. 13 page booklet.

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This sub-section contains records relating to the building and maintenance of the Cambridge Philosophical Society's house on All Saints Passage, including a building specification, bills, and papers concerning lighting and ventilation.

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B/w photograph by Edward Leigh, 15cm x 20cm (as used on p 25 of Rupert Hall's history of the Cambridge Philosophical Society) of the building erected by the Society on All Saints Passage and occupied by it from 1833 to 1865.

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This sub-section contains records relating to the celebration of Cambridge Philosophical Society anniversaries, including charter anniversaries; the 150th anniversary of the Society in 1969; and anniversaries of other learned societies.

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This sub-section contains papers and artefacts relating to anniversaries and events celebrated by other learned societies in the UK and overseas, including copies of formal addresses of congratulation sent by the Cambridge Philosophical Society.