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General plans and those for Salvin's Buildings on the New Museums Site, 1863 - 1890
The category - Assets records - comprises records relating to property and personnel. Accounting material is in this category, alongside records of endowments, charitable trusts, buildings and employees.
Plans of the Examination Schools on the New Museums Site, built 1909, 1906
The contractor was William Sindall. Plans 1-9 are contract plans.
Plans of the Arts School on the New Museums Site, comprising new lecture rooms and departmental library, 1909-09 - 1910-01
The contractor was William Sindall.
'History of New Museums', 1716 - 1891
This collection of records assembled by John Willis Clark, documents the development of the former Botanic Garden in central Cambridge as the site - the New Museums site as it became known - for teaching and research in science subjects. Clark, who was Superintendent of the Museum of Zoology and Secretary of the Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate 1865-91, provided a contents list at the start of each volume. This has been transcribed in the descriptions below.
Archives of the Botanic Garden, 1856 - 2002
The archives comprise a wide range of operational records, covering the management and development of premises and grounds, garden planting, gardening advice within and without the University, visitors and Friends, accounts, bequests (including that by Reginald Cory) and staff, as well as papers concerning interaction with the Botany School and botanical research in general.
Archives of the Mathematical Laboratory and its successor, the Computer Laboratory, 1934 - 2006
The archives comprise limited quantities of administrative material, including of the Computing Service. Much more significant are the surviving records of EDSAC and EDSAC 2 [Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator], among the earliest electronic computers, developed in the late 1940s and 1950s.