Palaeontology
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Albert Brighton: Undergraduate lecture notebooks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8065-8067
Scope and Contents
Notebooks on lectures attended by Albert Brighton while taking the natural sciences tripos at Cambridge University.
Dates:
1919-1922
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
Geology and palaeontology, 1943-07-30 - 1989-07-30
Series
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/84
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Dates:
1943-07-30 - 1989-07-30
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Needham Research Institute. For further details on conditions governing access please contact the Librarian at library@nri.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours is available from the Institute's website https://www.nri.cam.ac.uk/the-archive.
Fonds
Papers of Richard G. West
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10392
Scope and Contents
The papers include a series of research files maintained by West relating to his site investigations and associated subjects. These are comprised of various combinations of notes, drafts, data recording sheets, correspondence, maps, sketches, charts and tables, diagrams, photographs, and annotated copies of publications. There is also a separate series of notebooks containing field notes, laboratory notes and notes synthesizing information from multiple sources; a large series of...
Dates:
1800 - 2020, predominant 1952-2019
Conditions Governing Access:
The Papers of Richard West are generally available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Access to some files is restricted in compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018. Access to some files is temporarily restricted pending conservation treatment. See individual file entries for details. Digital content requires further processing to make it accessible for consultation; this material does not currently appear in the catalogue.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
The Papers of the Sedgwick Club
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/590/SGWC
Scope and Contents
The Sedgwick Club Archive contains administrative documents including minute books, 1880-1926; financial records, 1880-1989; handwritten copies of papers given at meetings, 1880-; excursion scrapbooks, 1882 to 1950; social events records including menu cards; copies of club photographs 1900-1974 [NB: a full set of club photographs are on display in Cambridge University Department of Earth Sciences] and digitized copies of all group photographs [until 2016].
Dates:
1880 - 2020
Conditions Governing Access:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
Some scrapbooks are damaged and access is now restricted.
The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00.
A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and two forms of identification are required.
Found in:
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences