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Correspondence regarding foreign observatories, including those in Czechoslovakia, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Argentina, Turkey, Portugal, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Finland and Denmark.

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Correspondence with foreign observatories, including those in Finland, Belgium, Mexico, South Africa (the Union Observatory), Italy, Sweden, Japan, Switzerland, Rome, Argentina and Brazil.

Scope and Contents This series comprises items that constitute a personal record of Joan Robinson's travels in Europe, Asia and Central America. They include travel notes, itineraries, and field notes recording visits to factories, farms, and other places. Particularly detailed are the notes taken while in China during 1963-4, 1967 and 1972.Most of Joan Robinson's field notes were placed in notebooks on which the recto sides of the sheets were used, then the notebook turned round and started again from the...

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Insects / In these genera two of the islands have each their own species

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin Insects / In these genera two of the islands have each their own species

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Scope and Contents Transcripts of volumes of Inquisition Records from the National Archives of Mexico. The majority of the transcripts concern legal suits and trials. There is also material describing the family and descendants of particular individuals, including Juan Suarez Davila and Diego Suarez Pacheco, 1529-1588; Martin Lopez and Geronimo Lopez; Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano and his son, Don Carlos, 1559-1611; Don Tristan de Arellano, 1575-1634; Rodrigo de Vivero, 1597-1673; and Don Rodrigo de Vivero,...

Scope and Contents Papers from CS's visit to Mexico for trade talks, April 1975, including: itinerary and programme; records of meetings; text of CS's speech at a luncheon given by the Mexican Businessmen's Council for International Affairs; correspondence with Sir John Galsworthy [British Ambassador to Mexico] and Jennifer, Lady Galsworthy on arrangements; briefing notes and correspondence on a statue of Sir Winston Churchill by Oscar Nemon in Mexico City, to be unveiled by MS; press release, cuttings and...

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Letters from John Smart in America to his mother, pasted into scrapbooks with additional material, including postcards, photographs, newscuttings and printed items, with comments and explanations by Smart.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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Organ Mt / Second letter to Lyell from Bunbury

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Asa Gray in letter to Hooker uses same argument as Dana about representative species

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Scope and Contents Miscellaneous pieces on longitude and solar eclipses. The papers concerning longitude include pieces to ascertain the longitudes of Boston (by W.C. Bond), Durham, Cork and Haulbowline, the boundary between the U.S.A. and Mexico, and Batavia. The longitudes of Ipswich and Madras are also briefly mentioned. The material on eclipses include the eclipse of the Sun of 11 May 1724, with a contemporary illustration; a map of the world; the solar eclipse of 19 July 1748; the lunar eclipse of 28 July...

Scope and Contents Papers concerning tides, the Claudian invasion of Britain and the determination of longitudes. There is material on the 'Eclipse of Thales'; a paper by F. Diaz Covarrubios determining the geographical position of Mexico; D. May's observations in the neighbourhood of River Quarra (West Africa); Airy's comments on Lewis' essay on Julius Caesar's invasion; an article in 'The Times' on Caesar's invasion; Airy's paper on the landing of Claudius; C. Merivale's two articles, one on Claudius'...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers regarding time signals, including the following items:Correspondence between H. Spencer Jones, H.M. Smith and the Admiralty concerning equipment required and installations at Abinger, clock radio receivers and aerial systems, 1952-1955.Correspondence with Central Rediffusion Services Ltd and the Admiralty concerning the availability of the 6 pips time signal for the Independent Television Authority, 1955.Correspondence between R. Atkinson and...

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Includes: schedules; briefing cards for MT's bilateral meeting with Hurtado; and top copy of the speech given by MT at a luncheon, 10 Downing Street (with handwritten annotations by MT)

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This series comprises visual images of Joan Robinson and her family, and several others related to her travels in Asia and the Americas. These are predominantly photographs, but also include slides and postcards.

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Includes photographs of JA visiting a British factory in Mexico City, meeting the Mayor of Lima and the Peruvian Minister of Aviation, at a reception in Cusco and visiting Machu Picchu.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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Correspondence, briefings and draft statement on NK’s visit to Nicaragua for the inauguration of [José] Daniel Ortega as President and his visit to Mexico. Correspondents include Baroness Young, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Detailed briefing on Central America, including general briefings and information specific to El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico.

Scope and Contents Briefings, schedules and correspondence on arrangements, with correspondents including: Francisco Cuevas de Cancino, Mexican Ambassador to Britain; Francisco d’Escoto, Nicaraguan Ambassador; Miguel d’Escoto, Nicaraguan Minister of Foreign Affairs. Also includes: schedules for September 1984 [for a cancelled visit]; shorthand notes of NK’s meetings with Fidel Castro [President of Cuba], Bayardo Arce, member of the Nicaraguan National Directorate and Father Cesar Jerez; notes on NK’s meeting...

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Mainly briefings on Mexico, including draft speech notes for the end of NK’s visit to Mexico.

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Press cuttings on Central America and NK’s visit.

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Notes from the visit, mainly in shorthand.