South Africa
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Item
G[enlisea] ornata / The leaves of Genlisea are of two kinds described by Dr Warming as 'spathulate' & 'utriculiferous', 1848-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 60.2: 98-102
Scope and Contents
Note; by Sir Francis Darwin pp Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1848-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Henry Ellis: Naval journal on 'HMS Styx' during the Xhosa [Cape Frontier] and Burmese Wars
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9420
Scope and Contents
1 volume, 210 pp. of journal text covering the period1852-53. With loose sheets inserted, including page from Illustrated London News, 5 Feb. 1853, with illustration and note on 'Kaffir prisoners at the Cape' [historic title]; notes on Ascension Island, n.d.; 'On passage from Ascension to South Coast', n.d.; 'Notes on South Coast,' n.d. Bookplate: given to Michael Rome Bouquet by Mrs. Dunn (Ellis' niece), Apr. 1935. Note that the contents of the journal contain racist and outdated...
Dates:
1852-1853
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).
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Invertebrates-14 Note, 1867-12-05
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 81: 19
Scope and Contents
Lepidoptera / Bates says he thought he had at last found one Dung-feeder with horns of a fixed form viz an Onthophagus with long horns palmated like fallow-deer
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1867-12-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Lady Isabel Marian Schonland: papers, photographs and printed material relating to South African affairs
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8703
Scope and Contents
Papers, correspondence and research materials concerning Schonland's authorship of parts of the narrative of the 'Union War Histories', a history of South Africa's involvement in the Second World War, and her work in promoting harmonious race-relations in South Africa, including work with the Institute of Race Relations. The collection includes papers relating to a survey commissioned by the South African Institute of Race Relations on 'the needs of Urban African Women'. A small amount of...
Dates:
1939-1964 (Circa)
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).
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Papers of Frank McClean
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10348
Scope and Contents
Letters, photographs and notebooks of Frank McClean and family. Comprises: student notebook, University of Glasgow, on William Thomson's [Lord Kelvin's] classes in Natural Philosophy, 1854-5; student notebook, Trinity College, Cambridge; letters from Frank McClean to his father, John Robinson McClean, and to his son, William Newsome McClean, serving in South Africa; letters from Ellen McClean to her son, William Newsome McClean, serving in South Africa; pocket diaries; correspondence from...
Dates:
1847 - 1942
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
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Papers of Frank McClean
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Polygamy &c-46 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 85: B92
Scope and Contents
Male & Female Birds / Some Parrakeets beautifully coloured but females rather less vivid
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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GBR/0012/MS DAR, Darwin Archive
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'Descent of man': portfolios
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'Descent of man': first edition, 1871, and 'Insectivorous Plants'
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'Descent of man' first edition: used scraps relating to 'Man' and notes relating to principles of sexual selection, polygamy and number of sexes
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Descent Portfolios 1st edn, Sexual Selection: Chap 1, polygamy, number of sexes
Fonds
Sir James Stephen: Papers
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7888
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence of Stephen and papers relating to a life of Stephen written by Dr. Evelyn Christian Martin.
Dates:
1807-1953 (Circa)
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).
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speech as President of the British Association, 1905-01-01 - 1905-12-31
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 238.5: 50
Scope and Contents
Draft; by Sir George Howard Darwin; written at [South Africa]
(Draft)
Dates:
1905-01-01 - 1905-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
Fonds
Westcott Papers
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8316
Scope and Contents
Letters and papers of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, and also letters of his wife, Sarah Louisa Mary Westcott, and their son, Arthur Westcott. Comprises both personal and professional correspondence, as well as some letters evidently retained as part of a collecton of autographs. Correspondents include: 3rd Marquess of Bute; various landowners in County Durham, including 9th Lord Barnard, 6th Marquess of Londonderry and 2nd Earl of Ravensworth; Arthur Westcott, principally to Sarah...
Dates:
1880-1949
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
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Westcott Papers