Berlin
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Letter from Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Berlin damaged, 1874-01-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 169: 95
Scope and Contents
Letter from Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Berlin damaged
(Letter)
Dates:
1874-01-20
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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Letter from W. Adams on using a sandglass to ascertain the time at sea, 1810-01-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 254-256
Scope and Contents
A note on the back reads 'deserves no attention'.
Dates:
1810-01-30
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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Letters from observatories, 1864 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/149
Scope and Contents
Letters from various British and international observatories on filling vacancies, requests for new instruments at Sydney, and covering letters to reports. Approximately half the correspondence is concerned with the possible closures and alternative uses of the Madras, Bombay and Colaba observatories; reports on the Madras and Colaba observatories and their history; and governmental recommendations for the Indian observatories. The correspondents on these matters include E.B. Eastwick,...
Dates:
1864 - 1869
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).
Sub-Series
Letters to Sandys from Sir Horace Rumbold on Sandys' appointment as Third Secretary at the Embassy, Berlin, and on his transfer from Berlin, October 1930 & January 1933, 1930 - 1933
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 1/1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs. A number of papers exist relating to his involvement in the campaign to restore Capital Punishment, the European Movement and the Civic Trust.
Dates:
1930 - 1933
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open to researchers. Information about closures can be obtained from Churchill Archives Centre.
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Mannigfaltiges: Personalien: Charles Darwin 'Norddeutsche allgemeine Zeitung (Feuilleton)', 1882-04-22
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 216: 77b
Scope and Contents
Printed; by Anon; written at Berlin
(Printed)
Dates:
1882-04-22
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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Papers on Royal Astronomical Society, 1878 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/244
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the Royal Astronomical Society. There are papers by Airy on occultations of stars and the phenomena of Jupiter's satellites, 1877, 1878 and 1879; spectroscopic results for the motions of stars in the line of sight; the determination of the mass of Mars; the conjunction of Mars and Saturn, 30 June 1879; the elements of Vulcan; the spectrum of Brorsen's Comet; and the determination of the longitudes of Berlin and Vienna. The papers also include an index to the miscellaneous...
Dates:
1878 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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 on the galvanic longitude of Edinburgh, 1855 - 1858
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/636
Scope and Contents
Papers regarding the operation to discover the longitude of Edinburgh by means of electric telegraph. The papers include material on the arrangement of stars for observation; calculations of longitude at Edinburgh deduced from observations; and instructions and arrangements for those involved in the tests, including J. Washington, W. Ellis, C.V. Walker, C.P. Smyth, J.C. Clark and C.F. Varley. There are also letters on the longitude of Paris by U.J.J. Le Verrier, of Brussels by L.A. Quetelet,...
Dates:
1855 - 1858
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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 on the Hansen-Encke controversy, 1858
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/766
Scope and Contents
Copies of pieces on the controversy between Hansen and Encke regarding Brunnow's tables of Flora, translated by W.I. Lynn, 105 pages. The volume is comprised principally of a correspondence between the two protagonists. It includes the recent investigations at the Berlin Observatory on the theory of perturbations of Egeria and Flora.
Dates:
1858
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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Rating of chronometers, 1875
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/823
Scope and Contents
The rating of chronometers at Aden, Suez and Alexandria; calculations on the Alexandria-Berlin longitude; and errors of chronometers.
Dates:
1875
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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Regia Scientiarum Academia Borussica: award of corresponding membership to Charles Darwin, 26 Feb. 1863
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 229: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Class:
This class comprises certificates, awards and diplomas presented to Charles Darwin during his lifetime. The correspondence relating to the presentation of these diplomas is listed separately under DAR 230.
Dates:
26 Feb. 1863
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.
Series
Reparations mission 1945, 1944 - 1945
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROBN 4
Scope and Contents
Papers as a member of the British reparations Mission in Moscow and Berlin
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Review of Butler S 'Unconscious memory' 'Deutsche Litteraturzeitung' 2: 410-411, 1881-03-01 - 1881-03-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 92: B123
Scope and Contents
Printed; by (Eduard) Oscar Schmidt; written at Berlin
(Printed)
Dates:
1881-03-01 - 1881-03-31
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.
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Review of 'Expression': Darwin über den Gesichtsausdruck bei Menschen und Thieren 'Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes': 313-314, 1873-05-24
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 226.2: 113
Scope and Contents
Printed; by Hans Herrig; written at Berlin
(Printed)
Dates:
1873-05-24
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Class:
Very fragile material - access may only be possible with support from specialist Conservation staff. Please seek guidance.
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Review of 'Insectivorous plants' 'Fremden-Blatt': no 220: 11-12; no 221: 11-12, 1875-01-01 - 1875-12-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 139.18: 3-4
Scope and Contents
Printed; by von H[...]; written at [Berlin?]
(Printed)
Dates:
1875-01-01 - 1875-12-31
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.
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Review of 'Movement': Charles Darwin's neue Beobachtungen über das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen 'Gartenlaube' 14: 228-230, 285-287, 1881-01-01 - 1881-12-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 226.1: 229-232
Scope and Contents
Printed; by "Carus Sterne" [E L Krause]; written at Berlin
(Printed)
Dates:
1881-01-01 - 1881-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Part:
High Risk material. Access restricted due to fragility.
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Review of 'Movement': Sind die Pflanzen beseelt? 'Gegenwart': 25-28, 1881-07-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 226.1: 233-234
Scope and Contents
Printed; by "Carus Sterne" [E L Krause]; written at Berlin?
(Printed)
Dates:
1881-07-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Part:
High Risk material. Access restricted due to fragility.
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Review of 'Origin' (4th edn): Darwin über den Instinkt der Thiere 'National-Zeitung': [parts of 48 cols], 1868-07-18 - 1868-07-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 226.1: 251-257
Scope and Contents
Printed; by B R[...]; written at Berlin
(Printed)
Dates:
1868-07-18 - 1868-07-25
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Part:
High Risk material. Access restricted due to fragility.
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Review of 'Worms': Aus Darwins neuestem Werk 'Berliner Tageblatt': [2 cut cols], 1881-12-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 226.1: 216
Scope and Contents
Printed; by Otto Zacharias; written at Berlin
(Printed)
Dates:
1881-12-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Part:
High Risk material. Access restricted due to fragility.
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Review of 'Worms' 'Deutsche Landwirthschaftliche Zeitung': [base of 9 cols]; [base of 6 cols], 1882-01-31 - 1882-04-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 226.1: 225-226
Scope and Contents
Printed; by Anon; written at Berlin
(Printed)
Dates:
1882-01-31 - 1882-04-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Part:
High Risk material. Access restricted due to fragility.
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Review of 'Worms': Die Rolle der Regenwürmer in der Erdgeschichte 'Gegenwart': 84-86, 1882-02-01 - 1882-02-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 226.1: 235-236
Scope and Contents
Printed; by "Carus Sterne" [E L Krause]; written at Berlin?
(Printed)
Dates:
1882-02-01 - 1882-02-28
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Part:
High Risk material. Access restricted due to fragility.
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Review of Zacharias O 'Charles R Darwin und die culturhistorische Bedeutung seiner Theorie vom Ursprunge der Arten': Ein neues Buch über Darwin 'Saale-Zeitung (Beilage)', 1882-01-01 - 1882-12-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 216: 77a
Scope and Contents
Printed; by "A"; written at [Berlin?]
(Printed)
Dates:
1882-01-01 - 1882-12-31
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.
Sub-Series
Subsidies and rents, October-December 1956; and papers relating to Sandys' visits to Berlin, Russia and the Normandy beaches, 1956, 1955 - 1956
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 5/40
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs. A number of papers exist relating to his involvement in the campaign to restore Capital Punishment, the European Movement and the Civic Trust.
Dates:
1955 - 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open to researchers. Information about closures can be obtained from Churchill Archives Centre.
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Über Honigthau 'Landwirthschaftliche Versuchs-Stationen' 20: 61-62, 1877-01-01 - 1877-12-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 69: B45
Scope and Contents
Printed; by Hermann Hoffmann; written at Berlin
(Printed)
Dates:
1877-01-01 - 1877-12-31
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.
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Unterhaltungsblatt: Ein Fest der Wissenschaft 'Staatsbürger-Zeitung', 1879-02-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 216: 78
Scope and Contents
Printed; by "H"; written at Berlin
(Printed)
Dates:
1879-02-18
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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Von der Abstammungslehre 'Gartenlaube': 698-699, 710, 1873-01-01 - 1873-12-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 226.2: 1-4
Scope and Contents
Printed; by [-] Bock; written at Berlin?
(Printed)
Dates:
1873-01-01 - 1873-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Class:
Very fragile material - access may only be possible with support from specialist Conservation staff. Please seek guidance.