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Copies of letters (100 leaves) written by Christy while conducting research into zoology and rubber cultivation in the Congo for the Belgian Government. An alphabetical index of recipients is included.

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Contains circa 60 pages of rough notes and drafts of letters, including reports on Funtumia elastica and rubber cultivation in the Congo.

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Contains circa 55 pages of notes on sleeping sickness cases.

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Contains circa 85 pages of notes on sleeping sickness cases.

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Diaries, notebooks and letters written by Christy during his medical, scientific and zoological work in the Congo.

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170 x 118 mm. A view showing a group of Africans seated on the ground in front of a row of huts. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

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118 x 170 mm. A half length portrait of a Congolese woman showing the symmetrical decorative raised scars on belly and chest. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

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118 x 169 mm. A half-length portrait of two Congolese women showing different patterns of decorative scarring on belly and chest. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

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187 x 241 mm. A view showing a Congolese youth with very large open sores on face and body. Disease unidentified. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

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181 x 233 mm. A view showing a Congolese youth with very large open sores on face and body. Disease unidentified. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

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88 x 63 mm. A view showing Christy's cook sitting beside a fire outside his tent with the beehive shaped huts of a village in the background. A photograph taken north of Lake Choga.

Scope and Contents Album containing photographs of various sizes together with three loose prints. From internal evidence it was compiled by Dr Cuthbert Christy, but was not with his papers and photographs received from the Royal African Society in 1972. The photographs in this collection are chiefly of two types, large albumen or collodio-chloride prints and small (?) collodio-chloride prints which are generally inferior in subject and quality. Some of the larger ones are clearly professional work; others...

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151 x 107 mm. A view showing Cuthbert Christy seated at a table with a microscope in front of him. In the foreground a dog sits near Dr Christy's skinning table. The 'laboratory' is on the open verandah of a house.

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Evidence (170 pages) gathered by the commission during meetings with the chiefs and people of Kakata and Monrovia. The file includes an index.

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Evidence (100 pages) gathered by the commission.

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Evidence (100 pages) gathered by the commission.

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Evidence (60 pages) gathered by the commission.

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Diary (66 pages) kept by Christy during his leadership of the British Museum exploring and zoological expedition to Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika. It includes notes on the collection of specimens, and lists of supplies and equipment.

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Diary (44 pages) kept by Christy during his leadership of the British Museum exploring and zoological expedition to Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika. It includes notes on the collection of specimens.

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Diary (circa 150 pages) kept by Christy during his leadership of the British Museum exploring and zoological expedition to Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika. It includes notes on the collection of specimens.

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Diary (297 pages) kept by Christy during his leadership of the British Museum exploring and zoological expedition to Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika. It includes notes on the collection of specimens.

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Diary (circa 60 pages) kept by Christy during his leadership of the British Museum exploring and zoological expedition to Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika. It includes some notes on the collection of specimens and lists of equipment.

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Diary (88 pages) kept by Christy during his leadership of the British Museum exploring and zoological expedition to Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika. It includes some notes on the collection of specimens and lists of equipment.

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Diary (circa 180 pages) kept by Christy recording the investigative work of the commission and the composition of its report.

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78 x 95 mm. A view showing the deep scars (two-and-a-half year old) caused by excision tapping with the old V-shaped knife.