79 x 103 mm. A view showing an African making vertical tapping cuts on a tree with a pruning knife attached to a bamboo pole.

73 x 96 mm. A view showing saphrophytes and moss growing on the trunk of a rubber tree.

168 x 118 mm. A view looking along the aisle of a church with the congregation listening to an African preacher. A European woman is seated behind a piano or organ at the front of the church. Photograph possibly by Cuthbert Christy.

Papers written and collected by Christy during his tenure as Chairman of the Commission set up by the League of Nations. The other members of the Commission were Dr Charles Spurgeon Johnson, representing the United States, and the Hon. Arthur Barclay, a former President of Liberia.

102 x 81 mm. A view showing one of Christy's camps in the Congo. In the foreground one of his servants holds a large elephant tusk towards the camera.

102 x 81 mm. A view showing one of Christy's camps in the Congo. In the foreground one of his servants holds a large elephant tusk towards the camera.

102 x 81 mm. A view showing one of Christy's camps in the Congo. In the foreground one of his servants holds a large elephant tusk towards the camera.

100 x 75 mm. A view showing two Africans clearing jungle under the supervision of a European. Photographer unknown, possibly Christy.

100 x 75 mm. A view showing two Africans clearing jungle under the supervision of a European. Photographer unknown, possibly Christy.

Diaries and notes written by Christy during his leadership of the British Museum exploring and zoological expedition to Lakes Tanganyika and Nyasa.

76 x 98 mm. A studio photograph showing various parts of Funtumia Africana trees grown in Benin City, Southern Nigeria, including leaves, flowers, fruit, galls and empty pods.

59 x 42 mm. A view showing Africans gathered round the corpse of a leopard waving spears at the body: 'The villagers are dancing and vilifying him and all his relations'.

150 x 110 mm. A view showing a sleeping, emaciated man in the terminal stage of sleeping sickness. Christy (1903) describes how this man was carried from his hut without awakening and how all the other members of his family were in a similar condition.

Diary (circa 60 pages) recording the progress of the expedition, which includes medical notes.

Diary (circa 25 pages) recording the progress of the expedition, which includes medical notes.

Diary (circa 70 leaves) describing the progress of the expedition, including medical notes on sleeping sickness. Lutete [or Gombe-Lutete] is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the Baptist mission station of Wathen was located at Lutete.

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170 x 119 mm. A view showing a large group of Africans and a European woman standing outside a brick-built mission church. Location unknown. Roman numerals above the door state that the building was constructed in 1891. Photograph possibly by Cuthbert Christy when he was serving with the West African Field Force.

122 x 171 mm. Showing a group standing outside a brick-built mission church. Location unknown. Photograph possibly by Cuthbert Christy when he was serving with the West African Field Force.

78 x 99 mm. A view showing Cocoa, palm-oil trees, hevea and Funtumia elastica growing in a mixed plantation.

77 x 99 mm. A view showing Christy's tent erected among a plantation of nine-year-old Funtumias.

101 x 77 mm. A view showing a plantation of young trees and illustrating the method of shading the plants.

100 x 77 mm. A view showing a plantation of young trees and illustrating the method of shading the plants. Photograph probably by Christy.

100 x 76 mm. A view showing a plot of recently pruned four-year-old rubber trees on a communal plantation.

75 x 95 mm. A view showing Funtumias growing in a communal plantation.