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Copies of letters (circa 120 leaves) written by Christy to the Uganda and East Africa Exploration Syndicate. It had despatched him on a prospecting mission to locate forests rich in the Funtumia elastica tree, which was used for the production of rubber. Some of the letters include summaries of their contents in the margins.

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'Red Cross flag over hospital. Zarchas (ie branches of trees) round tents to keep off lions and leopards.

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Showing Bell and an unidentified figure, possibly Frederick Knowles, seated above the cow catcher at the front of a Uganda Railway locomotive.

Scope and Contents Diaries, notes and reports recording Christy's research for the first Royal Society Sleeping Sickness Commission in Africa. The medical expedition was a response to the spreading Uganda Sleeping Sickness epidemic of 1901. Its aim was to elucidate the role of the Filaria perstans parasite in causing the disease. Christy travelled widely in Uganda, British and German East Africa, and the upper Sudan to map the distributions of the parasite and the disease. His findings were important in...

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155 x 112 mm. glossy print.

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155 x 112 mm. glossy print.

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152 x 108 mm. (modern print from RGS negative). For caption amendments see H.B. Thomas, ‘Early ascents of Mount Elgon’ ('Uganda Journal', Vol 20, p 113-128).

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209 x 157 mm. Photograph by William D Young.

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Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

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Showing sacks of vegetables being unloaded from a lorry at the drying plant. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'They have been bought at one of the buying centres in a native area at a few miles away'.

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209 x 155 mm. A fine view showing a steam locomotive crossing a steel viaduct in hilly country near Molo (mile 484). Molo is situated near the top of the Mau Escarpment about 8 miles before Mau Summit Station. Several such viaducts were needed to span ravines in the railways climb out the Rift Valley. Photograph by William D Young.

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155 x 113 mm. A view looking out over Lake Victoria from a hill with Gedge’s camp in the foreground among a cluster of euphorbias. See also Y30468K/79.

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'Bougainvillaea flowering under balcony, thermometer 90.'

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A view, framed by the ornate window of the Minara, showing some buildings and the sea. The caption reads: 'taken from the Minara. looking down on is the village of Shella'.

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155 x 115 mm. A view looking along the sloping ridge with the grassy slopes of the crater descent in the foreground. See note on Y30468K/63.

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155 x 113 mm. A view looking out from Gedge’s camp

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157 x 111 mm. A view looking out from the mouth of the cave towards the dense forest with Jackson and the guide standing at the left of the print. This appears to be the same cave as the one seen in Y30468K/67.

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210 x 153 mm. View looking along the double track of the narrow line towards a large baobab tree which has fallen across it.

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151 x 212 mm. View of a large baobab tree showing its roots with labourers clambering among them.

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79 x 80 mm. glossy print and 56 mm. negative.

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154 x 107 mm. A view looking across an expanse of flat grassland crisscrossed with unsurfaced roads with a steep valley and ridges in the distance.

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203 x 153 mm. glossy print with copy.

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203 x 153 mm. glossy print with copy.

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203 x 153 mm. glossy print with copy.

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66 watercolours, 150 x 200 mm in size. The captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Notes provided by H.B. Thomas have been incorporated into the description.