Uganda (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
File
'Tick fever in man', 1903
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/9/7
Scope and Contents
Two copies of the offprint of an article published in Thompson Yates & Johnston Laboratories Report, V (1903), 187-89.
Dates:
1903
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
File
Uganda diary, 1902-06-10 - 1902-09-24
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4/1
Scope and Contents
The diary (circa 80 pages) describes Christy's journey from London to Uganda, and his first tours of inspection for the Sleeping Sickness Commission. It also includes some zoological observations.
Dates:
1902-06-10 - 1902-09-24
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Uganda diary, 1902-09-24 - 1902
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4/2
Scope and Contents
The diary (circa 80 pages) describes Christy's tours of inspection for the Sleeping Sickness Commission and includes some zoological observations.
Dates:
1902-09-24 - 1902
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
File
Uganda diary, 1902-12-16 - 1903-01-24
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4/3
Scope and Contents
The diary (circa 80 pages) describes Christy's tours of inspection for the Sleeping Sickness Commission and includes some zoological observations.
Dates:
1902-12-16 - 1903-01-24
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
File
Uganda diary, 1903-03-10 - 1903-04-10
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4/5
Scope and Contents
The diary (circa 80 pages) describes Christy's tours of inspection for the Sleeping Sickness Commission and includes some zoological observations.
Dates:
1903-03-10 - 1903-04-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
File
Uganda diary, 1903-04-10 - 1903-04-15
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4/6
Scope and Contents
The diary (circa 55 pages) includes a brief chronological and geographic summary of the results of Christy's tours of inspection for the Sleeping Sickness Commission.
Dates:
1903-04-10 - 1903-04-15
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
File
Uganda letter book, 1905-02-22 - 1905-09-24
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4/10
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1905-02-22 - 1905-09-24
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Series
Ugandan papers, 1902-06-10 - 1903-04-15
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/4
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...
Dates:
1902-06-10 - 1903-04-15
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
[Unidentified landscape], 1900 - 1902
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/32
Scope and Contents
156 x 110 mm. A view looking over fairly anonymous landscape, probably in Uganda. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.
Dates:
1900 - 1902
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Item
Variation in leaf size of funtumia elastica, 1903 - 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/65
Scope and Contents
97 x 77 mm. A studio photograph, with scale, illustrating the variations in leaf size and shape of Funtumia elastica in Uganda.
Dates:
1903 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Whitewashing rubber trees, Uganda, 1901 - 1902
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/98
Scope and Contents
73 x 96 mm. A view showing African labourers white-washing the trunks of Nectra Funtumiae trees as a protection against canker.
Dates:
1901 - 1902
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).