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Minutes and other papers of the Moral Sciences Club, 1878 - 2018

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.IX.39-48*, 56-6* etc
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Management Group:

Records in this category - Minutes of University associations and clubs, occasionally with related records - cover staff social and trades union associations, University fund-raising bodies and research groups, and student clubs.

Dates: 1878 - 2018
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Cambridge University Archives / Student administration and support records / Minutes of University associations and clubs, occasionally with related records
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Minutes of the Faculty Board of Moral Science, predecessor, successor and subordinate bodies, 1860 - 2015

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.V.10 etc
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Management Group:

Minutes of Boards of Studies, from 1926 known as Faculty Boards, may cover governance, appointments, budgets, curriculum development, examining and accommodation.

Dates: 1860 - 2015
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Cambridge University Archives / Teaching, learning and research records / Minutes of University Boards of Studies, from 1926 known as Faculty Boards, and their subordinate committees; occasionally with related papers
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Notice of a meeting of the Philosophical Society, 19390502

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/3/5
Scope and Contents The following papers were given: 'The transient response of the ear' by Rawdon-Smith and Sturdy, 'Some phenomena of visual adaptation' by K. J. W. Craik, 'Discrimination experiments with rats' by G. C. Drew, 'Some phenomena of visual perception' by R. C. Oldfield, 'An experiment on apparent visual movement' by O. L. Zangwill, 'Industrial applications of psychology' by Farmer, Chambers, Hotopf and Heim, 'The comparative study of thinking processes' by D. M. Carmichael, 'The effect of...
Dates: 19390502
Found in: Department of Psychology / Experimental Psychology Laboratory / Growth of the Psychology Department
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Officer's papers for the Hort Society, 1952 - 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.69
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.

Dates: 1952 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Cambridge University Archives / Student administration and support records / Clubs and societies records
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Partridge: The Papers of Frances Catherine Partridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/FCP
Scope and Contents This collection contains typescript and manuscript diaries, lectures, philosophy notes, correspondence, photographs, printed copies of book reviews, articles and obituaries. Many of the diaries exist only in typescript form, but in later years the only copies are in manuscript. Letters to her husband, Ralph Partridge, are included in this collection. In addition to her own photograph albums, there are two albums which belonged to Dora Carrington and two which belonged to Lytton Strachey,...
Dates: 1905 - 2004
Found in: Archive Centre, King's College, Cambridge
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Personal Papers of Helen Marion Wodehouse, 1895 - 1993

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Wodehouse
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise talks, speeches and sermons, papers and articles for publication as well as published material, chiefly on the subjects of philosophy, ethics, education and teaching; a collection of poems written by others; portrait photographs; and newspaper cuttings on her arrival as Mistress at Girton.

Dates: 1895 - 1993
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Girton College Archive / Personal Papers
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Philosophia Universalis, Philosophia Moralis, and Summa Ethicorum Aristotelis, 1664 - 1665

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kk.06.07
Scope and Contents (1) ‘Philosophia Universalis, vulgo Metaphisica a Magistro Hugone Smith dictatæ et a me Roberto Trott[ero' scriptæ].’ (2) 'Philosophia moralis vulgo Ethica, a Magistro Hugone Smith et a me Roberto Trottero diligenter conscriptæ.’ These works, begun Dec. 12, 1664, and ended June 15, 1665, are divided into books, and contain many disquisitions, De summo bono, De ente possibili et actuali, De signo et signato, De gaudio et tristitia, De lege positiva humanæ, De justitia, etc. (3) 'Summa...
Dates: 1664 - 1665
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Two-letter class: western post-medieval manuscripts / Kk
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Philosophical Notebook

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4359
Scope and Contents Contains: 198 folios: (fo. 4) notes taken from lectures on logic; (fo. 47) notes on Aristotle, De somno et vigile; (fo. 51) notes on Aristotle, De generatione et corruptione; (fo. 83) notes on Aristotle, De anima; (fo. 168) notes on metaphysics; (fo. 191) index. The notes are written neatly and clearly divided with numbered headings into treatises and sections. The writer was an Englishman, as appears from the dates, 'Aprill the 17th' and 'May 18' (fos 145v and 168 respectively). The lecture...
Dates: 1652
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library
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Philosophical Observations (Self and otherwise), 1938 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/KJCraik/3/2
Scope and Contents

Mix of handwritten and t/s on personal philosophical observations

Dates: 1938 - 1945
Found in: Department of Psychology / The papers of K J Craik / 'The Nature of Explanation' and Philosophical Writings
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Philosophical orientation and scientific standpoints, 190409

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/JWard/4/2
Dates: 190409
Found in: Department of Psychology / The papers of Professor James Ward / Offprints of scholarly articles
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Philosophical treatises, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.16
Scope and Contents

(1) Caesar Cremonius, 'Introductio in logicam Aristotelis', beginning 'Dialecticam introductionem habituri …'; the author's name is mentioned at f. 117 b, and the date at the end, f. 140 b. (see also MSS Dd.05.28 and Dd.09.19); (2) ‘Petrus Pomponasius apud Contarenum de natura animæ humanæ’, beginning ‘Intelligere non est sine phantasia’.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Two-letter class: western post-medieval manuscripts / Dd
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Philosophy: Confucianism, 1932-04-04 - 1989-08-02

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/40
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1932-04-04 - 1989-08-02
Found in: Needham Research Institute / The Papers and Possessions of Joseph Needham / Science and Civilisation in China project / Research material
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Philosophy: Contemporary debates, 1961-03-23 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/62
Scope and Contents

The documents comprise 'cuttings from Liao Hung-Ying via George Thomson, Jan 1964.'

Dates: 1961-03-23 - 1964
Found in: Needham Research Institute / The Papers and Possessions of Joseph Needham / Science and Civilisation in China project / Research material
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Philosophy: Han to Sung, 1945 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/58
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1945 - 1955
Found in: Needham Research Institute / The Papers and Possessions of Joseph Needham / Science and Civilisation in China project / Research material
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Philosophy: Hedonism, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/44
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1950 - 1969
Found in: Needham Research Institute / The Papers and Possessions of Joseph Needham / Science and Civilisation in China project / Research material
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Philosophy: Legalists, 1940 - 1978

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/47
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1940 - 1978
Found in: Needham Research Institute / The Papers and Possessions of Joseph Needham / Science and Civilisation in China project / Research material
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Philosophy: Logicians, 1934 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/46
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1934 - 1969
Found in: Needham Research Institute / The Papers and Possessions of Joseph Needham / Science and Civilisation in China project / Research material
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Philosophy: Mohism, 1950 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/45
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1950 - 1979
Found in: Needham Research Institute / The Papers and Possessions of Joseph Needham / Science and Civilisation in China project / Research material
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Philosophy: Neo-Confucianiam and after, 1940 - 1985

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/59
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1940 - 1985
Found in: Needham Research Institute / The Papers and Possessions of Joseph Needham / Science and Civilisation in China project / Research material
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Philosophy of Science (modern) in relation to Chinese thought, 1977-06-29 - 1991-06-17

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/53
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1977-06-29 - 1991-06-17
Found in: Needham Research Institute / The Papers and Possessions of Joseph Needham / Science and Civilisation in China project / Research material
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Philosophy: Sung-Ming Idealists and Ming Naturalists, 1945 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/61
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1945 - 1955
Found in: Needham Research Institute / The Papers and Possessions of Joseph Needham / Science and Civilisation in China project / Research material
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Philosophy: Taoism, 1942 - 1990-09-24

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/41
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1942 - 1990-09-24
Found in: Needham Research Institute / The Papers and Possessions of Joseph Needham / Science and Civilisation in China project / Research material
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Professor William Keith Chambers Guthrie collection, 1915 - 1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH
Scope and Contents

Includes: personal papers and family correspondence, photographs and slides from travels, including holidays, speeches and reviews re Guthrie's various publications, with some limited papers from his tenure as Master.

Dates: 1915 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access: Some sensitive/confidential papers and uncatalogued items remain closed.
Found in: Downing College / Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates
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Ramsey: The Papers of Frank Plumpton Ramsey

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/FPR
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises originals and photocopies of personal and family papers, including correspondence with Lettice Ramsey (nee Baker) and her memoir of him, letters from Frank to his parents, his diaries, a paper he read to the Apostles, his parents' scrapbook about him, a [draft] letter from Frank to Ludwig Wittgenstein, a draft article, photographs mostly of Frank, and obituaries.

Dates: 1903 - 2020
Found in: Archive Centre, King's College, Cambridge
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Richard Watson: Notes of lectures

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5047
Scope and Contents

184 folios. Includes: (fo. 2) title page; (fo. 2v) rough notes; (fo. 3) notes by Richard Watson of lectures given by Gerras Holmes on natural philosophy; (fo. 66) notes by Watson of lectures by Holmes on optics; (fo. 134) notes by Watson of lectures by Holmes on hydrostatics; (fo. 180v) 'Lectures read by Mr. Holmes of Emanuel College in Cambridge', 'Cambridge 31' and scribblings; (fo. 184) 'twells Pigott Pigott Burslem Twells'.

Dates: 1755 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library
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