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Borneo

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Charles Myers: Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8073-8074
Scope and Contents

Journal of expedition to Torres Straits, articles, lecture notes and correspondence

Dates: 1898-1942 (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).
 Item

Cratoxylon - short-styled form - 3 stigmas project between the 3 bundles of stamens just above tips of sepals, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 110: B3c
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin on reverse of proofs [of 'Fertilisation'?]: [p ?] [bottom two-thirds only]


(Note)

Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
 Fonds

F.H.H. Guillemard: Photographs

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7957
Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of twelve large numbered green box-files of monochrome photographs (the majority mounted on boards) of Japan and the Pacific islands. Around eighty percent of the photographs were taken during the voyage of the 'Marchesa'; the remainder probably date from the late 1870s, including photographs purchased by Guillemard, which include many of the smaller images in the collection. The name of Dr Guillemard and the place are recorded on the outside of the boxes. Pasted...
Dates: c. 1875-1886
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).
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NS I Continental Extensions-5 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 50: D16
Scope and Contents

At Glacial period, when Vaccinium &c got to top of W Indian islds - land probably almost continuous


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Distribution of animals-73 Note, 1842-02-01 - 1842-02-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.3: 96r
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1842-02-01 - 1842-02-28
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Geographical distribution and species-54 Note, 1855-07-01 - 1855-07-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.4: 66-67
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1855-07-01 - 1855-07-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Means of distribution-68 Note, 1844-06-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.2: 68r
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1844-06-26
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Means of distribution-127 Note, 1840-05-05 - 1882-05-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.2: 129r
Scope and Contents

Crawfurd tells me that W Earl has written on connection of the Banks of Borneo with Celebes / 18


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1840-05-05 - 1882-05-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Sutton says that the Macacus maurus from Borneo is the same sp[ecies] as the M[acacus] inornatus, 1871-02-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 195.4: 29r
Scope and Contents

Note; by Emma Darwin née Wedgwood pp Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1871-02-25
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
 Sub-Series

Visits by Minister of Defence (Sandys) to Ceylon [later Sri Lanka], Borneo and New Zealand for SEATO [Southeast Asia Treaty Organization] conference, 1959-03

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 6/45
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs. A number of papers exist relating to his involvement in the campaign to restore Capital Punishment, the European Movement and the Civic Trust.

Dates: 1959-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open to researchers. Information about closures can be obtained from Churchill Archives Centre.