Gambia
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Mammals-10 Note, 1869-02-23
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 83: 10r
Scope and Contents
Tragelaphus scriptus - Gambia - a beautiful antelope (see Gray?) chesnut & black
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Z[oological] G[ardens]
(Note)
Dates:
1869-02-23
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Fonds
Sir John Milner Gray: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7739
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a wide range of correspondence and papers relating to the Gambia, Kenya, Kilwa [Kilwa Sultanate] and Pemba, Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania], Uganda, Zanzibar, West Africa, and other parts of the continent. Some of the topics covered are ethnic groups and Indigenous peoples, languages, the slave trade, the Portuguese colonization in Africa, and archaeology. There are articles by J. Schacht, Emin Pasha, Gervase Mathew, M. Posnansky, and others on Africa, as well as...
Dates:
1950 (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