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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

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A letter from Professor Bartlett to the Vice-Chancellor and the Council of the Senate, 22nd February 1937, 19370222

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/3/3
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This letter discusses proposals for extending the Department and allocating research grants with support from Rockefeller. Detailed funding plans are explored.

Dates: 19370222
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Appeal for a new School of Physiology, issued by the Cambridge University Association, 1912-02

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/1/6
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The document mentions that the Worshipful Company of Drapers are funding the building and equipping of the Physiology School, whereas the Department of Experimental Psychology is being funded by private donors. An itemisation of expenses is given at the end of the document.

Dates: 1912-02
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Growth of the Psychology Department, 1925 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/3
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Handwritten notes for the piece about the new Psychological Laboratory, outlining the history of the department

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/1/7/1
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This piece describes the new building being developed for the Psychology Laboratory, its layout and how it is being funded and supported.

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Letter from Myers to Hartridge from Somerset about the date of a Board meeting, 19200613

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/CSMyers/1/13
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Writing from Birchwood, Porlock, Somerset, Myers explains that he would rather not make the journey to Cambridge for a Board meeting before the start of the Michaelmas term. He requests that the meeting be deferred till October, by which time the University will have decided whether it is possible for him to come into residence.

Dates: 19200613
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Letter to F. Bartlett from Charles Fox about more recognition for Educational Psychology as an academic subject, 19260601

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/2/8/7
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Fox asserts that the question of establishing a lectureship in Educational Psychology should be taken further. He says that a formal protest should be made to the Appointments Committee about the fact that a lectureship in Educational Psychology has not yet been set up.

Dates: 19260601
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'Memorandum from the Board of Psychological Studies to the Royal Commission on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge'

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/2/8/1
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The Board begs leave to submit a report requesting the establishment of several new posts to meet the demand for study in Psychology. Number of students currently attending courses in the last year (the document is undated) amounted to between 70 and 80, whereas there is only accommodation for about 50 with present facilities.

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Notice of a course of lectures to be given by Dr Myers in General and Experimental Psychology during Michaelmas term, 1914, 19140530

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/2/4
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These lectures were intended for medical students and candidates for Part I of the Diploma in Psychological Medicine.

Dates: 19140530
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'Presentation of the School of Physiology by the Worshipful Company of Drapers and its Opening by H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught', 19140609

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/1/12
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This booklet contains a short history of experimental science in Cambridge going back to 1702, and includes plates illustrating the new buildings and floor plans of the room lay-outs.

Dates: 19140609
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Report by the Director, 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/2/5
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The report announces that planned courses of lectures have had to be cancelled and that it has been impossible to start a course in Psychology that year. However, a Mr Fox, Lecturer at the Training College for Schoolmasters, has been able to conduct a class in Educational Psychology.

Dates: 1914
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Scheme of the proposed Psychological Laboratory presented to the Psychological Laboratory Syndicate, 191002

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/1/4
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Estimates of the amount of space (given in square feet) for the different sections of the Laboratory are listed. The total area required is estimated as 1320 square feet, and this includes a demonstrator's room, an animal room, a dark room, a sound-proofed room and various other spaces.

Dates: 191002
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'The New Psychological Laboratory', 19121107

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/1/7
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This piece describes the new building being developed for the Psychology Laboratory, its layout and how it is being funded and supported.

Dates: 19121107
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Xerox copy of the 'Bequest by the late Dr MacCurdy' published in the 'Cambridge University Reporter', 19471111

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/JTMacC/4/4
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The Vice-Chancellor publishes extracts from the will of the late Dr MacCurdy whereby a bequest is made for the 'provision and maintenance of a psychopathological library in the University of Cambridge'.

Dates: 19471111