Biology
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Archives of the Faculty of Biology 'B', 1906 - 1992
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/BIOL B
Scope and Contents
The records cover the full range of operations,
Dates:
1906 - 1992
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).
Fonds
Cyril Bibby: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8320
Dates:
1914 - 1981
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
Fonds
Edwards Associated Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/EDWS AS
Scope and Contents
Material relating to Sir Robert Edwards.
Dates:
1978 - 2019
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Item
'Experimental Pathology of the Central Nervous System Studied with Vital Azo Dyes' by John T. MacCurdy, 191701
Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/JTMacC/2/9
Dates:
191701
sub-subseries
Field notebooks, Apr. 1886 - Oct. 1887
sub-subseries
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8634/A.57-A.63
Scope and Contents
Seven soft-bound pocket notebooks in Bateson's hand that he used for documenting his tour of 'the Steppe'. Some have original numbers on the covers which are given in the following descriptions. Entries are mostly in pencil, with occasional use of ink. The content is often exceptionally detailed, with general observations, accounts of incidents, and notes on flora and fauna (sometimes with sketches). A large proportion of the entries are dated.
Dates:
Apr. 1886 - Oct. 1887
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).
Fonds
George Crabbe: Notebooks on entomology, botany and chemistry
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4190-4192, 4194
Dates:
1792-1817
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
Item
Letter to Ward from J. Arthur Thomson, 19150325
Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/JWard/3/11
Scope and Contents
Letter-headed: 'Natural History Department, Marischal College, The University, Aberdeen'.
Dates:
19150325
Item
Letter to Ward from J. Arthur Thomson, 19150601
Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/JWard/3/12
Scope and Contents
Letter-headed: 'Natural History Department, Marischal College, The University, Aberdeen'.
Dates:
19150601
Fonds
Papers of Edgar Barton Worthington
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10211
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Worthington's work in Africa, a few items relating to his personal life and various publications. Includes correspondence, newspaper cuttings, reports, speeches and photographs.
Dates:
1927-2011
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
Series
Papers of Francis Crick, The majority of folios date from 1953-71.
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MISC 90
Scope and Contents
Papers produced while Crick was working at the Medical Research Council Unit for the Study of Molecular Biology, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
Dates:
The majority of folios date from 1953-71.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Some material within the collection is closed to researchers.
File
The Expression of the Emotions
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4449
Dates:
1872
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
Fonds
The Papers of Barbara Rankin
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BARA
Scope and Contents
Throughout her time working for Edwards, and also after this period, Barbara Rankin maintained a series of scrapbooks, in order to record the work on human embryology carried out by Edwards and his colleagues Colin "Bunny" Austin, Barry Bavister, Richard Gardiner, Martin Johnson and Jean Purdy, at the Marshall Laboratory. The scrapbooks include press cuttings, papers by Edwards and his colleagues, programmes and photographs on Edwards's pioneering research into in-vitro fertilisation, and...
Dates:
1955 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of César Milstein
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MSTN
Scope and Contents
Papers including correspondence and research notes.
Including some correspondence of his wife, Celia Milstein, to 2003.
Dates:
1952 - 2002
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Some items in sections B, C, E and H are closed and closures are marked in the catalogue.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Gabriele Rabel
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RABL
Scope and Contents
Throughout her life, Dr. Gabriele Rabel kept diaries in which she described in great detail her work in biology, theoretical physics, philosophy and philology, her life in Germany and Austria from the end of the 19th century until the late 1920s, and in the United States at the end of the 1920s and some of the famous scientists and philosophers with whom she worked and under whom she studied. At the age of 80, settled near Cambridge, she resolved to translate passages from these diaries...
Dates:
1893 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Mark Bretscher
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRTS
Scope and Contents
The collection held by Churchill Archives contains the professional scientific papers of Mark Bretscher, starting from his early work on the genetic code and protein biosynthesis, then moving into his work on cell membranes and cell movement. Predominantly working papers with some correspondence and photographs.
Dates:
1936 - 2013
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Max Ferdinand Perutz
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PRTZ
Scope and Contents
This collection includes off prints of scientific articles, photographs, slides, films and videos, articles, book reviews, lectures and talks, correspondence with individuals and organisations, and personal papers. Most of the material is from later on in Max Perutz's life, and concerns mostly lecture materials, and correspondence relating to nominations and references. ...
Dates:
1901 - 2003
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Richard Keynes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KEYN
Scope and Contents
The papers include: correspondence from the 1960s to the 2000s, with some papers relating to the Anti-Submarine Experimental Establishment (1942) and naval radar research (1944-45); volumes of notes on experiments from 1947 to 1979; research papers and data files from the late 1970s to 1990s.
Dates:
1942 - 2010
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is mainly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, apart from the most recent correspondence.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Rosalind Franklin
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FRKN
Scope and Contents
A lot of the material within the collection relates to Rosalind Franklin's work on the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Consisting of working papers, notebooks, reports and correspondence, this material is of considerable historical interest to those studying the discovery of the structure of DNA. There is also an extensive collection of papers relating to Franklin's work on the Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV), which took place at Birkbeck College in London. There are few papers...
Dates:
1927 - 2017
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Rosalind Franklin's personal correspondence (reference: FRKN 9) is closed until 2034.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir John Randall
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RNDL
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the cavity magnetron and to biophysics, including lectures, articles, research notebooks, correspondence, press cuttings, drawings and photographs.
Dates:
1920 - 1983
Conditions Governing Access:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir Robert Edwards
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/EDWS
Scope and Contents
Personal and scientific papers including correspondence, research and laboratory notebooks, draft publications and journal articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, videos and film.
Dates:
1925 - 2014
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Some files are closed for data protection reasons, and these closures are marked in the catalogue.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre