Notes on lectures delivered by W.P.Ker, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London 1889-1922.
Sin títuloSeven letters to Miss Worrall. Some are undated.
Sin títuloCollection containing documents concerning John Lee Warner and His Majesty's Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, 1764-1783; documents concerning Alexander Emerton and his invention 'artificial stone', 1737-c1781; various legal documents, 1708-1757; and miscellaneous undated documents.
Sin títuloManuscript narrative comprising an account of the Mosquito Shore [Honduras/Nicaragua].
Sin títuloNotes on bibliographical references on the topography of London in the seventeenth century.
Sin títuloLetters to David Hannay from various correspondents.
Sin títuloCharter of the Plumbers' Company in London. Manuscript copy.
Sin títuloNotes for a bibliography of the poet Anselm Hollo. The bibliography was never completed.
Sin títuloNotes from a course of lectures in law, given in Oxford by Sir William Blackstone.
Sin títuloPapers of Rowena Lamy, 1908-1956, comprising poems, writings, notes and correspondence.
Sin títuloManuscript history of ancient armour with illustrations.
Sin títuloPhotocopies of letters to Emil Fischer.
Sin títuloIncomplete copy of 'Statistical Account of Scotland', vol. 2, part 2. Interleaved copy with manuscript addenda by Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
Sin títuloCopy of minutes of meetings of the Trustees appointed for exchanging Exchequer Bills.
Sin títuloNotes of lectures delivered in Cambridge by Nicholas Sanderson. Subjects covered include hydrostatics, tides, sounds, optics, mechanics and astronomy.
Sin títuloNotes on articles in Sir William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, with a few related letters.
Sin título'The Slade, Story of an Art School, 1871-1971': typescript history of the University College London Slade School of Fine Art from 1871 to 1971.
Sin títuloManuscript paper, 'Contributions to evolution theory', sent to the zoologist Sir John Graham Kerr on 1 September 1922. All red marks, and probably all ink marks, done by Kerr.
Sin títuloThe bulk of the collection consists of letters from Ker to Olivia (1899-1923). There are also a number of poems and sketches by Ker, photographs by and of Ker, and miscellaneous material relating to him. In addition there are some personal papers of Olivia and her family.
Sin título'Elements of statics', a volume written for publication at the proposal of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, though it was never actually published. De Morgan used it as evidence of his work and knowledge when applying for the Mathematics Chair at University College London in 1827.
Sin títuloThe letters are mostly between Gosset (known as 'Student') and Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962) who became Professor of Eugenics at University College London. Letters from other scientists are interleaved where they bear on the correspondence.
Sin títuloTwenty-four laboratory notebooks, c1902-c1904, giving records of Alfred Dukinfield Darbishire's studies of 'waltzing mice'; another similar notebook, 1904, latterly used as a visitors' book, 1942-1955, by Helen Darbishire.
Sin títuloEssays on medical subjects (1813-1815); notes on lectures delivered by John Barclay on comparative anatomy (1821); notes on the geology of Scotland (1823).
Sin títuloTypescript of an unpublished book entitled 'Elizabethan Technology or the development of the letters patent protection for inventions'. Also correspondence about the book.
Sin títuloPapers and correspondence, 1860-1944 and undated, of and relating to Sir George Dancer Thane, largely concerning his career, comprising papers on lectures, 1879-1918, including drafts and newspaper reports of his introductory address at the opening of the Medical School at University College London, 1879, and various lectures on anatomy, 1899-1918; notes, 1872-[1911], 1923-1929, on various subjects including dissection, racial characteristics, and other aspects of anatomy, and a list of books to the Anatomical Library of University College London; ten scrapbooks of anatomical drawings, 1867-1913, and undated loose anatomical drawings and medical photographs; other medical papers, 1878-[1926] and undated, including scrapbooks of medical press cuttings, 1878-1914, dates and subjects of dissection classes, 1885-1900, printed papers of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1887-1897, announcements of lectures, including some by Francis Galton, 1873-1912, papers on University reform in London, 1919, and miscellaneous others; correspondence, 1880-1930 and undated, from over 110 correspondents; personalia and ephemera, 1860-1930 and undated, including certificates, invitations and programmes, papers concerning honours including Thane's knighthood, papers relating to his death, and genealogical notes relating to the Thanes and others, and also papers concerning Lady Thane, 1884-1944; photographs, 1883-1920 and undated, including eleven photographs of Thane, 1883-1920, an undated photograph of Lady Thane, an album of photographs of their honeymoon, 1884, and a photograph of the dissecting room of University College London [1918]; box of bones and fossils.
Sin títuloThe first part of the collection consists of correspondence, notes, drafts and revised translations for Kabdebo's edition of translations of the poems of Attila József. The second part of the collection consists of 19 letters and manuscript poems for inclusion in 'UCL Poetry 1969', a poetry seminar workshop, edited by Kabdebo.
Sin títuloMost of the notes are not in Lewis's hand. They are draft footnotes and suggestions for a preface for an illustrated edition of Juvenal, apparently produced by Lewis's students, though not published. There are other notes on classical archaeology and philology, and also notes on the Turkish language.
Sin títuloCorrespondence of and papers relating to Sir Bernard Augustus Keen, 1931-1982, comprising correspondence between Keen and Sir (Alfred) Daniel Hall, 1931, then Director of the John Innes Horticultural Institution, relating to the setting up of the Agricultural Research Council and the offer to Keen of the position of Secretary, also including a letter from Hall commenting on Keen's report on Indian agriculture; letters of farewell to and from Keen and press cutting on his retirement from East Africa and return to Britain, 1954; letters from Sir (Edward) John Russell, 1962-1963, relating mainly to Russell's history of agricultural science in Britain, but also recalling Keen's appointment at Rothamsted in 1913 and [Ernest?] Rutherford's praise of his book The Physical Properties of the Soil (1931); letters from G D H Bell on Keen's retirement as Editor, Journal of Agricultural Science, 1965; letter of condolence from Royal Meteorological Society on Keen's death, 1981; Sir (Herbert) Charles Pereira's memoir of Keen for Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol xxviii (1982), with related correspondence of Pereira, 1982.
Sin títuloLetters, notes and photographs of eminent members of University College staff and others, mostly addressed to Sir John Reynolds. There are two letters to William Sharpey and notes by Augustus De Morgan.
Sin títuloPapers of Sir Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans, comprising notebooks of physiology experiments, 1903-1947, and one notebook by Shiro Tsubura, 1924-1925.
Sin títuloPapers, 1831-1853, of Grace Aguilar. The first part of the collection consists of her manuscript notebooks. The second part is manuscript material in other hands, consisting of a book of tributes to Aguilar, a description of her last illness, and an account for the administration of her estate. The collection also contains copies of several of her printed works.
Sin títuloPapers and correspondence, 1948-1980, of Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop, relating to his interests outside his scientific research. The collection comprises biographical material on Burhop's interest in furthering rapprochement between East and West, principally relating to the 'passport case' when, owing to Burhop's involvement in the atomic energy project in 1944-1945, the Foreign Office withdrew his passport on the eve of a visit to the Soviet Union in 1951, causing a libel case arising from his treatment by the press; papers relating to the award of the Lenin Peace Prize to Burhop in 1972; correspondence on the possible nomination of Bertrand Russell for the World Peace Council's International Peace Prize, 1957; and documentation of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, largely the first conference of 1957, including the role of the World Federation of Scientific Workers in its organisation, and manuscript notes of the proceedings. There are no records of his scientific research or scientific correspondence.
Sin títuloEgyptology lecture notes and syllabuses.
Sin títuloBound typescript autobiography, 'The Record of a Busy Life', by William Adams, 1891, detailing his life in Chile, London, and the Midlands, including family history, family and associates, business, and other reminiscences, with a two-page printed biography from the Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (vol cxxiv, Session 1895-1896, pt ii) inserted.
Sin títuloManuscript version of 'Elements of Geometry'. It covers books 1-3, with 4 pages of notes on velocity which are dated 6 March 1767.
Sin títuloIlluminated address written on vellum by Margaret Alexander and presented to Dr Murray to mark her hundredth birthday on 13 July 1963.
Sin títuloThe collection comprises correspondence and papers and covers Robertson's entire academic career. By far the largest part is the correspondence with Alexander Bain on the editing of Grote's Aristotle and on plans for Mind. There is also a group of letters from John Stuart Mill, mostly relating to the National Society for Women's Suffrage.
Sin títuloIreland: civil list payments for the year beginning 25 March 1709.
Sin títuloManuscript notes on comparative philology.
Sin títuloFifty-two letters, 1813-1823, from David Ricardo to Hutches Trower concerning economics.
Sin títuloManuscript volume, 17th century: the Manner of Holdinge a Parliament in England in 24 Articles, comprising eight texts on parliamentary history, back to the Anglo-Saxon period, and on procedure, concerning both the House of Lords and the House of Commons and their powers.
Sin títuloManuscript volume, c1800: Lexicon Lycophronicum, comprising manuscripts of Henry Meen. Prefixed is a letter from Gilbert Wakefield, dated Dorchester Gaol, 11 Aug 1800.
Sin títuloTwo manuscript volumes, probably dating from the 17th century, containing Boulainviller's 'Abregé de l'Histoire Universelle' (summary of the universal history).
Sin títuloManuscript volume, dated 1456, comprising miscellaneous texts:
Von Den Vier Letzen Dingen, or Quatuor Novissima (on the Four Last Things);
poem on death, in Latin and German;
Lehre Aristoteles An Konig Alexander (lesson by Aristotle to King Alexander);
Isidorus;
untitled, beginning: Up eynre anderre stat van/ der gewaire oitmodichgeit ... ;
Klage Des Crucifixus (lament of the Crucifix), verse in German and Latin;
Tafel Des Christlichen Glaubens (table of Christian beliefs);
Gedicht Auf Die Ritterschaft Jesu (poem on the knighthood of Jesus);
three short rhymes in German and Latin;
Messiasbuch (Messiah book).
Fifteenth-century manuscript volume containing a calendar for the year 1439, followed by tables, giving the golden number, etc, and also including signs of the zodiac and instructions for blood-letting. This translation of the calendar made by Hanns Gemund (or Johann Gmund, or Jean de Gamundia) in 1439 probably dates from c1470. The back of the binding bears the inscription: MS. Gamundia Kolender, Wien 1439. On folio 1*v is an extract from a catalogue describing the manuscript (in French).
Sin títuloManuscript volume, 19th century, containing a copy of Christian Gottlob Heyne's 'Archäologie'.
Sin títuloManuscript volume [1620s]: Christoph Kotter's 'Mystisches Manuskript', comprising declarations of mystical experiences made before the civic and ecclesiastical authorities of the town of Sprottau. With 20 pen drawings of visions in the text.
Sin títuloManuscript volume, 1733, 1738, containing two texts by Johann Heinrich Meister (Jean Henri Le Maitre), 'Christliche Glaubens- und Lebenslehre' (Instructions in the Life and Faith of a Christian), followed by a short tract, 'Examen des communicans pour l'usage de l'Eglise Françoise de Buckebourg' (examination of communicants for the use of the French church at Bückeburg).
Sin títuloManuscript volume, 18th century, containing Grágás (Laws of the Icelandic Commonwealth).
Sin títuloCalendar of mixed authorship, dated 1794 and 1804. With notes by P G Foote.
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