Agreement between Don Francisco de Paula Alvarez and Henry Clay and Bock and Company Ltd, 1890.
Sans titreThe Altmann collection, [1920-1997], comprises papers of Alexander Altmann; papers of his brothers, Manfred and Erwin Altmann, Altmann family papers and papers relating to the Institute of Jewish Studies. Includes memoirs, diaries, draft manuscripts, research papers, letters, photographs, audio-visual material, family research papers, financial and legal papers and papers relating to publications and conferences.
Sans titreAgreement, 1903, of the Argentine Railway Construction Company Ltd with Messrs Thomas Skinner & Co.
Sans titreRecords of the Buenos Aires & Pacific Railway Company Ltd, comprising minutes and financial papers, 1883-1964; reports relating to the South American railway companies Brazil Land Cattle & Packing Company, and the Uruguay Railway Company, 1916. The collection includes papers of associated companies: Argentine Transandine Holdings, Catalinas Warehouses & Mole Company, and Villa Maria & Rufino Railway Company.
Sans titreThe collection contains correspondence; lecture notes on history; newspaper cuttings; papers of other members of the family, including an undated letter of Danton which belonged to A H Beesly; printed reports; pamphlets containing articles by or about Beesly; other pamphlets and reviews; other printed works; and an autographed photograph of Karl Marx. The correspondence is rather slight and only isolated letters from individual correspondents are preserved. There are sets of Beesly's own letters to Henry Crompton and to Frederic Harrison which were probably returned to the family after his death. There are also a few letters to Beesly's brother A H Beesly and to Alfred Beesly, E S Beesly's son.
Sans titrePapers, c1894-1942, of Raymond Wilson Chambers, including papers on all Chambers' major published works, and on his unpublished work with J H G Grattan on the Piers Plowman A-text. There is also a good deal of correspondence with friends, students and fellow scholars. Extensive family correspondence includes letters written home by Chambers when he was a student at UCL, and wartime letters from France and Belgium in 1916-1917. Also includes a small but valuable collection concerned with the study of Sir Thomas More.
Sans titrePapers of the Library Association (LA) and the Institute of Information Scientists (IIS) including:
LA Council and Committee papers and other Board papers, 1894-1996, including minute books, cash books, ledgers, membership and attendance books.
Papers of the Association of Assistant Librarians, (later the Career Development Group), 1896-1997, including annual reports, committee papers; papers of the AGMs; correspondence; Council minutes; papers relating to conferences and publications; accounts of the finance committee and minutes, accounts and other papers for the divisions and branches.
Papers on the discipline and study of librarianship including on the early development of cataloguing rules and classification; library economy; bibliography and bibliographic studies, book stock ad book selection, library appliances, and on Information Technology in libraries.
Papers relating to LA byelaws, 1900-1990, Charter and library licence.
Press cuttings and library scrapbooks, 1900s-1970s.
LA Research Committee papers, 1951-1982, and LA Archive Committee papers, 1962.
Papers of the LA Cataloguing and Indexing Group, 1970-1997.
LA Weekly Newsheet, 1975-1981.
Papers of the LA International and Comparative Group, 1984-1993.
Papers of the LA Publishing Board, including on their management review, 1985-1986 and business plan.
Papers relating to awards including LA Awards, Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards and Meckler Awards.
Papers relating to copyright; papers relating to National Library Week, 1965-1969; papers relating to LA bids for the Millennium; papers relating to conferences and symposia around the world; papers relating to Librarianship in other countries; LA educational videos, 1984-1998; audio cassettes of LA meetings, conferences and addresses, 1986-1998 and papers relating to LA policy, bye laws and rules of procedure.
Papers of the Multimedia Information and Technology Group, a special interest group of CILIP, 1993-2003, including minutes, 2000-2003; certificates, joint constituency panel; merger ballots; papers relating to dealings with the LA and CILIP; papers relating to the Audio Visual Group including minutes, 1993-2000, and papers relating to elections, website and constitution.
Papers of the Institute of Information Scientists (IIS) including AGM Council minutes, 1988-1998; IIS Council minutes, 1988-1998; IIS Council papers, 1999-2001; papers relating to IIS courses, 1976-1997; Chairman and Secretary's Guide and procedures working party, 1991-1996; issues of the Journal of Information Science, 1993-2002; IIS meetings committee papers, 1985-1986; IIS minutes of meetings, 1983-1986; correspondence; 1976-1987; papers relating to copyright and intellectual property rights, 1991-1999 and papers relating to the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information, China.
Sans titrePapers of Sidney Greenbaum, [1974-1996] including papers relating to the International Corpus of English; conference papers; off prints of articles by Greenbaum and others; papers relating to teaching including hand outs, test papers and lecture notes; annotated drafts and papers relating to Greenbaum's contributions to The Oxford Companion to the English Language; drafts of The Oxford English Grammar and Longman Guide to English Usage and papers relating to the Survey of English Usage including annual reports, 1982-1994, publications list and papers relating to funding opportunities.
Sans titrePapers of John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, comprising scientific notes and papers; correspondence with publishers; scientific correspondence; general correspondence; University College London departmental files, wartime committees, and other societies; and some personal financial and domestic papers. There are also some papers of Charlotte Haldane which consist of correspondence, including letters about Women Today magazine, and bills.
Sans titreFiles of various legal documents belonging to Mark Haymon and relating to C K Ogden and his work, including papers about the Orthological Institute and the Basic English Foundation, c1930-c1965; correspondence regarding various publications, letters to, from and concerning C K Ogden, and general correspondence, 1910-c1955; material post-dating C K Ogden's death, including press cuttings about C K Ogden's death, papers about the British Council, photographs, papers on the Japanese language, copies of C K Odgen's Basic Words, and other papers and journals, 1957-1992.
Sans titrePapers of and relating to the Horsley family, comprising papers of Sir Victor Horsley; papers of Eldred, Lady Horsley; papers of Siward Horsley and of Oswald Horsley; papers of Pamela, Lady Robinson, including items relating to the Babies Club in Chelsea; papers of Stephen Paget, author of Victor Horsley's biography; photographs and postcards. Victor Horsley's papers include large sections on his medical career, his service in the army during the Great War, and his political and social interests, including his involvement in the temperance movement and the Medical Defence Union, support for the suffragettes and for Home Rule for Ireland, and his role in the reform of the bodies representing the medical profession: the General Medical Council, the British Medical Association, and the Royal College of Surgeons. His personal papers reflect his interest in archaeology and genealogy.
Sans titrePapers and correspondence of J Z Young including papers from Marlborough College and Magdalen College, Oxford, 1920-1931; lectures drafts for students, medical professional societies and school sixth forms, 1945-1984; transcripts for public lectures, 1941-1977; papers relating to teaching at Magdalen College, Oxford and University College London; papers relating to Young's research both published and unpublished including on nerves and nervous systems, flying spot microscope, cephalopods, memory and learning, evolution, structures and functions of brains and philosophy; papers relating to field research in Naples Zoological Station, 1928-1981, and Duke University, North Carolina, 1970-1983; conference , seminar and symposia papers, 1952-1984; drafts of books by Young, 1950-1987; papers relating to reviews, other published articles, literary refereeing and editing; professional correspondence and papers relating to overseas visits including to the 'Gold Coast' and the USA and research, correspondence and drafts of Young's publication and lecturing activity undertaken during his retirement including research at the Wellcome Trust and the Wolfson Foundation, 1974-1997.
Sans titreRecords of Edward Johnston & Company Ltd, 1884-1942, comprising private letter copy-books from Santos to London, 1892-1904; printed parity tables relating to the coffee trade, 1884-1903; and a volume, One hundred years of coffee (privately printed, London, 1942).
Sans titreDirectors Report and Accounts of Mexico Tramways Company, 1909.
Sans titrePapers of Malcolm Lilly, 1957-2003, comprising biographical papers including obituary; curriculum vitae; bibliography; list of theses supervised and an account of Lilly's efforts to secure membership of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.
Notebooks, 1962-1998 and research notes, 1965-1997, including on control systems, fermentation and progesterone conversion.
Papers relating to biochemical engineering at University College London (UCL), including on the history of development of biochemical engineering at UCL; the Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering; the Interdisciplinary Research Centre; research grants, teaching, training and personnel.
Publications by Lilly, 1962-2003; manuscript and typescript drafts for publications and unpublished drafts and correspondence relating to journals with which Lilly was associated with as author, reviewer or editor.
Transcripts of Lilly's public and invitation lectures, 1966-1996, including on 'Immobilised Enzyme Reactors', Developments in Biocatalysis', 'Two-liquid phase biocatalytic reactors', 'Industrial use of Biocatalysts for Asymmetric Synthesis' and 'Biochemical Engineering - It's Contribution to Society.' Also untitled and draft lecture notes and visual material.
Papers relating to twenty four British and international organisations and societies including the European Commission, the European Federation of Biotechnology; the International Organisation for Biotechnology and Bioengineering and the Institute for Biotechnology Studies.
Papers relating to Lilly's consultancy work with twenty one commercial organisations including Beckman Instruments; Beecham Group Ltd and Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories.
Papers relating to visits and conferences, 1964-1998, including programmes, lists of participants; abstracts and Lilly's notes on proceedings.
Correspondence, 1966-1998, including references and recommendations.
Sans titreArchives of the London Mathematical Society, 1853-1994, the bulk comprising c500 letters to Thomas Archer Hirst, 1853-1892, mainly in his capacity as a member of the LMS, including a letter inviting him to the first meeting of the Society, and also reflecting his travels in Europe, including letters from prominent European mathematicians. The letters include several from Henry M Bompas, 1865, 1874-1879; Arthur Cayley, 1858-1891 and undated; Michel Chasles, 1858-1871 and undated; Luigi Cremona, 1864-1892 and undated; Augustus De Morgan, 1861-1869; Georges-Henri Halphen, 1875-1879; Amédée Mannheim, 1866-1891; Julius Plücker, 1866-1868; William Roberts, 1859-1865 and undated; George Salmon, 1858-1878; [Hermann Cäsar Hannibal?] Schubert, 1877-1884; Henry John Stephen Smith, 1865-1876 and undated; William Spottiswoode, 1862, 1865, 1883; Cyparissos Stephanos, 1877-1887; Rudolf Sturm, 1874-1892; James Joseph Sylvester, 1859-1888 and undated; Barnaba Tortolini, 1858-1863; Richard Townsend, 1865-1878; John Van Voorst, 1864-1867; and there are a few letters from Hirst himself. The archive also includes a bound notebook containing a manuscript catalogue of the LMS library by R A Sampson, 1891-1893; miscellaneous administrative correspondence and papers, 1964-1975; membership lists, 1966-1972; binder of papers of H T J Norton on mathematics, with correspondence, largely to E H Neville, regarding their disposition in the LMS archive in c1938, and also including bibliographical material on elliptic functions, apparently compiled by Neville [1930s-1950s]; miscellaneous letters and papers on research, 1986, 1992-1994.
Sans titreDocuments relating to the career of John Thomas Graves: certificate of admittance to the Inner Temple, 1827, and later correspondence, 1922; warrants from the Poor Law Commission appointing him an assistant Poor Law Commissioner, 1846, and a poor-law inspector, 1847.
Sans titreLetters from Smith to the editor of the Athenaeum, William Hepworth Dixon, arguing against Augustus De Morgan on the quadrature of the circle.
Sans titreNotes on French history.
Sans titreThe collection comprises letters to James Loch and other members of his family. Many of the letters concern the founding and early management of University College London, then known as London University, and matters relating to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. There are a few letters relating to personal and family matters.
Sans titreLetters of thanks from Augustus De Morgan to F Hendriks for sending him certain pamphlets and publications.
Sans titreLetters from Bonney to W J Sollas.
Sans titreNotes by a student on lectures given by Dr Thomas Chalmers on divinity (vol. 4), churches (vol. 7), and various other subjects (vol. 12, watermark 1850).
Sans titreLetters to David Booth from various correspondents.
Sans titreNotes for an introductory lecture in the Faculty of Arts and Laws at University College London.
Sans titreMemoirs of his life and family, with correspondence and papers.
Sans titre'Poemata Etonensia': copies of Latin verses.
Sans titreStudent papers including lecture notes and essays. The subject matter is literature, including notes on medieval literature, French literature and Shakespeare.
Sans titreEight letters from Sylvester to his niece, Contessa Edith Gigliucci, 1865-1896, and two letters to Count Mario Gigliucci, 1896.
Sans titreTypescript autobiography (incomplete) of Morris Travers.
Sans titreLetters to Arthur Smith Woodward and related papers.
Sans titreLetters from various correspondents to Sir William James Ashley, 1893-1914.
Sans titreManuscript letters from Mervyn Peake to Graham Greene, 1943-1959 and undated.
Sans titreManuscript catalogue of a collection of small specimens of minerals, classed and arranged according to R Kirwan (by him, or following his principles).
Sans titreTypescript copy of lecture, given at the Ruhleben camp in Germany, on Greek and Byzantine art.
Sans titreCollection of miscellaneous medical material, 1744-1931, including 14 notebooks, comprising anatomical notes taken from a course of Dr John Hunter's lectures in 1774; a commentary, 1857, on Dr Alexander Munro's Osteology; notes by J Talfourd Jones on lectures on medical subjects, 1860-1863; notes on experiments in physiology by E H Starling, 1892; miscellaneous other notes, 1744-c1910 and undated. There are also printed reports of Manchester Public Infirmary and Lunatic Hospital, 1779-1780, 1786-1787, and of Manchester Lying-In Hospital, Salford, 1807-1812 (14 items, including some duplicates); miscellaneous photographs and negatives, 1889-1931 and undated, including some of tourist spots.
Sans titreCertificates: Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Science, University of London (1912 and 1918); appointment as Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Royal Institution (1941); the Lasker Group Award (1947); Honorary Doctorate, Université de Paris (1948).
Sans titreThe collection contains handwritten notebooks and loose typescript papers. Some of the notebooks are entitled 'Electricitat' or 'J.H.Waitz' and are often in German. Some are concerned with the history of electricity. The folders contain loose papers, often correspondence, about student work and exams and societies, in the history of science.
Sans titreThe collection consists of notes, letters, draft articles and research papers. Also included are papers of Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, Professor of Anatomy at University College London 1919-1936, who worked with Perry on Diffusionist theories and together they led the Diffusionist School controversy of the 1920s and 1930s. There are also some papers of W.H.R.Rivers, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1864-1922).
Sans titreStudent notes on lectures delivered at University College London by William Sharpey, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, session 1840/41; and notes on the principles and practice of medicine delivered by Charles James Blasius Williams, Professor of Medicine, session 1842/43.
Sans titreThe collection includes minutes of the Executive Committee, appeal brochures and reports.
Sans titrePapers of William Strang, 1st Baron Strang, 1909-1925, 1950-1971, comprising papers relating to University College London and the University of London, including official papers relating to Strang's student career; letters; notes and texts of speeches at various University functions; papers relating to the National Parks Commission.
Sans titreManuscript catalogue of the apparatus used in teaching the natural philosophy class in the Marischal College, Aberdeen.
Sans titreWorking papers, largely undated, of Whitley Stokes on philology, mainly comprising manuscript notes and drafts, in the form of notebooks and loose notes, for his work and publications on language and phonetics.
Sans titreLetters between the Butler family and Sir Francis Galton, and between members of the family. Many of the letters are from Galton to his brother-in-law Arthur Butler.
Sans titreVolume of manuscript lecture notes, 1855-1856, made by George Harley from lectures on experimental chemistry at Giessen University (Germany).
Sans titreManuscript journal of George Caley, entitled 'Remarks on the weather &c', containing a travel diary, 1811-1817, describing a canal journey from London to Manchester and a journey to St Vincent in the West Indies.
Sans titreManuscript and typescript research papers of Marie Stopes, including journal articles on botany, and photographs.
Sans titrePapers concerning the Catholic Apostolic Church and religion, including notes, correspondence and photographs. There are also three card indexes entitled 'Census paper A-Z', 'Subject index J-Z' and 'Churches'.
Sans titreNotebook containing students' notes of lectures by Professor Robert Edmond Grant on comparative anatomy delivered at University College London, for the session 1832-1833, volume 2.
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