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'Cattle improvement in Taiwan', reprinted from Taiwan Agriculture Quarterly, 4:3, September 1968
Item
Identifier: Coll-1638/4/1/80
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Comprises scientific articles and reviews by Ian Mason (both single and multiple author), including reprints from academic journals and magazines as well as typescript drafts.
Dates:
September 1968
Certificate from the Genetics Society of Japan conferring on Auerbach honorary membership, 11 August 1966
Item — Box CLX-D-15
Identifier: Coll-1266/2/5
Scope and Contents
Certificate signed by H[ideo] Kakkawa
Dates:
11 August 1966
Comments on two papers on radio transmission, 1940
File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.284
Scope and Contents
The material consist of a comment on a Japanese paper on radio transmission, with diagrams, sent with a covering letter by W.G. Beynon, dated October 1940 and comments on another paper on transmission, by Beynon and Piggott, dated 1940.
Dates:
1940
Japanese illustrated manuscript entitled "Buko Setsugekka" ('Beautiful Military Exploits') by Matsuyama, 1721 (Kyoho 6)
Item — Box CLX-A-1126
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0104
Scope and Contents
This is a guide on how a samurai gets dressed with 21 hand drawn and coloured illustrations on fine paper, dating from 1721, reading right to left. Each drawing is accompanied by poems and descriptions in Japanese calligraphy. The book commences with a man putting on underwear ('fundoshi'), followed by step-by-step pictures of him adding more and more items of clothing and armour, ending with a complete suit of samurai chain kusari gosok armour. This sequence...
Dates:
1721 (Kyoho 6)
Japanese manuscript entitled "Kirishitan Oshirabe Isshi" ("On the Innocence of Non-Christians"), Bunsei 11 [1828]
Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0090
Scope and Contents
A manuscript document written in 1828 declaring the religious Innocence of a Japanese family comprised of eleven people (six women and five men). Christianity was banned in Japan in 1612 by the Tokugawa shogunate, and the ban was only lifted in 1873 under the government of Emperor Meiji, who had gained power following the opening of Japan to trade by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854. Until the lift of the ban, Japanese citizens were required to register annually at their local temple as...
Dates:
Bunsei 11 [1828]
Radio Reception, c. 1926-1950
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-37/C.275-C.287
Scope and Contents
This sub-series consists of 13 files containing material relating to Edward Appleton's research into radio reception, dated c. 1926-1950. It includes material on the Luxembourg Effect.
Dates:
c. 1926-1950