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Antarctica

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence: Sir John Stuart Keltie to Herbert Kynaston, 1867-1916

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/9
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence: Sir John Stuart Keltie to Herbert Kynaston sub-series consists of:


  1. 24 letters, alphabetically arranged (1867-1916)
Dates: 1867-1916

Papers of Sir Gerald Elliot

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1357
Scope and Contents The collection of papers is composed of (in Boxes 1 & 2) material in the form of memos, notes, lectures, off-prints, talks, illustrations, press cuttings, and correspondence, relating to: - Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Scottish Council Development and Industry - company structures and company responsibilities - companies and institutions with which Sir Gerald...
Dates: 1950-2013

Papers of William Speirs Bruce

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-72
Scope and Contents The Papers of William Speirs Bruce consist of a substantial number of manuscripts and ephemera including pamphlets; notes and notebooks; annotated typescripts; annotated offprints; picture postcards; photographs; examination papers; sketch maps; diaries; press cuttings; correspondence; lists of specimens; book catalogues; soundings; lecture engagements; lectures; and, maps. The Papers handle a wide variety of subjects including the 'Balaena', fish and fisheries, Franz Josef Land, the...
Dates: 1892-1923

Papers relating to Geoffrey McKay Gibbon, Surgeon aboard RRS 'Discovery II'

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1182
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: a letter from Mrs. M. D. Gibbon from their residence in Welwyn Garden City to the Registrar of the General Medical Council (Scottish Branch) indicating that her husband is absent and aboard the R.R.S. 'Discovery II'; and, the returnable component of the form sent by the Registrar of the General Medical Council (Scottish Branch), 12 Queen Street, Edinburgh, to Geoffrey McKay Gibbon presumably c/o Foreign Fleet Division, G.P.O. The form had been returned and...
Dates: 1932

"Polar diaries" and slides documenting David Sugden's research expeditions, 1962-2022

 Series
Identifier: Coll-2044/2
Scope and Contents This series contains six original travel and research notebooks, seven printed and edited diaries, and four boxes of slides, all documenting David Sugden's field work and research expeditions throughout his career, mainly to Antarctica and the South Shetland Islands, the Falkland Islands, East Greenland, and the Pindus Mountains, Greece.There are six original diaries, in notebooks: "South...
Dates: 1962-2022

Published papers, 1962-2022

 Series
Identifier: Coll-2044/4
Scope and Contents

This series consists of all the main papers authored by David Sugden (refereed/invited) throughout his career, between 1962 and 2022. For a detailed list, see Sugden's CV in Coll-2044/3, which includes a bibliography. Most papers (not all) are numbered, which refers to the corresponding number in said bibliography.

Dates: 1962-2022

Typescript entitled 'On Land, Sea, and Ice. An Autobiography' by J. Burn Wood, including correspondence with Alexander F. Giles, 1947

 Item — Box CLX-A-367: Series Coll-1828/3
Identifier: Coll-1828/5
Scope and Contents This typescript was donated with the papers of Alexander F. Giles but does not seem to be related to the rest of the documents. It came into Giles's possession when the author, who studied at the Univeristy of Edinburgh in the 1890s, sent it to him after 'the receipt of a circular sent out in support of the University of Edinburgh Graduates Association', in 1947. Giles was then the editor of the University of Edinburgh Journal. It does not appear that the typescript was...
Dates: 1947