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Women in Science

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Letters from Toynbee, Henry to Charles Lyell, 1 April 1867

 File — Box Box 1.13: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/267
Scope and Contents Summarised as "moths caught in mid ocean". Letter is Toynbee's response to Lyell's questions, given to him by Mrs. Smyth [may be wife of William Henry Smyth], relating to the moths caught on the Hotspur, and the data is taken from the ship log, giving details about when, where and what kind of creatures were observed: Death's head moths, finches, variegated insects that fly to light, dragonflies - he also refers to a sketch by Mrs Toynbee of a bird - not included, and describes other...
Dates: 1 April 1867

List of Subscribers, March 1843

 File
Identifier: Coll-203/B14/7/1
Scope and Contents Lists of subscribers to Lyell's lectures- being lists of the names and addresses of people - including many women. These lists could be written by George Hall, Lyell's Clerk. Subscribers to Mr. Lyell's Course of Geological Lectures, Tickets One Guinea for the Course - name, residence and number of tickets. First name listed is Charles Babbage, and also included are John Murray, Fitton, ...
Dates: March 1843

Medical Medal and Suffragette Pins belonging to Margaret Ida Balfour

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2888
Scope and Contents This collection consists of an academic medal and suffragist badges and pins belonging to Margaret Ida Balfour (1866-1945), a Scottish medical doctor and early campaigner for women's medical issues in Great Britain and India. Silver medal awarded to Margaret Ida Balfour by the Medical College for Women, Edinburgh, for the "Practice of Medicine", "R. W. Philip M.D., F.R.C.P.E. Lecturer", session...
Dates: 1890; early 20th century