Scope and Contents Series containing a letter from Charles Lyell (1767–1849) to his son Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), dated 1841 and three letters to Sir Charles Lyell from other family members c.1839: 1) Kinnordy 14th July 1841 Letter to Charles Lyell, advising to take care of both his own, and Mary's health 'do not fancy you are a man of iron, and never forget, Mary is a wife of gold'. Advise on managing the demands of work involved in the preparation of the Boston Lectures and publishing 'Elements,...

Scope and Contents The material contains: copies of two Colonial Office reports titled: 'Colonial Research 1944-1945' and 'Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies: Second Report, 1947-1949'; typescript reports titled: 'A Case for a Colonial Biological Survey and Regional Biological Institutes: Note by E.B Worthington, March 1946' and Waddington's 'Operational Research in Peace'; ...

Scope and Contents This collection comprises the papers of Colin Legum, an Anti-Apartheid activist and political exile, and later newpaper political correspondent. It includes correspondence files, committee minutes, freelance articles, files in legal document wallets labelled alphabetically, office filing, published periodicals, journals, research files, press cuttings, notes, publications, and newspapers relating to the post-colonial history of many countries mostly in Africa, but also in the Middle East and...