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Explorers

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD,Use For = Discoverers

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Mr. H. A. Wickham, Founder of the Hevea Brasiliensis Plantation Industry in the East., 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/73
Scope and Contents

Photographic portrait of H[enry] A[alexander] Wickham, a British explorer and Founder of the Hevea Brasiliensis [rubber] Plantation Industry in the East.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Mungo Park (1771-1805). Papers relating to Bi-Centenary Celebrations, 1971

 Series — Box CLX-A-25: Series Coll-490/24; Series Coll-490/25
Identifier: Coll-490/24/MP
Scope and Contents Mungo Park (1771-1805). Papers relating to Bi-Centenary Celebrations. 'Mungo Park and the Scottish Contribution to Africa'. Talk given by George Shepperson to the joint meeting of Royal African and Royal Commonwealth Societies. 4 February 1971. Shortened account of the above. Mungo Park Bicentenary lecture: Selkirk, 8 September 1971. Statement by...
Dates: 1971
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 24

Papers of Benjamin Leigh Smith

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-283
Scope and Contents

The papers in the collection consist of a journal, in typescript, of Smith's voyage to the Arctic in the schooner 'Samson', May-October 1871, and an account in typescript of his explorations in the seas around Svalbard (Spitzbergen), 1871-1873, by a member of the expedition.

Dates: 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Records of the Scottish National Expedition to the Antarctic

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-282
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of newspaper cuttings relating to the Expedition, 1900-1903.

Dates: 1900-1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections