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Royal Geographical Society

COTTON, William Bensley (fl 1921-1944)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0402 SSC/26

Held at: Royal Geographical Society

Title: COTTON, William Bensley (fl 1921-1944)

Date(s): 1930-1931

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 large box and 2 files

Name of creator(s): Cotton | William Bensley | fl 1921-1944

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

William Bensley Cotton was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1921-1944.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of William Bensley Cotton, 1930-1931, comprise a copy of a journal describing a journey through Sinkiang, 1914 and a journal of a hunting trip in the district between Gonda and Basti, north-east India, December 1911 to January 1912.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in original order.

Conditions governing access:

Accessed via the Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying at the discretion of the Archivist and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.

Finding aids:

A description can be found at www.a2a.org.uk and a card index is available in Foyle Reading Room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Prepared by Archives volunteer using existing finding aids and edited by Samantha Velumyl, AIM25 cataloguer.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 10th January, 2002 and modified May 2008.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Indian history | Asian history | National history
Periodicals | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Travel writing | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature

Personal names
Cotton | William Bensley | fl 1921-1944

Corporate names

Places
India | South Asia
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu | China | East Asia