IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0402 RED
Held at: Royal Geographical Society
Title: DICKINSON, Prof Robert Edward (1905-1981)
Date(s): 1931-1976
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 2 vols
Name of creator(s): Dickinson | Robert Edward | 1905-1981 | Professor of Geography
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1905; educated, Upholland Grammar School; Leeds University, 1922-1925; diploma in education, 1926; assistant lecturer, Exeter University College, 1926-1928; assistant lecturer, University College London, 1928-1932; Rockefeller Fellowship, 1931-1932; lecturer, 1932-1941; reader, 1941-1947; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1946-1981; Professor, Syracuse University, 1947-1958; University of Leeds, 1958-; Visiting Professor to California, 1960-1961; Washington, Nebraska, 1963; Kansus State, 1964; Arizona, 1967; remained in the USA until his retirement, 1975; died, 1981.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Professor Robert Edward Dickinson's field diaries from America, 1931-1965 and Europe, 1931-1976.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Accessible 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:
Card index.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
The field diaries are published with some ommissions.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Prepared by Archives volunteer using existing finding aids.
Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) ed.2, name authority NRA. Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: The Geographical Journal, Vol. 148, No. 1 (Mar., 1982), pp. 147-148.
Date(s) of descriptions: 3rd December, 2001. Nov 2008.