Salt, George (1903-2003)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0117 MS 816
Held at	: Royal Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://royalsociety.org/collections/ ›
Full title	: Salt, George (1903-2003)
Date(s)	: 1966
Level of description	: Sub-fonds
Extent	: 100 pages
Name of creator(s)	: Salt | George | 1903-2003 | entomologist and ecologist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1903; Education: Emigrated to Canada with family in 1911; attended primary school in Calgary; Crescent Heights Collegiate Institute, Calgary; University of Alberta, Edmonton; Harvard (1924) and Harvard Gardens, Soledad, Cuba; Career: United Fruit Company, Columbia; US National Research Fellowship at Harvard; Institute of Entomology laboratory, Farnham Royal; research student at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1931); Fellow of King's College, Cambridge (1933-2003); University Lecturer in Zoology, Cambridge University (1937-1965); war work for Ministry of Agriculture on the control of wireworms; Tutor for Advanced Students, King's College, Cambridge (1945-1951); collected speicimens in East Africa (1948-1949); field collection in Pakistan (1958-1959); Reader in Animal Ecology, University of Cambridge (1965-1971); Fellow of the Royal Society, 1956; died, 2003.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

'An Account of my Doings 1924-1966' by George Salt, including accounts of his scientific work, calligraphic work and his mountaineering.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

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Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
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:
Feb 2009.