RICE, Dr Alexander Hamilton (1875-1956)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0402 AHR
Held at	: Royal Geographical Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Collections/Collections.htm ›
Full title	: RICE, Dr Alexander Hamilton (1875-1956)
Date(s)	: 1917-1928
Level of description	: Collection level
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Rice | Alexander Hamilton | 1875-1956 | explorer and geographer

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1875; educated Harvard; MD, 1904; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), 1901-1956; RGS Patron's Medal, 1914; Vice-President of the RGS, 1930-1933; series of expeditions to South America, chiefly the North Western Amazon Basin; expedition to the tributaries of the Rio Negro, 1924-1925; died, 1956.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Alexander Hamilton Rice, 1917-1928, comprising notes and observations by Rice including of the Rio Grande, Brazil, 1917 and 1919-1920; notes and correspondence about expeditions of 1924-1925 and 1926-1928; journals 1920-1921 from South American expeditions 'The Rio Negro, the Casquiare Canal and the upper Orinoco'; and journal entitled 'Some notes on the Brazilian Amazon and the Venezuela-Guyana expedition', 1925.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in the Scope and Content.

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:

Card index available in the Foyle Reading Room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Prepared by an archives volunteer using existing finding aids. Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: The Geographical Journal, Vol. 122, No. 3 (Sep., 1956), pp. 405-405.

Rules or conventions:
ISAD(G) ed. 2, name authority NRA.

Date(s) of descriptions:
3 May 2001; Jul 2008