COLE, Professor Monica Mary (1922-1994)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0505 PP19
Held at	: Royal Holloway, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/archives ›
Full title	: COLE, Professor Monica Mary (1922-1994)
Date(s)	: 1967-1970
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 boxes or 0.02 cubic metres
Name of creator(s)	: Cole | Monica Mary | 1922-1994 | geographer
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1922; educated in Wimbledon and at Bedford College, University of London, graduating in 1943 with a first class honours degree in Geography; Research Assistant, Ministry of Town and Country Planning, 1944-1945; gained doctorate in Economic Geography, 1947; Lecturer, University of Capetown, South Africa, 1947; Lecturer, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, 1948; Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Keele University, Staffordshire, 1951-1964; Professor of Geography and Head of Geography Department, Bedford College, University of London, 1964-1975; Member of Department of Transport Advisory Committee on the Landscaping of Trunk Roads, 1972; Director of Research in Geobotany, Terrain Analysis and Related Resource Use, Bedford College, 1975-1987; retired 1987; Emeritus Professor, 1987; Leverhulme Fellowship, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, 1987-1994; Murchison Award, Royal Geographical Society, 1987; Honorary Life Member, South African Geographical Society, 1993; died 1994.

Publications: Biogeography in the service of man, with particular reference to the underdeveloped lands. An inaugural lecture at Bedford College (Bedford College, University of London, 1965); Land use studies in the Transvaal Lowveld (Geographical Publications, [Bude], 1956); South Africa (Methuen and Co, London, 1961); The Savannas: biogeography and geobotany (Academic, London, 1986); The use of LANDSAT imagery in relation to air survey imagery for terrain analysis in Northwest Queensland, Australia. ERTS follow-on programme study no.2692B(29650), final report (Department of Industry, Research and Technology Requirements Division, London, 1977) with E Stuart-Owen-Jones.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Obituaries of Cole, 1994, taken from the Transactions of the Institute of British Geography, the Independent, the Times, and the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Journal. Papers relating to a Bedford College geobotanical project [Project Gamma for Trust Mining] in Botswana, 1967-1970, including receipts and financial documents, 1967-1969, concerning expenses for the land rover used in the project; copies of Geobotanical Transect Sheets and Plant Ashing Sheets, 1968-1970; carbon book, 1970, containing a monthly report by Cole on the progress of the project during March, including work completed, summary of results, lists of plant and soil samples, maps, plans and photographs; carbon books, 1969-1970, belonging to André Boshoff and containing copies of correspondence relating to the analysis of soil and plant samples and reports on the progress of the project from Feb 1969-Feb 1970; field maps of Mwaku Pan, Botswana, [1968-1970].

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Unsorted; mainly in files according to subject.

Conditions governing access:

Open to all registered users of the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be supplied, subject to the condition of the original. Requests to publish original material should be directed to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

Handlist available in the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Presented to the College Archives by Professor Cole in 1975. The papers were transferred from the Bedford College Archives when the College merged with Royal Holloway in 1985.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Royal Holloway, University of London Archives hold papers relating to Cole's research grants (BC AR350/5/16a-g).

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the AIM25 project.

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:
Mar 2000