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Royal Geographical Society

RGS CORRESPONDENCE BLOCK 1921-1930


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0402 CB9

Held at: Royal Geographical Society

Title: RGS CORRESPONDENCE BLOCK 1921-1930

Date(s): 1921-1930

Level of description: Collection level (sub-fonds)

Extent: 61 boxes

Name of creator(s): Royal Geographical Society

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) was founded in 1830 as the Royal Geographical Society of London. Its aim was the advancement of Geographical Science. The Society was granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria in 1859. In 1995 the RGS merged with the Institute of British Geographers (IBG) to create the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Royal Geographical Society Correspondence Block, 1921-1930, consists of correspondence with the Society covering administrative matters as well as all aspects of geography and exploration throughout the world. These files contain incoming letters only, replies are held separately in the out-letter books. Authors include the Alpine Club, Charles Frederick Arden-Close, John Baddeley, Brig R A Bagnold, Dr John Ball, Louis Charles Bernacchi, Brig Gen Clarence Dalrymple Bruce, Commader Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sir Douglas Carruthers, Gertrude Caton-Thompson, Maj Robert Ernest Cheesman, Augustine Courtauld, Sir Percy Cox, Frank Debenham, George Miller Dyott, Lincoln Ellsworth, Filippi de Filippo, Rosita Forbes, Sir George Fordham, Sir Douglas William Freshfield, Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, William Joseph Harding King, Dr Tom George Longstaff, Halford J Mackinder, Sir Douglas Mawson, Dr Hugh Robert Mill, Fridtjof Nansen, Mrs Wilhelmina Ness, Edward Felix Norton, Noel Ewart Odell, Harry St John Philby, A Hamilton Rice, Hugh Ruttledge, Frank S Smythe, Michael A Spender, Prof James Alfred Steers, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Sir Mark Aurel Stein, Sir Percy M Sykes, Prof Eva G R Taylor, Bertram Thomas, Frank Kingdon Ward, James Mann Wordie, Sir Francis Younghusband and Henry Gino Watkins.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Mainly English but with some letters in other European languages.

System of arrangement:

Alphabetically by author or institution.

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 Archivist's discretion, and subject to completion of Request for Copies form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist. Please note that in some cases copyright of the author or owner may need to be sought.

Finding aids:

The RGS archives: a handlist / compiled by Christine Kelly. London: RGS, 1977. Also Access to Archives database at www.a2a.org.uk

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

In most cases the items were sent to the RGS directly by their authors and have remained with the Society ever since.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred directly from the RGS Secretary to the Archives.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Correspondence Blocks 1-8 and 10-11, RGS Administrative Papers, Out-Letter Books, Director's correspondence.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery using hard copy listings held in-house.

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: Nov 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Geographical exploration | Geography
Learned societies | Associations | Organizations

Personal names
Baddeley | John Frederick | 1854-1940 | journalist and traveller
Bernacchi | Louis Charles | 1876-1942 | scientist and explorer
Bruce | Clarence Dalrymple | 1862-1934 | brigadier and traveller
Byrd | Richard Evelyn | 1888-1957 | Antarctic explorer
Carruthers | Alexander Douglas Mitchell | 1882-1962 | explorer and naturalist
Cheesman | Robert Ernest | 1878-1962 | Major | explorer and naturalist
Close | Sir | Charles Frederick Arden- | 1865-1952 | Knight | Geographer
Courtauld | Augustine | 1904-1959 | Arctic Explorer
Cox | Sir | Percy Zachariah | 1864-1937 | Knight | Major General | Colonial Administrator and Diplomat
Debenham | Frank | 1883-1965 | geographer
Dyott | George Miller | 1883-1972 | aviator and explorer
Ellsworth | Lincoln | 1880-1951 | explorer
Filippi | Filippo | De | 1869-1938 | zoologist and explorer x De Filippi
Forbes | Joan Rosita | 1893-1967 | traveller and author x Sitt Khadija x McGrath | Joan Rosita
Fordham | Sir | Herbert George | 1854-1929 | Knight | writer on cartography
Freshfield | Douglas William | 1845-1934 | mountaineer and geographer
Johnston | Sir | Harry Hamilton | 1858-1927 | Knight | explorer and colonial administrator
King | William Joseph Harding | 1869-1933 | explorer
Longstaff | Tom George | 1875-1964 | mountaineer and ornithologist
Mackinder | Sir | Halford John | 1861-1947 | Knight | geographer and politician
Mawson | Sir | Douglas | 1882-1958 | Knight | geologist and Antarctic explorer
Mill | Hugh Robert | 1861-1950 | geographer and meteorologist
Nansen | Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg | 1861-1930 | Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat
Norton | Edward Felix | 1884-1954 | Lieutenant General
Odell | Noel Ewart | 1890-1987 | geologist
Philby | Harry St John Bridger | 1885-1960 | explorer and Orientalist
Rice | Alexander Hamilton | 1875-1956 | explorer and geographer
Ruttledge | Hugh | 1884-1961 | mountaineer
Smythe | Francis Sydney | 1900-1949 | author and mountaineer
Spender | Michael A | 1907-1945 | scientist and explorer
Steers | Professor | James Alfred | 1899-1987 | coastal geomorphologist
Stefansson | Vilhjalmur | 1879-1962 | explorer and ethnologist
Stein | Sir | Marc Aurel | 1862-1943 | Knight | archaeologist and explorer
Sykes | Sir | Percy Molesworth | 1867-1945 | Knight | diplomatist and author
Taylor | Eva Germaine Rimington | 1879-1966 | geographer and historian of science
Thomas | Bertram Sidney | 1892-1950 | diplomat, explorer and author
Thompson | Gertrude Caton- | 1888-1985 | anthropologist and egyptologist
Ward | Francis Kingdon | 1885-1958 | botanist and explorer x Ward | Frank | Kingdon- x Kingdon-Ward | Frank
Watkins | Henry George | 1907-1932 | Arctic explorer
Wordie | Sir | James Mann | 1889-1962 | Knight | geologist and mountaineer
Younghusband | Sir | Francis Edward | 1863-1942 | Knight | soldier

Corporate names
Alpine Club
Royal Geographical Society

Places