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Royal Geographical Society

JACKSON HARMSWORTH EXPEDITION


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0402 JHE

Held at: Royal Geographical Society

Title: JACKSON HARMSWORTH EXPEDITION

Date(s): 1894-1895

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 book, 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz Josef Land, 1894–1897, was led by British Arctic explorer Frederick George Jackson and financed by newspaper proprietor Alfred Harmsworth. Jackson had been misled by false maps into believing that Franz Joseph Land was a land mass that extended to the North Pole. The survey which was the main work of the expedition eventually proved that the land was in fact an archipelago.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Volume of list of subscribers to the Jackson Harmsworth Expedition and copy of a letter addressed to R Koettlitz, doctor of the expedition, from Dr A E Wright on the threatment of scurvy, 4 Jul 1894.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in 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 Archivist's discretion, and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.

Physical characteristics:

Bound volume with alphabetical entries, Ms letter.

Finding aids:

The RGS archives: a handlist / compiled by Christine Kelly. London: RGS, 1977.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

None expected

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Corr. Blocks, 1881-1910; Journal Mss: Arctic 1895; papers of Frederick G Jackson.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Revised by Sarah Drewery.

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: Oct 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Geographical exploration | Geography
Scurvy | Nutritional diseases | Diseases | Pathology

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa | Russia | Eastern Europe
Crimea x Krym