IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0402 BSD
Held at: Royal Geographical Society
Title: DYDE, Brian S (1935-)
Date(s): 1959-1973
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 2 boxes
Name of creator(s): Dyde | Brian S | b 1935 | hydrographic surveyor and author
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1935; hydrographic surveyor in the Royal Navy; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1978-1984; after retiring from the Navy he wrote a number of books about the Caribbean.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Brian S Dyde relating to the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty and to the hydrographic survey work of the Royal Navy, including surveyor's workbooks, 1959-1973, including astronomical observations for the position of a geodetic station on the Island of Arorae, Jun 1962; and papers relating to the history of the Hydrographic Department.
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 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:
Hand list and card index.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Prepared by an archives volunteer using existing finding aids. Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) ed.2, name authority NRA.
Date(s) of descriptions: 17 January 2002; Nov 2008.