IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0402 AHR
Held at: Royal Geographical Society
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 AND 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
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.
Sources: The Geographical Journal, Vol. 122, No. 3 (Sep., 1956), pp. 405-405.
Date(s) of descriptions: 3 May 2001; Jul 2008