IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0402 EGW
Held at: Royal Geographical Society
Title: WOODS, Ethel Gertrude
Date(s): 1921-1985
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Woods | Dr | Ethel Gertrude | 1865-1939 | née Skeat | geologist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Ethel Gertrude Woods was born 1865; educated, Newham College, Cambridge, 1891; research studentship in Munich; science teacher, 1898-1910; worked in the Censorship Department during World War One; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1927-1939; died 1939.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Ethel Gertrude Woods, 1921-1985, including a typescript of 'Scenery, its nature and origin' (confused pagination, approx 350 pp), unpublished; 87 watercolour and black and white sketches and diagrams prepared by Miss K Chandler Thomson as illustrations; note on the author; covering letter from donor, William Skeat (nephew) and other correspondence concerning the MS with Dr Joby of the Open University, 1985.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Original order.
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:
Photocoying at Archivist's discretion, and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without express permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.
Finding aids:
Collection level description in the Foyle reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
None expected
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
William Skeat (nephew), 1985.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
RGS Archives - Correspondence Blocks 1921-1930, and 1931-1940, Woods, Dr E G.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Prepared by an archives volunteer using existing card index, and the JRGS. Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, no 379, 30 Oct 1939.
Date(s) of descriptions: 15 November 2000; May 2008