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MURGOCI, Dr Agnes (1875-1929)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0505 PP12

Held at: Royal Holloway, University of London

Title: MURGOCI, Dr Agnes (1875-1929)

Date(s): 1900-1931, 1945

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box or 0.01m3

Name of creator(s): Murgoci | Agnes | 1875-1929 | Zoologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born Agnes Kelly in 1875; educated at the Dollar Academy, Dunfirmline and Bedford College, University of London; Associate of Bedford College, 1896; gained first class honours in Zoology, 1897; went to University of Munich, Germany, where she gained her PhD and met Georg Murgoci, 1900; spent many years in Bucharest, where her husband was Professor of Mineralogy; died 1929.

Publications: Rumania and the Rumanians (Anglo-Rumanian Society, London, 1918).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Offprints of articles, 1900-1931, written by Agnes Murgoci (née Kelly) concerning Romanian folklore and customs, and mineralogy, and including two biographical articles relating to the life of Agnes Murgoci, 1927. Correspondence relating to the deposit of the articles in the Bedford College Library, 1945.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English and German

System of arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

Conditions governing access:

Open to all registered users of the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be supplied, subject to the condition of the original. Requests to publish original material should be directed to the College Archivist.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Handlist available in the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives reading room.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Presented to the College Library by the family in 1945. The papers were transferred from the Bedford College Archives when the College merged with Royal Holloway in 1985.

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the AIM25 project.

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: Feb 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Customs and traditions | Cultural heritage
Folklore | Cultural heritage
Intangible cultural heritage
Mineralogy

Personal names
Murgoci | Agnes | 1875-1929 | zoologist

Corporate names

Places
Romania | Eastern Europe