IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 275
Held at: University College London
Title: Darbishire Notebooks
Date(s): c1902-c1904, 1942-1955
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 boxes
Name of creator(s): Darbishire | Arthur Dukinfield | 1879-1915 | statistician
Darbishire | Helen | 1881-1961 | scholar and critic
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire (1879-1915) studied heredity. He conducted studies on mice at Balliol College Oxford and Owens College Manchester.
Helen Darbishire (1881-1961), sister of Alfred Dukinfield Darbishire, was Principal of Somerville College Oxford (1931-1945).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Twenty-four laboratory notebooks, c1902-c1904, giving records of Alfred Dukinfield Darbishire's studies of 'waltzing mice'; another similar notebook, 1904, latterly used as a visitors' book, 1942-1955, by Helen Darbishire.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Online catalogue
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the Department of Statistical Science, University College London, in 1980. Additional notebook given by Dr W D B Darbishire in 1999.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: 1999, revised Jul 2001