IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/222
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Reports on excavations at Kent's Cavern by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian
Date(s): 1865-1880
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Pengelly | William | 1812-1894 | teacher
Vivian | Edward | fl 1865-1880 | superintendent of exploration at Kent's Cavern
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
William Pengelly FRS (1812-1894) and Edward Vivian were superintendents of exploration at Kent's Cavern near Torquay in Devon.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Reports by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian produced for the Kent's Cavern Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, with some supporting correspondence.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Open.
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Half-bound in red leather, red cloth boards. Spine tooled in gold: "Kent's Cavern Reports. W. Pengelly, F.R.S. 1865-1880.' Bookplate of John Evans.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: 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 2009.