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Royal Society

New Zealand Volcanic Eruptions Report


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 845

Held at: Royal Society

Title: New Zealand Volcanic Eruptions Report

Date(s): 1886

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Preliminary Report on, and photographs of, the event mounted and bound into one volume. Includes a letter from James Hector donating the report and photographs. Includes a second letter of 22 September 1886 with an additional 15 photographs with remarks on the back which have also been pasted in to the volume. The comments have been typed underneath the photographs.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Cloth bound volume; printed report and 2 letters tipped in, and 21 photographs glued in.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by James Hector in two accessions.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Volcanic eruption | Natural disasters | Disasters
Disasters (by type)

Personal names
Hector | Sir | James | 1834-1907 | Knight | geologist

Corporate names

Places
New Zealand | Oceania