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
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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.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated by James Hector in two accessions.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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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.