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Description: | The collection comprises around 80 individual collections of personal papers of former members of St John's College. The collection is particularly strong in mathematics and science, and includes the papers of John Couch Adams, Sir John Herschel, Sir Fred Hoyle, Sir Harold Jeffreys, Sir Joseph Larmor, Max Newman, Sir Charles Parsons, and J. J. Sylvester. The collection also includes papers of the slavery abolitionists Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce, the writer and artist Samuel Butler, and the society photographer Sir Cecil Beaton. | Subjects: | Theology Classical studies Slavery History Music Astronomy Science Mathematics | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01223 337035 | Telephone: | 01223 339393 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6700 | Go to resource |
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