British Association for the Advancement of Science

Papers relating to the work of the Association with regard to Geography and Cartography.

SSC/11/1 - Committee Minute Book of Section E (Geography and Ethnology), 1865-73.

SSC/11/2 - Correspondence of the geodetic committee of Section A, 1917-19.

SSC/11/3 - Minutes and correspondence of a committee for the making of a population map of the British Isles, 1921-47.

SSC/11/4 - Minutes, notes and correspondence of the geographical glossary committee, 1950-52.

SSC/11/5 - Folder of photocopies of papers held by Professor T.W. Freeman resulting from the BA committee appointed in 1947 'to collect records of the revival of geography in the British Isles dating from the later years of the nineteenth century'. The papers provide biographical details about academic geographers. Papers include: A circular of 16 December ; Copy of annual authorization by BA answers to enquires; Answers to enquiries; A review of progress to June 1949; Copy of paper given to Section E, Edinburgh 1951 (unpublished); Copy of a note published in Geographical Review; Correspondence between Sir John Myres and T.W. Freeman in 1950 reminiscing about the Oxford School of Geography.