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British Museum (Natural History): Unofficial Archives: C W Andrews' expedition to...
Catalogue reference: DF 5002
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- DF 5002
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Museum (Natural History): Unofficial Archives: C W Andrews' expedition to Christmas Island, 1897-1898: correspondence, notes and photographs
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1897-1989
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence, notes and photographs relating to C W Andrews' expedition to Christmas Island, 1897-1898.
Series held at The Natural History Museum are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference DF PAL/152/2). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, see DF 5002.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The Natural History Museum Archives, London
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Andrews, Charles William, 1866-1924
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 11 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- The series was transferred to Archives in 1984.
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Asia
- Museums and galleries
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The photograph albums were presented by Andrews in 1923, and the letters and notebooks by C D Sherborn in 1940.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Charles William Andrews (1866-1924), a 2nd class assistant in the Department of Geology, was given special leave by the Museum Trustees to visit Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. The Island had been annexed by the Crown in 1888, the year after a visit by Captain Pelham Aldrich in HMS Egeria, and it was leased to the Christmas Island Phosphate Company for commercial development in 1897. Sir John Murray, one of the directors of the Company, proposed and financed an expedition to study the island in advance of its commercial exploitation. Andrews left England in May 1897, and arrived on Christmas Island on 29 July. He remained on the island for ten months, studying the geology and collecting rocks and minerals, plants and animals. He spent one month on the Cocos-Keeling atoll on his way home, and finally returned to duty at the Museum in August 1898. Andrews' collections were worked on by a number of scientists at the Museum, including R Bowdler Sharpe (birds), G A Boulenger (reptiles), A G Butler, G F Hampson and Lord Walsingham (butterflies and moths) and W F Kirby (other insect groups). The results of their work was published in 1900, along with a geological report by Andrews himself, as a Museum monograph.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Andrews, C W, and others, 'A monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)', British Museum (Natural History), 1900.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16126/
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