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Captain Scott Memorial Polar Research Trust Papers

Catalogue reference: MS 280

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This record is about the Captain Scott Memorial Polar Research Trust Papers dating from 1909 to 1914.

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Reference
MS 280
Title
Captain Scott Memorial Polar Research Trust Papers
Date
1909 to 1914
Description

Expedition papers including reports, orders, notes, scientific papers, ships logs and ephemera relating to the British Antarctic expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova) led by Captain Scott. The papers include rough and final drafts of published reports and catalogues relating to exhibitions of materials and are split into 28 series which were bound into 8 volumes once at SPRI

Note

for a full catalogue contact archives@spri.cam.ac.uk

Arrangement

The majorituy of the colleciton is bound into 8 volumes with some additional material

Held by
Cambridge University: Scott Polar Research Institute
Legal status
Not Public Record(s)
Language
english
Creator(s)
Scott, Robert Falcon
Physical description
180 parts (majority of loose papers have been bound into 8 volumes)
Access conditions

Access to our collections is by prior appointment. See our web site for details https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/archives/

Immediate source of acquisition
gift
Unpublished finding aids
  • Published finding aid
  • Manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England by Clive Holland
  • London and New York, Garland Publishing, ISBN 0 8240 9394 1
Administrative / biographical background

Papers written before and during the Terra Nova expediton to the Antarctic

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/efee7253-05a1-4338-836a-b017b05a4b7e/

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Captain Scott Memorial Polar Research Trust Papers